Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-02
THE MOEM0NS.
HistoncaI Facts In Support of their In.
 lawful Greet.
TUCsoN. Juiy 23th

TUCSON. July 24th.
 EDITOR ENTERPRISE: It has been sug- gested to me by some friends of your paper, of which, by the way, there are not 3 few, that I should write correct his tory of the Mormons and a.digest of the book of Mormon"
 A history" must be correct if it de serves that name and 1 shall try to do it full justice, and as 1 do not desire to make any comment whatever in the ren- dition of the material which 1 collected from the best sources, l may perhaps be allowed to express my private opinion now:
 l. That wherever the Mormons have gone they have made garden of des- ert.
 2 That I know very well. that bigamy or polygamy cannot exist ill well regu- lated community. If 1t Is a matter of faith well the faith will keep; the ques- ton IS it the practice is indnlped in.
 3. That if practiced, it is a matter with which the courts have to deal.
 A. That I believe more bigamy, adul- tery polygamy and crimes of a,similar kind an perpetrated inlet us say-Cook coun- | ty Illinois, i'll one month than all the Mormon inhabitants of Arizona will com init in ten years.
 Allow me to say few words as to the religion of the Mormons iii regard to polygamy (which, I repeat, cannot be tolerated) but for the existence of which in their creed they find many reasons in the good book called "The Bible:
 It appears therein that upon certain | time the Lord Jehovah had selected a cer- tain people to be his own pet. That he | f, tT be the king of that favorite set This gentleman saw young lady called Bath sheba, daughter of Eham and wife of Uriah without fig leaf and she appeared to him beautiful. Thereupon Mir. David instructed his secretary of war to place Uriah in an uncomfortable situation in fact in the front rank where the rihed cannon that are going to be one of our most effieent coast defenses after awhile. were bound to hit him under the third rib, Well. he got hit and king David took unto himself the beautiful Bath sheba.
 Now although this David had possessed a great many females before, the Lord Jehovah had never been angry with him but when 1t was shown that this anointed man was an accessory before the act' tC deliberate murder he sent a bearded messenger to David who told him: "Thor
 art the manw
 In the course of nature Bath shebashaC - a child, a son whom, in common English 1, we would call a bastard,f and th' | good book says: "and the Lord loved him. He was anointed and walked before the Lord. His riches, talents, intellect, etc become proyerbial; he prayed not fo 5 riches, but he got them and everything r went on in the most lovely and satisfac tory manner until the Lord Jehovah dis . covered one thing which l had bette e quote ill the language of the good book t l Kings XI. l. But King Solomon love many strange women, together with tn n daughter of Pharaoh, of the Moabite. r. Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians an |, Hittites and they turned away his heal IT after other gods * + Solomon clay r. unto these in love- (Not till then did Go
 become mgry)
 5. And he had seven hundred wiye
 pFincesses, and three hundred concubine
 q wonder how they sold spring. boI p nets about that timeD
 l. And again in Isaiah ", l. And in thi y day seen women shall take hold of or e man. to The quotations upon which the Mo )r mons found their creed as to polygam SC are innumerable. I have purpose s. omitted l Kings, l to I, because it IS nt
 fit for publication.