The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-25
SCOTT ANDERSON.
u;s Harangue at the Opera
''-' House Last Night.
~ soUELCHEs EVERYTHING.
,,o,mons and The Herald =
nHopder What He'll
Do Next?'

.,,s5 last evening by an auuiehce Vi
MI lived character. to listen to Scott
veg ,2o-.on's lecture, How I became
mon, .,-. and Why I Renowned Nor
"O a;am !" We only attempt to give
.-:af ontline of the lecture which occu-
Rev, T C. Lift. Of the Methodist
cbnrcb acted as chairman. The lee
trre was delivered extempore, with oc-
.;onal reference to notes, and numer-
nuotations from Mormon and other
book5 His first great objection to the
wo-mon church was that he found that
things were not done by common con-
.o,t In the matter of voting at the
-o-,i.,nnuaI Conferences, negative votes
u,sre called for, but not recognized.
Hs was told that the Saints were al
lowed the privilege of sustaining those
dominated to Office by the
nriestbood. An election had
never occurred in Utah, viii h repre-
sented the voice of the people. Frequent
mention was made by the MormOns OF
the hireling clergy of the sectaran
world. He cOntended that the Mormon
PRIESTHOOD were worse than the hireling
clergy. for they received a larger amount
ofnay in the church tithes. The church
was glutted with. money and property
obtained from its members, being
money-grabbing concern all throughout.
Its a disgrace to the Mormon church
To send out their missionaries without
nurse and scrip to live upon the hard
earned toilings OF the poor in England
and elsewhere. Speaking of Joseph
Smith, the prophet, he said there is
nothing in the Doctrine and Covenants,
outside of one revelation, given in 1913,
in the whole book liable to hurt anyone;
in fact, it IS written after the style of
schoolboy. He learned after coming
here that marriages not performed by
the priesthood were of no effect, and
that it was absolutely necessary for
every man to enter into polyg-
amy to become entitled to the benefits
of the higher law, not only for his
own salvation but that of his wife and
family. The greatest objection he had
to MOrmonism is this, that they send
Missionaries into the void to preach
presumably from the Bible and delude
men and women, inducing them to
come to this country. He asked where
we're all the converts the Church had
NADER They were not in Utah. They
were to be found everywhere, in San
Francisco and elsewhere, disguised
with all kinds Of religion, for Mormon
ism makes atheists of those who be-
charged to have been guilty of some
crime. He dared any man or woman
here or elsewhere to prove that he had
been guilty of the slightest immortality.
The press of this city and particularly
TIKI HERsLD may call him gross names
il they please. He would not retaliate,
but give them monopoly
of that kind of business.
Blood Atonement had been taught by
public speakers in the Tabernacle in
years past, and never been denied since.
. The Mormon people were a harmless
people. 1t was the assumed priesthood
who were responsible for such doctrines.
Men calling themselves Apostles did
not make them so. It was said. he re
marked, that Joseph Smith prophesied
concerning the american war of the
North against the South twenty-nine
years before It occurred, and that con-
sequenty he was true prophet. Whv.
ne himself had read old books and
newspapers which predicted a similar
event Fortune-tellers and others could
as Justly claim to be prophets, because
some Oh their predictions became true.
Dus very small portion of Joseph
oInlIns pretended revelation had be-
S IN. STie, and it was an utter impossi-
eoMlty Tor the remainder of it TO be full
4ueo. He, therefore, asserted that
Sr%ysepn SMITH was mt true prophet.
Inc word OF Wisdom, and absence of
pIolSHity among the Saints in England
uau Oeen q great inducement to him to
oolIe SAINT. But he found the con-
uafy mere; The M0rMon missionaries
S-o GAdnlPies OF the scriptures which
$3.50 Oh Pfe!enderS Creeping into
1ouseS and leading captive sillv
TfoLngh; AIlding to divorces. he said
tiiat John Taylor granted more secret
Jti.o5Ces 70 make women second and
o s.la wives than were granted in the
-, In courts o! the United States govern
t III r. After per sons had been through
nj NJ l'uuo"menr House. they could com
- any crime whatever except the
10y .I.d9iiiS OF innocent blood, and be
,-,gd In the first resurrection and
AalVed, GAYS revelation. The Nor.
5-oh Priesthood have brought living
-yNn TO fire art. He refused i0
lg-spt John Taylor as his president
SIu goa because he, IN 1850. denied
t-tlaiity OF wives in q public lecture.
snS was at the same time living with
~ wives In concluding, he begged to
,e.eI 10 hun self. In the opinion OF our
itS5oI'eT lie had not failed to DO SO dur
- .le whole OF the lecture. He wanted
S ,eA the truth only, and why he
s s5gaAe Mormon, and had
Ce discovered that Normonisn
sn.l spurious ana false. He
NIL o. nGrmonism being a cancer.
IN P'- oEl crea ed misery and unhappiness
TIE family where il was in troduced.
to- 1'' HHlng the audience for their atten-
81; sl, sl ne sad ne had not half exhausted
hss subject. and acknowledged that he
I ~ 4 great deal.
the ss,nort-haad writer was present, on
Of ,IL'age' and took verbatim report
MAJ ne lecture. so that the public
IMP ,Sb,.e.clpate the opportunity of wad-
IT, through an incoherent lot of talk.
tes INSISTED OF personalities and generali-
Ybi,b, A1eElsrde9 with ridiculous ideas,
plsnsa we're greeted with approving ap-
Of H. y The "Mormon-eatlng'i portion
tafor5 present. Egotism, and osten-
in hsv;, display of self. and his bravery
own - onG the temerity TO declare his
pr6mi Goasspoken opinion, were very
ture 'i-eiy features of the whole "lec-