The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-19

try--secretly preaching prescribed
doctrine of polygamy as necessary to
salvation but publicly denying this
teaching SO that he may escape re-
sponsibility for the sufferings of the
! plural wives and their unfortunate
children-and, through il all, protect
ed from the anger Of civilization by
his political and financial partnership
with the great business interests
that govern and exploit this nation.
and his kingdom, for their own gain
and his.
ITO him the Mormon people pay
yearly tribute of more than two mil
lion dollars in tithes; and he uses
that income without an accounting.
lie is president of the Utah branch
of the sugar trust and OF the local
! interpretations of the salt trust; and
he supports the eXactions Of monopoly
by his financial absolutism, while he
defends them from competition by his
religious power Of interdict and eX-
communication. He is president OF a
system OF company stores from
which the faithful buy their merchan-
disc; OF a wagon and machine com
pany from which the Mormon farmers
purchase their vehicles and imple-
ments OF life insurance and fire in
surance companies. of banking insti-
buttons, of a railroad, of a knitting
company, of newspapers-even a
beach resort company and a dramatic
association-which the Mormon peo-
pie are required by their church to
patronize, and through which they
are exploited, commercially and tnan-
cially, for the sole profit of the SOW
ereign of Utah and his religious
court"
Writing of the great mass OF the
Mormon people, Senator Cannon
says:
81 know them TO be great in their
virtues, wholesome in their relations,
I capable of a heroic fortitude, living
! by the tenderest sentiments OF fra
, ternity, as gentle as the Quakers, as
stanch as the Jews.
But II is even through their virtue
and by their very strength that they
are being betrayed. Their leaders.
reaching for the fleshpots for which
these supplemented devotees have
never sighed, have allied themselves
with all tn predacous interests OF the
country and now use the superhuman
power of religious tyranny TO in
crease the dividends Of a national
plumber
Senator Cannon says that the Nor
mons, at the time Of the federal in
reference, had worked ont logically
the principles of cooperation, con-
tribution and arbitration.
by cooperation of effort they had
realized that dream, equality of OPP
4 10 fnH fxrfH n
velop himself to- the last reach of his
power BY contribution-by requir-
ing each man to give one-tenth of his
income to common fund-they had
attained the abolition of poverty, and
had adjusted the straps OF the com
munity burden 10 the strength OF the
individual to bear IT, BY arbitration,
they had effected the settlement Of
every dispute of every kind without
litigation"
While presenting Smith as a COM
posite OF narrow b'Notry. avarice,
cunning. hatred and despotism, Sena-
tor Cannon explains in part the at
titude of the present head of the Nor
mon church by recalling his bitter re-
collections of the murder of his father
and uncle in the Jail at Carthage. Ill,
and the later privations and persecu-
tons of the Mormons. and says:
"He had been taught, and he firmly
believed that the Smiths had been
divinely appointed 10 rule. in the
name Of God. over all mankind. He
believed that tfe-ordained a ruler
over this world before ever the world
was-had been prosecuted by the hate
and wickedness of men. He believed
Il literally: he preached II literally;
he still believes and still breaches It. -
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