Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-01
FORMER MORMON
FLAYS POLYGAMY
Local Preachers Are Advised to
Hang congressman Who Seek
Saints Influence
DENOUNCE SERVILE GENTlLES
HeirarChs of Latter Day Church
Said to Control Arizona
and New Mexico
DENoUNCE sERVILE GENTlLES

"The Mormon church, blindly-united
following of fanatics, entrenched be-
hind millions of tithing capital: the in
fluence of hundreds of eastern manu-
facturers and merchants: scores or
United States senators and representa-
tives and thousands of serXile politi-
clans, is making a desperate fight for
a continuation of religious, commercial
and political supremacy" said josiah
f. Gibbs of Salt Lake City, former
Mormon. in an address before the Fed
Grafton club yesterday noon on ''Po-
litical Menace of Mormonism."
Opposed to the Mormon church" "
continued Mr.. Gibbs, "are some $4,000
unselfsh, patriotic Gentle men and
women, who are struggling to exter-
inmate polygamy and throw off the
woke of commercial and political des-
potism represented by the fifteen
prophets, seers and revelators who
comprise the governing body of the
Mormon church, and to compel those
leaders to keep the sacred pledges
made prior to the admission of Utah
to the Union.
THE Mormon claim and teach that
their church is the Kingdom that the
prophet Daniel saw in visions and
which from the mountains would roll
forth and fill the earth. Necessarily
such an achievement will require su-
Drefne pOllllCdl pOWOit LOA Hii'SA ~"
Mormon leaders are sleeplessly work
ing and for which they will never cease
to scheme and work uRtil the people or
this nation arouse themselves to the
menace that now confronts them.
MORMONS HAVE A quill"
whenever a cry of distress, like the
effort to unseat Apostle Senator Reed
Smoot, is heard in the land scores OF
eastern manufacturers, dozens OF trust
magnates, scores of senator's and rep
resentatives and hundreds OF serVile
Utah Gentlles join in defeating all at
tempts of good men and women to cor
rect the rule of organized crime in
Utah. Through the balance of power
the Mormon leaders control the politics
of Idaho and Wyoming, as well as or
Utah. and with the result that there
are now three representatives and six
senators in congress waiting ana eager
to do the bidding of the Mormon proph-
cts, and add to that lobby the power of
nine electoral votes, and you will un-
derstand that the Mormon citadel Is
becoming nearly impregnable. And
that mower will be augmented when,
at the approaching congress, Arizona
and New Mexico are admitted into the
Union The hierarchs control Arizona
as absolutely as they do Utah, and hold
the balance of power in New Mexico,
disposal five representatives, ten sem
ators and fifteen electoral votes. With
stealthy advance the church is secur-
ing the choicest land in Nevada and is
fast colonizing the Mormons In that
state.
"There is but one present available
remedy, and that must come by an
arousal of interest among the people
The partial remedy is found in pro-
posed amendment to the federal con-
stitution that will make polygamy a
federal crime and restore to the general
government the sole power to punish
polygamists. That cannot be accom-
plished except by the voters demanding
of their representatives and senators
in congress that they work for legfs-
lation providing for such amendment.
And if, after having been elected under
that pledge, you find that they are
catering for Mormon influence, take
them to the nearest telephone pole and
hang them-until they promise to be
good"