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Show POLYGAMY DISAPPEARS No Longer Practiced In the State of Utah Statement of Secretary of Commercial Club Ch'cago, Sept. 9. That polygeray In Utah Is a thing of tho past nnd that tho barrier which has heretofore existed between tho Mormon and the Gentile has been swept away, was the statement made today by Will Q. Farrell, secretary of the Commercial club of Sillt Lake City. "Not moro than 2 per cent of the Mormon population of Uthh are po-lygamousiy po-lygamousiy married," said Mr. Farrell. Far-rell. "The younger generations of Mormdns frown upon polygamy and , even tho head of the church disapproves disap-proves of It. , "Mormon and Gentile work together now for a common cause tho betterment bet-terment of Utah. No longer does the Mormon shun tho Gent Io or tho G n tllo tho Mormon. The b;st feo'lng exists between them. In fact, Utah knows Inot the meaning of sect where Its development Is concerned. 'Ut.Jh basldes having a Mormon templo hnd p salt lake, which most of tho eastern people believe ,-jre Its sole possessions, is immensely Ucn In coal, iron nnd metals, its agricultural agricul-tural regions composs tho most fertile fer-tile lauds In tho country n'ud could bo mnde to produce greater crops." Mr. Farell, who camo to Calcago to study conditions hero and to study I particularly tho means of operation of the Chicago Association of Commerce, Com-merce, expressed himself as delighted with Chicago and surprised at Its development. de-velopment. Ho said: "Your park systems a."o not to bo equaled. Your public buildings nro things to marvel at. Your business Institutions, your manufacturing plants, your Industries fo of the greatest In the world. Especially does one admire yqur stockyards; it was to me absolutely aesthetic. I had Imagined Im-agined nnd I suppose, my previous opinion is held by tho mnjoity who do not know tho stockyards that It was a d rty, unclean, unkempt place, with rtn otfnoxlous odor. Instead, I found Ittwns, green trees and cleanliness. cleanli-ness. "I have gained much from my vis-It. vis-It. In Utah we have forty-six organizations organ-izations performing the work of your Association of Commerce. It Is our aim and wish, so that wo may be organizations together in one association. asso-ciation. We have a gre(t country where there are great opportunities hnd now that the religious bar which existed for years between the Mormon Mor-mon and the Gentilo has disappeared entirely we will make great progress. But we need moro men and we will get them." |