The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-11
JOE SMITH
MOBBED
Early Practices of Nor.
mons That Caused
Expulsion.

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1 the Illinois town founded by the Nor
mons in 1910. He resided for many year.
at Nauvoo, and yet visits the town &C.
casionally
Taking its location and general his
tory, Nauvoo is the most romantic spot
in the West" remarked Mr.. Trickett
Il could hardly imagine more beauti-
/ full site for a town. Indeed, the Nor
mons seem to have had a peculiarly
correct eye for the beautiful in all the
places they selected for, settlement.
Nauvoo is situated at the head of the
rapids, and looks down upon a scene
unsurpassed, for majestic beauty in all
America. At its feet is a broad stretch
of table land, fertile as a valley of the
tropics, now covered with vines which
produce as fine wine as ANYTHING
that comes from Italy or France.
There is no railroad. touching Nau-
VOC. You have to descend a sharp road
to the river and cross on a ferry TO
Montrose. a town on the Keokuk and
Northwestern road. Tradition has it
that when the people of Illinois began
making trouble for Joseph Smith and
his followers he cursed the place and
declared it should never grow and have
railroads and conveniences like modern
towns
There was a valid reason for opposiS
ti0n RI tIo ola Mor,,,,,,,s :. 49, $3.50
called. Joseph Smith and his brother
Hiram sought to establish a sort of in
dependent kingdom in the heart of the
United States. Some of their adherents
became careless of the rights of other
peoples property
There came an alleged revelation
like this: The world is the Lords and
belongs to his people, to which the
Mormons added: And we are his peo-
pie Old citizens have told me they had
to tie their horses outside their bedroom
windows, with one end of the rope
wrapped around their hands as they
slept. else they would wake up and
find their animals gone.
Some processing the greatest piety
were guilty of thefts and outrages of
various kinds. There was sort of
public safety society known as The
Whittlers.
when an officer would come over
from the county seat to serve a wit, or
to arrest man for stealing, these
Whittlers would suddenly, as if by
chance appear on the scene, with pine
sticks and long knives. They. would
be whiting with seeming indifference, |
but all the time the Whittlers would in
crease in number and, with affected |
close in on the officer.
When he was completely surround |
ed, hemmed in and at the mercy of a |
score of long, cruel knives, one of the |
Whittlers would say, as If discussing |
the weather.
Going back soon, amt you? Looks
a bit like rain
THE officer generally took the hint, |
and went back-alone.
1.-The uprising against the Mormons
which resulted in the death of joseph |
md Hiram Smith at Carthage at the |
hands of a mob was not because of
general indignation over their religious
he Government. I don't think polyg- /
ny was practised-
The sect was really at war with the
United States, and did not recognize the
lights of life or property unless under
he protection of their belief. The
Church was supreme, and the State
must bow to it.
1.-The Whittlers We're known in Utah
IS Danites, sort of Malta organization
# cutthroats and assassins. 1t was a
,ody pledged to rid the Church of its
nemies.
THE tithing house or treasury, where
he faithful deposited regularly tenth
Il their income, and the residence of
Joseph Smith still remain at Nauvoo.
The old Mormon residences were built
trongly and in a workmanlike manner.
fanny of them to-day are in a better
tate of preservation than structures
hat were built years after the expul-
ion. Il
Most of the houses were constructed
lose up to the sidewalks, in old English
lyle. In fact, a large portion Of Nau- {
90 suggests an old English village.
ropped down from the early part of
lst centHr-r.
THE Mormon converts of Smith who !
ave the Government most trouble We're
lie riff-raff of Europe -malcontents,
larchists and ne'er- do-wells. For them Z
was an ideal colony. They became
le most loyal of Church men, and at :
lie same time the most violent of law {
-eakers.
Travellers We're held up. farmers rob-
ID and law enforeers tapped over the
ead-aIl in the name of the Church.
he object seemed to be to drive away
ttlers. and the destruction of proper {
values, so that the Mormons might :
lther in all the land about Nauvoo-
t last the situation became unen- ,
lrable. and the people rose up and ex-
lied the whole outfit, and shot and
He'd the two prophets.
Many of the descendants of those
40 did not approve of the views of
NTH and his lieutenants are yet Iiv-
2 at Nauvoo, and are among the best