Arizona republican., 1890-11-07
MHAr \ MORMON Is ANn IS NOT.


 A Mormon is not free citizen. He has coyenanted, secretly, in some temple or endowment house, to obey the ruling priesthood in all things This is known, not only from the declarations of apos- tates, but of the foremost Mormon leaders. No Mormon can divest him self of that which makes hiln Mormon, namely, his priesthood, except by ceas- ing to be Mormon. That proposition is as incontestable as the relations of figures. By virtue of his priesthood only is he Mormon; that is to say, a conspirator against civilization, a rec reant to all authority which is not Nor mon authority, Other sectarians may lose upon occasion the sectary in the citizen. The Mormon never. On the contrary with him the citizen, in all his relations, is lost in the Mormon.
 There can be no division amongst true Mormons. Mormons are 6. unit, or they are nothing. Absolute anity is the product of the Mormon machine, as artificial stone is of the hydraulic ma chine. If Mormonism fails to produce unity, it fails altogether, Two hundred thousand souls, says George Q. Cannon, united as one, and having no will but Gods will, as interpreted by the Presi- dent of the Church, are power to make the earth tremble. Not united as one, and not thus obedient or moved by the Presidents will, they are naught And in this the apostate is right. This is why the system is intolGrable in a free country. It swallows the individual as completely as does an army. It is an army in organization, except that an army does not necessarily swallow the soldiers soul as well as his body, while Mormonism does. Mormonism is abso- lute unity of the members and absolute obedience to the Head, or it is nothing.
 The Mormon Church, if it is a church at all in the ordinary sense of the term, is great deal more than any other church. What other church, for ex- ample, makes the segregation of it's con verts, and their gathering together in one place, the first great object of it's efforts after conversion? Why does it not permit converts to found churches wherever they happen to be, as mere churches dor
 Because in that case converts could not be moulded and welded and ham, mered into one, be enrolled in Mormon political party and in Mormon army, as we'll as in church, and be used to found Mormon State, which, like it's Arab prototype, has naught to offer to other States or to other peoples but conversion, tribute or death.
 And yet they carry it that they are free men, loyal citizens of the Republic. They play at politics as if there was no strings on them, their argument being in brief to deny everything and curse their enemies, and claim that their ne- farious schemes of conquest and do- minion are shields from all molestation because they call themselves church and their State-founding a religion.
 There is no open, manly fight in them. They are always at some trick intended to deceive. One must go back twenty years to get attheir real spirit and aims. In those days of isolation they did not lack courage--with their mouths, Now even their mouths have gone back on them, they frame nothing but lies or evasions, and they are every day in the market purporting to resign their spir- itual inheritance and calling for the pitt ful prizes of politics.