The Topeka State Journal

Frank J. Cannon, the first United States senator from Utah, will speak at the auditorium at 8 o'clock this evening in connection with his nationwide crusade against Mormonism. He will be accompanied by Dr. James S. Martin of Pittsburg, Pa., general superintendent of the general reform association. Arthur Capper, governor of Kansas, will preside at the meeting.

The demonstration will be preceded by a reception to the crusaders. All the clergymen of Topeka are expected to attend this reception with the ladies of their families.

The spread of polygamy and "the treasonable aggressions of the Mormon church," as Senator Cannon designates the recent political activities of the Mormons, have forced the women identified with the National Reform association to demand criminal prosecutions.

The International Council for Patriotic service is aggressively cooperating with the National Reform association and is now planning a case before the postoffice department, aiming to close the United States mails to all Mormon literature teaching polygamy on the ground that, in the last analysis it is common pandering.

Co-operation Wanted.

Men and women in all walks of life and representing all denominations in Topeka are requested to communicate with Dr. James S. Martin and to furnish him with any and all information they may have concerning Mormon activities in Kansas and to indicate the department of the warfare in which they can best serve. It is proposed to have a definitely organized working force in every city in the United States to make war on the whole Mormon enterprise and this enlistment will be organized under the National Reform association, the Order of the Crusaders of the International Council for Patriotic Service as seems best in the premises.

In Pittsburgh $10,000 was subscribed to the war fund in four days; in Philadelphia $10,000 was raised in three days and in Toledo, Ohio, $700 in two hours. These offerings indicate the tremendous interest in the struggle now in hand and, on February 26, the whole plan of battle will center in Topeka and from here the national forces at work will be directed.

Senator Cannon is the son of the first council of the Mormon church, the late Hon. George Q. Cannon.