The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
SOME FAKE REVELATION.

In the first book Of Nephi (Book
story Of how the brothers of Neph be-
came rcbellious in spirit while yet. the
family OF Lehi were yoyaging upon the
waters toward the promised land. They
bound hIm and imprisoned him, and as
consequence of their misdeeds in this
respect the mysterious compass refused
TO work, and the expedition was, i'll
truth, call AT sea However, so the
story goes on to say, (and this portion
of the recital is wonderfully like some
self-protcctivc warnings that Joseph
Smith himself gave ont in his personal
behalf during his hfetime.) that the
plight Of the voyagers and the assert
iveness Of the bound Nephi finally pro
cured the latter's release, and then the
mysterious ball-compaSs worked TO per.
fection and they disembarkcd upon the
promised land. According to all Nor
mon interpretations of this portion of
the Book Of Mormon, this landing was
made in South America. And of this
landing and few consequent discov-
cries we find that this first book of
Ncphi chapter is. paragraph 25, page
Al, of the Utah edition, SAYS:
And II came To pass that VIC did find
upon the land OF promise. as we jour
neyed in the wilderness. that there were
beasts I'm the forest OF every kind both
the cow and the, OK, and tho ass and
goat, and all manner OF wild animals
which were for the use Of men. And VIC
did find all manner OF ore, both of gold
and of silver, and OF copper,
AS We find it in mere history and the
census reports Of the United States,
it appears that this Book Of Mormon
story about the animals discovered hero
by Nephi and his brethren is wrong in
one essential point-they were not all
Of them here at that time. The first
horses ever seen in America were
brought here by Columbus on his second
voyage III 1893 The Indians thought
they were man-eaters and conspired to
kill them off Every breed of Central
or South American horses has sprung
from Spanish Importation, as we'll as
have those on all North America
Columbus brought the first to Cuba,
and from that point the increase
was distributed in the southern hemi
sphere Cabeca de Vaca. so history
tells us, introduced horses in Florida in
1927, his imported band numbering
forty-two bead. Then De Soto in 1889,
brought over still larger number.
Columbus. in 1903, brought over a bull
and several cows, and from these
sprung the wild cattle of the Texas and
bison, which is supposed to be abor
iginal TO some degree). But if the
Lord should make the mistake of call
ing a wild buffalo a domestic COW, then
il would be better to depend upon hu.
man wisdom. The Portuguese brought
cattle over to America in 1853; in 1911
Sir Thomas Gates brought over one
hundred cows, because they were so
scarce here, even after the Spanish i'm
portations, in 1924 T.. Winslow brought
over three heifers and one bull-and
many other such statistics we find in
census reports which go TO show that
neither the COW nor the horse was here
until imported fifteen hundred years
after Christ, while the Book of Mormon
pretends that Nephi found them here
six hundred years before Christ. Then
there is the evidence Of the Encyclope-
1ia Americana, to the effect that IL was
George Washington who introduced the
ass into this country; and any mule
raiser who knows anything Of mule cul-
ture in the United States knows this
TO be true. The story of the ores could
be told of any great portion Of the
earth s surface.
To the investigator Of the Book of
Mormon all the evidence should bD
available.