Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

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That you salvation may secure,
Come forward and pay up your tlthngn
tenth that is, and nothing less,
OF all you do may possess
In hOcks and herds, and their increase,
With pigs and poultry, ducks and geese;
tenth, indeed of all your toll,
Likewise the produce of your soil,
And If yu've any wine or oil,
Come forward and pay up your tithing?
" CHoRus-Then, if to prosper you desire,
And wish to keep ont of the fire,
Nay if you to be Saints aspire,
Come forward and pay up your tithing -"
President Young is doubtless far the rich
est man in the Territory and though his
wives may not, as some others are seen to do
work in the field some portion of his harem
have sought to do washing for United States
soldiers passing through there, to obtain pin
money for Brother Brigham is supposed to
be not 50 lavish of hard cost as he is of the
" blessings of Abraham" He owns quite a
number of saw-mills, as well as wool-carding
machine which he advertises in The Neaos.
His various monopolies of wood and water
in the kanyons must be very lucrative if not
oppressive privileges. But he tells Isaacher
Mormon " IF you murmur against that, ell
der, it will prove your damnation." In a
sermon delivered December 5, 1858, he
says;
" If an elder has borrowed from YOU, and you
find he is going to apostaize then you mag
tighten the screcs upon him but if he is will
ling to preach the Gospel without purse or scrip,
it is none of your business tUhat he does arith The
money he has borrowed from you. The doc
trine of Brother Joseph is that not one dollar
you possess is your o,un; and if the lord wants
it to USE lei it 90 and ii is none of your bus
mess what He does with it,
A Strict compliance with the ordinane Of
tithing is exacted, or the " village Hampdens u
are excluded from the Church and relig-
ious accommodation in Utah is more ter.
rible than anything Of the sort can be else
where-subjecting the party to all sorts Of
prosecutions An outlaw growled at by the
priests, is barked at by all of lesser degree.
In the last report of the Commissioner Of
the General Land Office, after stating that
Salt Lake City is far greater in extent than
it is entitled to be under the townsite act OF
1874, the Commissioner says:
:" 1t further stated that the public domain in
the CITY and ont of thu limits thereof settled by
Mormons is being conveyed bv the members of
the Church Of Latter Day Saints, in consider
alion of their good will iov ards the Church, to
Brigham Young, rrustee of the same, he re-
qnirng them to defend The property thus con.
veyed against any one.
The Commissioner very properly says:
" This proceeding in the Territory is incom-
patible With our system, and suggests the pro
prcly of Congressional mterposition
Thus it will be seen that, notwithstand-
ing the taxes which with the fittings are
said to amount in all 80 per cent annually of
all the earnings Of the people, the apostles,
high priest and patriarchs are not content
with their income. They have, therefore,
had revelation commanding all the Saints
to consecrate all thier property to the Church.
Those who comply remain tenants at will, sub
}ject to the caprices and any new revelation
of the rulers of the Church. Itwould be DIFF
fcult to conceive of a people doomed to a
more abjeot submission than the forty thou
sand Mormons in Utah. Congressional in
terposition is demanded.
| propose now to give n statement of some
of the appropriation which have been made
for the benefit of Utah from 1851 to August
I18, 1856;