St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-18
THIS OUGHT TO SETTLE 1T.
REV. G. L. MORRILL, rs AGAINST re r.
ADMfSSIGH OF UTAH.
sERAGLIo OF OUR REPUBLIC

The Name He Gives % the Terri
tory Seeking ADMINISTRATION
monism Described as the Hub
of Hell-Says There Are More
States Now Than Can Properly
Be Cared for-Congress Ought
&c Be Notified.
g. L.. Morrill,, in his sermon yester-
day morning at the Calvary Baptist
church, referred to the bill for the adj
mission of Utah into the Union. He
visited Salt Lake City last June, and had
repeated interviews with some of the
leading Gentle meu in the city, who
convinced him that Mormonism was the
hub of hell and the United States was
better off without it than with it.
Mi. Morrill, complimented Salt Lake
City for its beautiful climate, Garfield
n Saltair beach, wide streets, shaded
walks, cottages looking out through fruit
trees and flowers. and its citizens &C
tivity along educational, mining and
manufacturing lines. Every. prospect
pleased, but man "alone is VILE" All
the religious denominations are repre-
Sented, but MormOniSm leads them all.
Its splendid music service in the taber-
nacle and beautiful temple structure
are but flowers over a deep grave in
which the Ignorant make a fearful and
fatal plunge. Mormonism is a mongrel
begotten of lust and lucre. Its "holi-
ness the Lord" is a harem-its
creed is carnality. its ''prophets''name is
"Zlon's Cooperative Mercantile InSti-
tuition" its security is perjury, as Illus
trated in the case of the woman who
sWore to the court that she did not know
the young people i'll line with "be-
trothalS" of a future marriage; its
promise of its president, MILFORD Wood
ruff, is to "Submit'' to federal law
against polygamy; its practice is seen
III the undenied statement Of a local
gentle editor that Abram H. Cannon
is living with eight women as wives.
II was told congress had been cor
rupted. and would be again when state
hood was demanded-that the Edmunds
law against polygamy was not enforced
for political reasons, and that IS, 900 was
sent to the Republican convention in
Minneapolis for salutary influence over
some of the delegates"
Mormonism, like Jesuitism, is to be
doubted in exact proportion to its ap-
parent tr~uthfulneSs. Morally it is a
disgrace, rellgiously it is a despotism,
politically it is a danger. 1t is true
that 1.-THE Mormon delegate to con-
greSS,, who carries 100, 600 votes in
n hand ana millions of cor
ruption money in the other
will prove a dangerous man in Wash
ingtOn, unless politicians grow strange
ly VirtuouS m there are fewer itching
palms twenty. years hence" Mr..
Powers amendment to the Utah state
hood bill, which provides that polygamy
and plural marriages shall be forever
prohibited, is right and righteous.
Without it Utah, the seraglio of our re-
public, should be denied admittance
among pure sister states.
The senate should heed the protest
of the Woman's Home Mission assoc
ton against unqualified admissiC Of
Utah, until it brings forth fruit eet
for repentance. We have more st. q
now than are needed and can be prop
erly cared for. Some OF them for their
sake. That of the Union would be far
better off now as territories. Something
besides population and wealth is
necessary. The blood of the Mountain
Meadow massacre cri es yet for retri-
button. Its slaughter spirit enthroned In
a Mormon majority legislature would
have no regard for Gentle rights along
educational, religious and political lines.
In the name of A~mericaniSm born OF
Christian hearts. Graded in Christian
homes, de Tended by Christian hands, as a
Christian citizen, l oppose the admis-
sion of Utah as a state of the Federal
Union,