Show PRESIDENT preside J AIL N T SMITH S M IT R GRILLS RILLS fi MEXICANS MEX avoids direct reference to president tafts administration but deplores the spirit of unrest which prevails preva ils throughout 9 hout nation at this time brigham Bri 19 ham H roberts taken to task before eight thousand people SALT CITY oct 6 5 emptying the vial vials of 0 hie his wrath li ii worde words that fairly bristled will lit I 1 withering denunciation president Preel dent joseph F smith in his opening ad 1 dress before the ami annual coni 1 daronco of he the mormon hosts yesterday took verbal vengeance upon the people of mexico for th abo a persecution of the mormon culon colonists lets he ile I 1 called them a jacv of low degraad 1 ed godless vindictive tive shiftless idle brigands brigande bri gands rene renegade gades murderer murderers and unworthy the name of afi humans the american govern ment 11 he lie ald said las la played the part of wisdom in standing anding et aloof and let alar tin dog eat dog in Is the church leader made formal formali announcement that the mission of the mormon church in mexico was at an end and that tho the brave men and women who had risked their fortunes and their lives in the attempt to build up branch of the church in that barbarous country are released from further duty in the southern republic carefully avoiding all names and specific references president deat balth bespoke hie his warm regard for the thi 11 aness which he said IT vas ang t cabango the old order of thins things ts if urged church members to ever hold d in reverence reve renco the constitution of america and to at always ays vote to ele j vale vate only honorable wise and con men to places of power in the administration of the constitution nut not talking politic politics president smith made no refer ence to his recent article artille in support of president taft printed in the improvement bra nor approached apro ached the topic of politics in ay vay ay other than to commend the action of the present administration fully eight thousand persons many of them pilgrims from throughout the world far and near where the branches branche 3 of mormonism Mormon lem 3 ars rl located beard heard their venerable leader it was the opening session of tho the eight third conference of the church the tabernacle was comfortably viled tl ll the attendance exceeding that of any opening aes es slon alon in years man nian aund the church dignitaries were ere well represented on the stand president smith and bis his counselors anth anthon 0 lund and charles W penrose occupied fie tho top tier on the lower tier were apostles francis 1 I 1 lyman heber J grant reed smoot hyrum M smith george A smith orson F whitney david 0 mckay anthony AV hins joseph F smith jr and james E talmage the only absent apostles were hudger rudger clawson Cla weon who Is in europe and 0 P F richards of the first seven presidents of if the event les there were present J golden kimball seymour D young rulon S 8 wells 1 W mcmurrin and charles 11 II hart bishop charles W nibley presiding blanos of the church and his counselors 0 P miller and D A smith were present scores of other high churchmen including patriarch hyrum 0 G smith occupied seats of honor lionor president smith called the conference to order a few low minutes tier 10 charlse A cailis president of the southern states mission home hoine for the conference offering the invocation after music by the choir and great organ president smith launched upon his formal ad dresa which Is each year in the nature of a greeting and 1 to the churchs standing and policies for t the be year to come the church leader eald said the he did not feel so go strong is 18 was his wont tind und that it was only through the grace of god that he was able to perform the tho duties that devolved upon him an am head of the church all worthy success la lit alfo 0 must acknowledge KB its source in that eaino same grace graco of dod god be he eald said lie compared the ito present strength of 0 the church with ito it landing standing at the time it was first organized and pointed to its rold growth as a proof of it its universal mission evidences of prosperity are on om every hand he declared I 1 the lat ter erday er day saints throughout the world with the one black exception of 0 mexico of which I 1 shall have more inora to say are rich in the temporal blessings of earth their grana ries are bursting with the wheat ot of the fields their revenues have increased and all al comfort comforts ot of life hae multiplied for these things let us thank god let us u not all fall victims to pride nor indifference which eo so often attends prosperity rhy but let ua us aldays hold in mind that the lord ie Is the source pt pf vur var welfare et i referring to the colonial colonists who were ere driven from mexico president Preal dent smith eald said that so harrowing bad had been their experience experiences and so great the turmoil and confusion engendered in that country that the church had deemed it wise to abandon it ita mox va agnitch AP nItch t a ain to outrages aa ad r robbed i plundered and I 1 from rom homes he said 0 some SOMO of t them ja have ben bt en deprived of their liberty WAW and all have bad had to flee floe for their alv so e and I 1 regret to say some of them did not escape the murderous mob president smith said that the settlers ett lera did not go to mexico by choice but on the advice and counsel of tho the church which desired to extend its empire in that direction at this tills point the sp aker launch ed upon hie his torrent of denunciation with a voice that trembled jtb with feeling and rafig through the ast auditorium like a trumpet he hurled invective after invective upon the hoade heads of the Alexi mexican cans he jig d de dared that be he believed bod would send a scourge upon them to purge he country of its it wickedness and lift the people to a higher plane ot 0 intelligence 1 I 1 many persons have condemned the government of the united states fur ita its interference noninterference non nori in the mexican situation said the speaker but I 1 believe it vas vias the part ot of wisdom that this nation should stand tand aside and let dog eat dog intervention tion by force of arms would precipitate a war that would last years and years year s the ablo country would be bo brought to the very depths ot of despair and bloodshed would be enormous nations unmeet digressing from the mexican situation aaion president smith took occa elon to deplore what be termed the growth of throughout america he ile said the american constitution was endangered by the restless movements he ile urged that th mormons renew their allegiance to the nation by support bg ig the constitution ution as they do their religion and to stand against every attack upon it president smith conclude 1 bis his address with an appeal to tho rank and ani lie file of the church to remember and obey the precepts of 0 their faith in every detail seek ye the truth and follow it for the truth will majie make ye free he be said anthon it lund of the first presidency was the only other speaker at the morning session he talked ot of the bible the book of mormon and the doctrine and Coven covenant Antly comparing the three throe works from the standpoint of mormonism the bible be atas accepted as the word ot of god in so far as it wai was translated correctly he lie Jn insisted alsted however hoever that many discrepancies and incongruities bad had crept into the book through the manhandling ot of many generations the book dook ot of I 1 mormon and the doctrines Doctrin ps and cov I 1 continued on page two fteres DE T SMITH LL mexicans continued from page one enacts be he eald said supplement and make complete tho the goepel as a taught tn in tho the bible one hint flint to voter president lund mentioned tho the political unrest in the country and Sugg stad that the people look well before they leap into untried re forme forms lie ile referred to the period ot of unrest that pervaded france be fore the bloody revolution and the dark darkwood nood into which that nation plunged with this he lie contrasted the vie sturdy and steady anglo saxon methods of bringing about reform advising that the history of the lat be taken gp aa as a guide lie e aa their beet beat judgment and would vote only ter tho men ini measures mia of known wort 4 at tho mo afternoon session thu speakers ep eakers were charles it hart ilu ru lon S wells lvella J golden kimball and joseph W mcmurrin all of the first reven presidents denta of at the Bovent lep all confined themselves to doctrinal remarks pleada fur for old days why bing that all la Is well in when all la to not eald said J golden goldea kimball remark remarking triZ upon tho the need for closer adherence to the faith on the pirt of the younger generation Rener atlon gire give us men met liko like our fathera fathers and women like our mothers who settled this glorious gl orloue land I 1 have no uee use for the halfway men of which the present generation Is prod producing ving so many they are but pla plaster al ter cast of men wearing upon their faces that which Is not true in their souls the speaker ep ealter declared for more practical education in the schools and 1499 fool factory output he ruid one of the thing things the master r with the present generation was wa too much leisure and excessive prosperity uphold upholds government rulon S 8 welle wells called attention to how thankful the majority of the mormons should be that they live under tinder the stars and stripes when they contemplate the fate of the berkan colonists lie ile sold said bo he believed the government of the united states was latip inspired ired of god charles 11 II mart declared he lie b believed liter alev in the resurrection and the reunion of 0 the spirit and body he lie said that min mn had iad a spiritual birth before coming 0 to o this lit joaeph W mcmurrin murran urged upon the church the necessity of doing more missionary work at home lie ile we j should T each u a ourse ourselves ves a missionary to carry the gospel to these persons who because of their ir proximity we are inclined to overlook alro in the great work of redeeming trian mankind kind under the last dispensation 11 REBUKES arrildt nt bineth and II 11 II 11 have differences is SALT LAKE CITY oct 6 tho the guarded but persistent advisory sory re bearing upon national political issues uttered by church leader at friday fridays sessions of the conference came to a startling head yee yea berday when president joseph F 1 smith commenting on the earlier remarks of or brigham II 11 roberts declared that the people should seek divine irli dance before exercising theli privilege in matters of govern mint he eald said that freedom of human judgment without such gul euld d ance bad had been reyon sibl for much ot the evil and moat most of the mi stakes in n the world 4 roberts raj I 1 lor or I 1 ree dont t n hou earner earlier brigham 11 itoe 1 erts speaking ot of the and privileges of the americal america Ameri cai peo pew pie had declared that he waa was gird the mormon people rights and hoped they would ox ax r else clue them in matters ot of government he lie said that while the american Amerl tan constitution wa was givin as aa an inspiration to the founders foun dera ot of the republic it should not be considered aa 13 final nor complete lie ile said it was open to amendment whenever evces I 1 sary and in the difference differ enco ot of opinion concerning the constitution and its administration he be rejoiced in the freedom allowed the people of 0 th church the speaker speakers a words tell fell upon th the a vast audience in direct contradiction to the trend ot of thought that marked the addressee addresses of 0 speakers at the previous sessions who had urged the people to take conservative counsel smith SIX speak aag plainly it was so noticeable a difference that when Pre Adent smith the hour of adjournment a tense tease expectancy seemed to pervade the auditorium after reading several announcements the president gald paid it my brethren and sisters vil will 1 1 indulge me a moment I 1 feel I 1 want to nay and ought to any a word d wild reference to th discourses this morning I 1 bellev belley lis all ins ahr has been said and I 1 also believe a t further than thin that which has bu been said and end I 1 would like just for a moment to express briefly and perhaps imperfectly the thoughts that bavo have occurred to me in lik relation to one point especially referral to I 1 think that in the realm of liberty and the exercise ot of human judgment all men should exercise exer clae extreme caution that they do not change or abolish those things which god has willed and inspired to be done ban on judgment it has been in this realm of fre freedom in the exercise of human judgment that most ot of theall that have lava occurred in this world have been done the martyrdom of 0 the saints the en cri bixton of 0 the son of god himsel him sei and much of the apostasy and departure from the works ot of righteousness and from the laws of god ad have occurred in this realm of freedom and the exer ciso of human judgment god in his boundless wisdom and gracious mercy has provided means and has shown the way to the children of men chereb even la im the realm ot of freedom and the exercise ot of own judgment they my individually come unto god la in faith and ar na tny tj t j ment and andi do doo want lattera the latter day saints to forget this Is their privilege 1 I would rather seek god for or counsel find guidance than the whole world of haran harangues guAs oc OZ political leaders or any leadora of any other cult I 1 feel that I 1 should say these thing and I 1 know that I 1 am right the frank and positive statement at 0 their leader was received by the great concourse ot of church members in hushed bushed silence after the adjournment journ ment at noon the episode waa was the subject of 0 general conversation in the mormon faith the president of the church la Is the prophet see seer r and revelator in liter literal al sense ho lie Is the instrument through which divinity dir Is 1 presumed to gayo guidance must lust take iasci in SALT LAKE CITI oct olt S every speaker save one at session of the stormon conference before a total attendance of twenty thou thousand and persons urged in unmistakable terms the necessity of 0 abiding strictly by the instructions of those in authority in all things both spiritual and temporal the realm of freedom and human buman judgment I 1 made an issue of the conference yesterday in the addresses of president smith and brigham 11 II robe ts in which the latter made an eloquent pie for personal liberty of church member in all things pertaining to civil government and political issues waa was taken up by almost every speaker today fach ech d the rebuke their leader had delivered upon the head of the man who dared to speak for human rights and each declared without reservation that men should sook and follow after the divine gul guidance dancO of those in la authority before they exercise their rights of opinion and judgment |