Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-27
WHAT WERE FIGHT
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2 possess nation q the f1ndanlentsl
principles ~ Chlstlanltyz ~ an
over ls twOfo'd- Flrs,. most singular
Illusions sweep over a-G possess Tyri-
ads - mankind For era ruyle. IN the
United states 0f America ~ have the
del1sicn known as M0r.noulsm Il is
alleged by itr deyotses that IN 1927
one Joseph Smith discovered plates
- gold On which. in reformed Egyp-
tia1' whatever that may be-were
the statements which he afterWard
made o the world. IL matters rot
that Joseph Smith was 2 person of
low and vile character notorious fOr
FALSE hood for iGlenezs. foy immortality.
i mattsrB not u Those whO follow
him that the stories which he told u
the possession u these plates are to-
tally unbelievable and contradictory.
There are now hundreds u thousands
Of followers % this man ln America.
whom they revere as a prophet and
a saint
He said. FOR example. that these
golden plates were given him in a
supernatural way; but no such golden
plates nave ever --een seen or known.
He declared first that they were given
him by a man Of Spanish aspect
whose throat was cut and blood run
ming down. lie afterWard declared
that they were given 20 him By an
angel He affirmed that whoever
looked upon these plates would die.
He afterward promised that he would
show them. which ne never did, 10 a
very large circle OF friends. The
theology which they developed was
fantastic; the history fictitious. the
morality outrageous; and yet. from
that time 20 this. there have been
gathering more and more people 20
the standard Of AOrnoniErn. following
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
until today they hold the balance OF
political power IN several states Of
the American union. They are a
financial force which is recognized
among the powerful forces Of the
nation and II looked upon with awe
and fear. They declare their purpose
20 rule the nation. They send forth
more u1issionaries, in proportion 70
their numbers than any other body
which calls itself religious They OBJ
tained their statehood by perjury 10
the national government. declaring
that they had abandoned polygaufy.
which they never abandoned and
which their head declared afterward
before a committee Of congress he
still practiced, and so. IN unnumbered
ways. they have given the lie 10 their
pretensions and shown the utter folly
Of those who accept their theories.
Think Of the Effect.
II all that could be done in Amer
ica within less than one hundred
years by an ignorant, dlshonorable.
superstitous and degraded leader.
what may you not expect when you
see the forces which operated In Ger
many TO supplant Christianity. hu-
manity and morality, and 20 send the
nation forth on a plan of world con-
quest? Behind the German purpose
were nearly two hundred years Of very
great material prosperity uDder their
form OF government. Their rulers. a
powerful family deserving well in
many respects OF their people, their
theory Of superiority and dominion
highly satisfactory TO the self-con-
sciousness, the pride and the ambi-
tions OF the German people; their
teachers. the foremost philosophers
OF their time, the chief theologians:
the leading scientific and literary
men. And bear in mind that all these
German teaching forces were the
creatures OF the state they were Sc
letleu bS tne SUITE tNtE received their
salaries from the state. from the fore
most TO the least in the lowest schools
They were discharged II they failed
10 please the state; and so they flung
the sum total OF the forces OF pow
erful government and an immense
force OF highly trained teachers into
the work OF justifying and leading
this great empire on course and
career OF world conquest Such an
appeal so fathered, fostered and
taught is adequate and ample to pro-
duce the results we now behold.
II is plain enough that this is
rational accounting for the results OF
their theory upon the German nation
creating a solidarity as remarkable as
that OF any nation in human history.
This purpose is "inspired by the
pulpits as religion: taught by the uhi-
versties as philosophy; disseminated
by the press as policy and political
necessity: embodied in the army as
national loyalty and duty and focuscd
on the kaiser ms the minister OF the
Almighty Blasphemous, funda-
mentally narrow and inhuman as II
IL. you can see how II became an
obsession. n very devil OF pride in the
breasts Of seventy thousand Germans.
And here let me present additional
proofs OF the truth that this is the
base and beginning, as well as the
strength OF this wal, on the German
side, by calling your attention TO GER
tain collateral historical evidence. All
that have presented is absolutely
consistent with everything that the
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