The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-03-14
POLYGaMY AND INCEST.

Under the above caption the Salt
Lake Reporter talks in II fashion that
must astonish those who have believed
that there is no such II thing as plain.
outspokeu Gentle talk in Great Salt
Lake City. Ia its weekly issue for
March that paper says:
We make a lengthy extract to-day from
the Montana Post, which contains many
good ideas on the Utah question, but shows
in one or two points that the same general
mistake prevails everywhere out OF Utah.
Why is 1t that the outside world will persist
in saving that polvgamy is the only great
evil of Mormonism Perhaps the other
evils grow largely out of that, but there are
a dozen such that equally demand reform.
hornlunism was an unnitISated evil long
before poly gsmy was instituted the priests
ruled the mass by fraud and lnposture,
while their f,naticism made them a constant
danger to all their ncighbcrs. Note but
few of these evils Church tyranny is con-
slant menace and plague t" all who have
dealing with the people their law Is simply
wrong reduced to written system their
mode of voting and arranging Territorial
government is calculated to, aud does, pro-
dnce the worst species Of political espionage,
and their boosted Ebert; simply means lio-
crtv to think and vote : the Hierarchy die
:afe. As Captain Burton SAYS Of them
=. They are thus allowed the harmless priv
ilegc of voting without any danger from
the evils that result from universal suffrage.
Twice every year, in their Conference. Brig
ham Young is proposed and voted for "a
President of the Church but suppose any
Mormon should dare to vote against him, he
would be hustled out of the Tabernacle so
quick it would cure him OF hcresy Tor the
rest of his life, and if that life diJ not turn
out to be rather short he might consider
himself in " big luck" Can any stretch of
the in aginaiion entitle this liberty or re- |
publicism Popular ignorance is fostered |
BY the Hierarchy, because 1t Is their best
support, and as to disloyalty, 1t is scarcely |
denied. Hatred to the American people Is
a.owed every day on the streets it is meat
and drink for them to prophesy evil to. the
and rhree-fourths Of the common
Saints, if We NAV judge from their talk, be-
tieve that in the States every other man is 4
rogue and every other woman a prostitute.
As TO the s1cia, evils growing out Of po-
,rgamy, incest for example, il Is not even
denied, it is rather advocated. We fling
Town this charge fair and square to the
papers and speakers ana dare
aem TO proof. And to put the matter fairly
~ ISSUE, VIC "Iii hui di 6uc u-4S dSaA sAASSS
questions:
|. Are there not many instances in this
Territory where n man is married TO the
aother and one, two or three daughters
.. Are there not several men here, each of
1hom is married to two or three sisters
). Did not one of the foremost men of the
Church marry widow, then get her Oldest
on sent on mission and marry the sons
rife while he was gone His step sous
rife q:
1. Did not a well known individual in this
.;y marry his half sister. with the consent
Il Brigham Young, and live with her as his
rife several years
). Has not, Brigham Young openly justi-
led such marriage in the pulpit, say ing, the
ime might Come when brothers would
marry their own sisters in order 20 raise up
pure priesthood =
6. Did he, or did he not, make su5stan-
tally the same statement to Eep~oFih
Dixon, as set forth in the latter's work on
his country, adding, however, that he kept
nat doctrine to himself just now-it was too
trong doctrine fox the people =
7. Have not men here married their dauyh-
srs-in- law, directly contrary to Gods word ;
= laid down il Deuteronmv xvii?
Has not the President of the stake "a.
brigham City two Of his brothers daughters !
Or wives
These are a few Of the questions 70 be an
~ered. Ii they are g s!andernus it viii be :
asy t" shuw it. Ii Gen!sd, We will proceed
, Offer some proofs.