The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-13
CHAPTER VIM.

For a moment Elchard stood looking al
the Prophet, his eyes swapping, his fac<
white with anger, and the blue veins about
his temples distended with burning blood.
Scan speak q moment to this people
sir!' he asked.
The rustic that followed the Prophets fin
ishing clause fell at once into silence. With
an astonished look the great man stood and
hesitated an instant, while q white film
seemed to come forward out OF the flesh OF
his large face and settle In little pallid
ring about his mouth. "Certainly, il you
have any thing instructive to OFFER" he
said.
"Thank you: that is precisely the nature
of what have to say" replied Elchard, and
turning toward the people he drew himself
up and looked at them. The stiffness OF
death fell upon the house, this stranger
looked in his anger SO like white human
flame. The fine strong modelling of his form
the straight nose and dilated nostrils, the
iron set Of the lower face md the intel
lectual and delicate turn Of the upper, and
above all the flashing blue-gray eyes, swep,
such thrill through the audience as the
baggy blowsy gentry of the pulpit platform
might never hope to.
any friends" he began, 81 do not wish Il
speak to you as refgionist, or as minis
Ter of the Gospel, but as a man and as q
brother. am not q public speaker, but
could never look my fellows in the face
again, and would never cease to execrate
the cowardice Of nv own heart, did l let
this hour pass by without warning you
against this mar. Brigham Young was
born poor man: he was painter by trade
and Injured to hard work. When he joined
this people he was still poor: when he came
to these mountain valleys with you his cir
cumstanccs were not yet improved; he had
not yet risen to power. Twenty years OF
unexampled privilege with your purses and
your liberties have made him. not only one
of the richest men in our federation, but has
set him among the worlds great princes OF
fortune. You are poor; perjury and isola-
ton and tithe-paying is your portion, while
yonder in the blooming basin of the Great
Salt Lake he is fed like . King and
housed palatially To-day his workmen are
finishing palace for his favorite wife that
cost one hundred thousand dollars; but q
month since one of his wives brought sui,
for divorce from him, alleging that his in
come was forty thousand dollars each
month. Yet he has told you here to-day
tu6L Tic SsAlN St1Ou VA yOoA SOuAS uSPShu
upon the payment of one-tenth Of all your
productions and earnings each year into q
treasury Of which he is custodian and the
condition OF which he has not shown you
for twenty years! Men! how long will you
rest supinely in tho arms Of his perfidious
assumptions and be plundered. When shall
your hearts be open to the admission Of the
burning inference Of this most glazing fact!''
"That will do" broke in the Prophet,
with rage, as he stood behind the pulp.
with many colors flying about his face. Bat
ElchSrd gave him no heed, and went on
with q rushing, clarion-like delivery:
"And he has told you here to-day that
murder is q virtue, and has hidden you to
take each others lives! God in Heaven,
what monster! Oh, unspeakable, terri
BILE advice! And he has adjured you. too, by
as much as you long for life hereafter, in
as much as you hope to look upon the
glories of better world than this, to STAY
your love, the hearts sweetest and purest
emanation and sink it in appetite and the i'm
partial division of the brutes. o, fiendish
admonition! to bid woman upon penalty of
loss Of soul to become one of the many wives
to the man she loves ! to bid her as she hopes
for Heaven to go out and solicit another
to share her husband with her under the
same roof. This can not be human in
vention, this is the ingenuity Of hell! Oh,
Father in Heaven! il l were one Of Thy