Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-01-20

the Mormon leaders declared they
would only cleave TO one wife there
after
Now. the rank and file OF a church
cannot be better than the leaders OF q
church. If you have corrupt pulpit
In time you will have Il corrupt pew.
Dean Swift in clerical garb means
Dean Swift with ii debauched congre-
CATION. Water by the law Of specific
gravity cannot rise higher than It's
source. Yet II Is undeniaole that there
are many of the rank and file who are
thoroughly Disguised with the odious
lives and false pretcnses of those lead
ers. To these honest ones, who long
for better things. we must extend all
,ympathy.
A Visit 10 Salt Lake City.
Let us 20 and visit Salt Lake City.
We stop and look in the city directory
10 find where the Mormon leader lives.
My" you say, Uncle Joseph must
move quite often TO escape paying
rent. Why. here are five different
houses under his name" YES" say,
he sleeps In one house. eats breakfast
In another house. has supper In another
house. spends the evening in another
house and sleeps IN another house. In
each one of these homes he has n diff
fercnt wife When he walks along the
street forty-two different children can
stop him and call out. Hello, papav
Uncle Joe must have great memory
10 remember the faces OF all these chill
dren. lie must have deep well Of
affection 10 love all of his progeny He
must he n financial genius TO support
all these homes and yet he poor min
ister.'" Most of us Protestant minis
tiers have hard work to make financial
ends meet and support one wife and
three or four babies. but Uncle Joe GER
tainly can do wonders. have more
respect for the stag lording II over his
herd or the shaggy four legged beast
leading his cattle over the western
prairie than for this human llbertine
walking around and posing as an apps.
tie of God and talking about love. Yes,
he has love. but IL Is the love of
wholesale libcrtinlsm which ought to
push It's dcvotce ont of all decent So
cicty.
While writing this sermon there lies
before me a list of the domestic me
mage OF the leaders OF the Mormon
church. Francis VI. Lyman. the presi-
dent of the twelve apostles. has two
wives: John II. Smith. an apostle two
wives; IIcbcr !. Grant. apostle. two
wives: John w Taylor apostle, five
wives: Mariner W. Merrill. seven Nv
ing wives and forty-six children: Mat
thias +. Cowlcy. apostle. three wives:
Rudgcr Clawson, two wives. Now, II
these men are living In open sin. what
are they doing In secret? And II these
church leaders. these apostles. are liv-
ing in such Illicit relationship what are
the rank AMI file of the Mormon church
doing today! If the truth about the
libertinism of the Mormon church could
be fully pictured the walls OF pompeii
would he looked upon rs picture gal
lery of virtue and of modcsty in com
parison. All dccency. all purity. all
virtue. should rise up in wrath against
the sins of the Sodom and Gomorrah OF
the Utah plains.
But modcrn Mormonism stands for
more than financial graft and unlicens-
ed llbcrtlnism. II stands for the degra-
dation Of woman. not only through the
evil door of sin. but also through the
marcos door of superstition. What
Brigham Young and his associates
could not accomplish 10y false means
they tried TO accomplish by the blinded
eyes of superstition. Where they could
not overthrow woman by her physical
weakness they tried to overthrow her
by her spiritual crcdulity. The sue
ccssors OF Brigham Young are now try
istincs rendered the mighty Samson
helpless after his betrayal by Delllah.
They try To put ont her two eyes and
compel her To staggcr around In the
temple of GAIA while they mock at her
and deridc her helplesSness.
An impossible Task.
There are two means whereby II is
possible To overthrow n good woman.
The one is through her heart or by her
love. That Is not what the Mormon
leaders can do. Even Brigham Young.
with all his powers of persuasion, could
not prove to Il sensible woman that he
could love equally well and NJ the same
time twcnty-six wives besides score
or more of aflinitics. The second way
for the Mormon hierarchy TO overthrow
good woman Is through her religious
beliefs. This Is one OF the ways In
which the Mormon church accompllshes
Its infamies. The leaders of that
church promugate these two doctrines
First they say:
"a woman who is unwilling 10 mar
ry and bcgct children Is Il woman who
will have no part in the glories of the
celestial life. Therefore II Is the duty
OF every woman 20 marry. no matter
what may be the desire OF her heart.
Love or dislike Of life has nothing TO
do with the matter. In the Mormon
world u woman must he sealed TO
man or else she IL doomed to eternal
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