Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-10-25
THE LATEST MORMON DODGE
Brother" Mark Smiths Great Hay
 seed" Speech,

The Mormons are causing it to be l heralded far and wide that they have
 renounced Polygmany, and are no longer
 Theocrats, but, believe in being subject
 to kings, presidents, rulers and magis-
 trates "and in obeying the laws" Now
 this is simply Mormon dodge to secure
 statehood for Utah, when the Mormon
 priests think they can again brothel out side; once more Rule the Root" and all so strengthen their standing, with re- gard to their colonies iu Arizona, Idaho and Mexico
 Windy Woodruff, the Mormon Presi- dent, and that great gun George c. Can non, are willy schemers, but hardly like ly to pull the wool very badly over the eyes of the American people by this last cunning dodge and Sop to Ger berus" "The Mormons, have not really "renounced" anything are here-are here their own words taken from that democratic Luminary the New York World of the Sth. In its report of their late conference, after the Mormons had ''voted" not to practice Polygamy just as directed to vote by their crafty lead CTS.
 George Q. Cannon said: "He was sorry it haa to be done, but it was no use fighting sixty millions of people and the Lord would hold the nation re sponsible for depriVing citizens Of their right to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience &c."
 President Woodruff, said: "The Lord is about to prune his vineyard for the last time, and sprouts will fall like grain before the mower. He spoke of the myrtardom of Joseph Smith, and the crucifixion of Christ a1 events of like import. He endorses Cannon's remarks ard further said: "When my event transpired to deprive the saints of their privileges they would remember it is the wIll of God"
 Lots of ''renunciation," in all this | isn't there, but only the kind of ''renun- | ciation," that keeps some folks from | committing robbery or murder that is the fear of the penitentiary and laws passed by the sixty million of people | upon whom the Mormons next denounce and leave for God to punish, for depriv- ing them of theIr privileges. But Polyg- amy after all is only one of the vicious phases of Mormonism; its very essence la the substitution of priestIy dictation for individual liberty, it is treason in embryo, and alike foreign in its spirit to republicanism, and true democracy, and their doctrines of blood atonement; priestly dictation, and secret Temple Oaths; Of full obedience to their church under bloody penalties as proved in open court lately, should not be tol- erated or permitted, being a system of terrorism and slavery ever their practI cal dupes, destructive of free American government, reducing women to slavery, and men to peons.
 Either we must rule the Mormons in Arizona or the Priests will rule us. Now which shall it be? Republicans will you vote to sutain MormonIsm by voting for thelr hired attorney, Marcus A. Smith or will you vote for Geo. W. Cheyney, a man sound on the free coinage of silver question, man well known as the miners and farmers friend, honestly op- DO ed to fraudulent land grants and all fraud, and man of Arizona in fnil sym pathy with yourselves-de viii you endorse Mormonism and vote to have fastened upoo this territory. an in cnEus to progress, and cloud upon your owu reputations and family's.
 Independent voters, be you either Christian or Intidel you cannot be true to yourselves and vote for MT. Smith and Mormonisa for if Intidel you do not believe in sustaining priestcraft, and If Christian you cannot sustain that 1 travesty on the teaching of Jesus Christ. The speech making the abilities of Mir. Smith, or his general popularity IS a citizen is all very well, but under present conditions for Arizona to return , lim as delegate to congress for third term, would be financial, political and 1 social suicide for cur territory, and when some voters say they vote for Mark" because he is such a 'jolly ellow," because he is such q worker, What has he accomplished in four years except to improve himself Tn billiards, md free by perjured witnesses the Nor non w ham" robbers to the lasting dis credit of Arizonal or because he is so { much against the land grants, it shows I hat their simplicity is very great C Phenix and Arizona settlers owe noth- 4 ng to Mir. Smith, it was solely the re- port of Royal A. Johnson, the repu blican general that put the quietus ,n the Peralta Reavis grant fraud; all hat Mir. Smith, in four years succeeded n doing ID land matters, was uninten ionally to aid in causing the withdrawal $ ,f all Arizona lands from settlement as r m outgrowth of reservoir plan; thIs V has, however, been recently z lndone, and the lands restored to entry i )y a republican senate and land office, q ,ot, however, in difference to MT. Smith, IS wagon load of his speeches lately T ent through the mails to almost v every voter in Arizona, is in [ ended to make us "Hayseeds" believe, f put simply because it was republican policy. For a territorial democrat, in a republican congress, 1t need hardly be |