The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-21
TREASONABLE "PROPHESIES.,

| sometimes man mere ana tneTe (a0Q
not always necessarily a Mormonj will
call into question The Tribune s asser,
tion that the founders of Mormonism
were traitors TO the United States. We
have many times produced proofs out
of the mouths of these men to estab-
lish our position in this matter, but it
seems that there are some persons who
jump TO doubt of The Tribune s truth
fulness without having read our evi
dence, or they are of such a disposition
that they fail to appreciate the signif,
canoe of words. We reproduce the fol-
lowing predictions of Mormon leaders
to show that their very souls were
stepped In treason, and that their fond
est hope was and is to some day see
the United States destroyed and its
Government displaced by Uneir own &C.
clesiastical monarchy:
If the Government cannot protect citi-
zens In their lives and property, 1t is an
the name of the Lord God OF Israel that
unless the United States redress the
wrongs committed upon the saints in the
State Of Missouri, and punish the crimes
committed by her officers, that in a few,
years the Government will be utterly
overthrown and wasted. and there will
not be SO much as a potsherd left
(Joseph Smith, who was the founder OF
Mormonism).
Within four years from September,
1892, there will not be one wicked per-
son left IN the United States, that the
was then Jackson county, Missouri1; and
that there Will be no President over
these United States after that time. Sec
ond ] do hereby assert and declare that
every sectarian and religious domination
in the United States shall be broken
down. and every Christian shall be gath
cred Into the Mormonites, and the rest
OF the human race shall perish II these
things do not take place | will hereby
consent to have my hands separated from
my body.-(Martin Harris. one of the
three witnesses to the Book OF Mormon)
Within ten years from now [lS3SJ the
people OF this country who are not Nor
mons will be utterly snbdued by the Lat
Of the earth. And II this prediction fails
then you may know that the Book OF
Mormon is not true,-(Parley P; Pratt,
outraged husband for having destroyed
the purity OF a home and who is touted
by the criminal polygamists as a mar
tyr'D,
Even hfty-sx years shall wind up the
scene. -(Joseph Smith founder of Nor
monism. in Milennlal Star. Feb IA;
1885, which Should have brought the
"wlnding-up scene in 1S91-which 1t did
noD,
Lastly: God will destroy every nation
under heaven that Will not obey the full
ness OF His gospel and become subject
to the laws of His kingdom.-(or
Pratt, a Mormon apostle who was recog-
nized In his day as the greatest philoso
pher OF the entire Mormon hierarchy.
The Tribune has so often quoted
Brigham Young, Jedediah M. Grant,
Heber C. Kimball, Brigham Young, Jr,,
Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, Joseph
T. Smith, and others. who have utter
ances ito their credit Cor discredit)
along these precise lines, that it should
be unnecessary to produce them again.
In all of these the prayer and the proph-
ecy were that the Lord would destroy
the United States. The children were
taught to disloyalty. The old men
breathed treason and dreamed of ven,
geance upon the country. The women
were compelled to say "amen" to it
nll. and to nourish infants upon the
suckle Of hatred, The chiefs of the
Mormon church live for no stronger
purpose than to destroy this Nation;
they pray for it in the temples and
complishment. The very threads of
Mormonism are reasonable, as were the
men who spun them