Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-04-29

ANOTHER VIEW OF THE MoRMoNs. -Frede-
rick Loba, an educated Swiss, who became
strangely fascinated with Mormonism at a dis
lance, only to be disguised with a sight of it
in Utah, has escaped and returned to Leaven-
worth, kanzas, where he gives to the cores
pondent Of the Ne,o York Times views Of the
condition of the Mormons somewhat different
from those previously received. He does not
believe tho Mormons will fight the troops.
He says they have neither powder, cannon,
nor military stores of any kind, and that
there is no truth in the stories of their having
a large force perfectly drilled. The number
Of their men capable of being soldiers, he
says does not exceed thirty five hundred. He
thinks Young will have q special revelation
and run away as soon as he finds the govern
ment is in earnest.
Mr.. Loha bases his positive opinion that
the Mormons will make no attempt at organ
Ized resistance, upon his personal knowledge
OF the fact that they have no means of resist
ance. They have very little ammunition, no
gunpowder factory, no material from which
to make the powder, none of the appliances
essential to that purpose, nor any single man
who knows how to make an ounce of explo-
sive material, even if his life depended upon
1t. Nor have they any artillery, with the ex-
ception OF single piece of cannon, a two
FOUNDER, one of pair given them by the
United States-the other one having burst
while Mr.. Loba as in the valley.
lie asserts that they have no military knoWl-
edge, even if they had arms-that their talk
about their battallions aud regiments and le-
glons is the vcrest humbug lmaginable-and
that their preteDses Of the possession of
abundant ornaments are falsehoods unmIti-
gated. They have no iron from which to
cast cannon and if they had the material,
they have no foundry nor any machinery ter
boring them nor any mechanic competent to
do the work. True. there is all abundance
of iron ore three hundred miles or more
south OF Salt Lake City. but it is highly mag
neue, and up to the time when Mr.. Loba left,
although large sums had been expended in
experimenting, all efforts to melt it down and
render 1t fit for use had failed. Neither are
the Mormons any better of in the matter of
manufacturing small arms. They have some
few gun-tinkers among them but as an evil
denee of their utter incompetency he men
tons the fact that not one of them was able
to make screw for him, to replace one which
he had lost from revolver Of peculiar con.
struction. In short. he considers the Nor.
mons destitute of any effective power of re-
sistance to even the small force already under
command of Col. Johnston, and maintains
that Brigham Young's entire reliance has
been based upon his hope of beng able to
deter the United States from attempting to
deal with his, by lying boasts Of his ability
to wage successful resistance.
Mr.. Loba naturally feels very deeply the
misery and degradation which Mormonism
entails. A man of large heart and noble in,
stinots, he is sorely grieved at the condition
OF his fellow creatures whom he has left un-
der the heel of the Mormon theocracv. He
has witnessed every species of outrage and
crime heaped upon men and women in the
name OF religion, and feels that it is a stern
duty OF the government of the United States
to go to every extreme in order to prevent the
sacrifice of further victims. Understanding
the whole system of Mormonism in all its Sc
cret mysteries and its continuous net work of
crime, he is firm in the conviction that it can
never be tolerated with safety, and that only
In determination can the evil be reached and
cured. 10 this issue he thinks the question
must come at last, believing that the saints"
II they escape now, will eventually force eth.
er the federal government, or the indignant
people Of the border, to cut off the tail Of the
raold dog, Immediately back of the ears"