Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-29
MORMONISM.
HOW THE SALT LAKE CHURCH PRO-
POSES TO WIN.
The Egypt Of Utah-The New Immi-
grafton Strange Fanaticism-
The Press.


SALT LAKE, November 81, 1881.
There never was time in the history OF
the country when there was such general
disposition throughout the United States
to see a direct issue made between polyg-
amy and the Government, and there was
never ripper opportunity, The fact that
Geo. @. Cannon, member of Congress
from Utah, proves to be an alien, has turned
the attention of the public press to the
question, and the proceedings which must
eventually wipe out polygamy in Utah will
begin with the ousting of Cannon from his
seat.
MORMON GOLD.
The Mormon leaders, however, seem to
have little fear of what Congress may do
under the circumstances. Their corruption
fund is large enough, they claim, to con-
troll Congress in the future, as it has in the
past. The immense wealth of the Church
is deemed sufficient to accomplish any end
they desire to accomplish, and well-posted
Gentiles in Salt Lake do not look with
much hope upon the future. The real
wealth of the Church is not known, but it
is estimated In the millions, and at the
last Conference the earnest appeals of the
priests to the people for more tithes indi-
Gated that they see need in the near fu-
ture for cash. and plenty of it, 1t is safe
to say that unless the opposition to admis-
sion takes something of the nature of a
popular wave, the Mormon Church can
place enough money at the disposal of their
Washington lobbyists to defeat any legis-
latlon attempted. From time to time men
have been sent to Washington to put the
evils of polygamy squarely before Congress-
men, but these Gentle agents were never
able to make the slightest Roadway against
the money which the Mormons could throw
into the breach at moments notice.
THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
In Utah is directly at variance with the
laws of the United States and the Consti-
tuition. In early times the converts from
Europe had their naturalization papers made
out and trust into their hands as soon as
they arrived, and thus thousands of aliens
have exercised the voting prerogative, who
have no more right to it than the Chinese
who landed last week in San Francisco.
Women can vote at the general elections.
A married woman, sixteen years of age,
cannot vote under the law, but her vote is
never refused. No Mormon vote is ever
refused, and in some districts where there
is the slightest chance of preponderance
of GENTLE votes, provision IS made to neu-
tralize it by any means that can accom-
plish the end.
BoYCoTTING A PREACHER.
The Mormon method of treating other
religions, while SO strenuously preaching
religious liberty themselves, may be pretty
well illustrated by the following: About
two years ago the Presbyterians, who have
been very active establishing schools and
churches in the Territory, sent clergy.
man to Brigham City. He purchased
piece OF land and erected a house
upon it before the Mormons discovered
his real mission. He then opened
school and attempted to establish
church. His services were closely watched,
and men stood at the door and took the
names of all who attended. Wires were
stretched across the road about foot from
the ground, that those on their way to the
services might stumble before they neared
the door, When ladies fell over these
wires a mob of young Mormons standing
near would set up howl of derision. The
next move was to stone the school-hodse
while the services were in progress, and
the windows were battered in with bricks.
| The Presbyterian preacher, whose name
was Gellispie, was a man who feared
nothing, and being over six feet high
and muscled in proportion, found no
trouble in dispensing the hoodlums by
personal visit to the front. Presently, how
ever, he found that he could purchase
neither meat, vegetables nor groceries at
any store in the city. the store. keepers
having received orders from the priests not
to furnish anything to Gillespie under pain
of beng cut off from Zion. The teamsterwho
brought the preacher to the city was called
before the High Council and
CUT OFF,
For his servicesin behalf OF the Presbyterian
Church, in hauling Gillespie and his house.
hold effects from Ogden for $40. After
the Boycotting system had been inaugurated
/ Gillespie was obliged to ride six miles and
back to get meat and vegetables. His house
was stoned, his fences and out-buildings
torn down, and in fact his property de-
stroyed as fast as he could replace it. Be-
tween the mobs which hooted him in the
street. and the bricks which crashed
through his bedroom window at night, his
life was subjected to more than the average
ills which the duties of a missionary are
heir to. Finally the outrages coming to
In IS GaTA
Lake, the matter was fully venti-
lated, and at once the leaders of the
Church st Salt Lake took lively
interest in correcting the abuses at Brig
ham City, and made vigorous showing OF
hauling the Brighamites over the Goals.
This is an old trick OF the priesthood.
They encourage such work secretly. but
the moment the outrages are carried so far
as to be known and noticed outside the
Church, they go through the form OF
disciplining the offenders. The same course
was pursued in the Lee case. The Nor
mons harbored and protected John ID. Lee,
the leader in the Mountain Meadows mas
sacre until the strong hand of United
States law clutched his worthless neck, and
then the Church assumed to help the au-
thorities in the hunting up of evidence to
convict. By making him the scapegoat
they saved the reputation of Brigham
Young among the ignorant masses of Utah
and broke the force Of Lees confession.
DEPOT SCENE.
| A few days ago your correspondent was
at the depot when crowd of converts
came in. About two hundred and fifty
arrived in immigrant cars. They had come
from Liverpool in the steerage of the Wis.,
consin, and were as dirty and ignorant a
set of people as could be well imagined.
j There was a time when patches of plump,
fair haired, round-limbed girls came to Salt
Lake by way of these trains, and were inn
mediately taken up by the lecherous Elders