The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-07

crease, 30 co our love anu HenoIaVlOh iVi
her. But in the Mormon house, when
when women get old they are pushed
backward d and outward, as the younger
rivals take their place and in turn give
way to hers, Mormonism is hell. Ihls
corpse Las been lying rotting in he sun
out on our fair plains of the West for
forty years, and the United States Gov
ernment has not had courage to bury IT..
(Applause) All the time it has been
growing in il fuence Once it meant
Utah; now it means Arizona, Nevada and
New Mexico, while the Circ is widen
ing as he influence goes forth to debach
the nation. Mormonism receivesSl ,OOO
100000 year from her tithing system,
She has plenty of money to influence
national legislation. When committee
of Congress was appointed to examine
one of the members asked why all this
fuss about polygamy, because the Nor
mons make the having of four wives a
part of their religion; while some mem
bers of Congress have four wives WI h.
out the pretense of any religion. Jap
pause The United States stands con-
vcted of inefiCienCy when it permits
that gigantic indecenCy to 60 on. The
curse of God will come down on This ma.
ton if we do not ex irpate it. Would
you interfere with mans religionp Mo-!
The Mormon may believe Joe Smith a
god, and Brigham Young thesecond per.
son of the god-head; but polygamy is
against morality, and therefore should
be destroyed, and it never will be de-
stroyed except by the Government. 1t
will not be war; it will be police duty by
the troops, Gen. johnson in 1857 with
his 2500 troops, might have destroyed it
when sent out by President Buchanan,
had he marched right or; but here was
not moral courage enough in the Admin
istration, and Gov. Powell of Kentucky,
and Major MCCullock of Tennessee, were
sent out as Commissioners of Arbitra.
ton, Not an Administration since has
had the power and the will to throttle
the evil. We go and look at it and pass
on. Grant went; Secretary Schurz went;
President Hayes went-everybo goes
and looks and comes away. They cling
to their idols and receive you with cour-
tesy. They bow you into one city and
bow you out of it; and Inever had more
genial audience than one addressed in
this mormon city. But if | were a be-
lever in the transmigration of souls, l
would pray that the spirit of Andrew
Jackson might get into the soul of the
soldier President who is to succeed him
-(applause land in thirty days every
Mormon would either be living with one
wife, would go to Jail or would leave the
country. If they submit, all well; if not
then cannon of the largest bore to thun.
der morality into their ears. Arbitra.
ton by all II cans, then howitzers and
bullets, bayonets and cannon balls.
If pack of them should squat on one
of our territories, and say that robbery
was a part of their religion, how long
would they be permitted to exist? l call
the attention of the American Congress
to this evil. Let some Senator with
good morality of his own, lift up the
anti. Mormon standard and expose the
record, and he will gather about him an
overwhelming following. 1t has got to
be done. Let the man 60 forward in the
name of God, and he will make his ev.
erasting political fortune. Why do we
have campaign, and as our ISSUE ex.
hume only the dry mummy of African
slavery out of our soil, and toss it about
as a weapon, when here we have live,
aggressive subject? Take some of the
money that is being poured into the lap
of this mother Of harlos Utah is rich
enough to pay for all the surgery of Ia
king out this cancer from our social and
political body.
| make no war against Mormonism as
a religion; but only as it is an Insult to
morality, The knife broke up Judge
Drummond's court in 1857, and it was
the same spirit that piled loose rocks on
the edges of the canons over the roads,
ready to roll down on the United States
troops. Now l have impanelled you as
jury. Are you ready for the verdicl2
What say you, guilty or not guilty?
Guilty. l hear one say, and another,and
another, and so say the people of the
country. When shall the execution
take placer Let the scaffold rest, one
end on the Sierra Nevadas and the other
end on the Rocky Mountains, What
grave shall be deep enoul h to bury this
thousand armed, thousand footed, thou
sand headed corpse, and put upon mon
ment high enough for the world to see
"Born Feb. 22d, 1927; died -. 1882"
Every day we allow Mormonism to ex-
ist, we invite upon us the righteous
judgments of our indignant God, come
those judgments in whatever form they |
will. l make plea for the $4,000 Gen.
tiles no live on in hope in the midst of
that abomination there. l plead for the
of emigrants coming ahd yet
to come. l plead for the women of
Mormondom, who live and die in mute
despair. plead for the womanhood
grieved till it cannot weep, living on in
the horrible pandemonium of a polyga.
nous home. 0, men with wives ind
mothers, and daughters and sisters, does
not your blood run cold at the story of
the great crime? 0, you wives and wo
men, sympsthize with your sisters dying
the still death of Mormonism. The one
great sin in our republic The best cor
nerstone of a republic is the hearth.
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