National Republican., 1886-09-14
TIE pREACnERs sopoM
LEFT Unit Iohed, While Charleston is
X. zen by Earthanaltes.

ABOUT, tnaJ was so allllcJeu Dy nTO auu suob
and shell during the rebellion, now so ter
ribly punished by earthquake when Salt
Lake, the preachers and politicians Sodom,
is left untouchedf Who can tellp The
preachers tell us that time removes tho
dross and leaves the pure motaii IL that
applies to the Mormons as to all other peo-
pie, let us inquire. The Mormons were as
q body driven from Kirkland, ONO, more
than fifty years ago. They then settled In
Independence, Mo-, and they were driven
from there TO Richmond and far west,
north Of the Missouri river, and from there
they were driven to Nauvoo, ILL.,, aud from
Nanvoo to the Rocky mountains, sup
posed at that day to be uninhaolta2Ie tor
agriculture and where IL was supposed that
the terrible Blackfeet Indians would mako
Ehort work of them and end that tribe OF
fanatics This was all done in the space OF
twelve to fifteen years Of time, and during
that time the Mormons had built thriving
town with mills and factories at Kirkland,
and they built thrifty towns In Missouri,
and they built a city Of 10000 people at
Nauvoo. They built a temple to their God
costing more than quarter OF n million OF
dollars, and they built a very large, fine
Masonic Temple aud other public buildings,
and at each move. enforced by a
mob, they lost everything. No people
could be poorer than they were when they
reached Illinois. They were Democrats
from the beginning Of their organization,
and also voted solid. They were received
by the people OF Illinois with open arms,
aud the Democratic legislature gave them
the Nauvoo charter, with legislative power,
to enable the city authorities to pass laws to
protect Joe Smith and other leaders from
Missouri writs charging them with interfer-
ence with slavery aud other crimes while In
Missouri. II was the Mormon vote that
elected Stephen A. Douglas to Congress In
1s42, his first election, and at the same
II. AN.w SOTO ala Nu1
now Of California, to Congress. But the
Mormon vote at this election was a
costly one TO the Democrats. Joe Smith
had been arrested under writ from tho
governor of Illinois on one Of these old
Missouri charges, and Joe had to, under a
writ Of habeas corpus issued by himself as
mayor OF the city OF Nauvoo, release him
self from arrest, and even Joe himself had
doubts Of such proceedings being the proper
thing to do, and he determined to have no
more foollshness with the government,
nd he demanded written official
- 8 tlntec from the governor of the
: SSssbs1hat no more writs should be issued
furIEe arrest of any OF the Mormons on
the old Missouri charges. As a guarantee
for future Democrat votes, Backenstop
Douglas, clerk Of court for Hancock
county, made three trips to Springfield
and back to Nauvoo before he could get
the required guNSTanteo hn from sntss the
ROFEiuOTs hcuCulHk NuuNOO
night, about midnight, before the elec.
tion on the following day, runners were
dispatched to the Mormon precincts In
Adams county ordering the Mormons to
vote for Douglas, as they did in Nauyoo
for Hoage, electing each by small ajori-
ties. This operation lost the Mormons the
confidence OF the Democrats when both
parties united to drive them from the state.
Joe and Hiram Smith were killed in jail
by mob, and the city Of Nauyoo was
attacked by a sort Of army mob. Several
were killed in battle. When a compro-
mise was made the Mormons agreed to
leave tue city the following June-it was
then October. The labor element of the
city, who had means to leave, were at
once sent west to establish stations
in Iowa and put in crops In the spring
to feed the people on their pill
grimage to land where they never ex-
pected to be again disturbed by the Gen.
tiles, and after this agreement to leave
Nauvoo In June, and after having sent a
i large force to prepare the way for this
Journey, they spent more than $4,000 In
finishing the temple. l have always sup.
posed that IL was at the great endowment
when the temple was finished, that polyg
amy was made part Of their religion.
4 never believed that Joe Smith believed IN
or practiced the doctrine. knew Smitt
i and his wife Emma well, and apparently
no husband and wife could have been NOR
devoted 10 each other or happier than the.
were. The Mormons took nothing from
Nauvoo, They made settlements in th
prairies In Iowa and west Of the Missouri
river to raise food for the poorer that were
left behind to follow; and as there is sup
posed to be nothing good about the Nor
mons, the other fellow must have dom
them good turn by having the Unitet
States enlist battalion of Mormons to g
through to California to fight the Mexican
IN lnrfnu tho Maxiann W This. Wnnl(
say, II they were no Mormons, was God
send to them. 1t at once gave en-
ployment and pay and rations for {
year to their own people to lead the waI
across the plains, and but for this help 4
would seem to have been impossible TO
them TO have ever got to Salt Lake. |
seems strange that such poverty stricken
people, and so few in numbers, could hav,
III hurt the towns that they did in so short
time, but under the church discipline whel
there was 10000 people In Nauvoo yol
would not see an idle man. There was no
Smith where drop of beer or liquor coul
be had, and no one but GENTLE patron Q
the hotel could get any at the hotel. N
" one used coffee or tea or tobacco, and ever
laboring man had garden lot and a COW
and IL not able TO get cow the church ful
~ Dished him one. Every house and fence I
the town was painted or whitewashed
Now, suppose you foot up what is paid b
10000 average Washingtonans In ten year
IU for drink, coffee, tea, and tobacco, and a
4 low So per day for idle time lost, and com
pound the interest, and you would hav
money enough to pay the city debt, pay
the streets even into the country, and bull,
all the needed school houses. Since tn
Mormons have been in Salt Lake they hav
had several years Of famine on account O
having their crops eaten up by grasshor
pers, but Brigham Young, following th
example of Joseph in Egypt, laid up store
OF grain In the good years Of crops, so tina
heing destroyed by the savage indiana
there has not been a single Indian outrag
in all the Salt Lake country sine
n the MoImons got there, saving to th
country millions OF dollars. Salt Lake wa
a sort of halfway home for years, up to tb
~ building OF the Union Pacific railroad, 70
the gold hunters and home hunters goin
from the states to California and Oregon
x for rest and replenishing supple
needed on their Journey, and the
always had kind treatment from th
Mormons. The Mormons in Salt LAX
made the building of the Pacific railroa'
at the time a possibility. The Mormon
are an industrious and sober communlt
and they have no paupers, and tsey edu
cate and take care of their children will
lmpartlalty. When Brigham Young, tn
great high priest, died, his millions wer
equally divided among his forty.eight chill
u|dfen. But In this age OF reform followln.
the election OF Grover Cleveland, the grea
: brain leader In the Senate, from the stat
that grew Jim Fisk, introduced into th
Senate, and the Senate passed, bill
spirit as offensive to humanity as the oil
Spanish inQuisition. Section l provide
hat In any proceedings before
,ourt or United States commissions
n any prosecution for bigamy, polygamlt
pr unlawful cohabitation, the lawful vii
lr husband may be compelled TO testif.
No matter how much OF a vagab0nd
hnunmiasinnar Tnau ha ha pnn hrinu hnfnf