The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-08
EXPERIMENTS THAT FAILED.

In the Doctrine and Covenants, and
throughout Mormon so-called revela-
tlou. God is an unchangeable, everlasu-
ing and all-powarful Creator. IT is
stated in hundred places in the book
of revelations and reiterated all down
the yeals Of Mo:nnL experimenting
There is, perhaps, no parallel III MS
tory to this syst3m notwithstanding
the Lord has been charged up with shu
most brazen class Of graft and ex-
ploitation ever known, the saints still
listen to the illogical explanations the
leaders PROFOUND to them.
In Kirkland, Ohio, many revelations
were given that plainly show the Lord,
according TO the Prophet. sincerely in
tended TO make that place the Zion,
from which His gospel plan, as revealed
10 the revelator, would be radiated to
the world The united order" fiasco
was duly revealed. tried and proved
failure. In fact, it was the Prophet s
grating scheme, connected with the
panic of 1887, that "killed' the Ohio
colonization. The saints blame the
downfall of that building scheme
to the wicked enemies of the Lord, but
e they will read the history of the
whole thing, together with a careful
perusal of the Doctrine and Covenants,
they can't help arriving at the proper
conclusion. 1t was financial affairs
that wrecked the scheme, the efforts Of
the rrcacberous leaders to get rich at
he expense OF the poor, benightd con
vert
Shortly before the Ol.io crash came,
IN which the church almost lost its CO
herence, the Prophet saw the storm
coming (it took but common sense to
see IT, and sent investigators to Mis-
souri, to look up new quarters, as he
well knew that HIS rascality and de-
reption would make it impossible for
him to remain longer in Ohio when the
facts became known "a the public.
In Missouri more revelations were
received but profiting by experience,
he decided that he would not make the
Lord change his mind so often, so he
made the Lord say empha tically that
Missouri was the Zion, the former Gar
den Of Eden, and the center from which
the earth. In that State he started in
much the same as in Ohio, being the
manager of all financial institutions
and the big end of everything. New
converts were brought in to take the
place of the many who had been
,s.o IL
to Missouri, and the "good work.
went on until the "revelator' found
himself mixed up in so much graft,
head of so many business schemes, and |
the chief instigator of so much robbery. |
that he incurred the enmity Of all good |
citizens in that State.
No sane man will believe that the |
persecution Of the Saints in Missouri, |
so called, was the result of the Nor |
mon peculiarities as pertaining to be.
liefs not affecting temporal affairs |
The settlers in that State were typical |
free-heartod and broad |
ready to divide UP with the
newcomer and make room for all That
sort of settler was the last man on earth |
to ever persecute any one, he nlolested |
no one unless he saw robbery, lack Of |
fair play, and bogus pretentions; but
seeing this he was a man to be feared |
by the wrong .doers,
The Prophet wanted the whole coun-
try round about Jackson county in or
der that he might the beUter handle the
Saints. Every settler who had land in
the chosen area was asked to sell, and |
the Sc who did not sell according to the
Mormon offers, were given q taste of
prlestcraft as we know it in Utah. Hun
dreds of enemies were made in the eff
forts to get complete control of all the
land and business in large area of
and once those settlers formed
n dislike, it was for "keeps,'' as they
say.
The Mormon people hear but one
side Of that story, hence they can have
but one-sided views of it. There is
no contest in human affairs wherein