| Show PRESIDENT VISIT the following appeared feared in the ban baa francisco call of march A dispatch from cambridge mass mace was published in the gau call yesterday yeat erday stating that harvard and nearly all cambridge were amazed at certain statements said eaid to have been made by president eliot in salt lake a week ago it was r reported arted that he be had compared the tab utah saints to the pilgrim fathers in their fidelity to religious liberty and had said that there la is a mormon colony among the students at harvard he is said eaid to have used the following words in the course of his address 1 M I 1 came over the plains I 1 thought of df that early journey when the first colonists marched across them under the guidance of it a christian church and this reminded me of another pilgrimage though across the water I 1 refer to the pilgrim fathers they too suffered hardships for a principle they too were fired with religious enthusiasm and sought ought freedom also to worship god in planting lal citing a colony it is the women who gave nave the harder part they died faster than the men in massachusetts the great successful colonies of the world are founded on religious enthusiasm here you founded a colony that you might worship god according to the dictates of your conscience here in this valley has risen the question of religious liberty in massachusetts all churches are equal before the law there is no reason why this religious liberty may not be enjoyed by all other states an and territories as well as in massachusetts let us devote ourselves to this liberty civil and religious for associations of every sort and for the individual also if I 1 could do something to unite the elements in this territory and bring them to seek religious liberty as it is known in other parts of the country cou it would be to me a reward THE presidents VS explanation when president eliot was interviewed yesterday regarding the dis patch and the sta statements temen tao referred to he a remarked that the account of his bis speech 1 was composed of a number of discon y necked sentences many of which were entirely erroneous mrs eliot and t continued Harv ards president were guest of the mormon board of education in salt baft lake city after I 1 had been about ut seven hours houra in the city I 1 attended a meeting in the temple and delivered an address upon religious Li liberty bertyl before people 1 I described the religious liberty given to all denominations in mass maes achu sette and said that these religious liberties should be just as an precious and as an much respected in other states wad and aa in massachusetts the cathe only comparison I 1 made between the early mormons cormons at and cad the pilgrim fathers was in relation to the daunt dauntless leas spirit displayed by the latter in crossing the atlantic to found a colony where their religious ordinances would be unmolested and the hardships endured by the mormons cormons in crossing the plains for a similar purpose gilt it would be absurd aboard to talk of religious III tons liberty in connection with the early fly settlement of the pilgrim fathers because religious liberty was nut not permitted er and neither quakers nor baptists were tolerated nor were allowed to reside in the colony I 1 would not have won been permitted to exist in now new england iu io those days because Iam I 1 am unitarian and I 1 do not see bee aa continued art president eliot why religious liberty should be denied to the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 understand that not one in eleven was polygamous and now they have not only prohibited polygamy but have made it a crimp crime I 1 believe that the mormon church was sincere in its ita abandonment of polygamy and that its members will make good citizens 1 I contend therefore that the mor mons MODS stand in precisely the same poa position under the law as those who worship shi p according to any other faith the only article of their creed which constituted a violation of the law was the doutri doctrine ne of polygamy and as they have renounced it they should be placed upon the same footing as the members of any other denomination they were pioneers in the development of U utah tab and started enterprises which eastern capital has sin since ce ac quiren and developed they are sober and industrious and are anxious to give their children the benefits ot dr a higher education Is there a mormon colony at al harvard or dr eliot was asked there are in the university the law college and in preparatory schools altogether ten mormon students was the they live together but they are not colonists in the sense of propagating mormon doctrines or endeavoring to secure proselytes prose lytes they are good students student but do not diner differ greatly from other you young men in their habits and customs nahe the students have no religious observances at the university HOW IT IS VIEWED AT HARVARD the following Is in an associated press dispatch sent gent out from boston BOSTON march 25 some now new englanders are making a great ado over president eliote recent speech at salt sail lake city wherein he be praised the mor mons and the small colony colony of them at harvard secretary tolles said today that Preel dent elious remarks are only consistent with a good opportunity anity to As far as the mormon people are concerned he partakes of the feeling that 15 grow growing ingAll all the time that there is reason or much hope for the future of the as a people without reference to their religion reli giori with whose objectionable features no one should be so absurd as to tb believe president eliot to be in sympathy at any rate if he has not been outrageously misquoted the report of his speech has been distorted from the meaning it was designed to convoy convey iny J L tanner who came here from utah to attend the law school said the truth of ks it is president eliot said a kind word for the mormons cormons and the gentiles misconstrued his meaning the mormons cormons went out in a wilderness and founded a colony and president eliot should be allowed to give them credit for it without causing the ta e gentiles to burn with indignation As for that meeting it was not a mormon meeting it was held in the tabernacle because it was the only aglace place to seat the people who wanted want to hear president eliot there are ten of us here studying stu diring in boston and cambridge I 1 dont know that we should be caad called a colony of mormons cormons Mor mons we are ot of mormon parents brought up in mormon families and hold to that bellef belief we are all single except one of my brothers who leaves his wife and famil family yat home and comes come here just as a student like any one else elm |
