| Show THE G A ft GUSH CONTINUES THE RECEPTION busyness BU STILL AN ANTI MORMON CAMP MEETING last evening the skating rink was filled to overflowing by members of the G A K R and others othera curious to witness the antics of the anti mormon ring upon trie platform were governor west secretary thomas U S S marshal dyer and others boi commissioner missioner mckay had the campfire camp fire in charge and irom from this it could be understood understood that the moral anti cormons mormons Mor mons would be given a chance to show their hatred of the mormons cormons Mor mons the commissioner stated that it was intended to keep the camp lires up during daring the remainder of the week the friends of the G A R were pleased with the meetings but some others were not many wished they could be continued to the next national encampment some had come to scoff and gone away tol to pray he had allstot a list ot thirty speak ers rs and wanted to give all a chance to judge C C J goodwin Goodw ln editor of the tribune in this city was wa the first speaker in lils his remarks he be evinced little of that bitterness and hatred which characterized those who followed him with one or two honorable exceptions he held field it to be a special honor to the strangers to the city the word welcome might be pelting getting monotonous bothem to them tor for they biad heard it all along the line but bat nowhere was the feeling more hearty than in utah the territory was in an anomalous condition A few stood up to maintain the honor of the flag on the picket line between two civilizations when they spoke of the sovereignty et aty of the laws they evoked antagonism for this reason it gave them great pleasure to welcome the brave noys in blue and especially those from new england away back in the doubtful days when the soldiers went out and undertook with their lives to maintain the nation that a free government might livent live it was understood that henceforth the good places should be kept for them and thai they should be the objects of especial favor bayor and love it wasso was so understood now the speaker ri was glad on other grounds that they had come people sometimes think the real centre of the earth is where they live and they begin in to look down with pity piti on others this his was a great country and it took some courage coa rae to bring the wilderness into subjection and compel the hand to respect the rule ot of honor and law if the difficulties met by the men in the west were understood perhaps when they asked for favors ard and aid they would be granted lie he hoped the visitors would enjoy themselves on their journey when it was finished they would have some idea of tho the magnificence of the country in california they would receive a thrilling welcome those who had not been there had no idea of the grandeur ran deur ot the golden state the welcome of the G r A B R there would be worthy of the californians again he welcomed them to utah governor roble of maine was next introduced and taid he be had come a distance to see those assembled he came with members of the G A E R from a state on the atlantic coast to visit the pacific he thought when he started that he was an inhabitant ok of one of the greatest states but found he was mistaken he was glad to come to a territory to see so many fine men and beautiful women this country had bad been made great in part b by the principles and influences of new england in years portland has grown to but a city ot of inhabitants salt lake city had in 50 years increased to nearly that number at the close of the revolution one fourth of the people resided in new england today to day only one ene twenty eighth live there it had bad done him good to see so many people of the state of maine here to recognize him it is a glorious fact that no matter where they are they triumph it does a man good to know he is remembered kindly by the people he brought kind greetings and lofty congratulations to the people here the G A XI was one of the grandest organizations in the world the members had seen all the vicissitudes of war and had triumphed in the greatest cause that had bad ever brought happiness to the civilized world every state has its peculiarities but there was only one people one country and one destiny may the soldiers stand together demanding 11 their ri rights lits from the nation for they had not alwa always had them he was paymaster in thys the e army and the only thing he regretted was because he had to put paid in full on the discharge papers the soldiers had not been itald paid in full nor would they be until they ey were all pensioned off rally round the flag boys was sung by members of bithe the massachusetts delegation judge I powers lowers then came forward fur the past year and more it would have been improper for him to speak un on political questions but he bad observed by a good family newspaper that would soon be ex judge powers he was now at liberty to bear his testimony to affairs of utah it seemed to him that ne lie had been cut down in his prime lie he would have preferred to go out of office in his bis own way but he be felt a sense of relief at being released from laboring for a year and submitting to abuse there Ther ewas was no free speech in utah until recent lynor was there free dom domhof of the press until the started ecart ed the time had bad come for joyse loya men to express their sentiments it 11 that boat was treason on it should be made the most of he came down on the train with the vermont dele delegation a tion and remembered that vermont gave us br brigham young and also the bramer Irame of the edmunds law this lay law was doing a good work to release thel people from thralldom little visitors know here were who gave their first allegiance to the church and to john taylor as its president this people hung bung the rag flag at half hal lh maston mast on the nations birthday 1885 there ere was an organization here the church a perfect one with officers leers off full and complete and having no parallel it has bas its courts it its system of taxation assessments and ad contributions it controls the commerce lof this territory through its operative cooperative co system it owns large estates and aind holds the farmers in bondage bond aee woe to the man who said he owed tits his sovereignty to the people every officer in ane territory but one was a mormon this hurch church pointed the road to heaven and to political preference it also controlled the social co could u id have position in it unless he was a polygamist it had established a in minitia I 1 fatia and everything necessary essaiy to make a state its members had hadd to take oaths in the endowment house to maintain the church over the government they came here to build an empire of their own removing Ke moving the sagebrush in this district was ewt not half the work of clearing the forests in the east the mormons cormons Mor mons say like the south did let us alone the nation could not afford to do this it could not afford to haye have the children taught disloyalty and that perjury was right that above the flag was the church that woman was to be kept in subjection the institution of mormonism could not longer be permitted to nourish flourish lie he had seen girls rl competent to teach school testify testify they know their own age ile he had seen the flag insulted kuone on one occasion three loyal officers had their houses beam be smeared eared with filth A little deputy had been assailed by tour four men until he shot one the next morning a family sper camu out chang charging ing that it was a foul murder of a stalwart tai wart young man but the young man lived to escape there was a peculiar people here mormon gentile and jack mormon the latter was too contemptible con coa for anything A man should be one thing or the other democrat or republican mormon or gentile the jack mormons cormons Mor mons were like the renegades rene gades who incited the indians to hostility hosli lity une one of those renegades rene gades was groo the afie editor of a paper he placed himself himsel f so GO low that he was lower than the basest slaves the editors of the me nawa believe what they say but groo knows better ills his father in law has told him so such people as he have been a curse here hut but now they must mulat join one or the other party the warfare against pa polygamy 1 and mormonism would not cease this warfare has given such men as murray zane McKay Thomas west and others to make the fight nahl the conflict is irrepressible there could be but one government in the united states the united states slates authority must be par amount there woula be no more secession the conflict would go on till in utah there would be reverence for the american home the conflict is progressing rapidly prosecutions are being pushed as list last as they can be the heads beads of the church are hiding biding the slaves are trembling all that was needed was the passage of the tucker or edmunds bill it was for the good of the people he wanted to see utah enthralled disenthralled dis instead of tithing houses he wanted schools in place of sad eyed women happy wives mothers and children he trusted that the of utah was near here a grand commonwealth mon wealth could be built here was the clearest air and purest water and the people who were loyal were kind and hospitable as any on earth he had been traduced traducer trad here as he thought lie he never could be he was satisfied with his record and went out sith with the confidence of the loyal gen tiles les he bore an intense hatred of the I 1 mormon t church yet he pitied them and the men on whom he had bad inflicted pan punishment ashment sh ment because they believed it it ri right ht to d disobey I 1 toe the law he n now w I 1 laid aid h his I 1 office effic e down feeling that the time had come when the man men appointed would not pander to the I 1 mormon church but would keep their oath to sustain the constitution and laws borall for all his friends ne lie had the highest regard the country owed much to its soldiers and also to the handful of men who here in these mountains had met unknown dangers those who represent the united states should think of the situation in this territory and say they will never vote for a man inan who can be influenced by the mormons cormons Mor mons why we had something done why do we have to plead on bu our bended knees for congress to do something to sustain american institutions in utah ane speaker was a democrat but he held the present democratic congress in he wanted them to do something when they were paid for it there had not been a act passed that would entitle a member to reelection election re nothing No thins had been done the caucuses shoula send the old members into the background and give the country a new deal he was boing going east to instruct the people about utah tab the time had come when so meting should be done talethe take the bullot ballot away from the mormons cormons Mor mons and let them be ruled by american ideas the visitors should tell their friends what hat they 1131 haa heard and the time would soon come when the twin relic would no longer be a blot on american institutions he spoke to the soldiers thus because he knew they would not allow tue flair to be trailed in the dusta dust abey should not lay their arms down until antil they had bad done all they could to destroy polygamy and the mormon I 1 power in utah general S S burdett commander in chief of the grand army of the republic was nea introduced to the audience he trian thanked ked them for their greeting and spoke of his associations with the army in 1861 he and two or three others abolished slavery from nebraska A family from virginia brought two female slaves to debt whether or not the united states su pherne in tile dred scott case was good law the speaker and his hia companions tested it too and had carried the slaves over the canada line in reference to poly polygamy gamy be said now I 1 did not nor know it would fall to my lot to add in any wise to the effort that is now being made to abolish the other twin institution institution but I 1 am willing to lead a hand baud I 1 suppose that you people on ground nere here who are coming in contact every day with the institution its elfand who feel in your persons tile the bitterness which 1 your our exertions evoke from those who believe in it I 1 suppose that with you the tight fight is personal of course course to those of bf us who live a good way off it is only and can only be a tight on principle now it was waa my fortune some years ago to know a distinguished mormon 7 who only a few months ago I 1 believe went to his rest and though a mormon I 1 trust he did go into rest wm 11 II hooper he and I 1 served together in the same congress excuse me I 1 did not intend to admit that fact after what was said about congress a moment ago but it is out A genial ana kindly man was william li hooper and bless his bis dear old grey head he had bad only one wife and I 1 think no doubt he be was true and loving to her but that is all a matter of small consequence an individuality of the business it is the great principle which is at stake and the ibe principle will light fight and will win why fellow citizens the priests and preachers of every nation and tribe and laud land and country since our time began have laid their hand band in blessing on the head of every cause which time and humanity has trampled into the dust ef forgetfulness and so it will be that the onward march of this great liberty family loving country will inevitably trample into dust the pride of the hierarchy which here insults god and man we speak of a better land 1 we of another shore god ge grant r ant that our feet may stand in the beautiful place and that our eyes may see of its glory alory but it is a long way off and this we know that whether there be the other shore or there is upon this earth a heaven audit and it is found where one good man loves lovas one good woman and there is not grit enough in utah to throttle that heaven even out of spot of land many years longer loneer now I 1 do not know but that is saying more than a grand army man ought to caybut I 1 will offer an excuse there is a lot of old fellows here who 20 or 25 years ago offered their help aud and their lives for this great countey cou ritty of ours it may be all out of place it way may be that it is self glorisi cation it may be it is too much of self appreciation but whether that be so or no we have thought and we think it stronger as we grow older that we have a gr gi eater stake in this land of glory than others have and thinking so we take to ourselves the privilege perhaps of denouncing that which seeks to us to dishonor the flag in more rounded phrases and aps in more vehement fashion than others would or that we should do anyhow I 1 expect to live long enough to see that day dawn upon on this great land that it shall ue be proclaimed to our glory and to the relief of every honest and god fearie fearing man under the sun that tile the last 1 of I the barbarisms barbari sms has hid bid its head forever corporal tanner of new york said he was utterly amazed at the audience present lie he had read of utah and its institutions and looked on it more as a cancer that had eaten everything up that was beautiful once when discussing this damnable spot he said hed send the whole territory to hell now he would say god bless the brave men and woman who stay here a living protest against this foul blot the he G A E R are boking at the land they saved not lor ourselves alone but for all the people they have come to salt lake and nut not a soul of them would hold back one hot word said against that institution which they consider an insult to beir mothers wives and daughters some way may think the G A K R is played out and way below par but if grover says he wants |
