The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-08
But the crowning perfdy is expressed
In the following protestation:

But the crowning perhdy is expressed
In the following protestation:
Neither in mental attitude nor In con-
duct have we been disloyal to the Gov
crnment under whose guarantee Of re-
liglous freedom our church was founded
AS to the mental attitude, here is a
perfect declaration OF treason, as ut
tered in this city by President Heber
G. Kimball, on July 26, 1857:
God Almighty helping me, will tight
veins. Good Cod! l have wives enough
to whip out the United Statesl
At another point in this same pre-
sentation of the. Mormon view of 10y
atty at that time, the same speaker
said:
And may God Almighty curse our enc
mics. Voices "Amen"'l ] feel to curse
my enemies; and when God won't bless
them. l do not think He win ask me TO
bless them. II ] did 1t would he 10 put
the poor curses 10 death And
the President OF the United States. mas
much as he has turned against us and
VIII take course 10 persist In pleasing
tho ungodly curses that are bowling
around him for the destruction of this
of Israel's Cod I curse him and
all his coadjutors in his cursed deeds. In
the name of Jesus Christ and by the
authority of the holy priesthood; and all
Israel shall say Amen.-Journal OF Dis
courses, volume 3, page 90.
These dccIamatory expressions of
Mormon "loyalty y''-mental or other
wise-werc the result OF the efforts of
the Government of the United States
to put n stop to the high-handed trca-
son OF the Mormon leaders in this Ter.
rItory at that time. Brigham Young
was, as he himself declared, "the con-
troller and master of affairs here"
Not only was the then prophet, seer,
and revclator the complete dominator
OF all affairs in the church, but he
was governor and political dictator at
the same time. Ii was the opposition
of himself and his conductors in the
hierarchy TO the Federal authority that
compelled the Government to stretch
forth the arm of its power TO quell an
actual rebellion against the country.
And it was this act on the part Of the
United States that provoked the ut
terances quoted. In its determination
to compel respect 10 the laws and Off
cials Of the land the Government sent
an army out tn this section; and of
these soldiers Of the Nation, Elder
kimball had this to say:
I have said, again and again, that IL
we live our religion. and do as We are
told. these men VIII never come over
those mountains: for we shall slay the
poor devils before they get thcre.-Jour-
nal OF Dlscourses, volume g. page 162,
Patriotic, that, is it not7 But it is
no more disloyal TO the country than is
the present attitude Of Joseph +. Smith.
He lives, according TO his own confes-
sion. in perpetual defiance of the laws
of the land; and his expressed deter
mination is to continue in his sin. He
advises his people to refuse to sell land
to the people Of the United States who
are not Of his church-he calls them
enemies. If robbing poor people in the
name of the Almighty constitutes 10y
atty to country, then Joseph F. Smith
is perfect type of patriotism.
To this it is only necessary to add
that in his testimony in tho Smoot case,
President Joseph j.. Smith testified that
Il.