| Show ARE E AB ABUSED SED AND MISU MISUNDERSTOOD DER TO O OThe The Fate of the thc Mormon Peo Pea People pie pic Says John P Meakin LECTURED IN I PROVIDENCE Misrepresentation and Calumny tito 1110 U UIl d Told Sonic Simm Truths Tho Cho bin lening f of oC n It I of oC Monday IolI ln March Murch U 12 1 publish the tha following John Julia a n resident of oC the state of ot Utah anti and ot of Salt Snit fI City doilY dell delivered ered a lecture last evening In Arca Aren Arcanum num hall hail on street on Utah and the Mormons Probably fc that a 11 as 18 to his hla hi religious be belief behot hot lief wall UH expected from him hint Mr Mc Ir announced nt lit the outset that he is not nota a It member of oC the Mormon Church tot but rooter rather a tt 1 In tho tito truest Title This meant he ho explained that ho loved his fellow man mun believed In al il lowing him to follow Collow any religious elead lio Io 10 citou choso and alto also felt It his province to defend that HID fellow tellow man mall whon others bogart began egan to abuse him hint Abuse ALuse misrepresentation and calumny said call 1 Mr Ir Meakin had hud been tie the lot of or tho tile Mormons and he for Cor one alto considered l It Sum for to BO go 11 about In iii their to tin th pO that the tho abused ed sect was Willi comprised l of ot a n sober cobol steady Industrious loving etc elc Instead lead ot of of Ut licentiousness and of ot nil A II the Iho other vices of 0 which they hUll luul been accused that till to 10 most people Mom Mor Mormonism monism and tire are alt all but syn SYl synonymous Mr Ir Meakin devoted consider considerable able time and etti IL a i great deal of oC vl vh or ur to rutting putting tIle tha he y Saints Saint on a 0 proper outing footing In lii this regard Less than I 1 per COt ent of 0 thu tho Mormon people 1 he Ito said had hud ever aver bran h 31 Induced t to ac uc accept the ito attendant upon tIpon marrying more moro than halt one OliO wife vIte uv realized he ito went Oil on how ho great was the extent of or those The Fito Mormon faith a I t it compelled u every man who made lottie mn e marriages el to 10 care cure for Cor each elch and provide her II PI It n home haute ns nit n tuii ns ni to 10 look after her In the tite tame mine solicitous lilter aH a a did ii li the tile Individual ti I who witti hll contented himself with onu 1110 wife alto Ire Consequently sail said the lecturer poly Kamy gaul curried with It a II core and ie re that few rew inca to tu accept Utah tas admitted to tile the of ot states a Il condi condition thou lion wu raa aa Imposed and accepted to the effect that marring bo be thence thenceforth thenceforth forth forbidden by b church anti and state This fiti agreement having be bP been n I made badE a 1 e it hail had never been Jeen broken bro en said Mr Mea Mett lilli except t by hy persons who would brook break any nn luw lutti anywhere 1111 and 1111 1 such lIuch wore to bo IH found ns nil 0 much In iii one sect Boet us liS In itt another About every man malt hung for Cor or murder the speaker was a I a member of oC some church and und If ho was not when ho committed the ho he became one before the death ileath penalty Was Wall carried out Instead of or being a n fundamental principle of oC the tue Mormon doctrine polygamy was Will only ollY a II sub In Is I IFill Fill cue anyway explained e Mr Ir and octet never Imd teen been demanded of oC the Saints After explaining titus thus lucidly that po pa polygamy hit tho th most obnoxious part of at the Mormon faith Imd practically been heen unite done away with und and for tor or that matter had never existed to anything like hike tho thin extent believed by some people I out alit sin sido the tho fold foul Mr Ir proceeded to 10 a II vigorous orous defense of oC the same Ramo It was ho paid otto one of ot tIm the essentials of ot Old Testament theology Abraham issac ant Jacob Idealized today front from the pulpit ns fiS Christians In iii tho Ito highest tense cease n e wore nero and as ns for or ii why Solomon had Itati enough h wives to start a n city with He lie had wives and nu l others other In his itta establish establishment ment which proved according to 10 Mr Ir deduction one thin thing namely name that hint Solomon was wall wa either cither an un old fool or ho Ito Instead of 0 belli an nn for t or r 5 tie tho IOn ln III the lie I Mormon faith embodied lII th tite anti unO un 1 most sublime nt or thoughts ami tutu Ideals An Au H foi licentious he Ito look at your Our cities dUell my lilt Hod nI look in tit III your you ou r Mr iti stopped till tar w vur il to III I the audience to go out Itoh look at lit Ito tho city elty after which lie he grow grew even oen evenI more ilore I ellI pit at It you ou talk of oC ho lie hoI j I Ing a Il to tu ii the and to tn tho thu hotly body hol politic itic It I t IH Iii un UI Insult t low iov and it contemptible we Is 18 I C do donot not lint o to Maud It II Think of at the thu valor the Ito manly qualities q ci shown by hy that hat t little I I t tie band bt who v ii a went nt out nut Into nto I Unit t t desert anti build up a II city ell cli and n II civili civilization when all un wn stark and 1111 barren of at man nu til Pec i what they done con the 1111 beautiful cities eUle they have hn built and tim the conditions they tile wrought an then bo b ashamed to 10 talk of or them thelO a lilt ilK a 0 to 10 na flIt nation tion Mr Ir Meakin ln save Hf O a n detailed of 0 oft lilt t I t ti Mormon l history from rota lt HI I I 4 Inception IlIc I hicel p tion ion to the tho prevent present pre time tinte and tini he tuttle In re regard caul to their th ir religion beliefs and 1111 11 hr lIfts which lie ho said ho Ito had litti personally from froll th I ii iiI High I Prophet Young Mr Mi hM hn lectured on Ihl anti and other oilier subjects for a n number of ot years jears nil till over the country and ho Ito In Is eaM coil to lie ho nickel bucked 1 In III BO ro doing by IJ the tho State of o Ui ii The Tho lecture lust last evening wn fice ami titi theto were about people veople In III |
