The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-18
GAME SAYS MORMONS WILL
SUBMIT.

Delegate Caine, of Utah, is an ingenu-
GUS fellow. In a recent interview with a
Washington Post correspondent, among
other things, he says:
1.-The grossest injustice is to charge the
Mountain Meadow Massacre to the
of individuals"
The last sentence is undoubtedly true,
but unfortunately for Mr.. Gaines posi-
ton, the individuals were 'leaders in
Zion" and acting under the orders of
the Mormon church, that is, Brigham
ment, Klingman Smith the manager and
Brigham Young the author of that terri
BILE massacre, wherein, according to the
simple wording on the monument
placed over the remains of the victims
by Major Paul, "On the 9th day of Sep
tember, 1857, 119 men, women and
children were murdered in cold blood"
The writer saw that monument erected,
and few months afterward, saw the
scattered stones of the monument,
which was destroyed by Brigham
Young's command.
The writer's father was United States
Judge for the southern district of Utah
soon after the massacre took place, and
made strenuous efforts to bring the per-
petrators of this terrible crime to Justice.
There were no jails, and the grand jury
was composed entirely of Mormons, who,
of course, refused to find true bills. The
jury was discharged, and, sitting as a
committing magistrate, the judge issued
warrants on the sworn affidavits of wit
nesses, who sought him in the night and
offered to testify publicly to the whole
affair if given protection out of the coun-
try. Marshal Dodson made a few ar
rests, but having no jails and being una
bic to get posse, or deputies, could not
hold his prisoners. The judge then ap-
piled to Albert Sidney Johnston, in COM
mand of the United States troops at
Camp Floyd, for troops, and six COM
panies of cavalry were sent to Provo city
under command of Major Paul and Cap
tain Prince. Bishop Nephi Johnson, in
charge of that "Stake of Zion,'' King
man Smith, Lee, and others, fled to the
mountains, and Provo, and the country
around Little Utah lakes, was depopu-
lated. Colonel Forney, under instruc-
tions from the judge, gathered the sew
enteen little survivors, the oldest of
whom, a lad of about s years, identified
carriages and horses in possession of the
dignitaries of the church, and even OF
Brigham Young himself, as the property
of members of the unfortunate train.
He said to the writer on the steps of the
court house at Provo, "When get to be
man I'm going tp kill Lee; l saw him
shoot my mother" The affidavits we
have read many a time, and no doubt
many of them could yet be produced.
They all tell the same story; the story
that John D. Lee told when the sins OF
the Mormon church were laid on his
shoulders, and he was chosen to atone
bishop, who showed him his authority
nom Brigham Young.
The matter would have been sifted in
1858, but the governor, Alfred Cumming
OF Missouri, protested against the use Of
troops around the court house, and Gen.
eral Johnston, under orders from Secre.
tarv Floyd, withdrew the troops. The
marshal, an able and efficient man, by
the way, was powerless; witnesses were
afraid to testify, the prisoners walked
away whenever it pleased them to do SO
and the court powerless to execute the
laws, adjourned without day."
Brigham Young and the Mormon
church instigated and planned th'
Mountain Meadow Massacre, and the in
dividuals who obeyed their terrible
commands, were all Mormons actin,
under the leader of their ''Stake of Zion.
The Mormons will give up polygam,
and become law abiding when they ar,
made to; but as long as they are deal
with on the same plan as the Indians
that long they will defy the government
which they despise. ::