The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-12

| The Chicago postoffice building, ONT
in that city, was designed by Henri
now in Salt Lake planning the pro
in its grasp practically the entire mem.
| bership of the organization anC
| through il the domination of the ste t,
by arrogating TO itself and inculcatins
the belief in it's followers that they art
| endowed with supernatural powers a;
| prophets, seers and revelators,' auj
| specially commissioned by the AL
mighty to dominate the inhabitants OF
| this world, and that resistance to the
will of this theocracy is rebelliOl
against God. The testimony fully sus-
tains the allegation that the Mormon
priesthood is vested with supreme au-
thority i'm all things, temporal and
| spiritual, and that the first presidency
and the twelve apostles are supreme in
the exercise and transmission Of this
! authority"
Worse Since Statehood.
He said that since the admission OF
Utah into the Union the people of the
state have been, if possible more COM
pletely under the domination of the
Mormon hierarchy than during the
long years of their territorial exist
ence." and in support of this statement
added:
Immediately and at the very first
election thereafter, the hierarchy re-
sumed domination in state affairs, TAX
ing possession of every official position
in the state government. and has held
them ever since with unyielding tenacI-
ty. The only office held by a nom
Mormon under a state government dur
ing the ten years of it's existence. as an
elective officer, has been the attorney
general"
Instances of Interference.
He cited many instances of political
interference not only in Utah, but ad-
joining states, and quoted at length the
church manifesto of 1890. requiring
members to obtain the consent of The
hierarchy before becoming candidates
for office. Smoot had been compelled
TO obtain this permission. He was
nominated by the hierarchy said Mr.
Burrows, land the selection ratified by
the Legislature" He went on: NO
more cunningIy devised scheme could
possibly be concOcted to put the church
in politics and make it potential there
in than this. For, the moment 1t IS
known that candidate has the en-
dorsement of the church and PERMITS
sion of the hierarchy to be a candidate.
that moment he has back Ct him the
whole power of the Mormon church and
his election Is assured. There has been
no case in which a candidate for a high
Office in Utah has gained the consent
of the church to run and has been de-
feated.'
Practice of PoIygamy.
He said that Mr.. Shoots membership
in the church governing body, which in
culcates belief in pOlygamy, is COLI
ceded. Concluding that the members
of the hierarchy teach polygamy as a
principal of human conduct. nc took
up the question as to whether they
practice it. On that point he said:
'The evidence upon this point is so
complete and overwhelming as to leave
no doubt as to the truth of the allega-
ton. The proof is indubitilabIe that N
spite of the manifesto of 1890 issued by
the head of the church. counseling the
suspension Of polygamy; in spite Of ex-
pressed inhibition of the constitution
of the state and of the statutory pro-
hibition of the commonwealth, it APP
pears that a majority of the members
of this hierarchy has continually and
peTsistently lived in polygan1y, and is
today openly and confessedly defying
the laws of the land prohibiting such
crimes. The record is so shocking as
to challenge credulity."
He spoke in this connection of the
establishment of the committee at the
confessions of President Smith and of
the revelations of the fact that eight of
the twelve apostles have plural wives.
Referring to Smiths confession of five
wives and forty-two children, Mr.. Bur
rows added:
Picture of President Smith.
IF the public press is to be credited, |
this number has been augmented dur |
ing the last year to forty-tllree, and |
" lille we are discussing the right of the |
of the hierarchy to a |
seat in this body, we can imagine lis |
sanity head sitting in the home Of his |
fifth plural wife, rocking the cradle If |
the latest ilIegitimate offspring of his |
and crime, and with sane
timonious air singing the familiar
lynn of his church:
Now the GENTLE reign is Ger.
Darkness covers earth no more:
Gentle tyrants sink to he'll;
Now's the day of Israeli
He then declared that it is shown
DIV the testimony that the ma jority of
he apostles are living in polygany, in
-luding The president of the twelve"
Plural Marriages.
He went on: Plural marriages are
performed in secret in darkened
-conns on .he highways remote from
labitation.'
Coming to the connection of Sanator
smoot Wit, the hierarchy. Mr.. Burrows
aid that practically all of it's members
; ere polygamists when he became a
member The vital question, there
ore is he said, can one become :,
member of and Identify himself with
,and of laWbreakers, knowing them 10
De such, participate in their counseIs
md sustain them in their conferences,
md yet escape all responsibility fer
heir unlawful acts? Such . contention
will not stand the test of either law or
-eason.
1.-THE senator's completely in encour-