The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-15

clcal ceremony, and there is little
drama in which the devil, dressed in 6
black suit, and with an apron, tempts
Eve. man named Thomas plays the
part OF the devil in the Endowment
House at Salt Lake; during the week
ne IS Janitor and gate watcher at the
temple Block, snd at nights he leads
the orchestra in the secular Theatre A
most useful devil, we must admit. The
different priesthoods are also conferred
In the Endowment House or Temple.
The oath for the Aaronic Priesthood is
that those who take it shall obey the
leaders OF the Church as against the
United States government in taking the
Melchisedec Priesthood they swear TO
be reVenged ON the United States for
the shedding of the blood of Joseph
Smith, and if they break this oath they
are to be torn limb from limb and have
their tonges torn out, Mormonism is
death TO patriotisml A Mormon will
obey John Taylor in preference to tne
President of the United States. AS an
instance of it young nan, a lieutenan
In the u. 5. army, when asked if il
came question as to whether he
should obey the order of John TAYLOR
or that of the President of the United
States, he stated he would obey John
Taylor. If John Taylor told a Mormon
to lie, he would lie
The Mormon religion aims at com
plete temporal power in the United
States. Joseph Smith was nominated
and ian for President OF the United
States. Sidney Rigdon, in the April
following the murder of Joseph Smith,
said this Church implied temporal
government; while the Apostle 0rson
Pratt, declared this (the ChuIch) was
the government of God on earth and
that every government was illegal. 1t
Is not every Mormon that dares to say
so. They are too wise; but it is none
the less true that they aim at and aspire
to absolute temporal government. Geo.
u Cannon IN sermon on the subject
once said 1t was not ror pOpuli, UOr del,
but UOr del, rox popuH; and intimated
that as the high ones of the Church
heard the voice of God, it was for them,
the elite, to say what should be the will
OF the people. They make it point to
urge smart men into polygamy so that
they can hold them, and threaten to
dlStranchise those who do not enter
into it with heavenly Acknowledgement.
l tell you religion had nothing to do
with the expulsion of Mormons from
Nauvoo; it was because they lied and
and stole. and considered ii right so long
as they lied to Gentiles and stole from
them. The bishops in Arizona taught
their hocks to lie and perjure them
selves in order that Mormons might
vote. One bishop who had several
wives, swore he had but one, while
several old women, his wives, were NJ
that time working in the field for him.
There is never any opposition ticket in
the MOrmons. They never have had
any opposition ticket. The Mormons
call theirs the Peoples ticket, suppose
for the reason that the people have
nothing TO do with the making of it.
Were | a Democrat, would say: "Now
we are coming into power we-will-put
-down-poIygamy! We-will-do-
tip The Mormons call themselves
Democrats; but they are not and can
not be. They were also said to sympa-
thize with the south. They are glad of
the war because they hoped that. like
the Kilkenny cats, we would eat each |
other up, and they could then have the |
L have heard the Mormon !
bishops at ward meetings tell the con-
how to vote, and notify them |
hat the lame ana s ok and weak and |
aged would have carriages furnished |
hem. They do seem to understand |
politics there.
Polygamy is only secondary con-
iideration. Treason is the first and |
objection. When they landed |
n Utah they organized the free and in
dependent State of Deseret. They formed |
and took all the land so |
hat Gentiles could get none; and to
h. 4 lbs No. ]
IAN not make farming success. In a |
ermon George Q. Cannon, who
S polygamist and who
md drew money from the treas
Try of the United States, said. This is |
ours. God has given us this land, if |
1entie who has no right to it, comes |
% take it. we will give him six feet |
which will last him to all eternity"
The Church owns millions of dollars of !
which pays no taxes. The
ientiles who own two-fifths of the
pay one-half the taxes of the |
Territory. The Perpetual Emigrating |
Fund is organized to bring over low
Ind ignorant people of the Mormon |
aith, the tenets of which are diamet-
'ically opposed to the government of the |
United States, and they are all like the !
.rishman who said he didn't know any
hink aboutpolitics but if they had a gov
,rnment he was agin it. Five-t Thousand |
If these are brought into this country |
ZACH year. The Mormons have always |
,een reasonable. In 1856 the judges |
.ould not hold court there, and the |
records were removed; and when John
tons army went out Brigham Young
ssued proclamation as Governor, call |
ng for armed resistance. and the |
people were in armed rebellion. The
yictims of the Mountain Meadow Mas
'acre, 120 in number, were all murdered
because they were Gentiles, and to this |
lay there has been but one correction |
or that frightful massacre. If brave |
General Harvey had been allowed his |
way Brigham Young would have met
lis Waterloo and there would have re-
NAMED no Mormon problem for the |
United States to solve to-day. Brigham |
Young, in one of his sermons, cursed |
he President of the United States, the |
United States government, and said !
hey would all go to hell on wooden !
egs, and they had better be getting |
heir wooden legs now while lumber
vas cheap.
During this ebullition the giddy |
'guirll" sang what she called Mormon
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