The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-02

gle Io2fer or YagaDp4u VI thg 0AuIcA
Deople-that all such are Gentiles;
and this is probably the truth. Neither
. do they have any lawsuits before the
courts-all disputes OF person or prop
erty are settled In the Church. bv the
Bishops, Apostles or by Brigham. It
/ is conceded that they are generally a
temperance people, as a class, using
Intoxicating liquors seldom or never.
aud going so far as to deny themselves
generally the use of tea and coffee
/ These are cOmmendable traits. it is
claimed, IN any people; and the Nor
mons are entitled to the proper credit
| for them. But Whenth whole Mormon
/ scheme is examined, these practices
and teachings will be found to be
part Of the wise and deeply laid
scheme Of the rulers to maintain
! their supremacy, and carry out their
| designs. No community on the face
of the Globe is so heavily taxed as
are this people to support their
! politico religious organ ization. They
have to pay their National, Ter
/ ritorial, County and City tax, as the
citizens of other parts Of the country,
| but in addition to, or rather before,
| these, they are required to payinto
President H0ung's tlthing- house one &
1 tenth OF the gross proceeds Of all
/ their labor of all kinds aud deserip.
| tons; and also are subjected to any
extra burdens which President Y Dung
may choose to place upon them, as
| for instance, last year requisition
was made on every, settlement for a
detail of men, mules or oxen andcarts
to build about one hundred miles
of the Union Pacific Railroad. and
this year they are standing SINH
lar draft for the Utah Central Road.
But for the most persevering industry
and the strietest habits of temper
ance there would be no time for rail- !
road levies, or tithes, or money for
Brigham's treasury. LIE, also, there
was turbulence, intemperance, and |
riot in the community the power of
the rulers would not long be main.
tanned; the stronger passions of the
populace would rebel against the ex-
actions and religious impositions of |
the imputed prophets and apostles. /
lf the Saints were permitted to ap- /
peal to the Gentle officials for the |
adjudication of their personal and |
property grievances it would have
manifest tendency to weaken the hold /
of the Church officials. upon them5 I
hence everything between Saints must.
be settled by the officers of the
Church, and its influence thereby
maintained and Increased. 1t Is
necessary that it constantly should be I
preached from the pulpit, as the revez
lation of the Lord, peace, Industry,
temperance, and the iafallible and
unqaestioned power of the Church.
In every talk which, heard in the
Tabernacle yesterday the Injunction
was placed upon the people to accept
the guidance and direction of Brig
ham as Of and from God: all their
past and present prosperity, and their
future safety were directly traced to
his unlimited and unquestioned power
and supremacy. Lit was gravely an
nouneed by one Of the Apostles that |
he (Brigham) was constantly Ia COM
munion with the Almighty; that j
through him was the Lords will
made known, and that it would be
impious to reject 1t. He also declared {
that President Young could require
of them nothing too great to be de- J
MED - their time, property or even
their lives. And every Mormon /
have c0nYersad with acknowledges IL I
as his duty TO yield to him implicit
obedience for the simple reason ttbbsPP5 z
be is inspired hg q VI = 18th N
sseeiarcely ooneeiIyss l 8, until he has
CO. % sl1s16n the ground and examined :
he absolutely blind and serylle ac-
Of this people. 1t Is the
7ternest despotIsm Of religious ianatI-
s;sn With a disloyal or designing
Ieader for President and Prophet, L r
cannot comprehend how this commu
nifv can ever become good and faith
full citizens Of the United States.
1t may be asked, how can this state
af society continue in this free and
country? 1t appears a
mystery, and yet part of it IS cleared
AWAY when one goes into the Iaber- 7
nacle and looks into the faces of four
to six thousand people gathered there
and remember. too, that the more In
teIligont are here in Salt Lake City. | ]
the mass of the commu-
nitv are gathered from the ignorant
and lowest classes of society, 10
America and Europe. 1t is ignorance
byreligi0us superstition.
IL is not to be denied that there are
quite a number Of intelligent (not
many educated) men in the society,
Int they are generally IN INTERESTED
ButI doubt whether there
are as few educated and really intelh-
cent persons to be found IN any other
Community of equal size In educated
n urope-certainly not in the United /
States. In a population claimed to
be over one hundred and fifty thou
sand there are only two newspapers
published, while in all the other
Western Territories of smaller popu- !
lation the number is greatly multi
Piled. I have heretofore referred to
the position of the leading MoTmons
on the Free School question: do
not generally favor it. Education and
the dissemination of intelligence are
rot restrained, but are not within the
reach of all, and both influenced BY
the Church.
Everything is controlled by the one
man mower aud the centralIZing au-
thority Of the Church, and al depend-
ent uDen the inspiration and reyelas
tion Of the President and Prophet;
President Young is the recognized
head of the Church, in more power
FIJI degree than was ever the Pope OF
Rome: and as such, rules the people
hv bis absolute will, which is inter-
nTeted to be the will Of the Lord. He
holds all the immense chureh prop L
erty, he receives all the tlthes and
various taxes, he builds and owns IN |.
his own name the railroad he IS the
controlling stakeholder In the 10
lucrative Mercantile Institution, he
has command of all the women who