The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26
ANOTHER DAISY REVEREND.
How HelStretches the Truth for the Benefit of
Eastern Gullibles.

To the Editor of THE HERALD.
Following is letter from the Rev. w
M. P. Daley, of Nephi, to the Alban,
IN. ~ Express, entitled 'Utah and thu
Mormons." This is the gentlemen tina
one OF Liberal members in the Legislativ,
Assembly nominated as chaplain, sayin.
that he thought the gentleman could fur
nish very good Presbyterian prayers. II
last Sundays Tribune appeared letter OF
Nephi from this divine:
''UTAH AND THE MoRMoNs.n
Editor of the Albany Express:
During the last week of September. the
Utah commission sent it's annual reDort nj
territorial affairs to Secretary Noble. Il
is not as voluminous as some the reports
OF the past, yet it gives one a very fair idea
OF Utah and the MormoDism in that is in
trencned there. 1t is next to an i'm
possibility to get any tangible proof
OF polygamy, so majority of the commits
sion has simply stated it's strong suspicion
that it is still practiced, and quote Nor.
mon authorities to show that it is firmly
adhered to as tenet of the Mormon
faith. If the commission had withheld its
report for one week it might have cited a
first class case of polygamy in the person
OF one Jesperson, who was polygamouslv
married by Mormon priestin the temple al
Manl April s, 1889. The polygamous
wife swore in court to the full TRANSACTION
and stated that all concerned knew that
1T was an entrance into polygamy. The
temples of st. George, Manti and Logan are
doubtless daily witnesses of this transac-
ton, though the priests are extremely
careful to keep the outside world in TO-
norance of it, AS the report will saw
''polygamy is practiced with the secrecy
With which the burglar guards his house
breaking and the thief his larcenies.,
The commission is dead against state
hood for Utah, believing it to be the very
worst thing that could happen under exist.
ing circumstances. Statehood would mean
free love, adultery and polygamy behind
state laws; 1T would result in the destruc-
ton or withdrawal of the large GENTLE
trade and civilization; it would Certainly
result in the notification of all existing
laws directed against unchastity: it would
be undolng forever the work that the gov
eminent has performed in the past for
Utah at such tremendous cost. The report
also recommends that the term of impris-
onment for unlawful cohabitation be ex-
tended ID two years for the first offense
and three for the second: also that the
women who Willingly enter iGto this rela-
tlon be adludged guilty of the same crime
AS 1t is now, man is never imprisoned for
more than six months, SPENDS MS time in
the penitentiary in idleness, and comes ON
as much q marJyr as ever Huss or jerome
bidly were he goes back again defiautlv
to his polygamous wife, VINO lives win
nun because the religion Of Joseph and
Brigham so commands her.
This same report, after advising Con
gress to shut ouJ the polyga1nous Mormon
as 1t does the alien pauper and criminal.
strongly recommends the government to
take in hand the public school system and
other lmpor ant trusts of the territory.
that civilization and progress may spread
throughout the land. This report is ex-
ceedlngly valuable at this time, and is re-
celved by the American element in Utah
as document truthful, patriotic and to
the point The only thing lacking to the
whole is the lack of General McClernand,s
signature, if indeed this can be said to mar
so excellent a report.
McClernand is man of the Sanford
type, except that he is older and ought to
be wiser. His minority report this wear
could easily have been written by a Nor
mon chief, it is so full of the non
sensical and absurd. For three years
this man has belonged to a commission
to which was especially entrusted the car
rying out of the Edmunds Tucker sta
a
most faithful friend to the cause of Nor
monism. That his removal would be a
blessing to Utah and the country, and of
great benefit to those who are seeking to
enforce the law, nobody need have doubt.
Utah, however, is moving onward and up
ward. There's no denying it, the Mormons
are losing control of affairs. They never
yield point without almost death strug-
gle, and are constantly Matching schemes
to retrieve points irrevocably lost But it
will not do. Mormonism, or rather it's
worst feature, the union of church and
state, priestcraft control and polygamy
must go to the wall, and the sooner the
Mormon church sees this state the better
it will be for her. In fact the younger
wiser members do already see it, and
in the near future will demand of
their superiors radical change; but
to do it to-day would brand them
as vile apostates, fit only for
the lowest depths of hell In the recent
conference held last week in Salt Lake
City, fully 10000 Mormons were gathered
from all parts of the territory. The great
burden OF the few speech makes was di-
rected toward the union of all the members
OF the organization, absolute obedience 10
the priesthood i'll temporal as we'll as spir-
ltual affairs, the divine right of tithing,
persecution by tho government the final