The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-19
they asked the Gentiles to nominate four
Americans es candidates for the council
board, that they ordered the Mormon

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voters to vote for these candidates, and
that they we're elected by Mormon votes,
many Of the Gentiles refusing to vote for
mere fgureheads. These four Gentiles
are councilmen to-day, and they have
about as much influence with the board
as four New York bootblacks have. I
tell these facts to the would.be investors
in Salt Lake City real estate because I
know the real estate agents who do busi.
ness in that beautiful town will forget to
tell them about them. Real estate rust.
lers are so forGetful!
How about polygamy? I answer that
I hold with those Gentiles who live in
Utah and who frankly acknowleded that
the Edmunds Act cannot be enforced.
The Mormon women, on whose testimony
the burden of proof rests in all trails for
polygamy, habitually perjure themselves
to save their husbaAds from punishment.
More than one Mormon wife has set in a
witness chair, with young baby on her
knees, and swore that she did not know
the prisoner, who vas her husband, and
that she did not know who was the
father of the child she held to her breast.
If prominent Mormon, whose polyga.
NOUS life was notorious aud could be
proved by Gentle witnesses, is arrested,
the Church promptly gives bail in any
amount the Court may demand. That
particular Norman is seen no more in
Salt Lake City. He mysteriously disap.
pears via the underground railroad. He
seekers fuge in the Mormon settlements
which lie in remote mountain valleys, OF in
Southern Utah, far from railroads, and
where 10 Gentle dare follow to arrest
him. In no case has the hiding place of
a prominent Mormon been betrayed by a
follower of the Mormon Church. In
stance the case of George @. Cannon, an
Englishman, who was Utah's delegate to
Congress for many years, and who has
been hiding from justice for many
months. There is large reward offered
tor his capture. The Gentiles are abso.
lutely certain that he is in Utah. Not a
Gentle knows precisely where he is.
And if they did know they would not
dare to attempt TO arrest him. When
Cannon was first arrested his bail was set
at about $40, 900, which sum the Mormon
Church cheerfnlly forfeited to save him
from trial. In truth, 1 do not believe
that there are ten Gentiles in Utah who
would give two cents each to have poly.
gamy as practiced by Mormons sup.
pressed. The young Americans who live
in Utah do not desire to marry ignorant
Mormon women, and the fact that their
political enemies, the Mormon men,
actually marry dozen of these unat.
tractive females so as to secure high rank
in the Church amuses them. That is the
measure of their interest in polygamy.
But every GENTLE who lives in Utah and
who believes in free speech, free thought,
and equal rights under our National
Constitution, earnestly desires to bee
Utah pass out of the political clutch of
the Mormon Church. The continuance
of Mormon rule menaces their material
welfare. The Gentiles demand that the
Territory be controlled by American citi.
zens and that their rights under the
Constitution are acknowledged before
Utah is admitted to Statehood. And
they are reasonable and just in their
demands.