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Show I't iii and her people, says with its customary venomous ami un-Chris-tian-likc in tolerance: J n like manner the little Mormon sect of woinan-kil lers was not ex peeled, though it squeaked out a demand for recognition as one of the world's ileal religions, a piece of impudence impu-dence that was fitly rebuked. Some wrong-headed eccentric may some- j time gel together a museum of ; breaks in Religion, and in that, Mormnuistp should not only haw j a place, hut be stationed pretty high up in the I in". ROIiKRTS WAS RHJIiT. Surprising Iulnlunmce Shown liy I ho KellxloUH I'lirllHlllt'lil. Elder Roberts of Salt Lake City, did not deliver his address before the Parliament of Religions, Sunday. Sun-day. The elder's paper was on the programme all right enough, but he is a Mormon, and after Mohammed Moham-med Alexander Russell Webb's paper on polygamy had aroused such a decided opposition lo a free discussion of polygamy, the managers man-agers of the ongress decided that an apostle of Moi monism wuld be out. of place in the congress. The elder was told, however.thal he could speak in Hall o before a select assembhign of people particularly particu-larly in teres ted in his doctrines. The announcement was made accordingly. ac-cordingly. The audience came and waited patiently for the elder, put he did not appear. Ho decided decid-ed that he would not enter the congress con-gress at all if he could not appear before the represeritati ves of all fait lis. Professor Merwin Marie Snell called the meeting to order, and said the elder did right in refusing re-fusing to read his paper before n mere branch of the parliament. He said, further, that it was a blemish upon the namenf I he future history of the crreat narliamcnt of religions that such an iusultshould be heaped upon the Mormon Church. "The idea," he said, "of inviting the representatives of all nations and religions, heathen and otherwise, other-wise, to participate in this great gathering of creeds, and then refuse re-fuse to allow the Mormons to hold a presentation meeting. They were granted the privilege once of holding hold-ing a presentation congress, but it was afterward revoked. I do not blame the elder for refusii g to read a paper before a mere adjunct of the parliament." Chicago A-mM.Sept. 2(1. The Salt Lake Daily five, (Ccn-tili')coniiiients (Ccn-tili')coniiiients thus on the subject: '"The circumstances show the li it geriug intolerance of even our most intelligent and broad-minded people, for it id or ought to lie perfectly per-fectly well-known by this time, th.il the Mormon church itself not only discountenances polygamy but absolutely ab-solutely condemns it." Jn commenting mi the aume subject, sub-ject, the narrow-minded Salt Lake Tribune, the life-long enemy ut |