| Show AS HE SEES IT agent of tile salt luke college ns the people atts boston mass nov 15 Rev charles E M R uliss bliss financial agent of the salt lake college of utah spoke last evening in in franklin congregational church somerville on the present lre sent attitude of mormonism ue ile said that the american people underrate the power of mormonism the position taken by many that polygamy is lead dead is untrue it is still P practiced practiced by marty many prominent people in in the church and is generally accepted by the mormon people as true doctrine president partridge concedes it to be ills his belief that god is a polygamous being loving a female companion and that christ was also a polygamist the polygamous principle enters into i nto the very warp and woof of liis ills religious convictions unquestionably till all the older I 1 mormon formon A leaders share these thesa convictions with him the result of the emphatic and incessant tear teachings bings of tile the last fifty years and it is a very curi curious olis question whether with such men polygamy ever can be dead that the mormon church is steadily y seeking to re its power is evident from many facts it was charged and apparently proved atthe close of a recent session of 0 the legislature that a committee of the church had been appointed to supervise proposed laws lawi in the interest of the church and the secret influence over its members in tile the legislature prevented the passage of such laws as would be e obnoxious and that proposed laws were defeated by their interest recently the papers have lave published the statement that the president wilford woodruff has by the authority ot of god instructed mormons cormons to vote its as mormons cormons Mor mons so marked is the drift that an intelligent observer of public affairs now living in utah liss recently said that in his opinion statehood has greatly retarded progress in utah |
