Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-06 | Page 5 | Berating the Mormons

lEH TIO THI TJ MORMONS S othor Lank With on Situation lou In Utah Detroit May 5 A Conference of th the National Congress of Mothers began belM to tonight tonight tonight night In Central M hi R E church Time Tho ses sen sloan slon wi will continue until Friday after alter afternoon afternoon noon Mon It I Is In not a delegate conven convention convention tion but a CL conference of 0 the tho officer of tIme the th national congress and the sta state 0 presidents and ant organizers At session the time visitors were welcomed to the state anti city by 00 Russ nils Mayor others After Ater the welcoming address Mrs Frederic of at Philadelphia president of th tl time national congress made her tier annual annUala ad address address dress In which she said The mothers congress looks with deepest Interest and anxiety upon the In iii II Utah where In violation of ot sacred sacre pledges made mM to the govern government Jovern I ment mont plural marriages are arc still eon traded Time The moral morl degradation of po pa polygamy polygamy Is a blight which has hns already Is I In insidiously spread over adjoining states slate I and ant II spreading Its Js poison In cities cites and villages alt all al over oler the land It I Is riot not a n today for Utah It I Is I an au evil 1 greater grenter than slavery r and the women of ot America cannot afford to remain silent l nt while such a n menace to the home Is IA th lb 11 the heart healt of our na tiC lion tion ton America must surely surel ural find n a wa WM way to wIp out an nn evil which Is a n disgrace to the time nation At the th meeting this thi afternoon of ot the time executive board LOId the Home lome Protective league of Salt Sal Lake Utah was wa admit admitted admitted admitted ted to membership In the congress