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ADDRESSES 
 
 AT THE 
 
 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
 
 NEW WEST EDUCATION COMMISSION 
 
 HELD OCTOBER 14, 1890, IN THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL 
 CHURCH, CHICAGO, 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. F. W.^GUNSAULUS, D, D, 
 
 PASTOR OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH, CHICAGO 
 
 PROF. HENRY E. GORDON 
 
 PRINCIPAL OF TILLOTSON ACADEMY, TRINIDAD, COLORADO 
 
 REV. W. F, SLOCUM 
 
 PRESIDENT OF COLORADO COLLEGE, COLORADO SPRINGS, COL. 
 
 CHICAGO 
 

 
Address bu Rev, F, W, Gunsaulus, D, D,, 
 
 I rejoice today, in looking into these faces, that we come 
 together, with a very clear understanding of the triumph in 
 whose glory this Education Commission holds its anniversary 
 meeting. Never so certainly did she stand in the presence of 
 the problems of the hour, flushed with victory, as she does at 
 this moment. Never so truly were her foes ready either to 
 apologize for their lingering existence, or to hasten to bury 
 their dead, or to make earnest protests against any suspicion 
 of disloyalty on their part, either to the Government or to 
 Evangelical Christianity. It is almost amusing to see the ra- 
 pidity with which the foe in the far West, looking upon the 
 victory which has been won by this and kindred associations, 
 proposes to itself the task of convincing the loyal and Chris- 
 tian people of the East that all the time they have been at 
 heart loyal, and that ever hereafter, in looking for those per- 
 sons who are to defend the flag or the cross, we must look 
 for their sympathy upon those fields which they have so stub- 
 bornly contested. 
 
 The very field on which this fight has been waged is a 
 field of such dimensions and of such character that we can 
 easily see that it has lent, even to the fight itself, something 
 of the quality of richness, and something of the fierceness and 
 stubbornness of those who are already occupying that terri- 
 tory. No one who has had the happiness of passing over that 
 district of the American continent, as I have had twice within 
 the last 365 days, can help but feel that the very richness of 
 the territory adds strength of interest to each side, and that 
 each of the armies has fought with the consciousness of how 
 valuable at some time would be the possession of every acre 
 
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of that vast area. It is an area, as you know, so united with 
 every material interest, as to make those who are looking, as 
 most Western people are, for opportunities to enrich them- 
 selves, very greedy of- the territory itself. Never until within 
 the present year has there been such a revelation of its ex- 
 ceeding wealth, and never until within the last six months 
 have there been such just conceptions of the agricultural fu- 
 ture of this vast region. 
 
 If you will look over the acts of Congress within the last 
 year and a half, you will readily come to the conclusion that 
 the greatest question of growing importance, is the question of 
 the use of lands in the West to be redeemed by irrigation. It 
 is a question which has had to do with an area out of all pro- 
 portions large above the thought of the American citizen. 
 The discussion of the question has opened before Congress an 
 area so rich, so vast, as that no single other district on the 
 American continent compares with it in possibility. So cer- 
 tainly rich has been this area, so crowded with agricultural 
 possibilities seem to be all these counties in those territories 
 in the West, that the cupidity of mankind has been aroused in 
 England and Holland and France and Germany ; and no one 
 can visit the region in which the New West Education Com- 
 mission has set itself to the task of dominating material inter- 
 ests with intelligence and with religion, without feeling that 
 many of all the certainly attractive features of our whole con- 
 tinent are there." So truly has Congress found this so, that 
 throughout the entire spring and summer there has been no 
 such earnestness in any kind of legislation, save in the direc- 
 tion of the tariff, as has concerned itself with the problem of 
 irrigation. The storm center of this question is at the same 
 storm center which is known by the New West Education 
 Commission and the friends of Mormonism. It is clearly un- 
 derstood today that one acre of the land such as is now 
 coming under the influence of one or the other element in the 
 far West, is worth more, for agricultural purposes, than three 
 
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 acres of land such as we have in the prairies of Illinois, Wis- 
 consin or Michigan. It is well understood, also, that this land, 
 having such opportunities, is always to be attractive to those 
 invading elements coming along the lines of latitude far from 
 the East toward the West, to influence that future with their 
 thought, and to control perhaps the markets of America ulti- 
 mately with the certainty and the vastness of their product. 
 No one can stand in Salt Lake City with an intelligent Mor- 
 mon, and see him point his finger toward Arizona and New 
 Mexico, without feeling that there is a well settled under- 
 standing upon the part of that hierarchy, that there the agri- 
 cultural future of the West abides, and that whatever power 
 controls this great territory, whatever energy takes hold of the 
 leadership of its material forces, is sure to influence for all fu- 
 ture time the wealth, nay, the political directions of thought in 
 our beloved America. 
 
 You go to Congress within the last six months, and you 
 will find that perhaps the very heaviest lobby, financially and 
 socially, is the lobby which represents one side or the other of 
 the question of irrigation, so certain are the strong minds of 
 the West that the irrigable land of the West being yet untried 
 and about, the only unsettled land, and being at all events the 
 most desirable land is the land upon which either righteous- 
 ness or unrighteousness is to control the most valuable mate- 
 rial resources of the next century. 
 
 I have said nothing whatever of those mines which rival in 
 their actuality the dreams of Coronado, or those of the explo- 
 rers who sent back to Spain such brilliant notions of that West 
 to 1 which they had come. I have myself within the last year 
 stood upon those ruins of the Casa Grande in Southern Ari- 
 zona, and looking away towards Silver City, or Globe City, the 
 Spanish Peaks in the distance, I have thought of that wonder- 
 ful civilization which has left such remarkable testimony of its 
 greatness in that splendid mass. There are ditches running 
 out from these ruins which are over fifty feet long, and were 
 
seven stories in height, these ditches marking the courses of 
 flowing streams which once upon a time helped to nourish 
 300,000 people in that valley. Into that valley now, by the 
 direction of the Mormon priesthood, the Mormons of the 
 North, disenfranchised in Utah and Idaho, are pouring. With 
 an almost startling rapidity, the very best lands, under irriga- 
 tion by means of canals which have been run along these same 
 old ditches, are being taken by men who have within their 
 hearts no loyalty to the flag, no respect for what we know as 
 the Christian home, and the deepest hatred of those institu- 
 tions and inspirations which are dear to the heart of our Chris- 
 tian civilization. There the Aztec long ages ago reared his 
 fields of wheat, and there, doubtless, built upon the site- of this 
 ruin the ruin itself a witness to the greatness of the edifice 
 which he reared this great granary, to remain there certainly 
 over 600 years, to tell us of the vast importance in a material 
 point of view, of these fields which stretch far away. The 
 Spaniards sent back to Spain, upon the discovery of those 
 ruins, 'brilliant -stories stories which almost rivaled the tales 
 of their own most imaginative writers of the richness of that 
 region in gold and silver; and today the best scientists who 
 have visited that part of the country tell us that we have no 
 conception of the wealth which lies in the mountains of New 
 Mexico and Arizona. 
 
 I went with a single member of this New West Education 
 Commission a little way from one of those centers of light 
 which this Association is making throughout that Southwest, 
 and I saw for myself such richness hidden within the earth 
 aye, did I say hidden lying upon the very crust of the planet, 
 as would lead one to conclude that he had at least touched 
 in reality something vastly more splendid than an Arabian 
 dream. These mines are waiting to be touched into product- 
 iveness, but the finances which they represent are waiting to 
 be moved upon, penetrated and dominated by some kind of 
 religious or political conception which will, at last, attach them 
 to the very best interests of mankind. Who shall have the op- 
 
portunity of coining this gold, putting this silver into bullion, 
 and making such representations to the future out of the 
 wealth which has been hoarded in the past, as shall enable 
 them to control entirely "this large field which stretches before 
 the feet of every American citizen ? The field within the last 
 year before the New West Education Commission, from a 
 point of view entirely material, has grown to be a vastly more 
 important field than ever before. No man can sit in the office 
 of the New West Education Commission and feel pouring in 
 upon him from every point of view the importance of these 
 facts, without feeling in his soul the prayer that should stir all 
 the churches to renewed effort, that by some means Christ's 
 ideal and spirit* may be enabled to dominate with spiritual 
 impulses these great material facts. 
 
 That field and its character have not been changed because 
 of certain other changes which have come within the last 
 twelve months, which are very likely, unless they are thorough- 
 ly understood, to reduce the enthusiasm with which we have 
 hitherto contributed to the New West Education Commission. 
 We are informed upon every hand that the Mormon question 
 is settled; and those who have never been in that part of the 
 country, or who are likely to suppose that a series of resolu- 
 tions satisfy all the claims of conversion or citizenship, inform 
 us that the distinct work of the New West Education Com- 
 mission may have already been done. The old passions which 
 lie in the soul of a depraved humanity out of which Mormon- 
 ism has brought her enthusiasm, are not dead. No pronunci- 
 amento of President Woodruff has taken lust and iniquity out 
 of the human heart ; no resolution of the unholy Church, rep- 
 resenting a hierarchy so strong in its political affiliation, can 
 bewilder the eye of a thoughtful man to the fact that the 
 forces which underlie Mormonism are the forces of depraved 
 human nature, and that, until these are touched by something 
 else besides politics, touched with intelligence aye, touched 
 with something far deeper than may touch the brain, touched 
 with the power of the converting Christ, never until then are 
 
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 these forces likely to grow in harmony with the view of politics,, 
 or of the home, or of life, which was born out of our own Chris- 
 tianity. It is the work of the New West Education Comis- 
 sion to distinctly hold this ideal before the consciousness of the 
 Mormon spirit. It trusts not to politics ; it trusts not even to 
 intelligence ; it does not believe that the school-house alone 
 can accomplish the work of making a man manly, keeping a 
 woman womanly, filling the soul of a child with ideals that are 
 worthy of his existence, making a Mormon as loyal and true- a 
 citizen as he ought to be. It is the distinct announcement of 
 this New West Education Commission that the work to be 
 done is the work of uprooting and tearing out of the human 
 soul those seeds of vice and lust and sin that lie at the base 
 of all this disloyalty, that are in themselves the damnation of 
 the Christian home, that in themselves hold all the possibilities 
 of evil, and distribute those possibilities of evil into the minds 
 and hearts of the people. So the New West Education Com- 
 mission alone is unblinded by the fact that President Wood- 
 ruff has issued a certain proclamation. It is very interesting 
 to read this proclamation : 
 
 "We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor are 
 we permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny 
 that either forty, or any other % number, of plural marriages 
 have, during that period, been solemnized in our temples or 
 other places in the Territory. One case is reported in which 
 the parties' alleged marriage was performed in the Endowment 
 House, in Salt Lake City in the spring of 1889, but I have 
 not been able to learn who performed the ceremony. What- 
 ever was done in this matter was done without my knowledge. 
 In consequence of this alleged occurrence the Endowment 
 House was by my instructions taken down without delay. 
 
 ' ' Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress prohib- 
 iting plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced con- 
 stitutional by the Court of Last Resort, I do hereby declare my 
 intention to submit to these laws, and use my influence with the 
 
members of the Church over which I preside to have them do 
 likewise. There is nothing in my teachings in the Church, or 
 in those of my assistants during the time specified, that can 
 reasonably be construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy, 
 and when any elder of the Church has used language which 
 appeared to convey such teachings he has been promptly re- 
 proved. And I now publicly declare my advice to the Latter 
 Day Saints is : Refrain from contracting any marriage for- 
 bidden by the law of the land. 
 
 WILFORD WOODRUFF, 
 
 ' ' President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints." 
 
 I saw in this city the other day a Mormon who said to me : 
 "You will notice that we have been advised by our President, 
 but the Church does something else besides advising. Advice 
 is politics. The State has no control over a mind which has 
 given itself to the Church. We accept that advice in the 
 name of a certain contingency. We simply feel that the com- 
 mand of the Church is to bring forth children to the glory of 
 God, and that polygamous marriage lies at the basis of our 
 safety and our strength as members of an institution, and as 
 members of the Kingdom of God. ' ' 
 
 You will notice also that Mr. George. Q. Cannon, who has 
 always had a singular facility in interpreting that which hither- 
 to has gone uninterpreted in the mind of the Mormon, has 
 spoken in such a way as^ to indicate that this advice is to be 
 followed only with a view of faithfulness quite consistent with 
 that Jesuitical method which is practised not only in the Mor- 
 mon Church, but also by that other foe, the Catholic Church. 
 Mr. Cannon, speaking the other day, said: "I thank God 
 that I live among such people; people that are not afraid 
 of the consequences ; people that take their punishment like 
 heroes." He said, ''The time is coming when this conduct 
 of the Latter Day Saints will stand out as a bright page in 
 modern history. Their sufferings will be as acceptable to the 
 
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 Lord as those of the saints of old." He said the saints would 
 bow in submission to the Nation's will; then they would leave 
 the consequences to the Lord. He told the people not to 
 worry about '91, because he was quite sure that Christ would 
 not come then. 
 
 I want you to look at the sickly evidence of repentance 
 which lies upon the lips and in the heart of President Wood- 
 ruff as he speaks words like these: "The Lord is about to 
 prune his vineyard for the last time.' ' He is now addressing 
 Mormons; in this announcement he was addressing the loyal 
 people of the United States. He says, " Sprouts will fall like 
 grain before the mower; the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and 
 the crucifixion of Jesus Christ are events of like importance to 
 us. I endorse Mr. Cannon's remarks, and I further say that 
 when any event traspires to deprive the saints of their priv- 
 ileges, they will remember it as the will of Almighty God. ' ' 
 
 How does the Church, in such a case as is presented by 
 Idaho, propose to hold this position a position which on 
 one side is one of loyalty to the government, and on the other 
 side is a position of loyalty to the Church ? The Mormon 
 question in Idaho is a question which recently has taken 
 upon itself new phases, because of Idaho's new political im- 
 portance and position. One can hardly enter into the domains 
 of that new commonwealth without finding himself at once 
 lodged in "an entanglement such as he will encounter under no 
 other circumstances, an entanglement which grows out of the 
 luxurious soil upon which the hopes of the Mormon priesthood 
 are based. The experiment in disenfranchisement is an ex- 
 periment made by the Church with an oath, the like of which 
 for strength and for subtlety has never been given to mankind 
 in the annals of politics. Let me read you this oath, an 
 oath perfectly satisfactory for the time being to the Mormon 
 priesthood, as it was to the Government at Washington. 
 
 ' ' I do swear that I am not a bigamist or polygamist ; that 
 I am not a member of any order, organization or association 
 which teaches, advises, counsels or encourages its members, 
 
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 devotees or any other person to commit the crime of bigamy 
 or polygamy or any other crime defined by law, as a religious 
 duty or otherwise, and I hereby resign my membership in any 
 organization or association which teaches or practises bigamy 
 or polygamy, or plural marriage ; that I will not publicly or 
 privately or in any manner teach, advise, counsel or encour- 
 age any person to commit the crime of bigamy or polygamy or 
 any other crime denned by the law, either as a religious duty 
 or otherwise. That I do regard the Constitution of the United 
 States and the laws of this State as interpreted by the courts, 
 as the supreme law of the land, the teachings of any organiza- 
 tion or association to the contrary notwithstanding. So help 
 me God." 
 
 You will observe that with President Woodruffs scheme, 
 the Mormon can regard this law as the supreme law of the land, 
 but he has a higher law than this; that this higher law, by that 
 spirit and practice of Jesuitism which the church has so read- 
 ily taken up, coming into conflict with the lower law, finds 
 the lower law easily dominated, and the Mormon conscience 
 easily finds itself forgiven of the offence which lies upon it, so 
 that to-day there is a vast system of forgiveness in Idaho. A 
 man takes this oath, sworn as it seems against the Church. 
 The Church expels him. He is no longer a Mormon. So 
 soon as he has accomplished what he desires to accomplish in 
 politics, so soon a's he has done what he desires to do in any 
 of the cities or towns or townships of Idaho, so soon the Church 
 forgives him. By a sort of repentance which does not at all 
 touch his conscience uneasily, he is brought back again into 
 the fold of the Church, and is a Mormon, with all the privileges 
 of a Mormon, up to the time of the taking of the oath again, 
 when he ceases to be a Mormon, then by another repentance 
 re-enters the Church. 
 
 L. T. Edholm of Morgan City, Utah, formerly a prominent, 
 member of the Mormon Church, is visiting his son here. Judge 
 Edholm has resided in Utah during the last twenty-nine years. 
 To a reporter he said : 
 
" The reports in circulation concerning the intention of the 
 Church to remove its members to some other country where 
 they can practise the teachings of their religion without the 
 interference of the civil authorities is scarcely to be credited. 
 Gentile government is, of course, repugnant to the Mormon 
 leaders, but they hope to secure things more to their liking 
 when the Territory is admitted into the Union. Then they 
 hope to elect State officials in accord with their ideas, and be 
 enabled to practise the teachings of the Church as of old. 
 The proclamation of President Woodruff, recently published, 
 in which he declared that the Church had abolished polyg- 
 amy and advised the members to observe the law, I have 
 every reason in the world to believe" is false. While the Presi- 
 dent published this notice to the world in language not to be 
 misconstrued, it means altogether a different thing to the 
 faithful members of the Church. Polygamy is and will con- 
 tinue to be sanctioned by the Church in secret. This an- 
 nouncement is made with a view of securing early admittance 
 as a State, and then, by supporting either political party from 
 which favors can be gained in the interest of the Church, 
 the Mormons expect to prosper as their prophets have pre- 
 dicted." 
 
 There never was such a system of political lying as today 
 is nourished by the Mormon Church, and never before, my 
 friends, was there such an instant, overwhelming demand for 
 the work of the New West Education Commission to give to 
 Idaho and Utah and New. Mexico and Arizona and all that 
 territory a conscience that must lie behind the greatness and 
 the strength of American citizenship everywhere. 
 
 The Rev. J. W. Hill, pastor of the First Methodist Church, 
 at Ogden, Utah, says of the re-election of John T. Caine, the 
 Mormon delegate in Congress : " He is simply a conduit 
 through which the power of Woodruff is carried right into the 
 House and Senate. I know that millions of dollars, now r mark 
 me, millions of dollars, have been poured into Washington 
 
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 through Caine and other agents of the Mormon Church, to as- 
 sist in keeping that sink of iniquity in full blast." 
 
 But I look at the Mormon question as it touches Utah and 
 Idaho as an exceedingly small question in comparison with 
 that vaster question which touches you in Boston, which 
 touches us in Chicago, which, today, above all other ques- 
 tions in the State of Wisconsin, makes the air electric; and 
 which this fall in this State of Illinois demands from every 
 loyal citizen his utmost concern and deepest thought. I refer 
 to the great question as to the supremacy and permanence of 
 the common school in America, against the aggressions of the 
 Jesuit party as moved and controlled by that Italian despot 
 sitting in the Vatican at Rome. No man can go into the 
 Southwest without finding himself at once in the presence of 
 certain political questions which have their interest largely 
 trom Rome itself. One is reminded of the days in which the 
 Spanish Armada stood before Old England. He comes again 
 upon the times when the Jesuit, stealing through Scotland and 
 Ireland, found himself in the presence of a king ready to at- 
 tach the fortunes of Rome to his own fortunes; the Jesuit, 
 who found himself later in the presence of Oliver Cromwell, 
 who met him at Dunbar and Edge Hill and Marston Moor 
 as certainly as he met the Scotch, Irish, or representatives of 
 the English throne. 
 
 The Jesuit party in Boston have pursued a certain line of 
 attack which has been met with such earnestnessnon the part 
 of the citizens of the Commonwealth as to give Boston her old 
 importance again, the importance which she had in the days of 
 Sam Adams, James Otis and Joseph Warren. But the Jesuit 
 attack in the Southwest, far more earnest, upon ground 
 which has never yet been successfully disputed, is an attack 
 which meets almost alone this New West Commission, our 
 splendid Joan D'Arc, clad in the immaculate glory of her spirit, 
 consecrated before Christ, riding her white charger fearlessly 
 and boldly into the ranks of the enemy, the^New West Edu- 
 cation Commission, which is teaching the New South as no 
 
other force can teach it, the absolute necessity and the moral 
 grandeur of the American common schools. (Applause.) Your 
 secretary has already told you that it was impossible for us to 
 supply the necessities of territories in that region by making 
 common schools, and that for a long time these schools must 
 continue to represent the movement and the impulse of Chris- 
 tianity in the North and in the East. On that subject, let us 
 for a moment consider what it means that just the other day 
 New Mexico has lost her prospect of being a state because the 
 Catholic power in the Southwest determined that New Mexico 
 should not become a state with the common schools. 
 
 Every man who knows the politics of the Southwest, un- 
 derstands perfectly well that New Mexico, in wealth, in politi- 
 ical importance, in vast openings from which come the hopes 
 of a great financial future, in every way is worthy of state- 
 hood, if only she has the common school to guide her people, 
 to instruct her children, to pour the elements of republicanism 
 and democracy into the child's breast, to give him a love of 
 self-government, to make him absolutely free of the autocracy 
 of any foreign power, to assist him to that kind of thought which 
 will make him feel that every thread of the flag means the fu- 
 ture of a better humanity. But eight months ago the Roman 
 Catholic hierarchy saw, that, if New Mexico went into the Union 
 at all, she must go in with this common school. The Pope of 
 Rome has always understood that the common school was op- 
 posed to the dictatorial nature and arrogance of the Vatican. 
 He knows that today the common school stands between him 
 and rulership in the nineteenth century. Whatever parties 
 may do, as at Poughkeepsie, New York, with respect to public 
 schools; whatever an unjust law may do with regard to fining 
 Rev. E. Walpole Warren $1,000 for becoming rector of Holy 
 Trinity Church of New York, and allowing thirty foreign 
 priests to come in to preach and teach Romanism, without a 
 fine; whatever may be done by a venal and unjust party policy 
 to hold the Roman Catholic vote, the common school today 
 stands as the one great barrier through wjiich the Pope may not 
 
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 ride to power in this land. (Applause. ) This was seen so clearly 
 in the Southwest, that on that old ground which Protestantism 
 has never yet tried to control, the papacy recently erected its 
 barriers against the. admission of New Mexico to statehood. 
 The question involved the reception or the rejection of their 
 state constitution. It was a constitution drawn so clearly fa- 
 vorable toward the public schools by every affection that 
 brought it into existence, that the papal power at once de- 
 manded its defeat. From Romish priests orders were spread 
 over New Mexico, which I was told by Catholics themselves that 
 they dared not disobey. Merchants of New Mexico have been 
 boycotted by their Catholic friends. The old Mexico, repre- 
 senting that ancient Spain of the Armada; ancient Spain, be- 
 fore which William of Orange proposed to level the dykes of 
 Holland, that old Mexico, coming up into our new dominions, 
 demanded that this constitution should suffer a serious de- 
 feat. If today New Mexico will abandon the common school , 
 the Catholic hierarchy will place her among the list of states. 
 Without the common school, she has the Catholic vote ; with 
 the common school, she has no political importance. The 
 New Wes.t Education Commission at Albuquerque, at various 
 places in New Mexico and the Southwest, stands as the proph- 
 etess o'f the coming common schools. She stands guarding, 
 before the minds of that priest-ridden people, a school so rich 
 in hopes for their children that it is impossible for them to 
 omit to see the richness, the beauty of this new educational 
 force. They cannot help but see, I say, how strongly the pub- 
 lic school means to guarantee the best interests of mankind. 
 
 Who is the county superintendent in the Southwest? You 
 will find him a priest. Ask how the school funds are raised 
 where there is a common school, and they will tell you, by 
 private subscription. It is entirely impossible, even by the 
 present laws of New Mexico and Arizona, to create a school 
 fund. In both of these territories, the two richest territories in 
 the Union, in my judgment, the territories that more th,an 
 any other in this Union will repeat the financial miracles of 
 
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 Southern California, it is impossible, I say, to stir any sort of 
 public interest in a common school, without opposition of the 
 priesthood. 
 
 These representatives of our New America, the represent- 
 atives of our New West Education Commission stand there- 
 fore with the dawn upon their foreheads, with the morning in 
 their hearts, with the whole future of our common American- 
 ism in their hands. No such advance guard ever lived as the 
 advance guard for the protection of the common schools; no 
 representatives of that brave army who will hold this institu- 
 tion 'to republicanism, to Americanism, to human hope, have 
 surpassed our beloved representatives of this New West Edu- 
 cation Commission. (Applause.) 
 
 Address of Prof, Henru E. Gordon, 
 
 " The polity of the Church of Rome is the very masterpiece 
 of human wisdom. Experience of 1200 eventful years, the 
 ingenuity and patient care of forty generations of statesmen, 
 have improved that polity to such perfection, 'that among the 
 contrivances which have been devised for deceiving and con- 
 trolling mankind it occupies the highest place." These are 
 the words of the historian, Macaulay. 
 
 And mark you, the aim of this concentrated wisdom of the 
 centuries, this accumulation of vast ecclesiastical force, is not 
 to publish the truth. It carries no banner upon which is a 
 motto like this: "The Truth, regardless of consequences ;" 
 nor is its aim to educate the masses of the people with whom 
 it comes in contact, witness New Mexico, where it has had 
 control for nearly 300 years ; nor yet is it to spread the glad 
 news of the Gospel in its purity and simplicity, witness a 
 rosary with ten prayers to the Virgin to one to God ; nor is 
 it to give the Bible to mankind, witness its record for the 
 past 500 years. 
 
 What then is its aim ? 
 
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 It is to build up the Roman Catholic Church ; to know 
 nothing but the Roman Catholic Church ; to keep the masses 
 in such a state of ignorance and superstition as shall make 
 them willing dupes of the Roman Catholic Chnrch ; to bring 
 the world to the feet, not of a crucified Saviour, but to the feet 
 of an infallible Pope and a deified Virgin. 
 
 The fond dream of Mormonism is to found an empire in 
 the very heart of this Republic, an empire which shall ulti- 
 mately control the world. Romanism's dearest wish today is 
 to have America within the scope of its power. 
 
 The desire is the same in both cases. One works from 
 within, the other both from within and without. The position 
 of the Roman Catholic Church in America as it stands today 
 arouses the profoundest emotions of alarm in all true patriots. 
 
 New Mexico is peculiarly under the power of Romanism. 
 Her more enlightened people desire statehood. They framed 
 a constitution which, upon the subject of popular education, 
 proposed a measure which would grace the constitution of any 
 State in the Union. Last week that constitution was rejected 
 by an overwhelming majority. 
 
 And this brings me to the very heart of the matter. 
 
 The Negro is practically disfranchised, and a vote is wholly 
 denied to the Indian and Chinaman, and yet we are now do- 
 ing a great work arnqng these people, and must do a greater. 
 What, then, ought we to do for our fellow citizen, the Mexi- 
 can ? He carries a ballot in his hand, and every ballot counts 
 for Rome. 
 
 My friends, do you fully realize the degradation and super- 
 stition of the masses of the Mexican people ? A brief descrip- 
 tion of that organization known as the Penitentes, as I my- 
 self have seen it, will give you as nothing else can, an idea of 
 the condition of the people who for so long a time have been 
 under the absolute dominion of the Church of Rome. 
 
 Just at dawn upon Good Friday a party of us upon fleet In- 
 dian ponies visited one of the lodges. We remained in con- 
 
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 cealment near the lodge until the members of the order ap- 
 peared. Two were stripped to the waist. Their backs were 
 then scored until the blood ran. Whips were then placed in 
 their hands. With these they beat themselves as they march 
 away over the hills. These whips consist of a bag filled with 
 cactus and stones fastened to a stick about two feet long. 
 Every blow of these instruments draws blood. 
 
 The company halted, and one of the self-torturers handed 
 his bloody whip to a companion, and with bare hands dug up 
 a bed of prickly pear, a species of cactus, and wrapped it 
 about his bleeding back, and the march was resumed. At 
 every step those thorns must have penetrated the flesh with a 
 poisonous sting. 
 
 Sometimes as many as sixteen gather about a cross to 
 which is tied one of their number, and circle about it as they 
 beat themselves. In parts of New Mexico these performances 
 are carried on at the Roman Catholic churches. The order 
 has a membership of 20,000 in the Southwest, and has re- 
 ceived the formal blessing of the Pope. 
 
 Again I say, we are face to face with the question, " How 
 are we to evangelize our Mexican fellow citizen ? " Shall we 
 invoke civil laws ? Some say, " No." For conscience' s sake 
 and our country's sake, we say, " No ! " Shall we plant 
 churches-? 
 
 In attending the meeting of the American Board during the 
 past week, I listened with amazement to the appeals from 
 missionaries. Every man whom I heard, and I heard nearly 
 all, pleaded with tremendous urgency for Christian education. 
 "Oh! for $10,000 with which to build a college,'' cried one; "The 
 young people under my charge eagerly desire an education," 
 said another. The most startling assertion made was the 
 statement that two young girls of twelve deliberately com- 
 mitted suicide because denied an education. 
 
 Plant churches ! Why the people are not ready for them. 
 Plant a church in a purely Mexican community in New Mexico 
 and you arouse not only the hostility of the priest but of the 
 
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 people as well ; but plant a school in the same community ; 
 put at its head a loving, motherly woman, and with her gen- 
 tleness, her neighborly ways, her modern methods of teaching, 
 her music, and above all with her consecrated Christian spirit, 
 she will receive a cordial welcome from the people. The 
 priest may threaten excommunication, but the teacher will 
 win, and lay solid, deep foundations for a church. 
 
 The answer then which Congregationalism is making to the 
 question, * 'How shall we meet paganism and semi-paganism?" 
 is, "By Christian Education." 
 
 With five Christian institutions at the important points 
 along the line of the Santa Fe Railroad, reaching from 
 Colorado to. Old Mexico, a distance of 500 miles ; with four 
 similar institutions in the heart of Utah, with common schools 
 clustered about these centers, the New West Education Com- 
 mission holds the ground in the New West. . 
 
 The leaders in those schools are crying to you for help. 
 The means employed today are wholly inadequate. The 
 higher institutions should be endowed, and the money now 
 expended in their maintenance given to common schools 
 near them. 
 
 In the old ante-bellum days we sent thousands of men into 
 Kansas. They carried rifles in their hands and a love of free- 
 dom in their hearts. They were men who were all back-bone. 
 In the roll of commonwealths today what State answers to 
 the call which shows a cleaner, purer, nobler record upon 
 every great moral issue than this same State of Kansas. We 
 appeal to the evangelical churches today to send thousands 
 of men and women into Utah and New Mexico with the spell- 
 ing book in their hands and the love of Christ in their hearts. 
 Fifty years hence, when the roll of States shall be called again, 
 New Mexico and Utah will stand with the proudest of them 
 all, pointing with just exultation to their position among the 
 evangelical Christian commonwealths of America. 
 
 A few years more, and Chicago will ring with the praises of 
 Columbus as the discoverer of America. 
 
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 I yield to no one in my admiration for the intelligent and 
 daring fanaticism of the great Italian, but we of the southwest 
 will rejoice that Columbus did not discover America, or, at 
 least, that part of it which gives tone and character to the 
 word American. 
 
 We thank God that America is still Protestant; and it re- 
 mains for the churches to say how long it shall remain so. 
 Twenty years more will see the decision of this great matter. 
 To-day our duty is plain; to-'^norro^v may be too late to fulfil it. 
 
 Address of Rev. William Frederick Slocum, Jr., 
 
 PRESIDENT COLORADO COLLEGE. 
 
 When Virginia made her gift of the great Northwest to the 
 Union, she little dreamed of the magnitude of her offering, or 
 of the great part it was to play in the development of the 
 country. No more did Jefferson, far sighted as was his states- 
 manship, realize the importance of his act when he consummated 
 his great purchase from the First Napoleon. Neither this 
 gifted political leader nor the descendants of the Cavaliers 
 realized that these great sections of . the United States would, 
 within so short a time, occupy so important a place in our 
 national thought. 
 
 Nor do we more than begin to comprehend the forces that 
 are at work fashioning this New West into an empire more 
 marvelous in its possibilities than the dreams of the empires of 
 the Orient. 
 
 For good or for ill, there is developing by the side of our 
 great Rocky Mountain Range, and within sight of its snowy 
 summits, a most important part of our country, that might be 
 a nation by itself were it not bound by ties of affection and 
 obligation and loyalty to the great nation of which it is a 
 part. Its resources are boundless, its material achievement will 
 ultimately surprise the world, and its influence upon the coun- 
 cils of the nation will be far reaching and weighty. 
 
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 The indications of a well defined civilization are constantly 
 becoming more marked in the East. Its institutions are estab- 
 lished ; its social life is marked by a spirit strongly characteristic 
 of older states. Method, regularity, orderliness, are more appar- 
 ent with every decade. New England and Old England grow 
 together each year ; their social customs, their movements in 
 political and literary life, show a striking similarity of tendency. 
 The town and city life of New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia, 
 and the states which they represent, partake of those charac- 
 teristics which mark the still older towns and cities of Europe. 
 
 The great Middle West is fast losing those peculiarities, 
 which have always been associated with a new country, and 
 especially with a pioneer life. The factories, the railroads, the 
 well ordered towns and mighty cities, already indicate an estab- 
 lished economy of human life. Great religious and educa- 
 tional institutions are receiving your attention and your gifts. 
 
 Beyond the great plains which stretch to the westward is, 
 however, this other section of our country. 
 
 The problem we meet to consider is this : How can this 
 New West be so moulded by Christian education that it shall 
 do its part in fulfilling the destiny of our beloved country ? 
 Have you noticed that as the old idea of the sovereignty of 
 the state is passing out of our national consciousness, we 
 speak more and more of the great sections of our country ? It 
 is the "Northwest," the " Southwest," the "Middle West," 
 the " New West," the "Pacific Slope ;" and each of these great 
 divisions of our country has its special political, economic, 
 educational and religious problems. 
 
 When the faculty of Colorado College and a few other 
 Christian men organized this New West Education Commis- 
 sion, it was for the purpose of dealing with the religious and 
 educational problems of the New West ; and nobly has this 
 society entered into its labors. No one can estimate the good 
 it has already accomplished, and much less can any of us 
 measure the labor that yet remains for it to undertake. 
 
 Doubtless there are those who, as they regard its mission 
 
with superficial thought and narrow sympathies, see only a 
 few hundreds or thousands of students in school rooms in New 
 Mexico, Arizona, Utah or Idaho, taught by men and women 
 whom they admire a little and pjty a great deal more. 
 
 On the other hand, there are large minds and large hearts 
 who see in these schools the forces by which God is saving 
 our New West to its great destiny. To such, this work is a 
 great trust ; they thankfully perceive that He permits them 
 through their wealth and their strength to be co-workers with 
 the great Master Himself, who says to them, "The fields are 
 white." 
 
 The problems which confront this society in its noble work 
 are somewhat different from those that must be met in other 
 sections of our country. 
 
 The New Mexico field in which we work is unique. Here is 
 an old civilization face to face with the new. In this territory 
 are scores of villages where a foreign language, foreign institu- 
 tions, foreign teachers, foreign priests, are holding the people 
 in ignorance of our government and those principles which 
 have made our Republic. 
 
 Only a few weeks ago I was in New Mexico when its best 
 citizens were working vigorously for a law that should estab- 
 lish a free school system. 
 
 That afternoon I spent in a Mexican village where we could 
 not find a person who spoke English, and where the only 
 apology for a school was held in a wretched adobe building 
 into which the light came only through the doorless doorway, 
 and whose teacher could not speak a word of the English 
 language ; and yet he was training American citizens. I was 
 told by those who know that this was one of the best of those 
 village schools, and that many of the teachers themselves can 
 neither read nor write, which is proven by the fact that when 
 signing receipts for their salary, they frequently have to make 
 their mark ; and that really the schools are not schools at all, 
 unless showing the children how to make fancy Mexican fig- 
 
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 ures on cloth, or how to go through the forms of a narrowing 
 religion, can be called school room instruction. 
 
 I need say little of our problem in Utah. Here it is not the 
 last traces of an Aztec civilization corrupted by a false idea of 
 Christianity, but paganism, with which we are battling. By 
 whatever name it may be called, it represents those forces 
 which gave paganism its power. It is the worship of sensu- 
 ousness and selfishness. At heart it is false, corrupt, devilish. 
 Do not not place any confidence in its protestations till you 
 have changed its heart. I have no time today to show you 
 how its last utterances are not to be trusted, but are only 
 pretensions made for political ends. 
 
 The landing in New York of two hundred fresh victims 
 on the eve of this declaration was rather unfortunate in estab- 
 lishing faith in this recent show of virtue. Let us not think 
 that the power of the system is broken. The only hope for 
 this poor, blind people, led by their blind guides, is to trans- 
 form their souls by Christian education. 
 
 The means by which the movement this society represents 
 is to pass on to its desired fruition, will be Christian leader- 
 ship. Two things must be done which really resolve them- 
 selves into one. To this people must be brought those ideas 
 of Christian liberty that have been the corner stone of our Re- 
 public, and this must be done through the personality of con- 
 secrated men and women. It is not within the province or 
 the ability of this society to reach directly all the people of 
 this New West who need help and guidance ; but to touch 
 the lives of enough to create a body of intelligent leaders who 
 sjiall transform these sections of our country, is its mission. 
 
 No more important work is done by the New West Educa- 
 tion Commission than that of developing and upholding acad- 
 emies schools of high grade that gather together the choicest 
 young men and women in these new states and territories, and 
 fit them to fashion the life and thought of the community in 
 which they make their homes. 
 
 That noble Christian educator, Thomas Arnold, said that 
 
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 his work was not to educate the masses of the English nation, 
 but rather to create leaders who should fashion its religious, 
 political and social institutions. And how true it has been that 
 the men who came under his influence, went forth to become 
 the leaders in the life of the British nation. This is the work 
 that lies before you. Into these schools of higher grade you 
 are gathering those whose lives shall solve the problems that 
 confront us in this work. 
 
 Let me illustrate. There comes to my mind a city in which 
 there is one of these academies. This place is under the po- 
 litical control of a man who made his money by selling liquor 
 and keeping a gambling hell. His life is a notoriously bad 
 one. The social life of this same city is dominated by a wo- 
 man of unworthy character, but she is now the wife of the 
 man to whom I have referred. What is the hope for this city ? 
 We cannot and need not reach directly all the children of this 
 city in the New West Academy, but the older and choicest 
 young men and women are in the academy, and out from its 
 halls they are going to form a group of men and women who 
 will stand for purity in politics, in social and religious life. 
 
 They must form a new life, new sentiments, new ideals, in 
 that city. By their manner of life, by their brave stand for 
 right, by the creation of a true class distinction, founded on 
 moral worth, they must make a party that will take politics 
 out of the control of the saloon and the gambling hell ; they 
 must create a social life whose spirit and character writes over 
 its portals, " Would you be in the companionship of nobles, 
 make yourself noble, and you shall be." 
 
 In short, the mission of these graduates is that of trans- 
 forming the whole social and political life of the communities 
 in which they live. Slowly and surely this work is being done 
 throughout our New West ; this is the mission of these Christian 
 academies. You cannot exaggerate their importance. 
 
 From them, too, are to come to our Colorado College for 
 still higher education, the choicest students, both young men 
 and young women, whom we will send back to be teachers in 
 
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 the school-room and the pulpit, and who are to stand, in 
 public and in private, in professional or business life, for the 
 ideas and the morality that ever have been the bulwark of 
 our civilization. 
 
 It appears to me, after studying the needs of our New West, 
 that there is nothing in all the important work of this society 
 so far reaching in its opportunity, as fhe work of these acade- 
 mies, and my only regret in connection with them is that the 
 funds are not at hand to develop this work into much larger 
 proportions. 
 
 The Christian character of the work of this society, ought 
 also, I believe, to be strongly emphasized. I am one of those 
 students of American history who cannot lose sight of the fact 
 that Christianity has had much to do with our civil system 
 aside from erecting meeting houses, building churches, and 
 sending missionaries to pagans. 
 
 I cannot lose sight of those ideas born of a study of the 
 New Testament, which set Wycliffe writing his* leaflet in 
 England, ideas that found their way into a monk's cell in 
 Italy till Savonarola's soul burned with the idea of a republic 
 founded on the conception of the liberty and worth of the in- 
 dividual; ideas that when the fagots were piled about him, 
 found their way into the soul of another monk who dared to 
 nail his theses on the church door of Wurtemberg; ideas that 
 the fires of St Bartholomew's night could not- destroy; ideas 
 that have made a new political science; which made the 
 English constitution; which fashioned Puritan England and 
 Pilgrim New England; ideas that are the genius of our con- 
 stitution and the soul of our whole political fabric. 
 
 My friends, I cannot enter very fully into any movement 
 that ignores a religion which has given to men the only safe 
 ideas of civil liberty the world has ever known. I cannot 
 believe that we shall ever really solve the problems of our 
 New West, with the ignorance of its Mexican people and the 
 paganism of its Mormon population, except by a Christian 
 education. 
 
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 We need a public school system in every state and territory. 
 Our last Congress lost a golden opportunity when it failed to 
 pass the Perkins educational bill which would have given a 
 free public school system to New Mexico, and set every child 
 in that great territory to learning the English language and 
 the fundamental principles of our government. I work gladly 
 and with enthusiasm for our public school system, but I do 
 not think it can do all the work that is demanded. We need, 
 side by side with the public schools, advanced institutions, 
 independent of any political control, ivhose business it is to 
 bear tJie principles and the personal duties of our Christian 
 faith into the souls of their pupils, 
 
 There is not a political, social or economic problem con- 
 fronting us in these days, which, in its last analysis, does 
 not find its solution in the ideas and the ideals of Christian 
 ethics. There is not a problem in our New West that can be 
 solved except by these same ideas, and an education which 
 first of all sets loyalty to Christ as the supreme motive in life. 
 
 Morning after morning as I look into the faces of my stu- 
 dents, as I think of the work of the schools of the New West 
 Education Commission, as I know something of the devotion 
 of their teachers, of their labors, their hopes and their fears, 
 my prayer centers in this one petition : "God grant that these 
 students may live not unto themselves, but so that they may 
 bear Thy truth .and Thyself to others." 
 
 My friends, in many places within the reach of the, work of 
 this society are poor, empty, narrow, wasted lives ; on these 
 same wasted lives is being built a social and political system 
 that turns its face away from all that has made our institu- 
 tions and blessed our land. Will you go down to them with 
 your Christian schools ; inspire them with noble ideals and a 
 pure life ? 
 
 To bear to all these the story of the Christ in its truth ; to 
 give them the truths on which are built our Christian homes ; 
 to burn into their souls the ideas that have made Christian 
 England and Christian America ; the ideas which build our 
 
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 home missionary churches and send missionaries to foreign 
 lands ; which build our Christian colleges ; to preach to these, 
 the children of our common Father, through Christian schools, 
 is our privilege and our mission. To this work, I pray you, 
 give your prayers and counsel, and consecrate your wealth. 
 
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