The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-01
SENATOR KEARAS SPEAKS
ON DUBOIS RESOLUTION
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different. While CLAIMING divine
right of leadership, re worked ont his
great mission by palpable and material
means do not know that he ever
pretended to have received a reveIa-
tion from the time that he left Nauvoo
GiliI ne reached the shores OF the Dead
Sea, nor through all the thirty years
OF ms leadership there. He seemed to
regard his people as children who had
% De led through their serious calan-
saes oy holding out TO tkem the gilt
terAlg tnougnt Of divine guardianship.
90 firmly did Brigham establish the
social order IN Utah that all OF the
people We're equal, except the govern
hi- oooy- This may be said to con-
sist OF the president and his two
counselors. they three constituting the
nrst presidency; the twelve apostles;
the presiding bishopric consisting OF
three men, the chief bishop OF the
CHURCH. but much lower in rank than
the apostles the seven presidents of
seventies, VINO are. under the apostles
the subordinate head of the mission
ary service OF the church: and the pre-
siding patriarch. These altogether con-
stitute body of twenty-six men. There
are local authorities in the different
stakes OF Zion. as they are called, cor
responding to the counties in state,
but with these it is not necessary to
deal
Were All Poiygamists.
Practically all of these men, under
brigham Young, were polygamists.
They constituted What one of their
number once called the ''elite class" of
the community. To attain this rank
one usually had to show ability, and
attaining the rank he was quite certain
se~enter into or extend his already ex-
,stl9g plural marriage relations These
rules were looked upon with great rev.
erence. Brigham Young. besides being
prophet of God, as they believed. had
led them through the greatest march
OF the ages. His nod became almost
superhuman in its significance. His
1rOwn was terrible to them as the
wrath OF God He upheld all the mem
bers of the pOlygamistic and governing
class by his favoritism toward them.
He supremacy, and they subordinately,
ruled the community as il they were a
king and a house OF peers. with no
house of commons. Not elsewhere in
the United States, and not in any for
eigu country where civilization dwells,
has there been such complete mas
terry of man over modern men. The SUI
bOrdinates and the mass would perform
the slightest will of Brigham Young.
When he was not present, the mass
would perform the will of any of the
subordinates speaking in his name.
common mass. 1t had it's various
Graduations of title. but with the ex-
CeptlOn of rare instances of personal
power. there was equality in the mass
For instance as business was a part of
their system. the local religious an
thOrity IL some remote part might be
the business subordinate of some other
man Of less ecclesiastical rank, with
the result that this peculiar intermin-
CLING kept them all practically upon
one level of social order ana the man
who made adobes under the hot sun of
the desert through all the week might
still be the religious superior of the
richest man in the local community;
and they met on terms OF equality and
friendship Their children might in
termarry. the difference in wealth being
'countervailed by a difference in &C.
clesiatical authority.
System Perpetuated.
ct was a strange social system.
this. with Brigham Young and his CO.
-erie--nf advisers, to the number OF
. r1Senty-six. standing at the head. self
select constantly to fiji the ranks IS
they might be depleted by death-and
ali these ruling over one solid mass of
equal caste, who thought tnaI The rul-
era were animated by divine revelation,
holding the right TO govern N all things
on earth and with authority extending
into heaven
so firmly entrenched was their So
cial system that when Brigham Young
passed away his various successors
who came in time to his place by ac-
|cident of seniority OF service found am
.pie opportunity without difficulty to
perpeuate this system and TO maintain
their social autocracy. As the matter
has appeared so fully before the coun-
TRY I will NOT speak further OF the
ssnethod OF succession. but will merely
call TO your minds that after Brigham
came john Taylor, then MILFORD Wood
ruff. then Lorenzo Snow. then Joseph
r Smith the present ruler.
Under these several men the social
n utocrecy has had its varying fortunes
but at the present time IL is probably
at as high a point as il ever reached
under the original Joseph or under
Brigham Young. The president of the
church, Joseph r. Smith. affects n re-
gal state. His home consists of a series
Iof villas. rather handsome in design
|and surrounded by such ample grounds
|as to afford sufficient eXclusiveness. In
addition 10 this he has an Official resi-
-deuce Of historic character near to the
office which he occupies as president
When he travels. he Is usually accom-
panied by a train or friends who are
really servitcrs. When he attends So
cial functions he appears Ike a ruler
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