Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1905-08-10

| ASi"Sii''sii' tIe Ntecfail, tue CarVIa2
inian and the Roman republics rises
before me. l see them coming up in
to prominence and bidding fair tol
universal and eternal empire. Then
see some subtle power entering in
to the country's wide domain; il
crawls into the heart and soon the
nation shows signs of decay, and
finally falls, never more to rise. SEN
ator Smoot is that subtlety; let us
crush him now now and save the re-
public" No statesman ever made Il
deeper and grander impression than
did this philosopher, as he sat down
amid the applause of this august
assemblage.
Prof. John Bennett (who has re-
Gently attained his NJ. Al was called
into the arena, and without any pre-
liminarIes, said: Philosophers, in
1857 company of highly respectable
and industrious emigrants started
from Arkansas and Missouri for Cal
ifornia. They suffered everything on
the way. BY night the fires kept of
the wolves, and by day there was
suffering of every kind. There were
one hundred and seventy in the
company. They must needs cross
the Utah Territory so they could
| take in supply of goods and pro-
visions. Brigham Young heard that
this emigrunt train was coming and
had forbade, under pain of death,
any Mormon in Utah giving any
| clothing, or food, or medicine, or
showing kindness of any sort to the
emigrants. 1t was revenge for the
fact that man in Arkansas had
slain Elder Pratt Of the Mormon
church because Pratt had stolen the
wife of the Arkansas man and taken
her to Utah and into the Mormon
church.
The emigrants moved on suffering
every indignIty until they came to
"Mountain Meadow" Here the H.
dams dashed down upon them. The
emigrants threw up n barricade, and
in this fortress drove back the red
men most successfully. Then the
Mormon militia swooped down upon
these emigrants, who in turn he
roically drove the militia back. But
this prosecuted little band was fam
ishing for water. Thinking that these
demons might be restrained by the
appearance of two little innocent
girls dressed in white, they were
caused to appear outside the barri-
cade, but only to be cuelly riddled
with bullets by the heathenish mi
litia. After this three brave men
volunteered to carry a petition, ask
| ing protection from the Odd Fellows
and Free Masons. Hardly had these
| brave men started on their mission
| before they were butchered by this
same Mormon militia.
Timei passed on; ar ne day
! wagons were seen coming. The
| wagons came up, and from them
came flag Of truce, saying, "If you
emigrants will surrender and lay
down your arms you may walk out
into perfect liberty, and you shall
not be harmed" The emigrants,
thinking the proposition was "A fair
one, accepted it. Arms were cast
aside, the men marched out first,
then came the women and then the
children. After all were outside the
barricade, the Mormon militia Chat
being whom the occupants of the
wagons of truce proved to be- with
guns and bayonets and knives mas
sacred them all excepting "A few little
children, whom they thought too
young to tell the story.
After this hellish militia bad com
pieted its work, the Mormon govern
ment took the wagons, dresses and
all belongings Of the emigrants,
amounting to 100000. And, mark
you, gentlemen, John ID. Lee, the
Mormon Bishop, was the presiding
spirit in person of that terrible mas
sacre. Fifteen years after, in the
court room, hen tried for this crime,
Lee, in his testimony, said he had
| orders from Mormon headquarters
to massacre all. BrigI am Young,
from evidence produced, had re-
ceiyed the emigrants' property, and
commanded all the witnesses to
| hush it up.
Can we ever forget this hellish,
CORY, CHASTITY, hideous, Internal Nor
monism? No, never .
Prof. Bennett, warming up to an
eloquent and pathetic finish, said :
This is Mormonism; and Reed Smoot
is representative of it. ] hope that
God will so indame the heart Of the
nation that she will send him back
| to his smoot, and let his smooty peo-
pie know that we are not to be con-
/ trolied by smoet.
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