Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-05-26
SOME OF ITS PHASES.

| masses are the least enlightened, anu
| in those fields it has always made its
appeals to that class OF the popula-
ton among whom the densest lgno'
rance and the grossest superstition
prevail-the class the least accessible
to any idea of self government, or OF
loyalty to any form OF government ex
cept that which appeals TO the lowest
instincts and habits, and to fears ex-
cited and kept alive by the imaginary
supernatural power with which Its
swn superstitions and false teachings
of impostors clothe the Mormon
priesthood. Accompany these NJ Or
mon missionaries to their European
fields of labor, and see them at work.
Never by any possibility will they
be found operating among the enlight
ened, or even the respecta Die working
classes; bu: always grovelling in the
very lowest stratum. What they need
and secure of intelligence aud sub
ordinate leadership, they either buy
outright with money, or with promis-
es of Church prelerment and share
of Church spells. Never yet did
male or female Mormon recruit come
to Utah or to Idaho who was at the
same time good, intelligent and well
informed; for the reason, that this
kind of people would not make will.
ing 1.-THE payers and tools, and blind
wol shippers of priestly despots. Lat
terly the Mormons are trying to open
up field of missionary labor III some
Of the Southern States. Here, as
else where, they 60 down to the bot
tom, among that class Of the Southern
whites which is the lowest in the
ntellectuai, social and moral scale
among the people who are to-day
precisely where slavery and the heel
of the slave oligarchy left them at the
close of the rebellion. The tidal
wave OF light and loyalty which has
swept over the South, making its
mark deep and permanent upon all
other classes, has never reached these
people. They have remained ignO
rant and disloyai, learning only to
cherish a deeper hatred for Govern
ment whose mild and beneficent sway
they can never understand, and to
Roget the loss of the rule Of the old
slave lords, whose yoke bore almost
AS heavily upon them as it did upon
their sable brethren in servitude.
These people can never be good and
loyal citizens; therefore the Mormons
want them for recruits. They will
remain ignorant and obedient, and be
ready at the bidding of the priests for
any fanatical service or enterprise.
Another phase of Mormonism lies in
the permanent and irradicabe nature
of the virus, when once taken into the
mental and moral systems of men
and women. Some are simple. mind
ed, enthusiastic and Jealous enough
to believe that Mormons can be con
verted aud become good Christians,
and good and loyal citizens. Expe'
rience and observation soon dispels
this illusion. A Mormon of mature
years may become FESTIVE under the
yoke OF the priesthood, may tire of
tie buden of tithe.payiug, and, il
sight of better opportunities for per-
sonal advancement and earthly we'll
being, may sour GU the institution aud
put his endowment robes away in q
corner; but the odor OF the gsease vat
will cling to him, follow him wherev-
er he goes; and though he may retain
nothing else Of Mormonism, ueep
down in his heart there will be a
latent hatred Of Government which,
according to his view, does not UNI
derstand its own Constitution well
| enough to let the "Saints" live their
religion IN peace and quietness
These are some of the phases of Nor
monism, and some OF the effects of the
poison which it distis. 1t is high
time that the American people were