Show mm CANNON TIRA TIRADE E IN CARNEGIE HALL new york april 28 all utah residents living here are delighted at the outcome of what was meant to be the biggest blow of the season struck a Ilor mormonism monism by the allied churches engaged in fighting it the great appeal of the anti mor mons was to mayor john purroy alit chel of 0 new york city 1 mayor mitchel was asked by ti i resolution pass ed it at the conclusion of a fiery speech by frank J cannon in carnegie hall mass meeting to prohibit all speaking in public here by the mormons Mor mons the answer of mayor Al mitchell itchell was almost instantaneous ile he forwarded fur warded to president W P monson of the eastern states mission a ritten permit to speak on the streeta and to carry on missionary work on oa exactly the same terms as those extended ext to all other denominations denomination s the permit to speak proved especially welcome e since it removed an embargo put into effect by the late mayor gaynor upon representations made by the same embittered bitt ered enemies of the church who supported frank J cannon at carnegie hall the opinion prevails among utah residents that the carnegie hall mass ass meeting has turned out to be a big benefit to the mission work held ou on thursday night it brought together clergymen from uie the presbyterian the baptist the methodist and other denominational nomi national churches catholics had been invited but were not in evidence it was the understanding here that they refused to soil their hands with such a bigoted proceeding in order to bring an audience to carnegie hall clergymen of the denominational churches had each been given live five tickets for the carnegie hall stage and 30 tickets for the main auditorium the meeting had been advertised verti sed from practically every de nominal pulpit in the city but in spite of all this advertising carnegie hall held no more people than it did upon the occasion of the mass meeting held in 1912 the identical purpose of that meeting held this week frank J cannon spoke to a partially empty hall it was clear from the moment the rev joshiah strong called the meeting to order that however bitterly cannon might speak he could add no bitterness to that already engendered among his clerical and lay hearers bearers cannons discourse was of course principally aimed against president joseph F smith with an undercurrent of appeal for money he told the people before passing the plate tor for had done nearly as well as this in philadelphia he brought in the name of abraham lincoln as a martyr who was killed in order that his des ec rating hand might not tall fall upon polygamy after it had done its work with slavery slavery he urged was less dangerous than mormonism and less in need of suppression cannon pictured the mormon people as a people who had spit upon the flag and would do so again he dramatically vo voiced iced his protest against the mormon people being allowed to spit upon the flag he said the mormon people were members of a political kingdom within the united states that this kingdom was mohammedan in character and that it would either have to be suppressed by the united states or it in turn would crush the united states ile he spoke of his own course as one which has gone the way it has because when god wills a thing it Is he said any man who would send mormon morman literature thru the mails should be incarcerated until he could gain respect for the con money that in pittsburg the anti mor mons had raised and that they ution joseph F P smith amith has violated the white slave law he shouted and has desecrated christs name in dedicating the chicago tabernacle to a polygamous god instead ot of his usual forum oratory cannon introduced his assaults upon the church in almost a whining tone and at no DO tit it la in h his Is ir lp lacourse course did he show the spirit it of assurance that formerly harac berlied hm ti m in the audience were president monson ionson H habirt rt anderson of ogden ashley a student of columbia university and it a party of 0 iy cy or more utah folks from among the students an and d missionaries the church members made no pro tests until after cannon had had his full say and the meeting had adjourned anderson Ander soa then pressed forward to confront cannon ile he spoke to him as frankle th the other utah people present were not surprised at al this greeting ot of familiarity as cannon and anderson were formerly bosom friends as boys together in ogden they had shared the same dress suit when they owned only one between them both and anderson had organized quartets to sing at rallies where frank cannon spoke during his first campaign for the frankle kle sald said anderson andersen r the matter with you ana dont you feel a good deal of a sneak to be going around here telling these things you know are so untrue cannon ignored the matter presented to him by anderson and tried to extend a greeting as an old friend what are you doing here he asked an Ander dersons sens reply was that he was on his way to europe as a missionary in the faith that cannon had bad deserted and that it gave him a great deal of pride to know that he was still true while cannon had abandoned his faith after repeatedly bearing i his testimony that tha t he knew it was true cannon was waa stung somewhat by this thia remark and he sli shouted out in a tone to attract all who were still in the building joseph F smith has made more money in the two hours this meeting has lasted than you anderson andersen will make in ia a whole year president monson alonson intervened at this point he told cannon that he was I 1 speaking what he be knew to be a falsehood no I 1 dont said cannon 0 yes you do retorted president monson and cannon in a still still louder voice turned the issue by shouting joseph F r smith is a lawbreaker at this moment ashby thatcher Th aicher at appeared on the stage after having worked his way up froni from the thel audience ile he took a position directly in front of cannon while several hundred people crowded around to learn what was the cause of the fresh excitement young thatcher did not mince his words you said things about my father sir mr cannon and ana I 1 am here to tell you that those things were not true my aly father and your father were gr great eat friends you said my father died of a broken heart because the church persecuted him that was not true X ru e my father died in the fat faith th I 1 he ae kept his testimony and that was something you have not been able to do I 1 am glad to tell you that I 1 am proud to serve the church that my father i served thatchers speech held the audience and won close attention they turned I 1 to him from cannon it if Alor monism Is such a vile system said thatcher why dont you cannon seek to redeem your own soil from it you linow know that the only son you have Is now on a mission for the church in germany I 1 have met him there j the onslaught caused the women i listeners to turn back to cannon to see what answer he could make his answer was murmured 1 I have taught my boy to follow the dictates of his own conscience and with that he retreated from the stage thru a back door thatcher on the other hand was surrounded by respectful quest questioners loners who wanted to ask about the church cannon and reviled in such unmeasured terms i the international council for patriotic service had as its ita chairman at the mass meeting the same clergyman who as chairman of the falsely label ed national board of censorship passed two years ago moving picture films grossly li beling people the councils doormen and ushers passed around cards asking tor for money pledges or on which there was written this statement this is not a war AGAINST religion but a war FOR religion 76 the mormon church is a boham mohammedan empire within the republic it teaches treason j it practices polygamy i it uses millions to suppress the truth of its crimes already its political power Is fir ed in 11 states its emmis sarles saries are at YOUR YOUK doors 1 no nation can exist halt aloham and half christian r will you join in the patriotic work vork it if so sign the pledge to contribute on the other side of this card the pledge referred to called for a fight to secure the passage of an antl and polygamy amendment to the united states constitution it required its signers to agree to pay quarterly in advance any one of a number of sums indicated in a marginal table these sums ranged from 1 to 3 per year deseret news |