Show JWESLEY HILL TALKS 1 lecturing tn towns an fn pennsylvania on the condition n utah now york march 10 A special ats j patch to tho world from york pa t eay a dr J of harrisburg lectured last evening in this city on four years among the cormons mormons Mor mons t dr hill was pastor in utah for near he built A handsome ly five years church at and white there lm 1889 ho was the central figure in taci memorable political campaign resulted in wresting the city from tha hands of he cormons mormons Mor mons the farst gentile victory ever won in utah ing utah ho haa been foremost in tha anti mormon crusado and during the past year has bc en especially active la opposing the sealing ot 1 smoot touching this question last he eald la part abo question of the of apostle smoot docs not and should not hango primarily luponi his guilt or innocence of the practice of polygamy the mere question of his personal character Is but an incident in comparison with his representative character the permanent seating or smoot as a polygamist were his crimes but individual and isolated would be accompanied with far less peril to our institutions than the seating of mr smoot who though innocent of polygamy Is the official representative of a so called religious system 0 which polygamy is but one foul bird in the abominable nest mormonism once meant utah but today it Is the political autocrat of the inter mountain region its political web has been thrown out even into our national capital with bribe and threat and promised reformation it has gained statehood the execution of the laws galust polygamy Is at last in the hands of the the power of the priesthood Is unbroken the un seating of polygamist roberts haa been answered by the election to the senate of apostle smoot who represents not only all thai practiced but Is as an apostle officially identified with the hierarchy and as such stands for all hat Is embodied in the mormon church its doctrines of blood atonement and polygamy its and hatred of human government with its ieng train of extortions extort ions abuses usurpations disobedience of federal law and conspiracies against the sanctity of the american fireside and the american flag here we rest the case Is religious liberty so elastic as to embrace within alts bill of rights the social abom lna i horrors and mutilation assassinations and blood conspiracies spi seditious and treasonable uti teran cea and purposes of mormonism it so then let opposition to the seating of smoot cease and let him be clothed with the prerogatives of a government the authority of which he denies and upon which he has bound himself to avenge the blood of a so called prophet who a conspirator spi against the government |