The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-07-22

pUlySdlIy anu cease ONCE seeking, as
a hierarchy had been repudiated by
the rulers Of the mormon church and
that today as one of the states of the
union the bold and dishonest NOR.
mon priesthood have government at
variance with the government OF the
United States and are extending
their disloyal government over the
western states. He described the
stern manner in which the American
government set face against the bar
barism of mormonism, and how the
mormOns during long series Of years
were being punished for their unlaw-
full practices, until they were driven
from the east to Illinois, and driven
from Illinois to Missouri and Iowa,
and driven out of Missouri and Iowa
far out into the wilderness of Utah.
He told how 1000 Of their leaders
were thrown into prison, the women
and children scattered. and the NOR
mon property practically cOniiscated
to the national school fund, and then
because the willy leaders begged to be
taken into the union that they had
antagonized. and because they prom
Used that they would obey the laws
and quit polygamy and quit organized
priestly political opposition to the
government of this country, the
priests were let out of prison, the
property was restored, prosecutions
ceased, families and homes were re-
stored and Utah, that had been re-
claimed from the desert and wilder
ness, was restored to them and made
a soveign state. Mr.. CannOns father
was mormon of great influence. Sen
ator Cannon, when a boy eight years
old, was baptized into the mormon
church. Senator Cannon was one OF
the principal negotiators for the NOR
mons. He and others made the most
solemn promises to the government
in the effort to get into the union. AT
ter the admission of the territory into
the union as a state, the leaders pro
posed that Mr.. Cannon's father, one
of the mormon elders, be chosen Unit
ed States senator AS this was in di-
rect opposition to the promises, which
were that the mormon elders and
chief priests were not to be candidates
for government official political posi-
tions, Mr. Cannon and his father both
opposed the program and incurred the
enmity and opposition OF the hierarchy
Senator Cannon declares the disloyal-
ty and bad faith takes the form or
revelations" from God. Soon after
Utah was admitted to the union as
a state, revelation came to the NOR
mon ruler that Mr. Cannon, ST.. was
to be United States senator. The
Cannons, senior and junior, opposed
the revelation, and though from Goa,
it did not come true. Senator can
non says that the present senator
from Utah. Reed Smoot. is a mormon
elder and polygamist and owes an al
legiance to the mormon hierarchy that
is superior to the allegiance owed to
the United States government. State
after state in the west is coming un-
der the mormon influence. The church
so called has immense revenues and
holds interests in many OF the great
trusts of the country. The church
revenues amount to about Sl2,OOO,0OO
a year. Thousands and thousands
priests are at work in this and other
verts. Thousands and thousands OF
mormons practice polygamy and there
are hundreds of well proved cases.
Roosevelt was deceived by the NOR
mons when he was president. Taft
was deceived by them when he was
president. Wilson may be misled by
them. Ben Harrison, when he was
president, went to Salt Lake City, but
he did not go into the mormon temple
and speak as later did Roosevelt and
Taft. Harrison spoke i'll a grove and
spoke of the honor and sacredness OF
the American home, OF one husband
and wife. Mr.. Cannon spoke as
though Roosevelt investigated condl-
lions after he was out OF the presl-
dency and spoke at Salt Lake City in
1912 and gave the so-called church a
merciless scoring Mr.. Cannon called
on all the patriotic men and women to
take a firm stand against the daily
and growing menace of political polys-
amous mormonism and help to stamp
it out.
The program ended with musical
numbers rendered by Rogers ana
Grilley, Mr.. Rogers on the harp and
Mr.. Grilley as an Interpreter OF char
acters in literature. This number was
the weakest entertainment during
chautauqua and people generally were
disappointed.
In the evening Rogers and Grilley
appeared on the program again ana
we're followed by Gov. Robert Glenn,
of North Carolina. The first part of
his lecture was devoted to the great
civil war, and Governor Glenn gave a
complete history of the great war OF
the rebellion and told of the many
nroblems which the south had to meet
during that time. He gave graphic
description of the rebuilding of the
south after the great devastation
caused during the war. He gave a
complete description of the battle OF
Gettysburg and how it marked the
high tide of the rebellion. Governor
Glenn is a self made man and mother
made. His father died i'll the days OF
the civil war when Robert was but
seven years of age. His widowed
mother had three little boys to care
for and the boys had to help provide
for their widowed mother Robert
worked hard on poor North Carolina
farm that was their home, and told OF
the greedy capitalists who would have
taken the farm away from them il
they had made default. The governor
made a great speech on the right
things in life and the true things as
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