The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-19
0. v. POWERS
Why lie Opposes the
Home Rule Bill.
ME-TOO ALLEN TALKS
The Mormon People Cannot be
Trusted.
DUPLICITY OF THE CHURCH
The Judge Goes Over the Old and Familiar
Anti Mormon Arguments-Allen Fails to
Substantiate Some of His Assertions
The Late City Election.
HERALD BUREAU,
Corner 10Th and @ Streets, n. w.
WISHINGTON n n Fab 1S 1900

u. 6D. 10, 1917.
Judge Powers opened the hearing today
with statement that this hearing was one
of the greatest Importance not only to Utah
but to the entire nation, for while, if
matters are left as they are, no evils would
result, if the pending legislation should
pass, to say the least, the government is
entering upon
MOST DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT.
Utah is, and has been exceptionally pros
porous, and that prosperity has arisen
from the fact that the people to the east
aad west have become satisfied that our
| section Of country at last is under the con-
troll OF the American people,
Judge Powers said that he was here
representing the American element which
in his own city comprises all the Gen
tiles except about one hundred and fifty
Democrats and one hundred Republicans
who have gene off upon party lines. 1--WE
oppose" said he, "any further legislation,
and we oppose the passage of the Home
Rule bill or the granting of statehood to
Utah for the reason that we believe
THE MORMON PEOPLE ARE 1NsINcERE,
and so believing, cannot understand how
in single day they can throw aside the
teachings OF lifetime, which teachings
are antagonistic to American institutions.
and become Ike the rest of the American
citizens years ago.''
He said the Mormon church was founded
in Palmyra, New York. From beginning
of members it increased to consider
able power and emigrated to the state of
OHIO. From Ohio by the force of public
sentiment, it was driven to Illinois, from
there to Missouri, from Missouri back to
illinois, and then after its prophet, Joseph
Smith, had been
MOST BRUTALLY KILLED By MOB,
that he was ashamed were Americans, it
began it's weary march across the plains
and over the valleys into the territory of
Utah. Naturally, these people carried
with them no love for the government
that they had left behind them. They es
tablished there what has since been known
as the state of Deseret and built I'D in the
mountains theocracy. They developed
that remarkable organization called the
Mormon church, through which from the
first presidency down through the long list
of officers the viii of God was assumed To
be
REVEALED TO THE PEOPLE.
Judge Powers stated that there were
2,OOO officers in the organization through
whose mouths were brought directly to the
people the wishes and will of the leaders of
church to the humblest individual in the or
ganization. They tell u.s. saidJudge Pow
ers, shat polygamy is dead, but L will
show you, gentlemen of the committee.
1t is not polygamy alone that the Ameri-
cans OF Utah have been opposing Thew
have looked upon polygamy only as mani
festatlon of the power of the Mormon
church to enforce its DEGREES upon its peo-
pie, but what we have chiefly opposed and
what we oppose to-day is the
DOMINATION OF THEocRAoY
an imperium in imperio. We alleee to-
day, however conditions may have changed
with regard to polygamy, it has been sus-
pended and not abolished, by another reve-
lation from Almighty God; that the hand of
the church today is as heavy upon the state
as 1t ever was before the enactment of
restrictive laws by Congress and before
the stimulus of Liberal education had been
given to the church leaders. l have been
greatly shocked" said Judge Powers, sat
reading the wholesale charges of corrup-
ton and venality made before this COM !
mittee by gentlemen who have preceded
me. You are told that under Gentle rule
the territory of Utah and the city of Salt |
Lake had been
THOROUGHLY MISGOyRRNFD
desire to place in evidence q speech |
which / delivered on July &c, 1890, which |
gives result, taken from the books of the |
church, Of how ably. when the Mormons
had full control of that city, it was ruled.n
Judge Power then quoted from
an address delivered by Daniel
H. Wells in 1865 on the occasion of his
taking his seat as mayor of Salt Lake CITY.
He stated that this speech had been taken
by him from the records kept by the Salt
Lake city recorder, and that he referred
to it for the purpose of indicating the
teaching that had been given to the
Mormon children by the leaders OF the
church and to show whether people who
had been thus taught could, in a single
day, cast aside the prejudices that had be
come part of their very being and be-
come
LOYAL AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Judge Powers also referred and read
at length from the decision of Judge Zane
in what is known as the church cases
in which Judge Zane set forth the Mormon
church organization and the influence
which it would naturally exert over affairs
business and political. He said that he
would also call as witness Judge Ander-
son, OF Utah, who, he has been informed.
had made statement at the other end of
the capital that 1t would be safe to grant
either statehood or Home Rule for the
territory. Judge Powers said that the re.
marks Of Judge Anderson before the
House committee evidenced simply the
opinion of one man. He proposed to
introduce his testimony when he was