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Show UTAH mm !! CONNECTICUT BY IS. SID On Oct. 14, the Courant, of Hartford, Conn., printed an outrageous libel on the good name of Utah. A copy of the paper was sent the Standard ' by an .Ogdenlte who is helping to win the war, and he made the notation: "I hope you print this untruthful story, so that the folks at home may realize how untruthful and unfair is Mrs. Lulu L. Shepard when she is 2000 miles from where the people know the truth." The article carries Its own refutation refuta-tion when read in Utah, and therefore is given verbatim without further comment: Hartford Courant. Mrs. Lulu L. Shepard of Salt Lako City, Utah, spoke at the North Methodist church on Windsor Wind-sor avenue last evening, devoting herself to the Mormons and their doings, telling an eastern audience of these, to us, mysterious beings. But they are real, and very active, and dangerous as well, she said. Such a comprehensive and good talk on this strange sect has possibly pos-sibly never been heard In Hartford. Hart-ford. Spanish influenza showed its hold on the city in Mrs. Sheppard's audience, which was smaller than the speaker should have had, both in point of interest, and In the momentous subject which he presented. pre-sented. She spoke without reservation reser-vation or effort, dazzling her hearers. hear-ers. In part she said: Mormons Stalled Prohibition. "I have lived in Salt Lake City. ) I know the Mormons. I had been ' active in working for prohibition. Our efforts were unsuccessful. The Mormon vote prevented us from securing what we wanted. I felt that tho prohibition question must be settled. But at this time of war, and the present day conditions, tho Mormon power was growing apace. I went home and saw my call. I started to tell the. world what the Mormons are doing, what they stand for, and to what lengths they will bring this country. They have many of our western states in their power. The only place in this country where they can be stopped is in New England. If you wish to have polygamy stop, you must take hold and quickly. "Mormonism began eighty-eight years ago. To show the strides it has made I can only state the boast made hv the Mormon church. Last year it received 83,-000 83,-000 members. One of the leaders of the church said that the future of the church caused them no concern con-cern as tho loss in their membership member-ship was very small. The Mormon church has 5000 missionaries today to-day working in the fields. Columns of the great eastern metropolitan dailies are devoted to exploiting the virtues of Mormons, and the nrlvrmtnfTQo nf Vvnlno- n ATnr-mnn Draft Dodging Clergyman. She said that 3000 are in the ministry to save them for the Mormon Mor-mon church. They are safe from conscription in this way. When tho war Is over these young men's lives will have been spared and they will be able- to work for and augment the influence of their church. This she said was not patriotic. pat-riotic. ''Tho Mormons are disloyal," disloy-al," she cried in ringing tones. She told of the political situation in Utah, a sta'te as large as all Now England with one-half of New York state thrown in. Several Sev-eral of the. Western states are absolutely ab-solutely controlled by Mormons. Their power as political rulers is increasing fast. In speaking of the vast financial power of the Mormon Mor-mon church she gave startling figures. fig-ures. The Mormons own 1,000,000 acres in Canada; 1,000,000 acres In Hawaii, which is devoted to sugarcane sugar-cane raising; an 880 acre cocoanut grove in Samoa; they have also great material possessions In Mexico, Mex-ico, with mineral and other wealth In great abundance. They have 57,000 acres in sugar-cano in tho Panama Canal zono; 1,000,000 acres in Argentine, where they are raising beef and wheat. She explained that the head of the Mormon church was absolute in his authority, and accountable to no one. When he told a member mem-ber of the Mormon church to give up his business and go to a place where the church wished him, the man must obey. If he did not he would receive no benefits from his church, could not be hurled in the Mormon cemetery, have flowers flow-ers placed on his grave. Alive or. dead he would bo a social outcast in Salt Lake City. Tho second duty he had was to "pay tithes on the first of every month. Suppose, Sup-pose, said she, that an Eastern man has received a position in the Mormon country. He Is to receive re-ceive $250 a month. The first pay day the agent for the church comes to the door of that man and collects the 10 per cent the man Qwes the church. This tithe must ho paid whether the man is a Mormon, Jew or Gentile. The tithe is never ovaded; it can not be. Four hundred and twenty-seven million dollars which the Mormon i church has hoarded at the pres- ont timo, enough to buy any trust I company in the country. j Fall Down on Liberty Loan t At the time of the first Liberty 1 Loan tho Mormon church had not suDScriDcu to one bond, she said, i It was commented upon. At tho time of the second loan, Secretary ! of the Treasury McAdoo came to Salt Lake. In the Mormon Tab- , ernaclo he mado an appeal for the I bonds. From his seat Joseph F, j Smith said: "I will take $250,000 in the name of tho Mormon church, i with the tithes of my people." I Shortly tho assistant treasurer of the United States resigned. Mrs. ; Shepard said with great vehem- : ence that the man who took his I place and who became the assls- ; tant treasurer of the United States was a leader in the Mormon 1 church, James H. Morrill. Thus, she remarked, had come true the prophocy of the Mormon church that some day it would control the finances of the United States. Now, she said, when Mr. McAdoo is busy with the business of the railroads of the country or in the placing of our Liberty loans, a Mormon controls the finances of this country not, you may be sure, to the disadvantage of the Mormon church. Sugar Profiteers "Did you some months lack sugar su-gar In Connecticut?" she asked. "We had plenty in Utah." She explained how the Mormons controlled con-trolled the sugar beet industry In the West; how Joseph F. Smith, the head of the Mormon church, , raised the price of sugar and by a 1 stroke of tho pen made $9,000,000 for the church. She spoke of the control of railroads exercised by the Mormon church. Sixty-five per cent of the railroads of this , country are controlled by Mor- mons, she remarked. The Mor- ' mons own 3,000 miles of railroad. Through this enormous control of railroads, unless they are stopped, they will control steel. The Mormons absolutely own the Salt Lake: For sixty-five cents a ton they flow the water into the salt gardens, mere shallow ditches, allow it to stand, and secure the salt left after evaporation. This they sell at $7 a top in Salt Lake 1 City, after carrying it twelve miles on their own railroad. In Califor- I nia salt sells for $9 a ton, because there is no one to stop them from I charging this price, while In tho east salt brings $3 a ton. I She said that for tho men the Mormon religion was a very pleas- j ant thing as it certainly allowed I the male members of the church all the latitude that was necessary I even for a Mormon, but for the ! women tho faith was as bad as ' the life of a woman always Is un- ' der polygamy. ' Germany Favors Polygamy i Now comes the danger, said ! Mrs. Shepard. Germany is for j polygamy. It stoops to this meth- od to keep up Its man-power. "This is our chance," say the Mormons. Mor-mons. And hore comes the great- t est danger that has ever confronted confront-ed this republic. The states of Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, and Colorado are practically practi-cally now In Mormon political hands. This makes eleven states that will elect twenty -two United States senators. The Mormons j are .trying for Missouri and Kan- K sas. They have 1,000 colonists K sent to Missouri. When they wish 1 to carry an election, or gain a po- litlcal point, they nlovo their dls- f ciples where they want them. Should the Mormons gain Missouri c and Kansas, which Is quite likely, they will have twenty-six states in their control; they -will have i control of the United States sen- g ate, with all that this means. t( nn II |