The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-08
rALMAGE on THE MORMoNs.
He Wants the seventh Command dmcnt
Th"ndcred by Big BOre Cannon.

"Mormonism' was DIR. Talmaxe's
topic yesterday morning. ssSo<tom aud
Salt Lake City are synonymous" said
the preacher tsyou can hardly think
of one without thinking of the other.
Both in fertile Valleys; both near an
offensive, tishless dead sea; both
famous capitals of the most accursed
impurity; both doomed. This sum-
mer I had an opportunity to inspect
this iniquity. In regard to the alleged
subsidence of Mormonism, I tell you
that 75O Mormons arrived at Salt City
just before 1 got there. Ten thousand
We're added last year and there will
be more than that this year. They
have 300 missionaries in Sweden, Nor
way, Russia, Germany, England, Ire-
land, and Scotland. Many Scotch
Presbyterians were recently brought
there. Emigrants are deluded by false
promises of gain, and when they get
to Utah they are taxed until the blood
comes. There is no escape for them
but in the grave. Mormonism is one
great prolonged cruelty. was shown
a cellar where mother and her two
sons were butchered because they had
revealed the secrets of Mormonisnl.
The MIormons have peculiar phras-
geography by which they describe this
putting to death. They say {: 'He was
put out of the way 'They met with
a bad accident sThey We're used up
sThey We're cut off just under their ears
Laughter These outrages are stopped
only because a regiment of United
State soldiers is now overlooking the
city, ready to destroy it If 1t dares re-
peat such atrocities. I charge Nor
moism with being great blasphemy.
brigham Young declared in one of his
sermons that Christ himself was a
practical polygamist; that Mary and
Martha were Christ's plural wives.
Brigham Young said in the same SER
mon that when Christ turned the water
into wine it was the occasion of his own
marriages. l charge upon Mormonism
that it is disloyal to the United States
Government. Mormonism would like
to sec this Government perish to-day.
l charge upon Mormonism that it is
organized filth. 1t is built on polyga-
my. There is n man in Salt Lake City
who has three wfvcs-mother, daugh-
ter and granddaughter. 1t was related
to me that when a man takes a new
wife there his house is enlarged, but no
house was ever large enough to hold
two women married to the same man.
Great laughter. Think of a system
that teaches that the more wives a man
Nh0 hISuSL Will DC llAS SCtl II
heaven! Think Of system that COM
mends Il man for living in marriage at
the same time with three sisters!
"I tell you it is one great surging
liccntiousncss, the scragliO of the re-
public, tho centre of corruption, hell
enthroncd. 1t is a power In American
politics. 1t receives 81 ,OOO,O 900 n year,
with which it can influence national
legislation. In the last Congress the
matter was referred to Il committee,
and one of tho members of that COM
mittee said: 'Why do you make all
this fuss about poIygamy? The Nor
mons makes 4 religion of having four
or five wives. All that is practised by
members of Congress without any re-
ligion.' [Sensation. would not in
tcrfere with any mans religion. The
Mormons might believe that Joseph
Smith was God or that brigham Young
was the second person in the Trini-
ty. You have no right to interfere
with such beliefs. But Mormonism is
not only antagonistic to Christianity
but to Christian morals. Christianity
stands side by side with infidelity in
assailing that which antagonizes good
morals.
"The tendency of Nfornlonfsm is as
foe to free institutions. 1 tell you that
MOrmOnlSm Will never be destroyed
until it is destroyed by the United
States Government. Why did they not
let Gen. Johnston with his $500 troops
destroy it in 1857? There never has
been moral courage in the United States
to clean out this national stable. APP
plause.1 We have all gone to look at
it. Grant, Thompson, and Hayes went
ana looked at it. The Mormons receive
everybody graciously. They bow you
in and bow you out. If there could be
Il transinigraton of souls l should hope
that the souls OF Andrew Jackson
would get into the body of some of our
Presidents, who would make proc
iamation that at such day aud hour
each Mormon shall have no more than
one wife or shall go to Jail or leave the
country. tApplause. If the Nor
mons would not submit ! would send
out troops, and let them make the Nor
mon Tabernacle their headquarters,
and with cannon of tho biggest bore
thunder into them the seventh COM
mandment. fApplause.l Arbitration
by all mems, if that will do proclama-
ton, if that will do. But / am sure
that bullets and cannon would be ,neces-
| sary at the back of it all. The United