Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-10-24 | Page 12 | Cannon's Speech is Widely Discussed

CIIN'S SPEECH IS WIDEWDISCUSSEB His Address Was the Principal Topic of Conversation Among Citizens Sunday. Few speeches made in Salt Lake have ever been moro widely discussed than Frank Cannon's Saturday niKhl address at the Colonial ihcatcr. All day on Sunday Sun-day citizens wcro talking about it. Many Ulahns who had fancied they knew conditions con-ditions thoroughly said that the former United States senator's speech bad opened up before them a broad vista t facts. Everybody agreed that the address ad-dress marked a political epoch. Lvcp Ins opponents, admitted that Senator Cannon proved himself to be one ot thc ablest orators In thc west. A prominent guest, of tnc Knutsford. afler Hie meeting wns over, said that ho listened to Mr. Cannon speech, from start to finish, and added: "I have lived more or less In Utah since statehood; have been and am now-engaged now-engaged in largo industrial enterprises1 here: 1 long since Haltered myself that I understood fairly well the social and political conditions which have and do prevail in tills state; but I must confess now, and 1 fully realize that I had only been ablo to pick up a shrub hero and there along thc borders of the vast moorland moor-land that lies beyond, our ken. "Thc speech of Mr. Cannon, In my opinion, will open tho eyes of thousands of people to thc political and social status as they exist today In Utah. Contlnuimr. the gentleman said, and ho asked for private reasons that his name bo not mentioned: "The speech came to me as a very great surprise; In fact, in the nature of a revelation, and with such candor, force, logic and eloquence that it could not help but. have its cf-fect cf-fect upon every unbiased, intelligent listener. lis-tener. There was In the speaker so much of earnestness, such a manifest desire to be fair and to expose everything every-thing good or bad in the management of tho Mormon church by its leaders, and thaL loo. without abuse, .which at no stage of thc masterly address was resorted re-sorted to. that its beneficial effect upon the people cannot help but be far-reaching. " I beliovc that Saturday night s meeting marks tho dawning of a brighter bright-er day for all tho people of Utah.