The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-24
ITS USUAL PERVERSION.

Tuesday evenings issue of the Des-
eret News contained Just and an al
most altogether admirable editorial
tribute to the memory of George Wash
ington
But that paper made the usual mis-
take of claiming for the Mormon church
the position of special and superior
beneficiary by right in the heritage left
10 this country through the existence
and efforts Of George Washington. and
the effects of events which stirred his
time. As usual it assumed that the
men and the events having to do with
the establishment of this Nation were
upraised and brought TO pass by the
Lord chiefly for the purpose of paving
the way for the establishment of Nor
monsni and the Mormon church. 1t
actually said that all these men lived
preparation for the final establishment
of the kingdom Of the Son of God in
all the world.' For this reason, it as
serted, the Latterday Saints were
grateful, and spoke of them further as
follows;
country. For loyalty, with them. is
based upon the strongest of all founda-
tions--rcligion II is, with them, an in
tegral part of religion,
The general term, Latter-day Saints,
or Mormons, necessarily includes every
man, woman and child giving allegiance
TO the Mormon faith. And while we
agree with the Deseret News in de-
gree upon this matter, $50 far as it con
Germs the Mormon rank and file,) we
can not concedc wholly that the Latter
day Saints either are or ever have been
loyal to the country. Their leaders are
not now loyal, nor have they ever been
in the entire history Of the church. The
Tribune has many, many times repro
duccd scores of reasonable utterances
of these men, taken from the official
records of the church it is altogether
unnecessary to reproduce these in full
at this time, because they have received
rather wide circulation and are conse-
quentIy familiar to the people But
in order to bring the matter down to
date-that is, TO the present supreme
head of the Mormon church, Joseph f.
Smith-we shall again print the follow
ing from sermon delivered by him
in the Salt Lake tabernacle, August
10, 1879;
| would sooner live among savages
than among these cursed Government
officials, and the Government itself is as
corrupt as its officials 1t is disgrace
among the nations, and VIII soon be
wiped out of existence.
That is merely a sample Of the lot.
Joseph Smith called the Nation f'an old
granny, anyhow Brigham Young de-
clared that he would be governor of
Utah, when it was Territory under
Federal control, in spite of the Presi-
dent Of the United States or any other
power on earth. Heber c. Kimbal said.
"Good Godl I have wives enough to
whip out the United States!' John
Taylor asserted that the Mormon
church would possess the earth, and
that all the rulers in the world would
be unable TO prevent this possession.
Jcdediah NJ Grant called Government
officials "rotten carcasses,' and
sneered at the Federal troops. Orson
Pratt called the Mormon church "thc
only legal government that can exist
in any part Of the universe" Brigham
Young, during the progress of the War
of the Rebellion, stated that if the
Federal Government should ask him
for a body of men to assist in saving
the country he would not send them.
but "would sec them in hell first. -
Francis M. Lyman said that he had
never seen the spirit Of "antiChrist