The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
OD|OUS, CRUEL PLOT
ON PART HIERARCHY
Trusted Friend of Moroni
0'Grady UnfOlds Details
When on Deathbed.
SCHEME TO REDUCE UTAH
GENTILES TO SLAVERY
Had Attack of Cold Feet, Caus.
ing Batsintheattic, Hence
He Gave Away Plan.

welI"known and prominent Mormon
Of Utah handed the following confes-
sIon Of q trusted friend 10 The Tribune
on Saturday, with request that IL be
printed There is no difference between
this confession and the one which Sol
kimball detailed in the columns of the
Deseret News several days since, as will
be apparent to all who read IT.:
a lifelong friend Of mine-a trusted
friend. who loved me almost as well as
he loved the bottle, and who would nos
lie 20 me even II he were lying In bed
called me 70 his deathbed by means ot
a grapevine message. This friend was
one OF the arks OF the hierarchy. who
held the power, To hire and FIRE. A short
time before his last sickness ne had at
tended meeting of the hierarchy. held
governors office. In the temple. While
at that meeting he got cold feet from
which developed an attack OF batsinthe-
attic. from which he died Between his
not making his lights flicker. he related
TO ne the story OF a most odious and
cruel plot on the part OF the hirarchy
TO reduce the Gentiles OF Utah 10 slav-
Cannot Give Name.
cannot and viii not give this dead HE
rarch's name. He would haunt me II L
did. and 10 be haunted by a hierarch is
worse than being gum -shoed by Fussy
Jimmy and Mutton Bill. ! swore TO this
dying hierarch upon a bottle of Soils jag
cure. while he held It TO his lips ana
rolled his eyes upward. that ! would never
reveal his name. His look haunts me
still. Between swigs OF the jag cure. the
hieIarch then told me Of the plot.
could not believe 1t at first. ! had been
fooled by hierarchs before. But during
Inc past TWO years many things have
aa reGed that prove the dying hierarch
the truth.
What the Plot Is.
The diabolical plot is this: II Is well
known that the Gcntiles depend largely
upon the mines for their prosperity and
part OF the constitution which places In
the hands OF the county authorities tho
power TO assess and tax mines and min
ing products. This being done. the pro-
vision OF the constitution limiting the
rate OF taxation Will be repealed, Then
the power TO tax without limit will
placed In the hands OF the state board
OF equalization. The hlerarch will see
TO II that this state board Of equaliza-
ton. which consists OF the governor and
other state officers elected from the state
that no Gentle has a place In It. They
Will be tools OF the hierarchy
Will Close the Mines.
Now. when matters are thus arranged.
mines and the output of mines, will be
taxed at such rate that they must close
and be sold for taxes The hierarchy VIII
buy In the mines at the tax sales. 1he
Gentiles will then be without visible
means OF support and the subservient
sherlffs OF the several counties VIII arrest
them for vagrancy. PLANT elders, hold
ing the offices OF justices OF the peace.
VIII sentence the vags TO long terms on
the stone pile. The chain gangs will be
used 10 mend roads and dig bitches lor
the hierarchy. Care will be taken to
prevent true versions OF these things
from getting 10 Washington, because II
Uncle Sam should hear about IL and put
Utah under martial law. that might make
soue trouble for the hierarchy The
News and the Mouth will be depended
upon 10 report affairs. The Tribune plant
will be dynanlited at the outset by mem
bers Of the hierarchy and their servants
disguised as Indians. and word will be
sent out TO the effect that the deed was
done by the Uintah Utes, because OF an
irreverent article The Tribune printed
about Major Myton.
Hierarchy Will Reign.
AS / said at the beginning. this tale
sounded fishy 70 me at inst l did not
and could not believe It. But a success
sion OF events has happened since then
and they all prove that the plan was
made and that steps are now being taken
proposed amendments to the constitution,
be placed with the state board and by
which the constitutional limits upon taxa
tion are to be removed. have already been
put before the people TO vote upon. When
the plan Is consummated the hierarchy
VIII reign and the Gentiles viii be rained
upon. MORONI O'GRADY.