Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-21
A BITTER WEED,

The Deseret News day o. two abo
made brief reference TO the lecturIng
tour Of two womcn Mrs Weed Boz DO,
East and Mrs White ln the West The
last named person IS engaged in polIti-
cal work associated With her dlsserta-
lions ON "Mormonism, about which
she knows nothing except the bur
lesQues Of its adyersaries. and we can
leave her iu the hands Of the newspa-
pers of Idaho which are touching upon
her endeoyors ln q fashion that may
not be satisfactory TO her. but IL 80 to
large number OF the people Of that
state As to Mrs. Weed. we have some
thing further 10 say and II It does not
please the Mormon" eaters OF Utah
and elsewhere, that Is a matter Of utter
Indifference to u.s. Following are a few
extracts from the lectures delivered by
her as reported IN eastern papers
Mrs Weed held her audience SPELL
bound as she told Of blood atonement.
whereby a person is murdered as the
only means Of saving his soul.
Blood atonement Is not repealed IN
Utah, was her positive statement Il
was told on very good authority Of a
husband who deliberately cut the
throat of his wife because she disap-
proved Of his marrying a second time
Her opposition proved she was falling
away from the true faith so he cut
her throat 20 save her soul,
Every victim Of the Mountain Mea.
dow massacre was murdered In blood
atonemeni, to save his OF her soul.
Another tenet OF the Church obllges
the wife TO put her husbands hand In
that NJ a second wife ! once heard
an elder declare at the funeral of his
first wife. after recounting her many
virtues as a wife and mother This
woman gave me A wiyesl" That. APP
parenty was the GROWING virtue
THE women are the most fanatlcal
poygamlsts Of them all, she went on.
u knew a little Gentle woman physl-
clan there who was summoned 10 the
bedside Of n sick woman w the coun.
try on the way the stage driver ex-
pressed great interest In her case
You're unmarried. he said. What
do you think viii be come Of your I'M
mortal soul2 To save your soul / viii
marry youl"
The doctor reached the sick woman
and comforted her I'm an access OF
gratitude the patient exclaimed And
10 think you're a Gentle and unmar-
ried What viii become Of your soul?
You must marry my husband TO 30 TO
heaven.
THE little doctor went from that
house 10 another IN the neighborhOod.
What do you think. she exclaimed I'M
agitation to the women IN the other
household Mrs wanted me 10
marry her husband Did you ever hear
Of anything 80 monstrous?'
"fNO, never did, acquiesced the
other It's perfectly absurd. Why
he's a brute-he M uses her dreadfully.
Now. my husband Is a dear Don't YOU
think Of marrying that other woman's
husband. but marry mine.
Il heard Brigham Young. Jr., preach
from the Book of Mormon. The text
predicted the overthrow Of the United
states government Do you realize
that this means the country may be
covered IN blood he asked Then
turning TO old Glory tthey are unri-
vailed IN their devotion TO Old GloryD,
he continued, what Will become of
that blood stained flag The day will
come when II viii 1oat from the PIN
naclc Of our Temple. 10 you fear that
We shall not be admitted 20 the Union.
We VIII pan the wool over the eyes OF
the American people, and when we are
strong enough to hold the balance Of
rover we viii side with the biggest
party and carry the day
Treason, every word " ny
The foregoing excerpts are from the
New York Tribune, the annexed Is
from the Sunday Journal
IL am here 10 charge the Mormon
Church with three crimes-polygamy
murder and treason
1T Is their boast that they win soon
obtain political domination in thirteen
States this being sufficient 10 prevent
the constitutional amendment which
would be "a deuthbloW 10 their aspira-
tons.
The reasonable oath In the EndoW-
Inent house ceremony Is. And
furthermore swear that 1 viii hold
eternal cnmity against the government
Of the United states, and VIII avenge
the death OF Joseph Smith,
II IS the intent OF this reasonable
hierarchy 10 bulld q kingdom upon the
ruins OF this government Statement
by Irs. Maria Weed.
In another issue Of the New York
Tribune is an account OF Mrs Weeds
adventures with an alleged Mormon"
Elder who had two wives and wanted
to marry her and she describes him
thus
He was so snokey so sncaky, SO
devious I call him Beelzebub. Yet he
was never anything but the Courtly.
earnest hlgh.mInded gentleman
These are but samples On the whole
cloth falsehoods which the woman is
telling 20 congregations IN the East,
It should be observed that though these
stories are Old oft.repeated and vile
canards, she deals them out as at first
hand, and says she heard this state
ment and saw that act, and met this
or that person herself Everybody ac-
quainted with the nonsense that has
been told by antI-"Mormon" preachers
and writers Tor many years, win
recognize these threadbare fables which
Mrs. Weed thus rehabilitates as items
Of her own experience. II II is proper
10 denounce male liars and scandal.
mongers and expose their falsehoods,
why Is II not right to draw attention
TO female lbellers and slanderers. who
are hired to do their shameful work IN
order TO influence the public mind
against the Latter-day Saiuts2
1t is evident that the woman simply