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MORMONTSM. The Inner Workings of the Great Modern Theoeracy. ITS CHARACTER AND PURPOSES. Combination of» Civil and Hoclesiastical Rule. ee COURSE QF THE. PROPHBT-DIGTATOR Robbery of. Emigrants and Swindling of the Government. POLYGAMY'S HIDEOUS BLOT. Blood Atonement—The Saints’ New Name for Murder. Selanne tice Thwarted Through the Bullot Boxes and Venial L:gislators. GOOD CHIZENS’ DEMAND ON THE NATION. pus Le Sau Lake Ciry, May 25, 1877. Travellers on tho Union Pacific Railroad, who go to Salt Lake as boys go to a circus, to see Brigham Young, almost invariably form erroneous ideus of that person aud of Marmonism. Tho appearance and the maunuers of the Prophet are adapted to decelve all who Bre not practised judges of character. His stature is commanding, bis head large, his features not unpleas- ing, bis address courteous, and his tones and gestures are uncommonly suave, Though tottering, at the ago Of seventy-five, upon a cane, ho extends to his visitors @ hand as white, small and soft as a young dandy Qt be proud of, When he engages them in con- Versution everything he says is nice, and he looks at them with such an air of benignity and candor that even shrewa men do vot always mistrust him. As for women, refined und cultivated ladics have an instinct to get away from bim as they would from a sleok ser pent, Ignorant women, however, sre often churined oy this serpent, and there aro some ingtances of Gen- tile girls who have distracted ybeir parents by wanting io marry bim! Ho is tho master hypocrite of the century, even as ibe “religion”? over which bo presides js its supremost fraud, §MORMONISM AND 178 DKVOTEXS, Mormonism may be defined as a patchwork of all the ists since Babel, put together for the aegradution of credulous people in the interest ot a few designing kuaves. Never Wasa more cunning, tyrunnicul the- ocracy. established, Springing trom the most vulgar Uttie impostures’ of modern times, it has grown into fn imposture so great ws to threaten the material in- terests of a whole nation, while subverting both the Matoyal and moral interests of its devotees, Tho “Jatter—who are they? For tt is important that the errors in regard to them should be dispersed, They are:— 1. A set of shrewd Amoricans, like their chiel, who are devoted to him us the source of their wordly pros- perity. This class includvs one of two sons of the Prophot, who have grown to manhood since the pil- @rimage from Nauvoo. Some trom the first believed in Joseph Smith, bis peculiar religion and bis succes- sor; others pretended to believe im them, and all are sufficiently zealous to suit the Prophet. 2 Men trom foreign countries, wholly committed to the Mormon faith, and who have been eievated to bigh Positions in the Church by reason of thelr devotion, their iatelligence and their willingness to serve their superiors, ¥ & A population of some fiity thousand males, formed from the murderers, jail birds, horse thieves and counterfetters who made Nauvoo their refuge prior to its destruction, and from the most ignorant but industrious classes in Eugland, Scotland, Wales, Denwark aud other countries of Northern Europe. 4 Some fifty thousand women and children, consist. ing of aged first wives, polygamous women and their descendants, of whom few, so far as I have seen, do not deserve intense pity. linpelied into their present positions by retigious zoal, or Jed there by fulse proim- ises, they ali suffer—some confessediy, others with pride that retusos to admit thoir shame, TUR INAUGURATION OY TIE SYSTEM, Here, then, 18 seen @ people, collecied by a system at once masterly and impudent, and composed aiww- gether of classes who trom interest or necessity or fanaticism became members of the Mormon Church, e cunning of the leaders of the Church was evinced in the first place by their selection of the most i- goulous rogues in America to guide its councils und to do its “dirty work,’’ and by the gathering of its masses {rom countries where they had been accus. tomed to servility or to serfdom. Arriving here as converts of foreign Mormon missionaries, they became and have over since been as clay to the bands of the potter, “You havo got to learn,” said President Heber C, Kimball, “to be subject to the priesthood, You have got to learn to be thrashed by Brother Brigham, Your children must learn tho eame lesson, and then you will be moulded into veaselg of houcr, But you can- pot be moulded into veesels of honor unloss you be subject. You potters know it, If you Lave worked at the potter's business aa i have,’ THE CMURCH ORGANIMATION, In bis three capacities—(L) as prophet, seer and revelator; (2) as presideut of the Charch, and (3) 4g trustee of the Charch—Brigham Young is absolute masier of “this people,” He rules therm tn all their adairs, both spiritual and temporal, oy his stogle will, Hie recognized function as the ropresentative of God places him beyond personal responsibility, and gives bis command a sirengib which is enlorced through on artiul system of gubordivates. Ags the President of the United States has bis Cabinet, so las the President of the Mormon Church hig counsellors. But there is bo check upon tho latter's executive power. Twelve apostles preside over churehes, administer tho ordi. nances, &c, High priesis and elders preside over the several ‘‘stakes,’’ that ts to say, dioceses, Below these pradea of church officiats an Aaronic priesthood 4 iublished, which imciudos the offices of bishop, priest, teacher and deacon. 8 priesthood reaches Into every settlement, every housobold, in Utah. The bishops, assisted by tho sub-priesis (or counsellors), conduct the temporal business of the Church and sit in judgment on transgressors, To ascertain who are transgressors tho teachers and deacons are in- rested with power to enter dwollings and question, cross-question and dictate to ther inmates Tho latter are expected to answer, and whon they “re summoned before their Yishops thoy are expected to obey coangel.’’ Tho bishops who preside in the several cities and pottiements are all selected by Brigham Young, and they are compelled to choose subordinates wo are suitable to Brigham Young, Atl the bishops and thoir subordinates do the will of the Prophet, or if they flinch from doing it they ere promptly punished and removed. Gon- erally they are an unserupulous Jot, and they are ta auy case prevoptod from maniiesting sympathy with an oppressed people by the corwainty of disgrace in } ease they should do sa, ‘The peoplé in their tura ure { 80 taught and bousd to obcy vishops and teachers that they daremot violate their covepants, THE CHURCH ADOVER THE STATE. From this resumé of the Church orgauization it will be seen that it {8 sufficient tor the purpose. All thesé Church officers are but mediums for the trans- mission of the will of the President, Tne civic Legis- latore of the Territory, moreover, ia an ycclesiastical concern, It consists of a conclave of bishops-—the most powerful prembers, as we have seen, of the Mormon structure. Thus Mormonism becomes uot a mere union of Charch and State—it is the Charch above and in the Stute, Standing im his pretended capacity between the people and the Supreme Being, Brigham Young is ablo at all times to declare that what he says to bis people is the word of God. An acknowledumont of his Telationship tothe Creator is made atest of Church tollows bipship, : DIVINE REVELATION Acting as revelator he not only prescribes a general course of conduct for his followers, but promulgates from time to time special “revelations from on bigh.” ‘These contain doctrines to ba invariably believed and advocated, They baye becu varied to suit the chang- ing opinions, wojms and cuprivea, passions and lusts of the Mormon chiefs. Polygamy, for example, which was expressly forbidden in the original Book of Mor- mon, was ‘revealed’? in cousequence of the antmal yearnings of Jogoph Smith, The escapades of that licentiate among his neighbors’ wives became so no- torious in Nuuvoo that he fett compelied to obtain an excuse for them direct from God, “PHY GRBATEST LIVING FINANCIER,” As trustec in trust for the Cbureb Brigham Young has carried out with transcendent success the intention with which he camo to Utah, and bas guined the repu- tation of being the “greatost living financler.”? At leust ‘this 18 what he called himselt while rating an offending apostie in the *somple,” at the receut conference in St George, His trust is ludicrously indefnie; it has no prescribed dutics or conditions, uo guards nor lim- its, no acknowledged mode of accountability. Mark hore the scheme of robbery and profits, of gradual in- creaso of profits, conceived ycare ago by Brigham Young and bis advisers, Deawn to the Territory by false represcntutions, promises of houses and sections of jand, and plentiful aids to their comfort and pros- perity, the pilgrims from across the Atlantic encoun- tered conditions which opliged them (o surrender on. tonth (fh some instances.) of their possessions tothe Church trowgury, In numerous cases Englisbmen, who left home with hundreds, even thousands of pounds in their wallets, were cajoled or commanded to deliver up the money belore leaving the Atlantic coast for the Missouri River, or before leavine tho Mis- souri for Salt Lake, ‘hese moneys, they were assured, were intended tor the beneft of ihe Church—tbhe building up of the kingdom. ‘They wore told of the: porpetual emigration fund and other enginery intended to save distant souls and bring accessions to the (old in Utab, and were taught that every dollar they parted with was so much given to the Lord. Xho poor dupes did not question, most of them do not now quostion, these assurances. Hav- ing on bbe threshold of Utah disgorged all and more than they could spare, they were afterward required to disgorge at stated times from year to yoar, ihe tenth of their incomes demanded by tho Church con- tinucs to be paid in as a tux ostensibly jor the support of the Church aloue. It 13 roa!ly manipulated by the Church leaders, It discharges no civil obligation. Such ts the revepue derived by Brigham Young and hisassociates from tho “tithing” that it is made tho Priveipal subject of discussion as every conference and charch meeting, Noglect to pay tithing is a gorigas offonce ; rejusul to pay tt isa crime entailing on the criuimali—Arst, ostracism; next, the sevorcst penaltios.. A very good idea of the extent to which this system,is curried may be had from the following \ithing song, sung ata meeting of one of the quo- rumns:— TITHING SONG, Air, “The King of the Caunibal Isiands.") Come, Mormous all, attention pay, Whilst L astempt to sing my say ; I've chosen for my text to-day, “Como lorward and vay up your tithing.” ‘These may not be the very words Whieh ancient Moly Writ records, But Malachi, | think, affords A vorse with which the sause accords, At seems that he hud ‘ause to scold ‘The saints, or Iaraclites, of old; In tact, they needed to be sold, ”, ome forward and pay up your tithing,” Chovun ‘Thon, if to prosper you desire And wish to keep ont of the fre Nay, if you to be suits uspire, “Come ferward aud pay up your titning.” Now male and female, rich and poor, Who wish to keep your stuading sure, ‘That you salvation may seenrs, “come forward and pay up your tithiv,* A tonth that ts, and nothing 1 Of all you do or may possess, and their inerease, ducks aud grese. A tenth, indoed, of all your tot, Likewise the produce of the soil; And it you've any wine or oll, “Come forward wud pay up y Mebiny,”? Chorus. ~ “Then if to prosper,” &e, THK POLICY OF IS0LATION, The Church of Latter Day Saints, Llasphemously so- calied, has becn isolated irom the world by its leaders because they kvew It could not stand friction against Christianity and civilization, It hag been ostra- cised by the world, which could not tol- eraje its follies aud ts crimes For both theso reagous it has become a selfish Church, founded on a@ ‘religion’? originally seltish and on “revelations” whicn have tended to make it more and more selfish, The endowment of its neophytes is ac- companied with oaths which bind them to fearful ob- ligations, These, while compeliing them to respoct and obey their priests and counsellors, also compel thom to abhor ministers and peopio who profess other faiths, A Gentile is always to be suspected aad never to be trankly associated with. A malign ‘counsel” which extends trom Brigham Young to his apost from the apostles to the elders, from the elders to tho bishops, from the bishops to the teachers and irum the teachers to the people, admonishes them to beware of strangers, who, they allege, can never inherit the king- dom of heaven, Thas the Mormons regard their neighbora, even of the United States, asa kind of Ishinaelites, and thus, as Governor Emery satd in his recent conversation reported to you, they have no idea of a republican form of government, and regard themselves as Morinons rather than as American citj- zens, A RELIGION OF MATE. ‘The embittered and seliish dogtrines of Mormonism teach to its adheronts not hunjiity and lepial, but pride aud self-aggrandizement; not @ Jofty spiritual reward of obedienes to Christ’s teachings, but ten poral good and great power in the world tw coine from obedience to God's teachings ax revealed turoagh Brigham Young. The Sainw shail inherit tho earch; unbelieve. ms and property of other pooples will cre long be thoirs, and their enemies, consisting of the pop tions of the whole world besides, shall be confounied, punished and finally perish from the earth, In no sermon by a Mormon priest ia there expressed charity or pity for those who differ irom them and whose dis- mal fate ie toyua portrayed, Other churches pray tor the backslider; the Mormon curses him with hideous blusphoiny. Said Heber Kimball ;— ‘1 do pray lor my onemios ; 1 pray God Almighty to damn them.” Said Brigham Young, too, to,twelve thousand peoplo gathered here in Salt Lake City :— It thero are enemies hore let thom keep their tongues still or sudden destruction will come upon them, Rather than apostate «! ‘Nourish here | will upsheathe my bowle knife and conquer or dio* 1 would (ako that bosom pin I used to wear at Nauvoo and cut thelr damned throats from ear to car and Bay, Go to hell across lots)" 2 SYNONYME OF MoRsONIM, Mormonisin reduced to Its essence amounts fnally to this:—"We are the Lord’s people, His chosen pous ple, His peculiar people, to whom He bas spoken by the mouth of His prophet in these latter days, We know,of a surely that our religion 1s right, and that all Other religions are wrong, We havoa right to bate those who believe ia other religions, The world h: dogenerated; we are selected to regenerate it; there is no true virtue, mo real religion, outside of us; tho world is ripe for a harvest of blood aud death, of which ‘we shal) be called on to be the avenging reapers," Again:— “The Lora bas conferred on us, His pecu- liar people, tho blessing, along wilh other blessings, of hall bo tradden beneuth thou tee; the | many wives, This tha we, as Saints, may, through our progeny, build up His kimwgdom,’? “From the wicked shall be taken away even the wile that he bas, and she shall be given to the righteous map,” “To us, as Latter Diy Saints, are due the possessions ofour unbelieving welguvors, includimg their wives, their fortunes anu their fancied hanors.”” ‘The blasphemy, the absurdity cf such a doctrine in- culcated by insolent mountebanks to a few thousand uninformed and fatuous peasants walled between the mountains in a remote desert in the heart of tho United States are apparent enough, But ite effect on their morals and couduct 1s not yet generally under- etood, mriQiAM's ser eseeM, Animated, or, rather, degraded, by such teachings, the Morinon masses were ready tg receive that doc- trine of blood atonement with which Jogoph Smith be- gan and Brighsw Young has continued to ceé- ment his power. Virst sowing in the hearts of his devotees butred, imulice, all unewartia- Vieness, strife and animavity against ‘apostates’” Brigham Young was prepared to announce and enforge this doctrine in spite of a tew dissenting voices, which were thereafter quickly Stilled by the Knives of hfs assassins. He denies to the world the oxisteuce of such & Vand of assassins, but so true it 18 that a class of wnen nicknamed Daultes and Destroy- | lug Angels did and does gx! ‘nat several of them have come forward and avowed their crimes, without having previously received promiscs of immunity from prosecution. Nearly ate hundred murders of Gen Ulah since the Movmons took possession, This. number excludes the 130 emigrants butchered at Mountain Meadows, Only one of the guilty parties have beon brought to justice, and tt 18 notorious’ thit’ every killing was done at the instance of subardinate autbori- ties, who followed the tusobings or instructions of the Church Jeadors, Every execution of a murderor bere, except one, has been that of a Gentile or upostate mur- dered, or of a Mormon Nunite, who, dy reason of his imprudence, was made # politic Macrifice, Jobu D. Lee was one of these same tmprudent mame ~ M.00D AKONEMBNT. From tho firat Brigham Young's sermons were cal- culated to encourage murders of the enemios of tho Church. There ts aleo doudly evidenve which will ve produced in court this summer and next fall that, in somo instances, he direvted mon to ve “cyt off,” and that in oibers ho approved their taking of, Bigod atopement for agin aguinst the Church fs still among the articies of faith of every true Mormon. In the Eadowment House ali ‘saints pledge themselves to revenge the douths of the prophets ugajost their en- emics—their enemies comprising the uuregonerate in- habitants of the rest of the world, ‘They also take oaths tosubmit to the cutting of their own throats and disembowelment if they ever betray their leaders or commit an offencaagainstthe Prophet. To remiud them of und hold them to tacse covcunnts the latter has thus, from time to time, adaressed them in the Tabernacle :— “Whon the tline comoy ‘that we have noed to shed blood thon it will be wereamury we sould da it, and if Will be juat a in, nocent axto go ant killa deer when we ave hingry or in tine of samine” “T bave known @ great maby wen who have lef this Coureh tor whom there ts no chance whatoyer of exulta- thon, hut if their Mood had been epulled it ould have been better for the “Will you love your Lrothers apd sisters likewise when they havo committed 4 sin. thet ganuot be stoned for with- out vheddiny their blood? Wilt you love dat mun or oman teell erouyh to shed thety blosde “But now 1 suy, in the mame of the Lord, that it: this people will sin no more, but tuithtully liye their religion, their sing will be forgiven them sithout laking life." “Now, wien you hear, iny brethren, telling about cutting people off from the earth, tut, yuu consider is strong ductrine ; but it is to save thom, uot to destroy them,” “This is loving our neighbor as ourselves. Tf he needs help help him, If ho wishes salvation and it ia ugcessury ‘to spill his blood upon the ground in order that he be saved, pill | “It fs trae the blood of the Son of God was shed for sivs j Shrough the full and those commisred by men; yet, yo men can commit sing which It can never remit, Aw it was in the anelont days soit is iu our day; cul dunsh the principles aave taught publicly from thts stand, still the people do not un- derstand them ; yet the law is preeincly the mauve,” “L have known scores und hundreds of people for whom there wouldhave been a chance in the last resurrection | af their tees had been taken and thet Wood rpitted upon the | growul an @ snioking incense to the’ Atuigity, ut who are aw augels lo the devil, uniil our elder brother, Josus T Chriat, raises them up, conquers death, hell aud the grave.” “There are sins thatean ve stoned for by anolfering | Upon an wltur asin wnctemt days, aud there are sins thar the blood of a lamb, of w eal or of turtle doves cannot re- | mit, but they anust be atoned tor by the blood ot the ma: Thuit in the reason why men talk to you as they do feane th svat, Chey wuterstand the doctrine and throw out a sew | words atout it, Youhuve been taught that doctrine, but you do not understand it.” “1 LV ANOVEK THE LAW, AXD 5O.DO THIS PEOPLE,” | “Hwwyers wre getting pretty thiek hore, ‘They aro get- ting to be very troublesome with thelr lawsuits, It was just | sv wt Nauvoo, They worried the life oat of the Prophet | ‘ep, wed Gually secured Ids turder, Dhey tried it on | there; but f told them if they didn’t quit I'd send shem to hell cross ivis, and they quit, Aud now they are at the sume thing Mere, Lhave no wish to bo troubled in this kind of way. Lhaye no wish tego through the same thing hove gain, If they will ry that thing on me here, L gice them Je jug wow, Th any of these wmcailed oficera of the law try to iy me before the dammed, euane hounds vf the ne iuix went out here @ loved it over us, 1M souk thems to helt evoss lots, 90 help me Gods TUR MORMON MASSES, ‘The mass of the Mormon people, consisting, ay wo lave seen, of an humble, dull, plodding, unaspiring | peasantry, are to Brigham Young and other beads of { tho Church far more subservieat tn all respects than wore the peasantry of mediwval Europe to their mas- tors, While the favored membors of tho pricstuood we arrest me aval b law the governs hewers of Wood and drawers of water in Utah stay quite poor. Aud no wonder; for, besides tho tithing system, which extracts from every Mormon a tenth of | hig capital or labor, Briguum Young hus several old- Jusnioned royal ways of obtaining money from lis subjects, As far as possible be bas compelled tho } People to retram from buying goods from Gentiles, | alleging, as a reason, his desire to build up local manu. Jactures and genoral tndystries in Utan, In temporal as Weil as spiritual affairs he bas adopted a policy of secigsion and exclusion, Thesystem of vo-operative stores Which extenus throughout the Territory, | dubbed ‘*Z10n’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution,’ was devised by bim, is beaded by him, and by reason of the ‘counsel’! which prevents Mormous from put- ronizing Gentile morchunts amounts to a monopoly which biighis Gentile outerprise in most of the eottlo- | ments, When the greut ¢o-operative store in Sait | Lake Gity was opened about the year 1569 the Mormon police were stationed in Iront of every Gentile store in | the city with orders to prevent or dissuade Mormon | purchasers from entering (howe establishineats, to | tho Mormon partuer of Mr. John Chisiett, then one of the most prosperous of Gentile merchants here, Brigham Young sent a message requiring bim to sell his interest in his business, dissolve his partnership and retire, ‘The Mormon obeyed and Mr, Chisiott, woo | purchased hig pariner’s share, found himself wuha boavy stock of goods on hand and a declining market, He was thundersirack so0n alter by the order of Gentiles, and was forcod into bankruptey along with several others, Soon afierward the Pucfe Katiroad was completed, The movement ot Gentiles inio the | Territory and other cansos beyond the trophet’s con- trol conspired to release bis Yusiness adversaries from such extreme proscription, bat to this day his almost omnipotent power is used to promote Church enterprises und discourage Gentile ones, YOUNG'S Vonacity, These Church adventures have sometimes been lieved that whether the few woollen factories, iron works, sugar mills, paper mills, distilleries and other Industries estaviished by the Chureu iniled or not the President of the Church nevar failed to get some money out of them, All over the Territory he bas | landed estates—soino productive, some idle, Farms here, farms there, the best corner lots in } nourly every city aud Incorporated town—all these belong to Brigham Young. A portion | ot this property hae been procured by perjury and traud; some of it has been obtained by the law us construed at Washington, which, while it excludes tho right of the first wife of @ man to pre-empt on bome- stead lands conced such rights to polygamous mothors, Each of the supposed eighteon polygamous wiveto! Brigham Young is eautied to pre-empt 160 acres of government laud and dood it over to ber lord and master. In this way, agin other ways, he becomes the patroon of all around him, 1 prooced to cite, in order that eapltaliste particularly may andersiand the dificulties which Jie im the path of Investments under tiles and apostates frum the Church have bean canui led tre)’ get rick, those in disiayor and the hundred thousand | | Brigham Young forbidding Mormons to trade with | protitable—sometines they hava, failed; but it is bo- | present conditions in Utah, a few examples of ga hase Ananciering voracity of Brigham Young :— SAMPLE FINANCIERING. About filteen years ago Brigham Youug claimed a wiregrass farm, contaimimg about five hunared acres, four miles trom this city, As trusice im trust of the Church be alsg claimed « (aria of nearly she sawe size, bus # little uearer Salt Luke City and much more value able, 1b t# not strange that Brigham Young, beluga Yankee, made a proposition to the trustee in trust to trade farms, ‘The burgain was finally made, much to the protit of the Prophet. Alibough the trustee in (rust was badly swindled in Luis trausagiion 1 mast be said in his defence that he is ugually very shrewd, and that Brigham Young 1s the only persoa who ever got the beet of bins in a trade, ‘Tbe United Staies Land Oilice in Bult. Lake Clty was opened in 180), j'vevious to this sine Jand ja Uap was held by squatters’ ttle, Bigham Young so beld many hundred acres of valuavie land near Salt Lake City. The oniy hous lor obtalnivug United States Patents tor these lands were by homestead oF pre- empiion eniry, lu either cause thp wpplioant must make afliduvit thay Le does nut oWa 520 weres of land; Ubat be hus unproved the laud in question aud wade it his exclusive hore; (hat he bas not settled upon and Improved tbe land to sel! the same on speculation, but $f good with to appropriate it to bis own dee und ven- ait, abd thathe has not direcuy nor indirectly made apy @grecipent with any person whajever by which the tila which he muy acquire Jeom tho United States government sbouid tuure, in whole er in part, tothe benefit of any person exeept himself, DEVIANCE OF YOR LAW. Im defines of the provisioas of tas law Brigham Young sent certuin of Lis tools to live apon these lands, come into the land Office and sigwmihe iyon-clad affidavit, and within a few days thereuiter they deeded tho farms to Brigham for $200 to $500 each, they being worth tweaty to Ulty times these sums, Many years ago the Territorial Logislature gave bim about 20,000 ueres of United Stutes laud situated in Caghe Valley, When the Luna Oflice was opened hero the Cuche Vailey Saints made their filings om thia furm, and applying for patents swore to baving made Valuadlo tinprovements. ‘Tbe trash is that hot a single habitable Bouse was built upou the entive tract. In many cases a sbunty op wheels was al- Jowed tu remain on one quarter section over night and was then hauled o un adjoinug quarter section to serve ad a “permapent home?’ another might. Patents being received for those lands Brigham’s lund | agent Was kent to Cache county and received a deed {rom each of these pre-emptors for the land enterod fn his name, Beside the government price of the lund these men are reported to have received six to eight bushels of wheat cach for their services in this Job. No person is allowed more than one pre-emption rigut Therefore Brigham Young, in addition to cew- Pelling these wen to commita perjury, also jadaced them to sigu away, in bis iuvor, their right to public Innds tor the beacilt of themselvealand theif families. An cases of cities and towns located on the public Ignds the AMuyor orthe county, Vrobate Judge is au. thorized by act of Congress to enser such Lown site “ior the several use and benellt of the ovcupanis thereot.” Salt Lake City was “entered” im 1871“ by Daniel H. Wells, Mayor, Brigham Young obtained the Mayor's | deeds for vast numbers of city lots containing ove and | @ qnarier acres cach, and of which Le pover mado any legal “occupancy.’’ In this way be secured tle to Whole squares contajaing ten acres cach, both ingbls city aud Ogdon, and these squares huve since then been improved wt the expense of the tax. payers, He compelled tho Mayor to give! him deeds for a number of lots which were occupied by others ab tho time of cniry, Mrs. Orson Tratt’s lot was thus deeded to Young. The courts hore havo since awarded It to hor, Octers huve come | mMenced wults against Brigham on the came grounds, MALLNOAD PINANUIERING, jam has ulso been a railroad ‘fancier’? Ho @arly saw the necessity for connecting this city with the Pacilic roads at Ogden, distunt thirty-six smiles. Ho nccordingly called tor men to grado the road bed wod furnish the ties, When thu road was tinished tho men Were insuberdivate enough to ask jor their pay. Brigham summbocu them betore tue School of the Trophets and there told them they must forgive him the debt, aa to pay 1t would bankrapt him, and they | were Jorced to accopt these terms. In 1867 Brigham owed the Tithing Office over $900,000, u8 the books showed. He, like Mr, Miouw- ber, believed in paying his debts, aud his method of Iquidating this account would have dono credit to the ingepuily of Micawber hiusell, Ho siwpiy credited himself, “By services rendered,” for an equal amount, and thanked God that that bill was paid at Jost, Nor was (vere any ove to dispute the correct- ness of the entry. ON & MISSION, One of the Propliet’s favorite methods of discipline, which be practised upou ove who bad made himseil | obnoxious, or Who owned property which ho reiused to well the Prophet on the latier’s terms, was to send the offending brother “on a mission,’ Before his | departare the brother was required to deed | his property to Brigham. ‘The following is an illustration of the manner iu which this thing was dong:—From 186- to 1867 Brigham aud the corpora. tion of Salt Lake City were partners in the manufac- ture of whiskey. ‘Ibis was belore the completion ot the Union Vacific road, and “Valley Tan,” as i was called, sold tor $$ to $12 per galion, A tormidable | coinpetiter of the Prophet im the distillery busipess was William Howard, whose place was about six miles suuth of this city, io Mill Creek ward, Brigham went to Mill Creck for the purpose of holding weoling ono day tn 1867, and, tu the course of bis “sermon,” told the saints bow Brother, Howard was poisoning them | vy making three and @ ball gallons of whiskey from a bushel of wheat and gbut he (Brigham Youug) knew | from experiment phat a bushel of graiu contuised ouly two gallons of puro whiskey. Howard exeliediy jumped up and told the Prophet He lied, Thereupon tue greatest confusion prevailed, and nothing but Brigbasn Young's tutorference saved Howard from being mobbed, ‘This open quarrel vorved Brignain's | purpose, He ordered Howard on @ mission, aud at | the same time offered to buy his distifiory for about | $30,000, Howard was compelled jo obey, aud ac- | vepted the votes of one Joseph Lor tndorsed by | Brigham Youog and 0, H. Wells, tor the amount named, The distillery was opoyated in Iorne’s name, | but sales of liquor to the city were nade in the name | of D. HH. Wells, Wells was then Mayor of salt Lake City, apd sold whiskey to the cor. poration for $4 per gallon uvifl 1569, whea the Union Vacille Railroad was finished, Yor months after tue completion of the railroad this corporation Aikewise ty thei hearths and marriage beds, be wan | Judge aud clerk in each couuty mutually wake out a social structure of Mormonism. The domestic habits it creutes, the obscene snd valgar quarrels it has raised, tho sorrow uu has ecuused to women, the de- jority, disease and curiy death it bas brought to cbildren, will be deseribed iu a future letter, Despite 8 Lorrors, notwithstanding the thousands of abandoned graves surmounted by totcoring bead- stones which I:ttor the unsuuded cemeteries ucar Sult Lake and every Morivon rottinment, euch one testily- | jug 0 a dishonored infant or 4 worman’s broken beurt, | polygaiwy is thought here to be pot the worst evil and, therefore, not the first to be assailed; it is considered as the least part of the giant evil here—uarepublicun, | un-Americun—to Wit, a powertul aud intamous Lheoe: racy. AN EVIL, THUOCRACY, The bead of Wis thevera Brigham Young, is thought to be the waa, or racer the thing, to be doue away with, When he fullg all will tail Invested, as Ue ix, with the powers of w very god aver 100,000 poo- pig, powers which reagh nob morcly to thee bearts but embodied wrong to bir pouple aud a menace to the Republic. invest a good man with his uotrammelied | imight, and abuses would sill dourish iu the midst of & society thus governed, Invest with i a bad wan, Wao during big lie bas been coutroliea successively, fret vy lust of women, next by lust ef power, aad last by lust of gold, abd we see the result, His sen- suality has been burnt out, bis power is somewhat Weakened, but bis avaries remains, WHKRE YOCSG FINDS PROLKUTION. Blusterer, coward wud densely ignorant though Brig- bam Young is described by Gentiles and apostates here to be, he ja gitted with malice aud cunning, which have enabled him to overthrow or to deceive his most dis- tant adversaries. Througt bis delezates to Congress aud his agepis ia the Territoral Legisiaiure be bas ob- tuined the pase of bilig which havo bitherte pro- tected hum and his associates, Two systems—tho eloc- toral and jury systems—will illustrate tno tenor of these luwas, CONTROLLING THE ¥RANCHIBE, ‘Tho Mormons so prepouderate (there being a popu- Jation of 10),000 Mormohs to 15,000 Gentilur) that in ho place except where there wera many Geatilos, together with many open or secret apostutes, could y but the Church ticket chance under tair means to win, But tn ordor to secure an overwhelming ndvan- taye at every poll tho priesthood, who conduct every Abin, arranged a double sysiem of marked tickets and Fegistty ot Votors. The marked tickots have on their | bucks an inseription ia the Deseret alphabet, This, visible when they ave folded to tho Mornfon judges of election, protects the bolder against achallenge by a Geatile, These tickets aro distributed betoce voting | day by the ward ceachers to all Mormons, No Mormon who goes to tho polls cam deposit a secret ballot While the law deprives the poll keepers of the privilege of opening and exaimining ballots, they evade the law in this way:--Ihey require each votor to give bis name, Which is inscribed tn a book, Opposite bis name, and also on the back of the ballot he presents, is written his number, in the order in whieb he bappens to appear after tho first voter was numbered in tho morning. By tuis device the poll- keepers and thelr wasters, the bishops, can tell who deposited every ballot. They have simply to compare the numbers onthe book with tho numbers on tho Dacks of the ballots, and cach voter's preference is disclosed, It any votor has ‘scratched’ a Church uucket tue tact is thus found out, and, if the ofenger be u Mormon, be is tustautly blackbulled and speauily arned, . In thia way the brethren are beld, even tn the exercigo of tucir rights as citizens, in complete subjection to Brigham Young. | Vor KARLY AND OvTEN Voting is trequently done by proxy, except in tho wards of Sult Luke City, where there are pow # large number of Geptile voters present to detect the fraud. In the school of the prophets at the Tabernacle the faithful have been urged to vote carly, often and everywhere they could. Some Mormons assuro me \ that they bave voted in jour or Ove wards on the same | day, using 1y some cases the pames of their horses aod mules! A bumorous featuro of these ‘electiona’’ is the licenso tuken by the Mormon judge or inspector, If be happens to be called out or | hus on errand of oes to bis dinner no takes Lis buliot box along with Lim, One day an acquaintance of ming, ap eminent Gentile, accompanied a Gentilo lady to the polis. This being a lund of female suffrage the lady went to vote and my triead to look ou. To thetr astonishment the polling place was vacant, Brother Jeter Clinton, who was in charge of the bullot box, bad taken it into the back room, ‘This performance of the Mormon brother, which wuld | vitiate ap election in New York, ts the rogular sort of thing in Utah, FEMALE SUVYRAGR. ‘Luere ie universai fomale sufirage here. Kven tho | firet or lawlul wife, whoso right of duwer the Legi- turo abolished some years is privileged to vote. So are tho polygamous wives. The latter, of course, so outnumber the former that the voto of the first | Wife is rendered useless. If sho is heartbroken by polygamy sbe will not have the courage to vote against the Mormon ticket; if sho 1s a fapatic and favors poly- gamy she will not want to vote against it. Asa rule Gentile ladies retrain from voting anyway, their dis- gust with the whole Mormon system preventing them legally married in Sweden, Eng nd or ‘Mansachusetts, apd alterwara polygumously aud Megelly married 19 the dens of the Endowment House 14 Salt Lake Ciy, aod nove of bis pulygamous martioges can be proved ia open court. A case iy point which euybt t inter ost Congress is that of George Q Caunyn, the present Mormon Delegate 19 the House of fej reseptatives During bis contest for his eieetion with General Maxe well, some years ogo, he cucountered the following ebarge iv Maxwell's ailidavits— “That you ace wow livity and cohabiting with tomy _pre- tended wives, iadetiaut and wilfat vivlasion of tke law of grens of 1H in the Tyeriine in poly gan to this charge Mr, Cannon, whose relationship with Several ladies Lere is notorious, and Who would dislike to be accosted in the streets of Salt Lake Cuy with ao inquiry atter the health of lis mistresses, rolurmed the lallowing evueive anewer , “idory (iat 1 now live, oe have ever lived, in violation ofthe lasso! God, man, my vouniey, deveney ov elvilizte tiga, oF of wuy Law of the Uniled stator” 3. A law aliowing Uhe Court, after the exbaustion of the regular yearly pang! of 200 jusors, 10 order tho marshal to go out 18 the vieinag> and sammou men to Ul up the jury, (tt is cow required that the same boxial of mixed ballots which Were orlgiually drawa thas you, George Q. Cannan, are liviag from shall next be resorted to in cuse of a deflciency of jurors.) 4. A provision’ that the ballot box shalt be taken out of the nunds of Church officers and put in the hands of Amer weéne. ‘The fact that ingpectors of clee- L present solid Mormons, told by the Mor- mon authorities to lake as much time as they please to canvass the Territorial vow, appears to render this request reusouable. COMiRKaS AND THE MORMONS. 1 bow approvch that part of sue Mormon question Wuich concerns Congress, and-whteb ought tocuupy apart of the thoughis of Seuators and mombers of Congress who ure resting ‘boeweeu the seasibus, Under all admiatstrations of all patios, whether whig, domocrat or repubdlicas, there have been a few Cabinet ollicers, u few Senators, afew members ot the House of Representatives in Washington w) bave served Brignam Young and the Mormon Church. Whenever Brigham Youug, who bas repedtediy boasted that he gould buy the whole Congress of tho Unied States, “called on his people for movey ‘for that purpose, the money bas come and disappearcd. Brigbam Young bimeelf calls sis mongy “ax grease,’ Inewch house of Congress there are two commmittees—Territorial and Judiciary—in the judge menis of woose members Morméus feel a deep inter- est. If any members of thes oommitteos can be reached by corrupting influcaves Mormon agen(s will certainly reach thom, It was repeatedly tound that in Congressionul. committecs where no pablic record is made of the proovedings « plenty of men coorced hy bribes or hospitality tuto becoming Mormon symputoizers, would tight aguiuat or stave off reports upfuvorable to the Merimon Ubarch uopil they 9b so low down on the caleodars thas they could not be brought inte either house. If one of them got inte one house it would tail io tho other house, und thus be beaten by indirection. I lorboar, at present, to discuss the true imward ness of this infportant matter, * Query :~Or rau? + Au taspection of the vity books, made by the Grand Jury a veur azo, revealed the fuct that pheae plousaainia had’ manutucrired £10000) worth of “erookadl whiskey, * and woury Department has called ypou them to exe plain tly Babstentus innovation, THY NMED OF *ROOPS--WHAL THE BELSLD HAS DONE, {Prom the Salt Luke Tribune.) There is uo voubl that the influence of Governor Emory and General Sinsth ts used agaiost the urgent request of tho Geutile citizeus of Utah for more troops, aid the opinion of those two vilicials—one the civic head und the other the military chie!—will no doubt outweigh the counsels of a whole host of private citizens, because these part ‘e supposed to be well informed, unbiased and trustworthy. It should be borne in mind that the HrzaLy has distanced its con- temnporaries (it always does) in opening a fresh mine ot news The correspoudent of that imilgential jour- nal, now in Salt Lake, is exposing the social and po- Jitical babits of a so-called religious MUIR LY —C X= isting in the heart of this grout Ropabli¢—with guch thoroughness and fidelity that the universal Yankee nation is really taken by surprise, Until Jobo D. Leo’s confeszion revealed some uf the blood curdiing crimes of the Utub pricsthood two-thirds of the Amer- ican people had nover heard of the Mountain Meadowa Dutebory. The Hxkaip hus set about the righteous work of showing up this Latter Day dispensation in all {ts deforinity; and from the heartiness with which it bas entered upon the work it te fair to suppore it Will not give up the investigation until the workings of this blood stained theocratic system are laid bare. DUIY OF THE GOVERNMENT. (From the Pailadelpbia Herald.) Since the execution of Elder Lee the Mormon com. | munity have been disturbed in relation to the stand. ing of many of their spirstaal leaders in the eyes of the law. ‘They repudiated the disclowures of Lee, and } yetat the same timo put all possible obstacles in the way of the Laitod States aatborities obtaining evi- deuoce @ wake pian and clear the dark records of tho from exercising their privilege. ‘To crown this sketeb of the Utah votiog system ata | general election tt should be added that a Territorial | Statute probibits votes trom being couuted in tho | preciacts where they are deposijod, They must bo | take to the county seat and (here be counted by the | Probate Judge and bis clerk, buth of whom, cxvept in the coudty of Looele, are Morm rus, Owing to the current which has begun to eet under Brigham Youug’s (eet an focreasing number ot Mor- mone, Wouk 11 the faith, would vow differently tof | now if satisfied that their preierenves could nut be discovered. THE GRAND JURY SysTEM. ‘The Utah jury system isa matter of great present importance. [tis mixed, like everything else her Lists of jurors are selected in the counties where the | courts are beld, conjointiy by the provace jadges of the counties and the clerks of the district courts, Tbe judges are Mormons, the clorks are Geotiies, Tue list of 200 Jurors every year, Those jurors are choseu alternately; the Probate Judge writes a Mormon nume | and the clerk of the court writes a Gentile namo, antl the live ts filed. From these fists | of 200 jurors, vne-buf Mormon and one-bulf | Goutile, are drawn by lot the vues of the grand and | petit Jurors tor ouch term. To laymen these equal | numbers preparatory (o udrawing might seom tain, Lawyers will smile at the whole proceeding, A graud was compelled to pay Wells $4 4 galloa for this “Valley Tan, although a superior urticle could be | | laid down from the States for $4 When Howard | came Lome, im the latter part of 1809, Brigbant} Young aud Wells, fiodiug tho manutucture of | whiskey no longer proiitabie, back the | distillery and compelled him to deliver up their notes, and also rolused to pay wcont of rent for the time they | bad used it, This bankrupted Howard. t Brighum Young aud Feramors Littic, the preseut Mayor and Brighum Young's nephew, were proprietors | | of tho Salt Lake House during the yeurs 1906 40 iS7, | The house contained a bar, on which the city license | thon was $900 per quarter, ‘The firm of Young & Latte | regularly paid this ieenso, but the elty books show | that the bail Of (his amount—$100—was regularly re- | tured by the aity to Brighwm Young, A FORERD LOAM, Now and then, too, tho !rophet oxacts through subordinates a foreed joan, For example, he was oped indleted tor te 4 lascivious cobabitation ud | brought before Judge McKean, whe demanded trom him a bail bond, At once ihe cry of “persecution of the Prophew’ was raised through the Verriory, and coulributions were rolicited from the faithiul to pay the Prophet's bail, Leadiog apostates think that $20,000 were thus raised aud sentto Brigham Yo who, not having foricited bis ball bond, rowained the | money, | POLYGAMY. fe Concerning that open violation of federal law ant | bumay deconcy-——polygamy—whieh I shall hereafter rofor to at some length, this isto be said iu the proseut | | counection:—Polygamy ‘# not only commanded by | Brigham Youug, who affects the yore of God; it is on- | forced in every quarter, mosuy with the glad conseat | of the men, but sometimes agains) their wishes when | thoy are unable to support a numerous family, Nearly | ail the presidents, aposties and bishops of the Mormon Church are polygamists, apd I have ajluded to tho fact that th Fritortal Legislature is composed, al- most Without exception, of polygamous membors ot the priesthood, Polygamy, with its attendant vicos of just, incest, viclous habia on the part of | Begleciod “wives,” is, therefore, set and locked ju the | jasy of Gtieon cannot tudict 4 man without the agree went of twelve of its members, und It js a juct in the history of Utah that only two grand jurios wap twelve Gentiles have been drawn, Une Mormon ona | petit jury—bat is w tho jury that tries the prise | ober—cau prevent # conviction even If ail bis assuciates | determine the prisouer’s gut In fact, there has | always been more than oue Mormon ou a petit jury, | whose endowment oaths obliged him never to agree to | the convietion @@a culprit whom the Chureh lesdera | Wished to save (rom the peaalty of the law. When Jobu D. Leo was first tried 1 waw before w jury of | nine Mormons and threo Gentiles. The Mormon Church railied tu bis dofence, Ia spite of its effur he Was proven guiity, but the nine Mormon jurors saved him. The press all over the country blazed with such indigaation that the Morimou jeaders re- | coiled, When the now trial came they took # new tack. They concluded to jet Lee be whistied down the | Wind to bis destractioa, Dauiel H. Wells, sceund | counsellor to Brigham Young, was aeyuied to etiend | tho trial und atteng 10 Mornion witnesses, Then, aod | thea only, when a Morwon jury understood that (t | was tua policy of the Mormon Cuurch (0 convict a | Mormon prisonor at the bar, they convicted Lim, CORMNETION OF KVILS DEMANDED, What the law abiding citizens of Utah demand trom Congress, in Correction of these evils, 1g not, 1t veems to me, unreasouable, They do not aek jor new legis- Jative experiments, what they want is such legislation | us applies to every otuer Territory and every State in | the Union, They cail for the esinbiishment hero uf | laws long recognized in England the oldor New Kugiaod and Middle States, after the evaction of | which, they think, they will hat equa chauce to maintain thelr Interests alovgside those of the arro- gant leaders of the Mormon Church, Tho following, I believe, ute the principal acts of federal legislation they dosire:-~ 1, That right of dower sball be secured tn Uwh to a | lawful wifo or widow, ang to no other, | 2% That, in order that polygamy may bo proved and | Punished, the fact of a mun cohabiting with several | diferent women shall be prima (acto evidence that he past, qspecially those ip relution Lo the Mountain Meadows massacre, Some witnesses were menaced with personal violence, otners iniluenced by social and business ties, and still others by religious man- agemegt But with all these advantages the Grand Jury went jong way in opening a path which, in the end, may lead to the pubiehaent of the desperadocs who, under the guise of religion, murdered in cold Diood men, woinen and ebildren, ‘Ine government should aid District Attorney Howard 10 all possiblo and prover wayd iu bis dangerous work among. the misguided aud ambitious men who rule the Mormon community with the iron rod of religious jamaticism. A low more exposures of the character of tho beads of the Mormon Church, their duplicity and wi¢ked- ness, und tho whyle ecclesiastical political editice will topple and tall to the ground. A SPECIMEN OF MORMON VENOM, (Prom (he Deseret New Utah bappens to be cursed with a crowd of fellowa who make it a business to coutinually stir up strife in the community, They are represented by an spology for @ wewspaper, the most slanderous, obscene, un- ferupuious, venerous abd bluckguardly pablication that ever dizgruced any community im a civilized country, This literary tuogus whips ieto Nae every nou-*Mormon'’ Who disugroos with its course, wuo hus not moral stability eufliciont to stand up against | its venal and slanderous attacks, and exercises @ kind ol terrorism over the others, who are desirous of avoiding its scurrilous ousiaughts, foreing them to jeuce their better judgment, Only get rid of tho “Mormons’! and their priesthoo! 1s (heir wateh cry, and we would b00n inake a fine flourishing Territory of Utab and change tho character of ber cities and sotilc- mente, Yes, lodeed, there woald be a change, a wo- ful change. Heaven forbid that this taw westera land should be blurred and blasted by such a change. So far ag the ‘*Mormons’’ are concerned, their works sLow what they are, Tho hundreds of flourishing cities, setuements, gardens and tarms show what they aro, ‘tho peseo, comtort and happiness which they enjoy show what they are, Lot their record as peace- ful, productive, industrious citizens be compared with bat of bh ducers, aud the Intior will sink tuto comparative obiileration. THE OCLEW YOR THE PROSECUTION, {Prom the Gold Mili (Nev.) News.) This man “idaho Bill’! is & cooviet, it te tr a under ordinary circomstances bis testimony would have no weight He bus noth to gate by lying, and he has cverytuing to gain by tolling the tray. If ho cannot really produce Wis letter iu Brigham Young’ handwriting bo is simply 4 fool for pretending that ho can; and wen of bis class aad of bis erumtnal geniua are seldom found im (he ranks of fools, He is placing | his liberty in tho scale with Brigham Young's hifo, He siipalates tor a pardon only when he has turned over the original letter to Districts Attorney Howard, und that geotlomun is satisfied that itis gonaine We are disposed to believe that the story of “Idaho Bill’ 1g trae, and that at iast the olow has been found which jJeads directly to the Liow House in Salt Lake. District Attorney Howard bas now something detaite upon whicb to build up & prosewution of Brigham Young ‘That bo will at once proqeed to prospect tho nine tnus opened to bitn there can be no doubt. Ho bas proved himself faithful vo his trast tm tho past oan be re Hed upon to remain falthiul to the end, It “id Bil’ really porsesnos tho letter which be clainis 1 have the govorninont can well afford to pardon Bim in order to couviot @ greater scoundre!. We shall not be @% all surprised to soo Brigham Young at the bar of ‘4 married to them, At orcsont a inan may Auve been justice In a very fow weeks,