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Show I SAINTS IN CONFERENCE. JCVENTY.THIHD SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING LARGELY ATTENDED. President Smith Advisee Followers to Oat Out of Debt and Prepare for Future Period of Depreaalon Secret Soelttle and Labor Unlona Csnsured. Fully 10.000 people wen- present at the opening session of the seventy-third seventy-third semi annual conference of the Church of .leans Christ of Latter day Halnla, whlih convened In the tuber-nacle tuber-nacle In Hall Uke City Haturday morn Ing. April 4th, members from all parts of the stale, and many front neighboring neighbor-ing alalia being present The opening addiesa of the morning aeaaion waa delivered by I'resld.-nt Jo aeph F. Hmlth. the bead of the church. During the course of his remarks. President Htnltli said: "I desire to on tit Ion one or two subject which I deem worthy of the attention of the Halnla In this lime of prosperity It la highly proper that the l.altcrdy Huliits should get out of debt. We may look now for a period of depression at any time. And one of the best ways to pay our dcl.lH to our business associates asso-ciates Is in first t t our obligations to (iod. I'sy your tithing and be Messed. That Is Just what ! mean." President Huillh then look up his other subJiH-t-lhnt of Inlx.r. lie urged that more attention should be given to the manual tislnltig of the boys of Zlon. The vast majority of these professional profes-sional men." said he, "are worthless. They are leeches upon Ihe body politic. Home of us have an Idea that It Is degrading de-grading for our daughters lc learn to rook. They are now taught to piny Iho piano and sing and spend their time In Idle, useless pli-ssurea In society. so-ciety. Wn stuff the head of our children chil-dren with failles and fairy lules Instead In-stead of teaching Ihctu useful labor." President Seymour II Voting of the seventies regretted that too much lime was being spent In educating the head and not eunuch In Irnlnlug the hand. The schools ntid colleges, he dccliircj. were Incomplete, because they Incked the facilities of leaching the ineclmnl-cal ineclmnl-cal aits. President Jesse M. Hmlth of thn Hnowlluke slake of Arizona Invited the Huliil to come to that state, where, lie said, tho Mormon had built up communities win-re the spade were bright and tho barn wero full. Preldetit K. D. Woolley of the Ka-nab Ka-nab ataJio reported tbat them was not a snloon In tho settlement over which ho presided. President Myron Besslons of Ihe Dig Horn stake In Wyoming reported that everybody wn prosperous In hi district dis-trict and that there waa not a mortgage mort-gage on a farm In that sect Inn. At thn afternoon ai-sslon Klder II. 1C. Huberts spoke In favor of labor unions, say Inn: "I admit that sometimes these union gn too for In their demands, and have IneoriKirated within themselves them-selves features that aru not good, but If our young men would follow the trades they must recognize the unlona." Klder Joseph A. Merrill, late of tho Haniuan nilsalon, reported progress In the Islanda over which he haa presided, presid-ed, whllo Klder Hylvestor Q Cannon, who haa lately returned from The Netherlands mission, reported the work uf tbo church prospering lu that lountry. President Charles Kelly, of the Box Klder slake, said he was thankful there was not a single secret organisation organi-sation In hi slake, ami declared that 'these trades unlona are but secret order, and they ahould be ahuuned by Ihe young men of Zlon," Sunday Seaalona. Three sessions were held la the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle Sunday, at each tension the great meeting place being crowded to Ita utmost capacity. For the first time In the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day latter-day Halnts a Unltetl Htate senator occupied oc-cupied a seat among the twelve apostle apos-tle anil In hi ecclesiastical capacity addressed the vast assemblage. Alms-tie Alms-tie and Senator Heed Hmoot apoko to the people of the virtue of cleanliness cleanli-ness and was heard with rnpt attention. atten-tion. President I.uud waa the first to ad-dres ad-dres the congregation at the morning session. He commended the Hiiints for the luereused tithing which has poured Into the coffer of tho church the past year, hut said there la atlll room for much Improvement, Ho argued ar-gued that there waa something wrong with a man who would not pay hi lltlilng, saying that the paying of tithing tith-ing la not compulsory, hut a matter be- 'J twee,,.",,.:... ... """ i 1.1 1 hull. l "" ,. I ,,,,., ,(.l,c (I Miller of K . a ,- and I'l lei W '. P.irklns., .he'llyrmn .lake .ml Tie ...a. B. j lell of Fieniu: I 'tl" ;!V" ''n' "' '! ing report, of utr, -r. in their re . , . live stakes. j Klder J. Widen Kimball wn? I, closing speaker st the ino.nlng K .Ion. and .rented s-.mewhnt f fntlon by telling the peopl" lW j, could popnlarlcd Ho- church, thl U Ing ihe abolition 'f missionary Jw tern and the prnbib n of Ti !, marriages. Ill order to make :J, church .piular among the peop f the earth, be sabl. th" church s, jt cease sending out mlsslonnrle I j , preach the gospel among the nat,iJ, Ami for the same reason, the practice of going Into the Temple for the mr. pose of receiving endowment tad marrying fur time and eternity should be abolished. These two innovation, would Increase the iMipularlty of tbe Mormon faith iimnng the perpl 0f Ihe earth, he said. j Tbo nfternisin session was I Interspersed Inter-spersed with sohi tlona by the ,rboir and by quartette and elertlun frorfl .ndlvldoal members. Among th . speakers were Senator and Apostle Heed Hi t, who apoko to the molt). tilde of cleanllneas, und Prof. Taoner, who ;H.ke of tho educational work b. ing done by the church. Other strikers strik-ers addressed the assemhlage on tb worklnga of various stake, and tho flnanrlal and other condition of ta-iluus ta-iluus settlemeiin of Ihe l.atler-iUy Saints. At the evening session of thn cooftr- em e In the Tabernacle the report of the superintendents of the varlon stake Sunday schools were heard, "Jt.r which President Joseph F. Smith it-Hvi-r.il himself of a short adilm iijsiii the evils that beset the youths , and younger people of Halt I.nke. i:ider J. M. Tanner, who handle the Illiniums port of thn Sunday echonl work, rejsirti'd ome Improvements In the schisds. He said there had bsra numerous meeting house constructed n ud Ihe old ones were rapidly being It-ted It-ted up and Improved utsm. Closing Seoalon, President Smith, In hla dosing U dress to the SalutH, scored thn ea miea of the church In a vlRorou meaner, mea-ner, and denounced the rrusnii against Heed Hmoot In thu rivent nlorlnl campaign. While he did. 1st inoullon AiKistln RrniHit by nnmo, I referred to thu nghl against thn churn when ho wanted to become, a reprtl siiitatlve In tho nation' congress, anil made It plain that ho directed bj criticism to those who were opptwti! to tho aeutlng of Mr. Him sot In th United Stnlea aenate. "1 want to t- I you," said he, "that there are no more loyal people on tb face of tho earth than thn Latter-tier Suluts. Nowhere will you find peopli more true to tho beat Interests a their country and government tlua we. I tell you that we will be a floor In bringing good to thla nation aid will help It to be -ome tho best ail grundeat nation lr tho world. "We have boon maligned, ml stmt-i-d and misrepresented, but not by tlr nation. It was by the lying, hyporitt leal, aneaklng, cowardly wolves hi sheep's clothing that go through tbe world seeking to stir up strife ud trouble for tho righteous. They swk to bring tho wrath and Ire of th u tlon down upon us and our chupt The government would have protrt ed us had It not been for theso oa temptlhle hounds that go about lylig about tut. If we have not been ltd about of late aa well aa from tliu. memorial, I do not know what lyhta; Is. Some men seem to be born lUn. I believe with President WllUrd Woodruff that aome men are sent bxo the world to lie, and they fulllU bar mission." President John R. Winder, whs fell fe-ll v creel the opening address of un esslon. tisik occasion to relink u young pinplo of thn church for tm. ing to have their marriage cercutaua performed In the temple, and rud them against marrying (ientilea. President Lewi Anderson o( the South Sanpete stake reported thitm aplte of tho pest of grasshopper ib people had been fon-ed to coiifgd with, they had been faithful It the payment of their tithing. Thomas A. Waddaina, preside, of the Hawaiian colony In Skull n!,v stated that hla people were thrin,'' Klder Jiaveph MeMorrln said nKl Plah had bii ome too small fur ule Mormon pisiple. and they tie spreudlug forth Into other ststeittll countries to build their commumi,, Pri-aldent William A. Ilyil. olUlB Porntello slake stated thut his ,. munlty was beset with many dUq,). tie because of the outside worl(lt he felt that the day of tholr trltj.,.. was near at hand. President David Cameron of u.. Paiigultch sluke In "Dixie" rep,,,.,, the work doing well in that sectw j the state. |