The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-14

Mrs Dubois, Mrs. Towne. Mrs. Schoff
and Mrs. Ellis were in the gallery.
Senator Dubois commenced to speak
about 1890. when he concluded it was
after $50 p. m. In the opening he said:
1T is difficult to describe conditions in
Utah and the surrounding country,
where the Mormons are in great num-
bers. so that one not familiar can form
an adequate idea. Negro domination
in the South would not be tolerated by
the white man, and finally the entire
North has come to sympathze with the
white people of the South in their
determination that the black race shall
not be supreme in political affairs.
Same Principle Involved.
"The same principle is involved in
the contest which -Mormons are
making against the political control of
the Mormon hierarchy
The Senator described the CONNER
cial ventures of the church, speaking
especially of Zion s Cooperative Mer-
camille company and of the church own
ership of railroads, electric lines, banks
and mining enterprises.
"The constant tendency said Mr..
Dubois, lis to make church and State
one. This has been so completely and
SO ingeniously carried out, that it is
impossible in any affair, temporal, spir-
itual, or political, to tell where the au
thority of the church begins or ends. -
''The first half hour of Senator Du-
bois' address in the Senate was the
taking-up of the Mormon church history
in detail-and thorough explanation
OF the organization in toto. He paid
especial attention 10 the political con-
troll Of the Mormon hierarchy and re-
lieved the lay members of the church
from that degree of blame for follow
ing the dictates OF their leaders which
he attributed to the hierarchy. He
characterized the Mormon church as a
political and commercial organization
essentially, the followers of which came
principally from foreign countries. He
declared the leaders are in control of
spiritual. temporal and political affairs,
designating the first president and the
twelve apostles as hierarchy. He com
plimented their business ability and
judgment and their easy mingling with
the men of the world,
Points Out Tithing Graft.
Senator Dubois referred to the tith-
ing system Of the church and the drain
the collection of these tithes was upon
the people. The hierarchy made no
accounting TO anybody for this enor-
nous sum. reaching now about two mil
lion dollars annually. He referred to
the business enterprise of the leaders |
IN detail and their control of banks, |
mines, railroad companies, etc, etc. He |
emphasized the constant tendency to
make the church and State one with
the church in control, and the ingen
uity exercised by the leaders in so shap-
ing temporal, spiritual and political
over their followers that
none could tell where the church be
gins or ends, saying:
cit is impossible to separate the &C.
political power of CONTROL
Perfect Organization.
The speaker complimentcd the organ
ization of the church, stating that it
was complete in all its arrangements,
the power beginning and ending with
the hierarchy. He explained that all
the Mormons were officers and all re-
5ponsible to their superiors up to the
president. He referred to the bishops
courts and their functions in settling
disputes among the members. He spoke
Of the power Of the president in MAX
ing appointments of officers and sus-
tanning of those whom he designated
under the guise of revelations from
God, which revelations all followers Of
the church obediently accepted, point.
ing out that:
50 Ecclesiastical preference in the