Show I THE LEAGUE AT MURRAY A Rousing Meeting HeldHot Shot Fired Into the ReligioPoliticnl Incubus of Inconsistency and Absurdities The Strange and Peculiar People Churned UpEducation Morality and Supremacy of the Law the Themes Dwelt on by the Orators Young Utah to the FrontA New Feature Introduced into the League Meetings Last evening was the time for the semimonthly semi-monthly meeting of the Murray Branch of the Loyal League and as is the custom cus-tom a party of true missionaries of the gospel of American loyalty went down from this city to preach to the brethren and sistersGentile and Mormon oi the Murray branch The party consisted of J L Rawlins Waldemar Van Cott John M Young A B Thompson and a representative of TIlE DEMOCRAT On their arrival at Murray they were received re-ceived by President T S Austin Bishop Harry Haines Secretary of the League and an enthusiastic crowd of members who escorted the Visiting missionaries to ths League Hall where an assembly of people consisting of Mormon Jew and Gentile had filled the hall to its utmost capacity anxiously awaiting to listen to the speakers Promptly at 8 oclock President Austin called the meeting to order announcing that the LEAGUE GLEE CLUB Would open the programme by singing Hold the Fort II which was done in a spirited and praiseworthy manner Mr Waldemar Van Cott was then introduced as the first speaker the audience audi-ence greeting him with free and prolonged applause Mr Van cott in a way that I showed he had not only been recently studying the new law but was also well acquainted with the Utah problem in its more important phases began to explain some of the points embodied in the Tuck erEdmunds law showing what would be the probable results of its enforcement to the people here He dwelt upon the parts of the law which have direct bearing on social affairs The speech was a splendid splen-did effort on the part of the young lawyer law-yer and reflected great credit on him as one of Utahs sons who has outgrown the dogmas and superstitions in which he was born and when he took his seat the crowd now increased beyond the seating accommodations of the hall sent up an applause tlat made the building ring COLUMBIAS GUARDIAN ANGEL Was then rendered by the Glee Club in the chorus of which the audience joined The next speaker was Mr J M Young well known as the champion of education for the young people of Utah The text and context his remarks were the education of the common people He ably contrasted the educational advantages advan-tages in this priestgoverned Territory with those of other States and Territories Territo-ries He said that the Pilgrim Fathers cast upon the unknown shores of the unknown un-known world starved and stormbeaten and with scarcely enough strength left to climb on and cling to Plymouth Hock long enough to catch their breath they the outcast of their fatherland did more in the same length of time for the education educa-tion of their children and laid a firmer foundation for their descendants than the thousands of Mormons have done since they found a peaceful and natureblessed asylum in these valleys The first thing the Pylmouth Puritan Father did was to build and l dedicate a temple for the dissemination of knowledge and sound ideas of human liberty and justice the first thing that the Utah Puritan Fathers save the word did was to lay the foundation of a temple for the teaching of superstition treason and polygamy surrounding it with a Chinese wall so high and thick that the ideas of liberty equal rights and progress would find it impossible to scale it This government gov-ernment is dealing with this people as a sensible school teacher desciplines the pupils in his charge taking a course that is strict may be severe but must be followed for their own sakes their moral I education and political development Unless the Mormons wheel into line with the institutions and civilization of the age they will be crowded to the wall and be lost in the oblivion of the own mental darkness Mr Young spoke for nearly an hour and was listened to with spellbound spell-bound interest only being interrupted now and again by willing manifestations of approval THE RED WHITE AND BLUE By the choir was the next musical selection selec-tion Mr A B Thompson then followed fol-lowed with a short address througn which there ran a vein of humor He showed up some of the absurd falacies and inhuman injustice of the Mormon creed He defended the position taken by the young people of Utah in accepting accept-ing the ideas of freedom morality and enlightenment as a choice between the Asiatic ideas of polygamy priestcraft and selfstultification and in scathing terms denounced and rebuked that class of people who villify young men for haying hay-ing the courage of their convictions and daring to assert them He wanted to see the time when the flag of his country should float higher command sincere respect re-spect and inspire a deeper patriotism than the banner of Isreal Very appropriately the Glee Club then sang Rally Round the Flag IJ the chorus being taken up as a rich refrain by the audience There could be no mistaking the sentiment and patriotic spirit that prevailed MR J L RAWLINS Utahs most favorite sonthough last was not the least on the programme Mr Rawlins address was a forcible eloquent arraignment of the teachings of Mormonism Mormon-ism as defined by judgment justice morality and humanitarian ideas and feelings It had reached the speakers ears that the people in Murray would like to know what he believed in and for nearly an hour MrRawlins elucidated his belief his hopes and his ideas giving in no uncertain voice a reason for the faith within him He showed up the injustice in-justice and inhumanity of Mormonism to the living and the dead The functions of a free government and the duties and relations of the citizen to that government govern-ment were dwelt on with reason by the speaker He urged on the young the duty of acquainting themselves with the principles of a government by the people and the advanced ideas of our modern civilization Mr Rawlins remarks created a profound pro-found feeling in the minds of his auditors au-ditors many of those present pronouncing pro-nouncing the address as the ablest and I most philosophic one they ever heard in I Utah I At the close of the addresses Secretary I I Harry Haynes read the following i RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT To the memory oi George Birch a much II j respected Loyal Leaguer who recently I died WHEREAS By the death of George Birch I I the Murray Branch of the Loyal League has lost a member who was one of the first of Utahs sons to rally at the call and array himself on the side of freedom although by the stand he took all his former relations with the Mormon Church were arrayed against him and threatened to place him in the position of an alien to many of his former friends and associates yet he only a boy in years evinced the courage of a man showing himself worthy to wear that greater than any earthly crowns the laurel of American citizenship therefore be it Resolved That we his comrades of the Loyal League hereby express our sorrow and regret at his death our appreciation of his manly character and extend our sympathy sym-pathy to his griefstricken parents and family The resolutions were adopted by a standing vote nearly every man woman and child Mormon and Gentile rising to their feet BY SPECIAL REQUEST The club repeated Rally Round the Flag the audience rising and joining in the chorus The Glee Club is an entirely new feature fea-ture in the League meetings The con ductorship of the one at Murray is in the hands of Mr Gray who with his choir are to be largely complimented in furnishing fur-nishing excellent singing for the occasion thus relieving the otherwise monotonous routine A vote of thanks was given to the missionaries mis-sionaries and a hearty invitation extended ex-tended to them to return again any time Several new members signed the roll running the list up to 256 a healthy showing for a league organized since last December The Murrayites are patriotic rustlers |