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PEETS LECTURE One Plural Marriage to Forty Last Sunday February every seat in the Salt Lake theater was taken before and by when the lecture standing room was at a Peet talked one hour and twenty Among many other statements he made the following One to Every Forty The Salt Lake Tribune's Famous Polygamy He months past the Tribune has published from time to time a list of two hundred Mormons it have taken plural wives since the I have personally examined the list and to my knowledge some persons whose names are on the list have not taken plural But suppose the Tribune list is and that there have been really two hundred cases of plural marriages among the Mormons since the manifesto of According to Alfred Henry Lewis's article in the of which I shall speak he estimates that there are between seven hundred and fifty thousand to one million I think that Lewis's estimates are too high and that a conservative- estimate would be from four hundred thousand to five hundred but to be sure let us say that there are four hundred thousand and let us admit for the sake of argument that two hundred of them have taken plural wives since the a little over twenty years At that rate there would be ten plural marriages a year among four hundred thousand or one plural marriage a year for every forty thousand of the following clipping from the Philadelphia Record of last week shows how the Tribune's famous list of polygamists is circulated by Paden and others Declares All Its Principles Are the system of Mormonism is a menace to the American people was emphatically declared yesterday morning by R. D. vice president of the Board of Home Mission of the Presbyterian in an address delivered at the Cham-bers-Wylie Presbyterian who has spent a great deal of time in Mormon studying stated that polygamy has by no means been abolished in To support her statement she read a letter written to her by M.- pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Salt Lake and formerly of this Paden 's Letter and the Tribune she not have things stirred up here on polygamy lines more thor- mu The Tribune l has listed than for many at of and I over cases least two of the apostles have P Jow Of y that this list is virtually that if they acknowledged so there are very many of interest the had Paden had really if the Utah at heart and wanted to put it that over 60 P he have better said wouldn't cent of the old of Utah are ad occurred and Jh to has only one plural marriage per year instead of Y forty thousand of its populate every out of a e making a great mountain Jit us A The Tribune has succeeded m getting in nearly every polygamy as a special news L paper in the United Tt has also been pub- in nearly every monthly and commented on i magazine and every religious paper throughout length and breadth of the when the facts are it had know that there had these papers and magazines marriage per year out of every been one plural forty thousand of the Mormon they would have considered it too insignificant to Has this Tribune list that has been thoroughly published throughout the United States helped or has it Has it advertised Utah properly before the or has it driven away capital and After reading several Presbyterian Devil Fish tracts and showing their Utah Devil Fash and their Mormon the Mormon school and the red star on the American and the begging methods that the employ to raise money for their Peet me cite my Presbyterian friends to the Roman of this The Roman attend to their own business and do not interfere with or send out tracts or statements against any other with the exception of the they have prospered more than all of the other religious V denominations in this city Bishop Scanlan was by a committee to sign a pro- test against Senator he politely told them that he did not have time to attend to his own let alone that of the The Catholics have one of the finest cathedrals west of New York They have two good The Holy Cross hospital is one of the They have two good Catholic as good as any Catholic schools in the They have an orphanage that makes a home for over eighty motherless and I understand that the Catholic church does not owe one Bishop Scanlan 's mission in Utah has been one of peace and He has visited every Mormon hamlet in the and unlike the Duncan McMillan of the Presbyterian he found it never necessary to carry a revolver to protect himself from the Bishop Scanlan is so well lived in Utah that if he should start out tomorrow to tour this state in behalf of his church he would receive a royal welcome by every Mormon bishop and every Mormon They would giVe hi best had and send him on his way rejoicing me cite you to the of this only one or two exceptions the have tended to their own They have not interfered other religious They have prosper Their St. Mark's hospital is one of the best in Their Roland a school for young is Oneo the best private schools in the They have iM good church edifices in this and I understand are paid Like Bishop Bishop Spalding of the Episcopal church would be welcome in any jor mon home in me call your attention to the First church of this The Elmer I. Gosher the pastor of that has brought the First church of this city up to a Goshen does not to the Ministerial He does not believe in the devil fish literature that has been distributed by and he does have time to fight the Mormons or any other He has attended to his own business so that his church is very and he probably has a larger congregation at his preaching services the or or Presbyterians of this city The maintain Gordon Academy of this a very creditable Their church is one of the finest in the and it is out of another religious sect in this city that it would be well for the Presbyterians to pattern It is the Christian an intelligent people who have a happy faculty of attending to their own The Christian Scientists have a motto which would be well for all Christian denominations to fol-i I have not seen and T may not quote it con It is something like not rubber nor stretch about that pertains to thy Christian Scientists is one of the youngest de nominations in this They have and paid fa a beautiful Their numbers have grown rapidly that they have found it necessary to their congregation and to build another the methods which the Presbyterians have pursued in this state and their tracts and literature W people have lost confidence in and today more than two-thirds of all of the schools they started this state are Peet has had several invitations to deliver tb same lecture to different Commercial clubs through the and he will probably accept them during coming months according as his time will permit-illustrations and the song at the close of the Miss Ivy Evans of Salt Lake were the features of the A |
