| Show HORR ON UTAH EX congressman horr HOBB W who 10 wa bently visited utah and a dd ir several large audiences on politics ix the republican interest has writing up his impressions of the tei and the people for the no york Iri tribune bune like all writers who attempt describe a place from the ex exper perien iem of a flying trip and the anfor formati in picked up in conversation he mal ml mistakes stake for instance he a twice of the valley which 11 says is the largent in utah but has 0 only a population of about W haven it any idea what he m meana there is no such valley and oad ogdena valley which he speaks of as one 0 i the largest to is but a small specimen men ot the valleys valley ls of utah J mr horr speaks well of the mo conall mone and their works but annoura his bis lack of sympathy with their aptt history and religious belief IJ but h admits that the development of thi uninviting country is largely due mormon energy and pluck H thinks the long and bitter fight ba tw tween e en the mormons cormons and gentiles ha hafti i w ie injured the territory greatly I 1 K does not pretend to be able to explain why peculiar religious religions have tak baket root and flourished in this country attl does know that as a rule 1 I persecute persecution perse cuti i have ha veal a ways ended in an I 1 increased acre growth of the persecuted and h sayi 1 it is natural for an all people to t thinly right and every one eljah wrong the mormons cormons act as if tl knew they were right no doubt mi of them really think that they keowen to be a fact the balance of of the w are just as certain that the mor know nothing of the kind such ra a b naturally leads to intolerance the theal question is how best to treat su huoh genuine belief even though it be all aa as delusion ones impulse Is is to erwa crush H out by the strong arm of the law and bw 1 ty of but it must be under bood stood that as many as seven services are held during the sabbath in one church for instance in the diocese of buffalo there is one parish pariah consisting entirely of poles which has communicants who are accommodated in a single church with a seating capacity of 1900 nearly every country in europe is represented and confessions are heard in polish german lithuanian hungarian bohemian french spanish and italian in the diocese ol of scranton pa there are seven polish seven german four hungarian one lithuanian one italian and several english catholic churches the statistics presented in the bulletin are sup supposed to be as accurate as it is possible to gather the information necessarily was entirely derived from roman catholic sources the number dumber of communicants seem less lees than might be supposed but then it must be remembered as we have ex explained p bained that all who have not received first az communion are not included in these ak r return at best beet the figures even as given by the church authorities can be I 1 no more than approximations for w J there is no record ot of communicants kept by the church in large cities the only records kept regularly in the me f church are of births birtha and marriages 01 |
