Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-08-10
Mrs. Shepard Gives
Second Lecture Here
On "The Mormon Menace"

At her second address in this city
on the subject, THE Mormon Men
ace" Mrs. Lulu Loveland Shepard
drove home a vital message and
made a great impression on he
large audience that gathered Tues
day evening at City hall. Mrs.
Shepard is an orator, but it is her
poetry of logic and charm of reason
as oell as her faultless diction and
marvellous fluency that holds the
close attention of her audiences.
Mrs. Shepard spoke in part as
follows:
The Mormon church is a great Sc
cret organization with secret tenn
pies. signs, oatffs, grips and pass
words. Even the President of the
United States, nor any official of our
government. unless he were a Nor
man, could go inside of either of
their four secret temples in Utah.
Here the secret ordinances take
place: the marriage service, the
baptisms for the dead, the celestial
sealings. etc. In an interview. which
l had with President Harding on
January 3rd, l told him that he
could not speak with high enough
command to compel Reed Smoot to
bring to him the records of the plur-
al marriages that take place in the
Temple. Reed Smooth would have
to obey the President of the Nor
mon church first. last and all the
time and no gentle has been able to
see the records of the Mormon TEN
pie for the Prophet would not per
nit it.
Every Mormon wears a secret
garment next to his body that car
rieS upon it symbols and these SYM
bolS carry the oath of diSoyalty to
the government. If people want to
become familiar with this oath, they
should get the Senate Document in
the Smoot case and they will find
that MCrmons testified on the wit
ness stand in the United States Sen
ate to having taken the oath.
One of the really clever things of
the Mormon propaganda in Salt
Lake is the one they pursue with
tourists. Every day at noon they
give free organ recital in the
great organ and also to hear the ac-
coustic properties of the large build
ing by listening to the pin drop In
this way they divert the attention
of the tourist from the essential
things by putting before him the
superficial
You ask if they practice poly
gamy? Polygamy is repressed but
not suppressed. The revelation on
polygamy is published in all their
late editions of 1.-The Doctrine and
Covenants and there have seen six
Prophets Of the Mormon church in
its ninety years of existence and ev-
cry Prophet has had plural wives:
even the last Prophet, Heber J.
Grant, appointed years ago, is a
pOlygamist. The Manifesto which
was issued in 1890 by the Prophet
MILFORD Woodruff forbidding poly
gamy was never published in any Of
their books until twenty years later
and then it was placed in the very
! back of the book and headed "Of-
fetal Declaration". The doctrine of
Polygamy stands as a revelation
from God. The denial of Polygamy
is u declaration of man.
We are calling upon patriots ev-
erywhere to help us in waging
warfare against crime. yelled ar a
religion; against disloyalty masquer-
/ aiding AS pious ritual; against fl
nancial fraud perpetrated in the
name Of the Almighty; against a 20
/ litical machine that calls itself
Church! against a Mohamedon ha-
rem in Christian land; against a
Kingdom set up in this Republic.
Mrs. Shepard will give one more
lecture in Augusta. at o'clock next
Friday evening at the Green Street
Methodist church when she will ad-
dress meeting of women only on
the subject, The Secret Marriage in
the Mormon Temple"