The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-01-24
MORMONS MENACING'
AMERICAN PRINCIPLES,
CLAIMS MRS. SHEPARD
Polygamy is Still Taught and
Practiced BY Them
Have Financial Power and Dangerous
Political Hold Upon the Affairs of
the Nation Which Will Corrupt Our
Laws and Institutions.

On Monday evening at the Bap-
fist church Mrs Lulu L. Shepard, of
Salt Lake City, addressed fair sized
audience on the subject of the Nor
mon Menace"
Mrs. Shepard is a fluent and easy
speaker, and thoroughly acquainted
and imbued with her subject. She
is a Tennessee woman, her family
having gone west when she was a
young woman, and her long residence
in Salt Lake City giving her an accu-
rate and intimate knowledge of the
Mormons.
She has devoted number of years
to the cause of prohibition, having
delivered lectures in nearly every
state on this subject, and for num-
Der of years the leader of the fight
in Utah, being president of the W.
C. T. u. there.
Mrs. Shepard cautioned her hear
ers against the insiduous work of
the Mormon agents throughout the
country. She said that no converts
to the Mormon church are ever made
among the Gentiles of Utah, where
the church is known in its true light,
but that the activities of its agents
are met with success in many parts
of the country, misapprehension of
the true character of the church and
it's practices being the basis of this
success.
She stated that the accumulation
of wealth in the hands of the head
of the Mormon church, which has as
sumed enormous proportions, has be-
come a source of danger to Ameri-
can institutions; that the balance of
power in politics is in the hands of
the head of the Mormon church in
eleven of the western states and with
this leverage they expect soon to OBJ
tain control of the whole country.
The Mormons have now one Con-
gresham and two United State Sem
ators, Reed Smoot, one of their sem
ators being in direct line of promo
ton to become the head of the Nor
mon church.
Mrs. Shepard states that polygamy
is still the law of the Mormon church,
and that it has always been practiced,
secretly in some cases, openly in
others, notably in the case of the
late president of the church, Joseph
Smith, who died some six weeks ago,
and who stated to a committee of
Congress that he would continue to
live with his five wives.
During Clevelands administration
the Mormon church succeeded in get
ting Utah admitted as a state, by a
piece of duplicity. The head of the
church reported that he had received
a revelation from God that the church
was to abolish polygamy, and thus
secured the votes in Congress to en-
ter the union. The polygamous laws
of the church are still in the book
of Mormon.
Mrs. Shepard states that Mormons
are about to make an effort to have
this country recognize polygamy as
a war measure, as necessity to re-
store the population of the sexes e.
quitably, that Germany has recently
practiced it, and France is talking of
it at this time.
She warns America against this
great menace within our own coun-
try, and pleads for help to sound the
alarm throughout the land.
Mrs. Shepard stated that she would
be glad to return to Marietta on
Thursday afternoon of this week, and
talk to the women only in one of the
churches, the Methodist church being
selected.