The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-07

man has any other wives or Is violating
the law In any respect 1t Is Impossible
TO bring cases against men who are OPEN
ly violating the law, where II is matter
OF common knowledge Every Judge be
fore whom such n case would come rs
Mormon. No jury could be drawn that
did not contain more Mormons than Cen
tiles Prosecuting attorneys arc MOT
mons. Mormon witnesses would outweigh
GentileS Whichever way YOU turn, you
run up against tho solid stone wall OF
Mormonism. What is To be done?
Federal Control.
There Is but one remedy for these
evils. and that Is Federal control There
are four Mormons In Utah to one Gentle.
Every Judge Is passed upon by the church
authorities before he Is permitted TO go
before the people. Utah obtained State-
hood by manifesto, known as the Wood
ruff manifesto, wherein 1t was announced
that a revelation had been received
direct from heaven declaring that polyS-
amy should be renounced The Territory
authorities Of the Mormon church solemn
ly promised TO eliminate polygamy and
TO faithfully abide by the anti-polysamy
laws in force prior 10 1880. 1t was prom
iso never meant to be kept 1t has never
been kept. The church today boasts OF
the trick that was played. John Henry
Smith one OF the twelve apostles ana a
cousin of President Joseph +. Smith, told
me In 60 many words that the manifesto
was subterfuge designed solely to Sc
cure Statehood, After Statehood was OBJ
tanned, the Federal Government was pow
erless. 1t could not interfere with the
Internal affairs OF State. With a Terri
tory 1t was different. But State was Inn
mune. The Mormons laughed in their
sleeves and went on multiplying wives
IA great deal of pathce was indulged
in by various Mormon officials who teSti-
fled at preceding sessions OF the Senate
investigating committee regarding the
sanctity of the marriage relation and the
higher law which made 1t incumbent up
on men TO protect and provide for the
wives they had taken before Statehood
went into effect. That Is all humbuS,
There is n system OF divorce In operation
and wives who have been sealed since
Statehood are deserted and their children
uncarcd for in many cases, though DO
not mean to say that this is the general
rule. The fundamental theory of polyg-
amy Is that a mans status Is determined
by the number of children he has mere
A woman's status is determined by the
number OF children she brings forth
Strange IL may appear, the women
themselves are the bulwark of Mormon
ism There has been great deal SAID
along the line OF the effect OF woman SUI
fragc on the Mormon question, 1t was
proclaimed that the women were deceived
and forced into polygamouS marriages on
the ground of religious emotion and
against the higher instincts OF their Wo-
manhood 1t was declared that " they
were given the right of suffrage they
would emancipate themselves. They were
given the right to vote for every Office
Save that Of President OF the United
States. So far from emancipatng them
selves. they but riveted the chains OF
MormonIsm on the Territory more hrm-
~ than ever. and ii has been tho same
since Statehood Mormonism Is more
powerfully intrcnched than ever before
and Federal Intervention and control 10
the only remedy.
Mormons Are Mormons.
"Mormons are not Republicans or Demo
Gratis. They are dormons first and ke-
| publicans or Democrats last. They are
| Republicans when they can accomplish
thcir own ends by being such They are
| - I=f
row the Republicans seem to be in the
| ascendancy, but no party can get Into
power or stay In power which does not
make terms with the Mormons or carry
out the schemes Of the Mormon party.
"Curiously enough Salt Lake City. the
stronghold OF Mormonism. the city OF
Brigham Young, the Garden of Eden OF
Mormonlsm, is in the power OF the Cen
tiles who broke away from the church
and from all parties and wrested the
splendid city or Salt Lake from the Nor
mons, Republicans and Democrats In
revolt which resulted in the formation Of
an American party. Salt Lake City Is the
hope of Utah, the oasis In the Great
American desert, The Gentle officials
went into power only a few weeks ago.
They will probably be able to accomplish
little. They will find solidly arrayed
against them the all-powerful hierarchy
OF Mormonlsm. In times past there have
been semblanceS of Gentle victory, but
behind the officials were the elders and
apostles and bishops pulling the strings
Now for the first time bona fde Gentle
of1lciary is In power and If this is followed
up by legislation which will place behind
the authorities the power of the Federal
Government, something may be done
LAS II Is. we have the disgraceful spec
tacle OF an institution such the Nor
mon church brazenly defying the entire
power of the nation and pcrpetuating all
the infamies against the Occidental Ideals
of the home and marriage relation, en-
grating upon the Western hemisphere the
most intoerable Orlentalism which shahs
| and sultans ever conceived. Utah is a land
Of harems and concubinage The woman
hood OF America has risen in revolt and
Will try TO have Senator Smoot deprived
of his seat. AS TO Senator Smoot himself
do not know that he is Polygamist, l
certainly do not know that he is not,
| Brigham Roberts, who was ousted from
| his seat In Congress Is practicing Dolyg-
| amy the samo before. He has recent
| ly become the father Of twins to whom
| polygamous wife gave birth,
How Power Is Secured
1T is not difficult to see how the church
| authorities secure their despotic power. IT
| is easy 20 see why the men I'm the church
| and especially those who are supported In
| luxury by the church, arc In favor or
| polygamy, At first glance It Is difficult
| however to see how women can consent
| 10 this Infamous system They are for
| the most part high minded pure minded
women. They are not actuated by the
motives which influence the mon as a
| converts, especially among the women
| arc foreigners. They are brought thou
sands of miles from their homes. All ties
are severed. The Old World is far away
| Their fears, their emotions are more east
| ly worked upon. They are moro religious
| by nature. They arc made TO believe that
| their souls salvation. their husbands
| spiritual welfare, their childTen's eternal
| safety depend upon their fidelity to the
| church. their Observance Of its laws Gre
| scitc ct multlplcamini Is the motto Of the
| church-increase and multiply: bring
| forth children TO the glory OF God and of
! Zion Some tremendous Internal change
| is wrought by the diabolcal incantations.
| ccrcmonials and orgies OF the Temple
They 60 In women like other women.
| They come out with every higher instinct
| warped and distorted and nodded to suit
| the carnal minds OF men to whom they
| arc sealed. They submit TO conditions
| which in their own country. II they are
foreigners or anywhere else. when they
| were Gentilc9 would make them revolt
| Every instinct OF womanhood rebels
| against conditions which they accept with
| apparent chccrfulneSs, even with religious
| enthusiasm GcntlleE are filling rho M