The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-29
For the Emporia REPuaL1cAH.
HIORMONIsHI.

Description OF 8aIs Lake CITY ana |
the Ceremonies Of the eeints-Thear
Probable Return 20 Kansas easy, /
Missouri.
With the forces now being brought |
TO bear against the Mormon Church |
in the Territory of Utah it is highly |
probable that the complete dissolution
of the power and reign of the Latter |
Day Saints is near at hand. Not less
than a hundred real estate boomers
from the Pacific coast and various
parts of the east have entered Salt
Lake City within the past sixty days.
This army OF experienced manipulators
are bent on booming the city, regard
less Of all opposition from the mnsty
The territorial courts are still
hammering away at the polyg-
amous corner stone of the
Mormon Church, and have made
considerable Roadway towards pull
verifying it. In addition to the
above little annoyances a considerable
force of the Salvation Army has taken
up its quarters in the city and is play
ing merry mischief with the weak
kneed brothers and sisters that have
so long been exclusively ruled by the
priests in the rostrum of the Saints
Tabernacle. The faithful of the Church
are every day being convicted and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for the
crime of unlawful cohabitatiOn. These
are martyrs from the Mormon stand
point and their prosecution is
looked upon as continuation
of the many prosecutions that
have been heaped upon their devoted
heads by the GENTLE people during the
Hffu Cfnn0 tho
time the Mormon leaders left Nauvoo,
in 1915. and hurled their curses at our
governments, they have faithfully
taught their children spirit of eternal
enmity to our laws. and it was their
intention to forever abide without the
jurisdiction of the United States when
they first planted their colony in the
valley of Utah in 1S47. The making of
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, fix
United States and Mexico,
threw them back without their consent
into the Jurisdiction of the country
they had so recently left and for which
they had conceived a most violent
hatred. But this did not thwart the
determined purpose of Brigham Young,
the sham prophet, seer and revelatOr,
and his priests, bishops and elders
from organizing system of govern
| lnCnJ WlllCh lnCN lnICuuCO Sl1OulO EC
independent of all others upon the face
of the earth. Acting under the pre-
tended authority of revelation from
on high Brigham Dung boldly asserted
| theocracy of which he was to be
the grand and mighty Archee.
All temporal laws were to be subjected
to the spiritual mandates of God
through his great high prophet, rul-
ing the Kingdom of the Saints in ac-
1 do, 1rn r,H oh oh
rites and revelations. This blaSphe-
nous form of government was actually
put into full operation, and it has been
| maintained with more or less force for
really quarter of a century in spite of
the many milk and water attempts of
| our general government to suppress
| it. During this time many scores of
emigrants crossing the great plains
and mountains and valleys of Utah and
hundreds of apostates from the Nor
mon faith have been put to death by
the NauvOo legion and DANTE devils
acting under the orders of the great
/ and mighty car of all the saints. The
slaughter of upwards of one-hundred
and fifty men and women at Mountain
Meadows in 1857, constitutes but a
small portion of the terrible deeds OF
destruction and robbery, per-
petrated by the mandates of the Nor
mon leaders against the Gentle and
| apostate church element during the
reign OF Mormon power.
This theocratic organization is
self styled Kingdom OF
Heaven upon earth, and none but the
chosen of the Lord were permitted to
dwell in the land. That part of the
earth in all its. fulness it was claimed
should be controlled only by the au-
| thority of Brigham Young and his
successors, who were the highest III
power and next to God Almighty, from
whom all orders were communicated
direct through his prophets. seers and
revelators and from them through
| the bishops, priests and elders to the
common people:
The city of Salt Lake is beauti
fully laid out into large
| number of squares containing
ten. acres each and wide streets
crossing each other at right angles
The city proper covers an area of up
wards of fifty square miles and its ap
pearance is grand and attractive as il
is approached by the railroads. The
ground upon which the city is built
was, it is said, spread before the eyes
of Bingham Young as he lay in vision
! sometime before leaving NauvOo anG
soon after the death of Joseph Smith
| the first Mormon prophet. No better
locality could have been selected for the
! comedy city that now lies closely nest
ling up to the base of the pictur
esque range of Wasatch mountains
who rear their lofty peaks and cas-
| their long shadows over the many
stately monuments of people largely
composed of some of the sillieSt dupe!
and designing knaves that have evel
been congregated on the soil of fret
America. Many of the faithful art
quietly selling out their property to the
Gentiles, not forgetting to secure large
prices in cash for their titles. 1t is al
open secret among the deluded follow
ers of the false prophet that /;
revelation has been handed
down over the mountain top
but not yet promulgated, directing al
the faithful hosts OF the great Mormon
Church to gather up their worldly eff.
fects preparatory to migrating back t.
Jackson county, Mo. This is the place
where they claim they were once 10
Gated by divine command. A grea
temple and tabernacle is to be erected
to the Holy of the Holes at Indepen
dence. This point is now nearly i
not quite included in the purlieui
of Kansas City, the wonder O
the nineteenth century. If thu
Lords commands are Obeyed anC
the Latter Day Saints return and pitcl
their tents close up to the walls of thii
wicked Gentle city, look out for ;
boom and a rough and tumble wrestl'
between the legiOns of Belial and the
hosts of the Lords Amounted
AS every body knows that it would re
quire pretty large book to contain
even limited portion of the history o.
the city of Salt Lake, and the eventfu
career of the sO-called Latter Day
Saints that founded and nourisheC
it, 1t is hardly to be supposed thai
much that is interesting can be crowd
ed into brief newspaper article. The
SUGGESTIONS of mountains and valleys
that go to make up the territory OF
Utah are SO wide-spreading and mac
cesSible in many localities thai
its resources have scarcely commenced
to be developed. 1t contains large
mining interests and vast fields of Goa
deposits in quality second to none 9TH
+, er on the American continent. The
| valleys of Utah are very fertile and
are occupied by the people of the Nor
mon Church, at nearly all points where
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