| Show i GENTILE nI PLEADS PL U FOR f Fi FAIR f l PLAYS PlA l lIn In La Letter to Anaconda Standard Charles Wilson Defends I DISCUSSES THE SMOOT CASE C Says Utah Religion is Just as n Good Goad ns as asAn An Any Other and nu Quotes of or 1 Mormon Apostles The following fearless of ot the lie 1 Mormon people and their religion ap liP appeared In last laRt Saturdays Issue ot of tho the Anaconda Mont Standard To the tho I bf ot of tho the Standard Will Wi you OU kindly publish In your col cal columns tunas from rosa a n stranger In these parts a n few tell lines on the tho much agitated sub subject subject of ot I am not an ad nd adherent I herent of oC any nay of ot the tho Christian churches yet yel a believer In the good contained contain ii In 11 all al and und In every truth whether Chris linn litti or pagan Ingan Saturday evening I read In your our pa paper paper per a I notice that Iha t the following day 10 the tho Sabbath a conference of ot tho the Mor Ilor Mormon mon area mission ml lon would bo be held In tho tIm city of ot Anaconda JUtting Having read real much In he papers of ot late lato regarding Senator Smoot front from Ui Uh h anti and nd tho Ito ion tion ton on nn the part especially of ot sectarian ministers to have havo him thrust from his seat sent In the senate eMte and the lie notice In the tho Standard that one of oC his fellow t lo Apostles postel would be present I had hod n a DC c cullar Interest anti nM desire to hear what these thee men inca had hall to say sa In the lie forenoon cession tho thu attendance waH light the tho president of ot tiO mission Mr Ir Pratt Prat n a pleasant genial gentleman of ot about GO CO G years presiding Ile He lie le was accompanied I by 10 lOot of his mission Elders all li bright Intelligent looking men In addition ni to these hero Cowley and Elder Either I filch leh ards the latter Inter having basing been a n mission president In its II Nv Zealand wore In at i he ho mission Elders J each mode made a brief report of or his hil labors litters at to tho the people of ot Montana hose boa unit kind treatment None of ot these young men en are orators and mil yet et tho ho ono one Impression made mOlla by I their ap op their remarks and manner of conducting concluding missionary work nl on nn on tin in mind Is III that they tile tho are aro hottest holiest and sincere and tree free front from deception Honest Hone t simplicity and pure puro Intelligence epton beamed In tho the count or Ir r ni i r v one They Thoy Informed us 9 In n conversation on r M that hat as tar far as nR practicable they travel trel after the tho pattern enjoined by tho Sav Say lor without purge nurse or scrip whatever of moans menus Steeled needed for tor expenses ell are 10 fur tur by b themselves ehe Th Thy v leave leavo their homes hom II their heir families their lick avocations for tor an on Indefinite period generally not nol lor Ier than hate two years cor and nl nrc subject to a ft call at any an time line uch n ii method attended by hi such elicit to ci declare an nut unpopular doctrine Is h not sio the tho method nor the manner of ot the tue hypocrite nor tho ho Impostor THE TIlE At the ito afternoon session Hesion a larger congregation assembled a nail at III tha ha house hou e l 1111 was well filled Tho major I part hart fart of ot tho the time hue wel was WIS occupied by dent tien Pratt and nl his hiM hed I l tors tars from tram Salt Hal Lake Lako City We had been Iud lod l d to suppose by newspaper oller report nel that the lie preaching of at Mormon Apostles and leading RIderS Iders largely consisted of ot tirades against the th ministers of oC other othur denominations and an that hat doubtless much would be said paid by them about the he pres ent cult agitation against Senator Smoot Snoot The Tho dishonesty dishonest and Injustice of ot Mor mon man traducers In both hoth these teals Items Me 10 were happily Instead disappointed of or either attack or comments comment upon Ullon mill Mormons or the tenets of ot otter other mens faith they tho expounded their t n In a AI clear comprehensive and most moat forcible manner They quoted largely from coin the tho Old and Now Testament to prove their heir view of ot gospel doctrines from tho of ot tho Iho ho Jewish especially from Christ und and the tho apostles to show that thai such Ruch u tl work a restoration of ot ancient gifts and powers 1 the tho gath gah ering of ot hmel all Monnon Ism lain claims to be would 11 actually trans pire PIro In Ire tho the last days Ia prior to 10 tho the milIeus stint advent of ot the ho Lord Jesus Christ They quoted tram front the tho Bible Ibl In to I lint such a work ns as ni the Ito Book Bouk tuk of Mor l r I mon Snort would woOld wo ld bo be brought forth in I the he t lat mt In ter times knee revealing the th ito origin history hJ destiny purposes of at God respect or ing thi thu ancient Inhabitants of ot America TEACHINGS T OF JOSEPH JOSI PH SMITH B They The also olo cited clell seine somo prophecies In the tile Hook Book of ot Mormon notably concern Ing HK the tho Jens Jons have hae been concer verified since the he publication of ot tile tho Book of ot Mormon to tho Ito world orill In II look to thu Ihl mission of ot their heir martyred prophet Joseph Smith they cited lila his i ii anti and their fulfilment nt They said tUII tint that ho lie lund had taught a n pure puro The doctrine sit that thai tho the spirit attending obedience thereto hereto hail had brought together In iii onto ono united faith people t 1 II many of ot tho lie doctrines advanced b Joseph Jo lt Smith vero being accepted by most mon of ot other faiths and asid that whatever evi evl dence could be bo brought to substantiate tho lie divine divino mission lon of ot ancient prophets the tho same character of oC evidence could coull bo be brought forth to 10 sustain the claims made Inaco by 11 Joseph Smith Ho scaled hU lila tc with wih his hila blood continued the Iho ito speaker anti and nn thus theta gave 0 to tha tho world word the tho lie fullest fuIlet evidence that man could give gle of ot n II mission miss divine When Irl naked It If ho he would not give the tho views of oC the Church regarding the tha position 01 of Senator Smoot anti and tho attitude of ot his Itis lder Cowley replied that of ot that kind havo nothing to torio do rio with our religious conferences COl Cero Wa leave that lint for tor the tho religious meeting of at our sectarian friends who are aro ro so 0 willing to mingle lo church and tale state In their wild wid and autti anI tithe tu to suppress In Iii II fact said ld Mr Ir Cow Gow Icy Ie tho ho Church has no concern what hiat ever eser fr at ht to 10 what disposition the senate shah shul make mako of ot the this case In lit question Tho The Church has nothing to do with wills electing Mr Ir Smoot He lie 10 was waR elected bv by a n Republican legislature consisting of ir Mormon anti and independent of ot hIlly any ny of ot the us If It they thoy turn urn him bIns hll out olt It will not retard tho ho progress of ot the lie Ihl church one ole iota lota Thu Tho cano 1050 h hall lia A no n connections connection with the tho lie Church hues you YOI say pay p that tho the element tire Iro attacking tho lie Church fil ln lii stead Rh ol of Senator Smoot In any I ny event oyent the Church will wi not nat be Injured anti and Is not hot lot disturbed A FOU I On lUIT What wo sm are concerned about continued the Apostle Alo to Is 11 that our veo I pie from roust first to 10 last lost shall shah ho be chaste pure honorable anti and upright ht In iii all the tho walks stalks alk of ot life 11 anti alt thus exemplify by to b our alit conduct the this PrInciples principle of ot that pure Christianity sot set forth by tha the of or tho lie world Ve Wo o In ito our coun try anti and UH Its If glorious constitution COUl bitt Is IR now how OCr ever was and asid ever oser will wi be ho ht th h grandest of ot nil ni human upon lion tho ho I J hall had seen a n tow few people of this faith before In other states hut until recent ly Iy had hiatt not lot enjoyed the tho t 10 privilege of at so 80 extensive a n travel through their Itch cities Othil towns owns In Wyoming and Idaho fly Ily 1 n reports tho Ito novel 1001 literature ond the tho epithets hurled against them thorn from Pulpit platform and press the tho I public has hn been boen led 10 to believe beleve that the Mormon people were the tho th basest of ot o othe f tho the Impo and averse arl to education FRUITS OF 01 MORMONISM On tho the contrary I find Ind them superior to their opponents In many malY particulars and IU the thu equals of ot their friends where wherever ever Clr found They ore re Industrious tem temperate temI I and they hey are chaste be benevolent and ond full tul of charity which I Incline to believe bleve has lias hn always made e hum them prefer to stiffer Buffer ller wrong strong than to do wrong These TheMo traits and elements In Inthe the lie character of ot u it people am aro not the e concomitants of ot Idleness Ignorance and sin and so nm I must conclude that lint when wh n nI 1 I hear such as I listened to tont nt nl tho the Mormon Mansion tonlon conference In Ann Ana Anaconda la conda their theories theries and anal teachings in Inthe the tho world hUe not contradicted by b their r private and ond public lives at ut home beam and In Inthe li t the tho midst initial or at their own people In a I conversation with wills the late Got am Do For or eat cst of Wyoming he ito remarked that he ho had hod just before otoro visited the tho h e Mormon Moron settlements settlement In the tho Bib Ib Horn lions basin basI I had ato ate and slept In their homes homell had listen en to their plain pin In homespun old WHY TIlLS THIS HATRED fashioned form Corm of oC tho the can gos 10 pel pet in In their places lilaces l of worship had sat sitt uy U their heir Ire and ot listened to father tl er und and Ind mother and children slug sing songs of ot o f and offer oter their to tho Su tu premo and amid said the governor whenever i hear any man say nay that Is II a 0 menace ena O to American Institutions or debasing to ta lies Amerl can home hOlo I shall shul set act that man down tie Ut a n miserable erable ignoramus or n a 1 base bl O liar He lie adieu that hat as DB citizens they thoy hud hll bet no superiors und and nt tow few COI equals In Wyoming sUJ that they were honest hon and industrious their word was Wt as ns good as their bond anti and as I a I whole tha tho boat best colonizers States lit ire le bill Imd seen Icen In Ins the tho ho United Why should people be hated without a cause CIU u Is marvelous Why hy ministers of ot Christian sects should fear te r to havo have their followers hear tho the Mormon El m Elders dots ders and leave love them unbiased to judge for among the tho ho aides ables unless It U Is that bitt they fear flar the contact because convinced themselves that lint contains so BO much truth that hat t tho the other oIlier Isms will wi bo be tho thie sufferers by IJ on I may mu add that bitt In II tho brief sermons sermon to which I Il l lust Just Sunday by h Mormon Mornion El m ders I learned more moro about abul Bible truths and anti prophecies more scriptural lea les were brushed I was better beter enlightened In one ono way titan than I had been b en by ly attendance at lt other churches Imn during tho ho last 15 IS years earR To say any the lie least during they thoy should III bo ho given gen fair play pin and antI treated with the thu kindness antI ald consideration that lint U is I duo due to n a people who have suf sut terell ered much and tolled toiled toled hard who have havo lived and labored to establish h a n mighty commonwealth common In the western world who are ore ever eer ready rend read to defend tho the Stal and Stripes and whose sons cons have al already already ready rendy laid IRla down their lives In ins a 1 foreign land defending tho the honor of oC our coun try against a n foreign foe toc Very ery respect fully tul CHAnLES WILSON |
