Show anti statehood weapons it il rather gur surprising n g at this late date that the old stol stones les con curning the situation in utah which lid did service for a certain class before the changed conditions should still be swallowed by people in the east who be claim ito bo be intelligent and are supposed to know something I 1 of curlent events jt it is also aio lamentable that persons professing to be clivous should aly to palm coffas off as evitable en eri table facts the kind of fiction dealt out at a becent assembly Is in pittsburg the dispatch of that city de devotes votes conid considerable erable space to particulars of a meeting in the first presbyterian churi chuch b of the Woma nii nl executive committee of home missions among tile speakers was mrs ilias W 1 it campbell of mendon utah and her remarks are gien ghen ery cry fully as lul lons 5 during tile the past year said mrs cain cmpbell live we hae had much to cheer and encourage us and at the sometime same time more to cause anxiety and apprehension for the future belll ire of our christian work in utah than at anytime any time forthe for the past ten years the attendance upon our mission day schools and sabbath schools has increased inci ine eased in come places largely has hag alb also 0 been beef a great improvement in the interest and attendance upon the regular pi caching set sei vices in many places Ill pees and in some fields t there here have been hopeful and cheer log revivals in our ov own n field in we hate hale bad some hopeful conversions were it not cot for the black overhanging cloud of mormon ormon statehood our hearts would be full fall of hopefulness and assurance of immediate and groat great results but statehood will for the time being at least work great di disaster baster to our baue in vadious way ways first the near appy approach of statehood is making many people cautious and fearful who hae been brave and fearless ili in the past during daring the last few months many who have hitherto sent their children to 0 our ur schools and who have even themselves been in the flat habit of attending our religious services have been overtaken with a strange fe elling ellina that they must us now that statehood is assured they seem to feel even if they cannot tell exactly why that i s will trill not be cafe bate for them to ignore the wishes of the mormon priesthood when oice oace o ice the new state slate is fully olgaa bigan i aed ed Second vany Many of the non don monn ons in ili our northern settlements are preparing pie paring to move just as preparing to move out as soon as they can dispose of their property proper tj and i get away the reason they give is i that there will be no fredom in utah un under der statehood that it has been hard bird enough to live there in the pa pat past t under persecution when it wis was possible to secure some from non mormon lawmakers governors and courts court and that now flow when all the executive and judicial officers will be elected by mormon votes justice will no longer be possible to those who u lie are out OU of harmony with the mormon Nl ormon church and its practices if this feeling should hould be genera general I 1 throughout g h utah as I 1 doubt not that it is 1 since I 1 know it is in ill so many 1 places 1 aces our work mork in the settle settlements menth will vill be deprived of a good portion of even the lie little local sympathy arid and support port which we aai hae e enjoyed in the past third already the two keate educational institutions lion have in fallen en into theland the hand of the cormons mormons 1 rn ong gov west vest no do bount to seccie for him belf po political preferment in the new state has recognized the boards of trustees trusi trus lees ees of the U utah in I 1 U university and of the utah college ege so as is to make the majority of the hie trustees of both institutions either cormons mormons or subs subservient ervien t tools of the maimon priesthood notwithstanding the lie fact that the latter institution is supported by made by the national congress with the specific fic legislative provision pro ision ill that it the school is to be forever kept free from sectarian sect t ian control and influence this means that for the time liebing behag all state education will be es essentially lN mormon formon as ve very ra soon all the teachers ca chers in these thene institutions tiong will be mormons cormons without special regard to any other oilier qualifications fourth tile the woman foman sun suffrage rage clause in the new constitution which bit u been completed in sail S ii lake L a k city ct y will give salt lalie lake city jt an and d ogden as ag adl ell as all the other to ns of the the state irto into the hands ot of the cormons mormons Mor Alor mons so that for some ome tune time to come all the public in utah will be practical iv indea monnon aloi mon control this will i leave our mission schools alone to advance the cause of american as well as of christian Chri elian education in utah fifth polygamy which has never been abandoned nor exen een bated abated in practice notwithstanding all false reports and is today more boldly boldes and more boastfully practiced in tile the small settlements than ever since ibsh and lacau because e of this the united stites government and christian civilization civilia tion are far less respected by the mormon people now than when the anti polygamy lets lans anere vi ere executed we e file aie therefore now deprived of the moral inoval influence of righteous I 1 executed sixth finally arid and most important of all we ire are beginning to lo feel thit that the alie false reports that are coming east eal ea l through the political cal and subsidized press are favl having the effect of depriving us ua of much mu ell of the moral the prayers of christian men and women of the church which we used to have I 1 and to feel so much uplift from froin in our work if you bl believe as is often now DOW reported that utah is practically I 1 1 americanized and christianized Christiani zed of course you will sill not feel that ne ise need to be prayed for as much as I 1 you used to do and this will nill be the greatest disaster of all the missionaries of utah will trill stay there and die at their posts if need be hut but I 1 want to tell you that some day the eyes of the people of this nation will be opened the mormons cormons do not have the balance of por power er in six of our states for nothing they mean to hold and keep the balance of gocr in ili our national congress Con ress and they mean to use that power for their own ends in the future as they have ha vein in the past our renders readers ii will ill perhaps ca call 11 to mind that tile the veracity of mr campbell a presbyterian preacher of mendon cache county counte wa was called in serious beriou is question some tirrie time ago arid and it now appears that the lady hearing bearing his name is liable to the same impeachment we mention this matter to show the kind of weapons that are b being eing used by alie enemies nies of statehood further comment is needless |