The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-06-07
MORMON MADNESS.

The publication of the interview had
by a Salt Lake Tribune reporter with
John &. Cough, was like unto fire
brand thrown into tho enemies camp
The Pilot says Dir, Cough had been guar
anteed S400 and expenses by twenty-six
citizens Of Ogden to lecture at the Taber-
nacle on the subject OF temperance.
| About third of the guranteors were
Mormons, including Mayor Peery. The
| Mormons will not only not attend the
lecture, but the much offended Saints
now refuse the use of the Tabernacle,
which was proflered gratuitously, and ac-
cepted by the committee as the place to
give the lecture. The world renowned
lecturer has no apologies or retractions to
make, although to express his ideas on
this Mormon abomination may affect his
financial or personal interest, he still calls
a spade, a spade. Bigamy was set down
in the statutes as felony and punishable
everywhere except in Utah. No COM
munity of people could lawfully practice,
bigamy under another name. On this
rock he stands.
We quote some of the most silent
points adduced in this interview, which
has opened so wide gull between the
distinguished visitor and the polygamists:
would you visit polygamist's home,
were you invited to do so ?" asked the
reporter.
mo, sir; | would not. / would not
visit a bigamist Or polygamist in my
Massachusetts, home, nor would l have
one visit me, and do not see that the
fact Of locality makes any difference in
these matters. l detest polygamy and
l think it ought to be rooted out. As l
said in my lecture on 'Blunders,' it is
cancer on the body polite that needs cut.
ting out. If that lecture had been the
one was to deliver here, should have
spoken my sentiments very freely, no
matter if it had cost my life. cannot
understand how sensible women can de.
grade themselves by going into this
beastly practice. l can see no difference
between polygamy and Open prostitution.
In polygamy you 60 through form of
marriage, or whatever you may term it,
and practice RIGHTEOUSNESS, while with
prostitution you 60 through no form. If
a man can marry two wives he can marry
fifty or hundred, and the only differ.
ence between Mormon polygamist and
a man who practices prostitution is, that
one has gone through little formula Of
marriage, while the other has not"
what is the feeling in the East on this
subject?"
THE people are becoming aroused, and
there is but one outcome to this matter,
and you have got to crush it out or
it will crush you ont. 1t appears
to me that Congress is acting very cow
ardly in regard to this matter, and not
moving along as fast as they ought.
People come here on a visit and write
back to Eastern journals about the fertile
valleys, the growing towns and the pros
perity that prevails and forgets to men,
ton the real grievances that exists here.
tell you l would rather see the Territory
covered with sagebrush from one end to
the other, than to see it imbedded in
Mormonism az it is. When l think of it
it makes my blood boil, and l can hardly
talk coolly on the subject"
"Will you visit the Tabernacle on Sun.
day."
'No, sir; I'd as leave go to the variety
show as go there. 1 would think it sacri.
| lege and dissertation Of the Sabbath to
| so there and listen to their slush and
bladderdash. l want nothing to do with
them. wouldn't live in their midst il
you gave me one of the finest mansions
that could be built. couldn't stand it.