, 1869-07-16

FhllJA1 Il OLY ~
No exclaimed. "MechiSedeo ma tho KIng OF
BAleu, lie lived In tt tine Of Abraham. When
Hns ths Law gwen tu nxattnd ,>A1udrod4 and
Moses on Tho top Of Xo1nt StnAl:7 uoF coutd
Christ b priest After tho order og Aelchsedec,
unleas tho GosVel preceded the Law7" &c. Blshop
Taylor Aaked some Of our party enafwartS5 with
N amused facial expression, whether ha;wuold
probably be invited 70 preach IN one Of the Dapst
pulpt1 Of Philadelphia he ahould y1alt that city.
ITS MORAL AE1EcT.
-Mo1uoniuu may DO considered from three
points Of vteN-motal, social md political Let
/ nj, 1st look II it In Ii moral aspect. We sso
grAyely informed hkt thern arc no houses Of ptos~
ututlon, no gambling bells and no uog hhops IN
ut2h. Thu has Z pleading Bound certainly, and II
Mosuoutsm leadI to N t1Gae things there m1st
bc something good in 1t with Al its dsawhactA
But Whit Is prostitutlou7 Morally considered. tt
kexual commerce without lore. q an not now
speaking CT III legal aspects or Of these ciE1 reg
ulAtlops witch sodrty has ozdained for its own
protection. or for the guArdianAhip and care Of
ompHng1. In the Mormon Church this crime is
elevated into system, aud not onlJ sJttem but
faith From all the testimony We could obtain BY
dligent inquiry, 1t sppe2ts that the Mormon
women beth married and unmarried, arc univer-
GAll5 QppQAEN " PUf&x1G4A QXl4E A1B BQ OV4QA
to thc faith that they esteem It religious duty 10
submit to IT, Is the Hmdoo mother con-
senrs 10 throw her babes TO tho
sacred cIocodues, OK to mount the funeral pile
Of her dead husband But .ntueJ-nine out
Of every hundred Of them are held to this en-
foroed prostitution by tho Law Of the strongest, or
What Is santanount TO It. have heard tales.
which have eYe1J reason to believe arc tue, Of
the whole power Of Church and State being brought
bFNf nnnu RO1nr re1nrfH1t rttt compel her
become the dtih vile OF sone wealthy and laselH-
oUa sa1nt. The nature OF WOMAN cannot be
changed hy bringing her to tic sage- brush coun-
III and baptizing her into the faith Of Joseph
Smith. The Joung lRdtes of Utah, Hho hare any
education at all, are In state Of lncplent febell
Ion against polygamJ, and some OF them have
brared eYesJthlng rather than be participants
Of It
To cay that tt.re are no houses Of proatltataon
In Utah, Therefore, Ia aaJsng that the name t2s
been changed aud license granted TO everybody
10 practice It. Worse than this, no woman Is At
liberty to keep from It. Here In San Francisco
they tell us that prostitution IL bold and abundant
and especially unloveiJ; but nobody ls compelled
to enter within 1t1 gates. Society, Law, religion
the pure pure. In Utah, shese potent
aEenc!es work ihe opposite WY. II
Brigham Young or his son Ja wants
new cnncutlne from among the naldehs Of
Utah, he must have her. There Il straiahtHay .
conspiracy OF the Nhoe Mormon population
agatnst the girtua and happinesa Of this srt And
she must not wait! saw In the Tabernacle, on
RundsJ, an infant Of II Jeara holding In her arms
smother infant Of months-and the one WAS
mother Of the other. Such child m!strcascs aro
not uufrequent, and yet thty SAY there IL not
house Of prostitution In all Utah! Tou meet men
Of whom It Is sail, " They have three or four FAM
tiles In different parts Of the Territory" These
trr generally the itnerant pncathooa, tho circuit
r!t1ers," who Ind 1t ednJtng to have one wife In
Salt Lake CITY. another In the Dear RlYer Valley,
third on Utah Lake and fourth on tho 1oEdAn.
But then there arc no hoQsea Of prostitution; e.
pectn1ly none for the convenience Of The clergy.
Po1yEamy was not . conception Of Joseph
Smith. The Mormona Of Illinois and Iowa do not
practice II, nor believe In II. 1t wa5 "rcEeaicd
to brigham Young after the settlement In Utah,
and about the time, We may imagine, that be lrut
luhted after 4 woman whom he could not reach By
Rnr other than \ supernatural prutrss.
There arc no gambling houles anu no liquor
shops In Utnh except at few ststton4 cn tho limo
OF Tho railway. where tteJ hare been established
BY the tirda Of prey that more alwaJa on lhc
outer cdKo OF civilization II L. rred.tatile, but
by no Incons remarkable, that utah Ii freq from
these ucstB. III rural community, md ltrfg-
ham Young hns no inclination to gambl1 or dtnk
lie can add nothing to biz fortune BY gambling,
had In Salt Lnko Ctr, II nnypody naut4 II, al-
though there arc no tpnllng shopA lean point
10 half dozen agricultural districts In Illinois
and lows, each embracing AZ 1nrxe a population
~ Utah Territory, ~hcrr there arc neither gatlb-
ling 1loascs nor gro9 Hhops, aud r.lcto II u no.
esteemed grrat feat 10 'o without them.
T118 toc1Ai AArEcr.
Ignorance Ia tho corncr.stone OF tito Mormon
temple. To dchcril,o ihA lHuornhco wouId l.o q
AtH<R IvtxIAz zb..t tNH~D tx
\ few examples. When VIC arrived In Bait Lake
city, lfHRhnM Young MIN making 4 tOur 1f Tho
provinces, md, ~ hp went frGtn ono paco TO
another, ahoa1a oi tho fnrAl population wurc seen
rrndIng thstf way to tho government !and c1lcr
obtaining tho titles III their fnrrus. aid paslluG
shstn osrE to brigham Young. An jauosntce ~
rHsr 'hat Il nart night III st!fntsrcst II altunst
tncoMerlyAhtr. w conIt uot h1nyn 1t wax Esosxf.
ilt until WI went to Tho tahd u!1!cu htlt asccr-
sninc'l for ourselves, t!at these tleluied puoplu
who had conquered tho dehcEt, and WEcstod thclE
ia1!na frum tho haxc brush, AMI who MnEo enttlod
BY law 10 tho 0wncrakip Of thc!f hon,eAteAds with
tue tfnltcd siatcs hug n5.uH thrro mles nHay, tic
symbol Of pore! htnpn for their protection,
wcrc aciunllY putting nll their property out Of
their reach, not In the form o! trust, hut IN fce
simple. And It wn4 not i few hero and there WHO
Wcso thug b!iudly tisposaeastng thamselses and
d!hnhefting their children, but lund1eds every
dnJ; III fact, all who wero entitled. under the
laHs Of tho United Btates 10 receive their certin-
Gates. And not merely the newcomers who had
entered thclr lapda under Tho Homestead act Of
l6G2, bot thote who pIe-emptcd their tracts ten
and fifteen ycars ago. md who could not he sup
poacd to oHe anything to the Church for their
original outnt and expenses Of colonization.
AL the MOrmons pay TO tue Church {that Is to
Drighnm Young, for he never renders any account
Of biz Stewardship one-tcnth OF their annual
gains. These arc the only people recorded
IN history who ucget complain Of taxes
The uthIng ayHietn Ii cQuat to 4 ten per cent in-
come tax, without my deductions, ThcY know
no moro about the disbursements Of these ttthes
fhan the horses they drive, 1hey See the Mormon
temple building. and they notice from time to
time new companies Of Immigrants coming In
lrom Eugland, Scotland, Wales, Denmark and
Germany. hut bow much The temple costa or
what sntns arc expended for colonization. they
neither know nor care Tho colonization Is. In
fact, self-suppoH!nR: for each immigrant who Is
not able to ray hls owu Eo5 enters into contract
TO work out his expenses on h.s arrival ID the
Territory; and he always does It, The system
w0.ka we'll The missionaries In Europe 20 among
the poorest and most ignorant people they can
ind, and, partly By exciting their supcrst:lons,
hut chiefly By holding out to them the
prospect Of more bread for lcas worE.
induce them to toiu the Church OF
jesus Christ, Of Latter Day Santa, mud
start for utuh. Brigham YounSa account In the
Bank Of England is said to be the fourth In the
list IN point o! magnitude; and wet It may be-
for he h4s one hundred and twenty thousand peo-
pie working for hin with unqucsuon1ng zeal and
un1agYing energy. Thus there is AwAys fund
available for the outtt Of emigr1uts No one need
stay behind for lack Of passage money, and no one
need be idle day after he reaches the territory,
for hls farm Is already selected for him, bis seed
corn ready, and The place marked out where be
shall ds the ditch to bring the snaw-water Of the
tr&o - Sav- 4 R1Ht +
Of this missionary enterprise Is not far distant
The arabic lana Of Utah Is nearly all occupied. A
section Of the Dear River Valley Is still available,
but 1t Il rapidly l1ling up. The Mormons have
already been pushed into Idaho on
the north and Arizona on tho
south. They cannot maintain their peculiar
nstttutIons outside OF rtah- The time mu1s soon
come when there will be room for no more
saints-
It's said that Bngham Toung does many acts
Of Kindness to bis pcople-that he relieves tho
poor. provides work for those out Of employment,
etc, This can readily belleTe. He restores 70
them 4 portion Of what he takes from them.
Those who arc out Of employment he sets 10 work
cutting or 4uAr1Jtng granite for the temple. The
Utah granite, may remark. Is decidedly more
beautiful than that Of the Easscrn States The
black epceka Gitstcu with 4 rorc brilliant 1ustTe,
whllc the body Is tlke ! tough Er&y marble.
Divorces arc granted In Utah on any grounds
decmetl Sufficient by brigham Young. The dfss
wife can bc dForced only tJ the clvtl tribunals,
hut subsequent Ntycs, belng regarded By tho Law
~ no wires, Of c0ursc hate no standing In court.
Drtshnm Young attends to thcse CASES ani Dc. |
Clara them divorced when he cnootcE. Adultery !
Is punishable by deMa under the Mormon codc,
and tho punishment must b in.
uic,cd hy tho injured husband upon
10th the wttc and her rarnmour. Lawyern DO not
thr.ye In Utah Dlsrutes always stttlcd BY the
nearest bEshop Or Elder. Cases ar!slnR undot the
laws Of tho United States and tried BY jurJt arc
rarely settled IN Tho same way, for no 1uI7 wilt
nu,l yes71tct cobtfxrY 10 the AdTtce Of The fghon