The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-15
j., II, What Sac Thinks About
I'' the MOrmOns.
un,sHoF OLDYARNs ANDLIES
,.ure . Lying Production of a
fs' Erasen and Unprinoipied
Woman,
WASHINGTON, March 8, 1885.
- Of TIE HERALp.L

,-., Field leCJuICu Ia " '--'9 49, y
Aa ..,formon Monster, or Polygamy
nc Jason. !" last week, to faiF-sized
s snp not overly apOreoiative audience
0a' hsJ forth in the Church of Oul
o.. .,a, Miss Field, unannounced
fS', boldly TO the front, and deliy-
Hef 4 The lecture with hesitancy disap-
to- 10 one who has grown accus-
po ,5 n look on her as the would-be
,ou Conkliag of her se1-forever
NJ ,.inp 10 make the effort of her life.
', o, very neatly and becomingIy at
sud and faced the audience with a sort
= Tb,t-I-csn't-te ll-you-on-any-subject-
,ho.upiyerse-isn mountaineering ex-
..,.ion. The giddy "guirlT' received a
...,lv round of applause, and then be-
.sn The foIloWingis synopsis, and I
..y he pardoned in the assertion that
80 herself could she see it, would ad-
nit that no injustice is done her in the
epitome;
az do not think I can be accused of
.o5ne egotism, when say l believe l
IN woman Of average intelligence;
Int while 1 claim that, am ashamed to
tdn,it that | knew nothing of the west
mil recently. Never again complain
: ne ignorance of the British about
mi, country, when we, of it, are so ig-
"orant of a large portion of it ourselves
Itis needless to tell how l arrived in
Utah. Suffice it to say that | was in
colorado. and desiring to reach
anne place where l could get
decgntly cooked meal, 1 found
myself in the largest city in the vicinity
Salt Lake. INTENDED to stay a week
I remained some months. 1t was fate.
Let ME assure that what say tonight
IS not from pleasure, but from convic-
ton. Nv lecture, as originally written,
would take six hours to deliver. This
might do for my book, which is now
preparing, but you could notliSten to it
through; l could not live long enough
TO deliver It, and you would all be dead
Such slaughter of the innocentS would
be not only wrong, but is unnecessary.
I shall only be able to tell a triie of
what | could say, were l not confined
to the limits of a lecture. This is a
great nation, but it is a sorry thing
when a nation gets so big it does not
know what is going on, save in parts.
We must get over our selfishneSs, or
IDEAS Of local interests and strive to
know what is going on all over our
/ hn Unol-T- -. L
poison, it Is time for the east to call in
The doctor. MormOnism makes serfs of
those who embrace it; it brutalizes
humanity; it is organized treason. In
the thirteen articles of faith, signed by
Joseph Smith, there is no reference to
POlygamg whatever; but it is none the
less part Of it, so much so that Nor
mons told me it was the corner stone.
Inc revelation on polygamy was said to
nave been given in 1913, yet travelling
elder was cut off the church in early
days Tor preaching this doctrine. With
tle Mormon the end ever iustifies the
means. Thus John Taylor, now president
stthe Mormon Church, when in France.
and when met with the declaration that
ms people believed in polygamy. denied
Ae accusation, and quoted from an old
copy OF the Book of Doctrine and Gov
saantS IN support of his denial. Yet at
4s very time John Taylor had seven
ssnss ana was sparkling a girl in the
. Illiiu OF Jersey. That fiendiSh paper,
As revelation on celestial marriage, is
SSn11culated to destroy all womanhood.
4aele she quoted from the revelation
i-e result Is that if a wife disobeys the
1es Oh the Church it is justiiable to
essIoy her. Mormon doctrine is to the
Tuevl mat members of the Church NAV
y, s.sal and be guilty of all manner OF
; ~.le sins, save the shedding of
. ~ blood, and they may still be
NJ M as GENTLE blood is not innocent,
~. S,oIaGn who kills a Gentle may be
m. Il Until recently the Mormon peo-
ss,s l'e denied that they literally be-
T. 49, IN blood atonement. A few
Ms ago, however, q very intelligent
W. WIDE W IN a sermon in the Twelfth
iv; aia 4 meeting House, Salt Lake CITY,
s,s 'l me sanction of the Church lead
S ,rl VI y, courSe), came out openly and
al Nh n au91lltted and upheld the doctrine
Gsn tIoa atonement. Apostates and
Va r,les are to be blood atoned. The
tr5 1su nN will deny this, but it is
sell, a-9' nevertheless. I now quote from
and III aeellVered by Brigham Young
no.;.i4l y. kimball, to show the
6isinsS51 T. OF women in polygamy as ex-
iroo11l ~ ny these Saints. (She then read
used 10 tue s SeerImlons.l Heber G. Kimball
tge1t,. Call his wives ours and he had
gnors'.V. VI 'hem. Mormon women are
Of mn mn, and supers:itiOus. A friend
mon M 10 t9ld me he had visited a Nor
wives 1e.tlliy where the man had eight
the n,o a'ey all eat at the same time.
rsnp;n. at the head and the wives
age N Il, rom his side according to the
Ion n tne last wife was farthest away
side my n,i1 and the Oldest child sat at her
acco, %tiu they ranged around the table
larsa, ING to age As the table was not
atone Isl 70 accommodate them all
Wait and dJi NE the younger ones had to
lable so. aS one OF the favored at the
FlifnSs U NJ through the next oldest in
sane ~ @oulu take the place, eat from the
tie sam s'-a cooperative plan-using
and snoo, cooperative knife and fork
this 6ld n had hoped, in visiting
p2ifiarcl,1JJ du!!shman, to see the same
pointe5 M sight: But 1 was disap-
sgeIIe5 .. The eight wives had been
about 10 ~ Twelve. and a thirteenth was
n the No. added. The meal was set
LOT my frien 1gl-'IIl, with three plates, one
one for mvsoI. one for the old Dane and
o9aus. BSseit, one Of the wives waiting
az grayv zee receS OF bacon swimming in
Old BaRwoe Te placed before us, and the
.ook ont ONT Jabbed in his fork,
Y, do liza piece and told us
fflat had bonnlSe' But l wondered
ideeidog become OF the vivos E;nalIv