Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-07
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lauy bearing That significant name may
Judge OF It's purport and character,
without reading II. We make mention
Of It because 1t is published IN a paper
that is supposed to contain matters
OF current Importance, and addresses
which contribute to the literature OF
the times and aid In the progress Of
modern thought
But Mrs. Weed has been so long en-
gagged IN the work Of Intentionally mis-
representing the Mormon" faith and
the Mormon people, that some In
CURRY In regard to the purpose and mo-
tIyos Of that platforms efamer Of the
Latter-day Saints sho i'd he made and
we would think that respectable public
journals would cease TO reproduce the
kind Of antIquated and ott-repeated
anti-"Mormon' gossip which consu-
tutes the greater part of her addresses
and writings. We will here copy a few
Of the gems Of thought which she
contributes TO the Chautuaqua Herald.
ANY Mormon woman admiring
George Washington may marry him
by proxy with a common Mormon for
the ceremony, and she and her children
Will be credited to the memory OF
George Washington, and the number
Of women who have married the Father
OF his Country is so great that he is a
rival OF Adam, Brigham Young. Loren
20 Snow, or any other Mormon whose
descendants entitle him 10 the Ques-
tionable honor Of dedication among
than
Mormonism was born IN fraud. and
yet there are those among us 40 GRIM
inally optimistic that they are expect
ing harvest OF grapes from thorns and
figs from thistles. Its founder was the
son OF fortune teller and q man who
manipulated crooked tricks In his At
| tempt to ind gold The Book of Nor
| mon IL the result OF the theft and APP
| preparation OF the Spauldng manu-
| script, and Il was discovered byfcom-
| pairing II, that two thousand grammat-
| ical mistakes had been corrected, prov
Ing that the Mormon God had not even
a common school education,
b Marriage Is robbed OF every SEM
blance OF romance, we condemn the
harems Of the East For the honor Of
|
cure an amendment 20 the constitution
which viii abolish the harems IN our
very midst
And the fanaticism Of the Mormon
woman is a menace to the safety OF our
nation. At the Smoot investigation a
Mormon woman chose 10 deny her
| marriage rather than cast any renec-
ton on her Mormon husband. A Nor
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over the salvation OF her physicians.
Gentle woman who was unmarried
begged her to marry her own Mormon
| husband, and so save her soul The
| physician reported this to n friend also
| q Mormon woman, who was equally
concerned over the physicians saliva
ton. and who urged her not 10 do this
because the other woman's husband
was not so agreeable, but to marry her
own husband, because he was so much
| nicer"
THE most pltIrul OF the brutality Of
this system may be read In the tomb
stones in Salt Lake city and various
parts Of Utah, OF the chld-mothers
from twelve TO fourteen years Of age"
II is just such nonsense and absurdlty
as the foregoing that ministers Of the
various sects are disseminating among
the people OF the United States. and
that cause the mohbing Of our Elders,
the burning OF our meetipghouses and
other outragos that are occasionally
committed by an enragcd populacc, led
10 believe that these frivolous false
hoods are actual fscts
The STORY told IN the first paragraph
we have quoted, Mrs Weed borrowed
or stole from other Mormon
writer's II IS only balderdash and bur
lesque, and We should think that ro-
uonal people who hear or read such
stuff would doubt the vcracity Of the
writer or sneaker aud that IL would
east a flavor OF romance over AN her
uttoranoes
Just go with the second quoted para
graph Every investigator Of Nor
inonism' who has been DESTROYS OF be-
coming acquainted with &c as IL Is
knows that the old story about the
spaulding Manuscript and the Bool, OF
Mormon was fabricated for deceptive
purposes and that after going the
rounds Of the pulpit and the press FOR
several decades Ct was utterly demol.
ished 10y the discovery and publication
of The Manuscript Found written
by MIR Sapulding, and which was nc
more Hike the Book Of Mormon than
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