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Show I MRS. LULU SHEPARD. i'lfi' I Mrs. Lulu Shepard is to arrive in Ogden today and address the j Women's Christian Temperance Union. During the past five years she has been touring the east lecturing on Utah and, if she has been correctly quoted, she has held a great part of the people of this state in utmost contempt. I For 25 years Mrs. Shepard mingled with the people of Utah and was a part of them, when suddenly she decided to start off on a rampage ram-page and since then her talks have distressed those who thought well of her and have alienated the respect of not only the Mormons but nearly all classes in Utah. Now she isback to personally come in contact with us. Had she been implicitly believed in the East, Utah today would be under martial law and ruin would have come to us financially, industrially indus-trially and socially. Perhaps Mrs. Shepard comes to tell us she has misunderstood us and is repentant, but if she is still filled with bitterness bit-terness and hatred and looks askance at the Mormons, her reception should be a frigid one. Here we are. Mormons and non-Mormons, enjoying a greater degree de-gree of confidence in each other as the years go by, uniting in our labors la-bors of doing good and co-operating in social work, leaning one on the other in the task of upbuilding. The conditions are such that the non-Mormons are in a measure responsible for the good or bad in Utah and when any one goes about defaming the state the reflection concerns not any one group but all of us. We who live here and are not of the dominant church, but intimately intimate-ly participate in the affairs of Utah, are condoning wrong outrageous outra-geous wrong if Mrs. Shepard tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and so it is with a feeling of affront that we find her returning return-ing seemingly with the expectation that, by a warm welcome, we shall ! place the seal of approval on her work of defamation. Mrs. Shepard is fired with too much prejudice to judge fairly, and she should bring herself to a better point of view by cultivating more charity and tolerance. |