Show ano AMO THE one of the tho moat most interesting lectures of the season was that given at maiden malden last evening by the hon thomas thomaa fitch of nevada on mormonism and th the mormons cormons Mor mons the operations of the financial system defy precedent and offer the moat most successful example on record of cooperation ordinarily capital induces labor and labor jn u turn invites capital but in utah may be witnessed the phenomenon of wealth accumulated independent either oi ot imported nucleus commercial advantage or natural re to be remembered that utah had achieved d nearly her present industrial status before a pound of bullion had been taken from ber hex mines from a people poverty ridden sterile sterl leof leot of resort strangers to invention untutored in art without navigable waters uniting their prairies with the bei sea devoid of railroads or other means of connection with commercial or manufacturing cenores centres cen trea tres destitute of everything except in industry du stry there has been built up a structure of wealth and credit which today to day forces ban san franci Francl francisco spa and chicago into eager strife for enfranca to its portals and casts the reilley rentes of its glittering walls into the fogs of london I 1 am not here to apologize for the mormons cormons Mor mons but I 1 offer it as my candid opinion that the motives of those who engrafted grafted en on polygamy upon a faith not otherwise especially obnoxious were sincere and conscientious that they are struggling with an error of which they must unburden themselves we can but know that they are honest in their error I 1 cannot for a moment doubt I 1 believe that the tho great majority of the men and women who wattice an and up 0 po agamy my a matter pt euglow eU glou teo I 1 heiley ja kox kor 0 of a til tyl 1 WE painful kill duty diry zoil relt fornie formea formed 61 liei igei 1 tbt this resper reaper an I 1 ar WC i 7 curiosity gitig for fir 5 iz pd p d al much to elm elk ell eil in as and ant I 1 rud y ile e self immolated ol 01 M Ys eiffie i there ia is missionary W pr 61 dane in utah ou burely surely rely relf bud buP bungling r polita oll oli ti clana ciana and earel carel careless a s adventurers are not the beet beat husbandmen of tho eed seed of reform thus far tt the a gentile G ic mc ebu grants have not largely increased the stoc stock k of available piety nor been evangelists of unalloyed ble bie the tue 1 aw ml take the tho cormons mormons have made macko is Js nih neb nib ing white and industrious if they were only polygamous of at polygamous christians Jl elthey they could stain their cuticles cubicles cuti cles v dusky red call their bishops chiefe their thein alye squats squaws and their children papooses oses oseg if it they would steal their horses instead af ing lug them beg bg their blanhe blanket td Instead iol lol i weaving them scalp rather than feed them refrain from ail alL honest labor and live as a tribe of bobler nobler blar bler mendicants mendi cants upon the bounty gaha gaho 6 of aho itha LJ united states government they become the darlings instead instead orthe of ouy out chats of eastern sentimentalism sap a 3 the destinies of utah have thus ihus haeo haeg been shaped by a person whose he tives may have been misapprehended misapprehend mis mib I 1 OT but whose ability has scarcely beena beqo overrated fox for brigham young ia Is un questionably one of the boldest moat i and capable of living men mian he ig iff an hu organizer a a magnetizer his power self seif ted tea and seif self poised as as it is is almost supreme with his followers A hundred and fifty thousand people are busy today to day realizing his idealizations articulating his plans and giving earnest response spirit of his hib projects in and d purposes to suppose him an imposter poster a trickster a veiled fiend off practicing his lils Juggler jugglery 19 eats before the walls of heaven and iau lau laughing W at t he the delu delusion ilon of his hla v victims fa ie t he the greatest itis ibb is impossible divested of pre prejudice judica VO t balove belove ri that he la Is other than a conado 1 ious pious lous benevolent mam maa who mistakes the reflections of hla hia owna servant powerful brain for revelations from on high it may be said that he has In grafted a feature of the effete and corrupt civilization of asia upon a nineteenth century community that he has religion ionized lied sensuality and or groa gros grossness but with athla one wrong he has linked a thousand lvir o bues tues bues his people who have hava twenty five years from froma a handful alof ulof of L r fugitives regard hini hinl with affect folt foit reverence and add pride and he may almost be pardoned for mistaking his for favorable accidents for direct interpositions inter positions of providence for every storm that has haa gathered against his people has changed in its descent to a golden shower for twenty years yearn one tenth of the earnings of a community now numbering souls and averaging from an early date in theli their organization more than halt that number has been pour ed ad into the treasury of a church of which brigham young Is the spiritual president and sole temporal trustee in trust that wealth has not been hoard ed the current report of 11 richea riches in the bank of england is such stuff bluff as dreams are made of the riches of the mormon church will not be found in unproductive accumulations anywhere but institutions of industry and suit skill in railroads and steam wagons and telegraph lines in woolen and cotton factories grist saw and paper mills milis newspapers ne and cooperative operative co store stores S female suffrage exists in utah and the irrepressible womans comans rights movement ia la virtually if not avowedly opposed to connubial felicity everywhere this is not a marry marrying ing lug century tha the cost of maintaining a wife wafe is greater women are confessedly more extravagant than formerly and the same reasons sons sona which operate elsewhere will enop into mormon institutions in closing his description of mormon character and manner manners fi mr fitch proposed as the wisest way to a solution of the problem leni ieni to leave polygamy to dio make a state of utah condone her past and admit her to the union unto on the condition that polygamy shall not b bo a legalized or perpetuated he wab was c closely I 1 listened to and frequently cheered during the evening the tho lecture will be given in the he city eoon soon the abaye a ridge pa ment meat of one of the best beat lecture tab tae masoh bostwi paper poper |