Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-08-09
, Mormonism Exposed.

DR.. J. M. Tibbetts of Boston spoke
on Americas Greatest PERIL" in the
Congregational C h urch Thursday
evening of last week, to a fair-sized
audience, under the auspices of the
National Reform association.
Dr. Tibbetts was introduced by
Rev. J. J. Hutchinson.
Although the state of Vermont has
the unenviable record of being the
birthplace of the founder of Mormon
ism Joseph Smith, we are so far
away from the headquarters of the
religio-political organization of
which he was the founder that we
do not realize it's growth and power.
But to those who know it best the
Mormon system is cancer eating it's
, deadly way into the very heart of the
nation, which it has already has poi
. soned at it's fountain head.
Many of the statements of the
speaker would have seemed unbeliev-
able had they not been supported by
incontrovertible evidence.
1t is a startling recital, for in
stance, that the Mormon hierarchy
controls the salt trust, the sugar
trust and the beet-sugar industry,
with the Mormon president at the
head of these great interests and the
II apostles among the trustees.
Utah is the very Alladin's cave of
minerals, gold, silver, coal, and other
materials in vast but unknown guam
titles. The great salt lake is famous,
the world over, as the greatest source
of salt, product which Mormonism
has developed into a perfect gold
mine of wealth. The church owns
hundreds of miles of railroad; it has
! more than a score of banking institu-
: tons; it has more than 500 million
dollars of capital invested in fruit
orchards, not only in Utah but in
Hawaii and in far-off Australia
Every member of the church is a
tither paying tenth of his income
| into the treasury of the church. An
| example of this is the recent death
| of man in Salt Lake City who was
paying a million dollars a year tithe
| money when he died.
The church is a vast political ma
| chine. 1t makes the boast that ii
, already controls seven states in the
middle west and holds the balance OF
power in five others, and that they
! have in consequence twenty-five SEN
ators in the present congress who
/, take their orders from them or lose
/ their political jobs.
The speaker claimed that President
Harding had publicly stated that
! Reed Smoot has more influence in
congress than any other six men, OF
course, because of his connection with
/ Mormonism.
! Former vice-president Marshall is
reported as saying during the war
! that the two most perfectly organ
lied forces in the world were the
German army and the Mormon
| church.
But it is in it's theological creed
that the church becomes blasphem-
Gus organization. Its polygamous
tenets have never been repealed nor
repudiated although obliged to main
! tain an outward respect for law. 1t
! boldly teaches that Christ was the
son of Joseph by a former plural
marriage and that the marriage OF
| Cana in Galilee was that of Christ
+! himself to three women, and that the
women of the gospel story were all
his plural wives. More than that
that Joseph Smith, the founder OF
; MOrmoniSm. was direct des-
cendent of Jesus.
To propagate that theory qualified
missionaries are sent abroad through
all the earth and it is reported that
last year they secured 100000 con-
verts.