The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

| counsel must be cut off, this, with other OBJ
servations, aroused the feelings of Brother
Dixon, from Salem, Mass, who was then present,
and he appeared in great wrath" do not won
| der at Brother Dixon's wrath strange as il
seemed to Gods vcegerent And if the Saints
| were cut OFF for daring to spend their own money
as they pleased, what might not have befallen
| our enemieSf"
How the Saints tolerated" the gentles in 1857
is shown in a noble poem, entitled 1.-THE Mormons
| and Their Enemies written by James Bond and
punished in the church organ. The concluding
| stanzas read thus:
| But the Mormons now and ever pray,
Good Lord stretch forth Thy hand
And crckets and locusts keep away
| From this our peaceful land
| But may we never never be
| With gentle locnsts cursed,
For OF all the crickets you'll agree,
The gentiles the worst.
For gentle crickets would eat the lives
And homes OF Mormons and their wives.
But the crickets are gone and the Mormons live
| BY faith, in right good way;
And to gentiles they would kindly give
The hint to stay away;
| For should they pay their visits again
They will most surely find
The Mormons will themselves maintain
Against crickets of every kind
| Then go it, ye scoifers, for SANDER is cheap
The Mormons will laugh while their enemies weep.
| With regard to the Mormon statement that
not till the advent of the protesting Christian
! elements were oaths blasphemies, ETC.. heard
| In Utah. nor Till then that drunkenness, gamb-
| hing etc.. were known. answer that facts prove
| the reverse Said Brigham Young in Septem-
| Der. 1856: This people have been taught u
great deal: they have had principle and doctrine
fed to them till they are surfeited and where is
! the man, the officer or the community that un-
| derstands what has been taught theml
| The people seek for that which is in accordance
with the lusts of the flesh that which is full of
nlquity, and they care not for the righteousness
| of our God"
| Is it not remarkable, if processing Christian
| elements" have been Utahs ruin. that two
| months after the above declaration Brigham
Young should have counseled his people thus:
Reform your moral character, and be. at least
| as moral you would if you belonged to a
Methodist, Presbyterian or Baptist church, or to
| the Roman Catholics be as moral as those
| classes of people, for heavens sake!"
One story is good until another is told In
| 1896 the Saints had everything their own way
| 1t was not until the following year that United
States troops poisoned the air of Zion" and
brought processing Christian elements in their
| wake Before the coming of these 'elementsr
the church, through its high officers, had thirty
| live distleries in force throhghout the Terri
tory, and to day lions Cooperative Mercantile
Institution" John Taylor, president takes out a
! wholesale liquor license and posts ''Efoliness to
the Lord" over its sacred doors. If it be sin to
| sell glass of brandy how much more sinful
| ought it not to be to sell barrel? But brandy
| is not the popular Mormon tipple Alcohol
pure and undefled, is consumed by them in large
| quantities. 1t is perfectly true that the
| Word of Wisdom" prohibits even the use of
| tea and coffee, and John Taylor, old as he is
| confines his drinking to water, but it is equally
| true that drunkenness has always been Nor
| mon as it is q human vice, and profanity b-shn
with the birth of the church. Joseph Smith
could swear like "a trooper The language of
many Mormon boys is shocking have rarely
heard its equal
High Mormon families have furnished some
OF the most notorious of the demi-monde, while
gambling fourishes here like green bay tree
Having always been told that wicked gentiles
were responsible for all the crime in Utah Gov
ernor Murray was greatly surprised to learn that
the sporting fraternity declined to register
for the purpose of voting the gentle
| ticket Meeting one of the wealthiest
gamblers in the street, the Governor INQUIRED
whether the report was true Yes" replied the
| sporting gentleman, lit is perfectly true. We
| don't intend to vote for the reason that we who
are lshmaelites throughout the world desire no
change in the government Under Mormon con-
| troll we can flourish cheaper and better than I'M
! der any other government" Statistics OF crime
| proceed from Mormon authorities. The Utah
! police are entirely Mormon Drunken Mormons
are either not arrested, or taken home by
| these emissares of the law. Drunken gentiles
are brought into court. Whether crime is crime
depends upon whether the doer be saint or sim
ner Figures are said never to lie but there are
exceptions even to mathematical rules. In
Utah figures lie outrageously.
The Mormons are only beginning to be in
terested in education. The only so. SCALED uni
n
mar school, and with the exception of the mis-
sion schools, paid for by the Christian churches in
the Eastern States there is no free instruction
in the Territory. These mission schools are SO
much better than the Mormon as to attract Nor
mon children; but tremendous is public and
private denunciation becoming against them
that the Christian schools are not likely to re-
ceive many Mormon recruits Mormons believe
in John Taylor as theNoice Of God The laws
of Congress are not the laws Of povgamous
PrOnhQt consequently they arc n M oOfo In
prosecuting polygamists according TO law Nor
mon juries will not convict AS until lately the
juries have been half Mormons, the law has
been useless What would England do under
similar circumstances Allow herself to be de-
fed2 To permit John Taylor to be dictator over
l5O. 900 human beings sheltered under the Amer
lean flag is a blot on our fair fame. 1t is worse
than blot; it is a crime against free institu-
tions: and If the citizens Of the United States
could only visit Utah, investigate and Judge for
themselves. they wOuld be as ashamed as / am.
Mormons despise the United States government
because it makes laws for the apparent purpose
of sitting down quietly and allowing them to be-
disobeyed. AS write gentle in Salt Lake
City is being tried for bigamy He will be sent
to the penitentiary. This man has attempted to
have two wives and is criminal John Taylor
has six or seven wives and reigns over Utah as
IA revelator and seer. Citizens of the United
States ought to be ashamed of what takes place
in Utah under their so-callei authority
In laying comparatively little stress ON the
polygamic difficulty, and in Dwelling upon tho
existence of "a hierarchy within Republic"
Governor Murray shows his appreciation OF the
situation in Utah He knows--eyery lawyer
knows, every investigating gentle knows, and
every clever Mormon knows--that an ecclesias-
teal government exists in Utah. intended to
meet all the requirements of temporal affairs.
John Taylor denies this fact in the North Ameri
can Review, but what answer did the Prophet
make in January, 1881, to Henry Randall Waite,
special census agent2
You say in your letter you conclude the hish-
ops presiding over the respective wards CORE.
spond somewhat with pastors of local churches
in other denominations and that in order 10 OBJ
tain detailed statistics of local churches nv
schedules should be sent to the bishops Of wards
as above Am correctlp
III would say, not by any means. They occupy
altogether another position from the pastors re-
ferred to; they are so very different it might
probably be altogether napplicabe Forinstance.