Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-22
SANITY SINNERS.
Kate Fields Lecture On the Vice and
Treason Of Mormonism-What
She Learned
During Her Recent Visit TO Salt Lake
The Infamy Of the Doctrines
and Teachings
or the Church In Regard to WOmen-A
Premium Placed on Yice-The
POlyg's Paradise.

NEW YORK, November 2i.-Miss Kate
Field tonight entertained large audience
at Chickering Hall, two and q half hours,
with a lecture upon the vice and treason
OF Mormonism. By way Of an introduction
the speaker said that, although possessi ing
average intelligence, until a year sgo she
had known nothing about Mormonism.
An accident led to her visit to Utah. She
became so much interested on the subj sct
hat she remained several months. The
religion OF Mormonism sprang into lifs
in 1880. The so-cslled revelation, how
ever, was not given to the world until 1852
John Taylor, president Of the Mormon
Church to-day, and its chief apostle, calls
himself the "mouthpiece OF the Almighty"
A more ii andish paper than the so-called
revelation by Smith never existed. One
of its sections declared that il a man was
married to a woman according to the laws
of the Church he was at liberty to commit
all kinds OF
B~LAsPHENN y CRIME
except shedding innocent blood. Gen.
tiles were not OF innocent blood, and
could, therefore, be put out Of the way
without sin whenever occasion required.
Blood atonement is not practical now
TO the extent it was during the palmy
days of Brigham Young. "If il had not
| Dttu lOf ' tTutOul, CuutAuucu MISS Eltaus
"there never would have been such a
thing as Mormonism. Brigham Young,
Joseph Smith and Heber G. Kimbsll, all
bright and shining lights of the
Mormon Church, and, indeed, its
very founders, were all born in Yer
mont. 1t seems Just, therefore, that
Senator Edmunds, who framed the recent
law against polygamy, should have been
born in that State also. 1t is the religious
nature OF woman that is appealed to and
outraged in Mormonism. She is taught
to regard her husband as her god. A ma
jority OF Mormon women are more un-
reasonable than sensitive. Hebsr G..
Kimball ueed to
CALL HIS WIVES cows.
The Edmunds bill has served to make
polygamous elders wary. They no longer
marry wives in the Recommendations,
he ceremony now being performed in
kitchens, back yards or any secluded spot.
Think of it, Utah, an empire State, under
the same flag as ourselves. We should be
ashamed of ourselves, that is, those of Us
who vote. Applause Brigham Young
used to tell his wives they must not expect
him to love them. They should consider
it sufficient honor to bear children to a
saint. The Mormons' theory in regard to
women is said to be that they are not
worthy of damnation. Miss Field
said she found it impossible for
her to believe anything she
heard, unless it was proven. Mormon
women wonld lie about their religion
without a blush. Divorce laws we're for
merly very loose in Utah; Brigham Young
used to charge his elders $40 for every di-
vorca granted. The speaker called stten-
ton to the fact that John o. Kane, Utah's
Representative in Congress, received $500
more salary each year than Mr.. Murray,
Governor of the Territory. The Mormons
teach that Joseph Smith will be the first
one Of the faith to rise from the grave on
resurrection day. There are
THREE eLoRIE IN THE MORMON HEAVEN
The first is that Of all unmarried men
and women they are, as it were, celesti
5ootbiacks to the elders. The second il
that of m.nogamists; the third that oi
polygamists, who alone see Christ. Nor
monism, therefore, places a premium on
vice. The Mormons have no politics
there are neither Republicans nor Demo.
Gratis among them. They hold millions OF
dollars worth of property, upon which
they pay no taxes. The Temple OF St
George, in the southern part OF Utah, cost
100000, the temple at Logan 5000 COO
while upon the new templs at Salt Lake
80, 500, 900 has already been expended. The
later probably would not be finished for
thirty years to come il subscriptions
should continue to pour into the treasury
Of the Mormon church.