D. Lee, Indian Agent, ete., ete. They having more influence at

Washington than full-fledged American Citizens, because they
had brother masons there—sent by thoughtless outsiders.

At last to appease public sentiment, by throwing dirt in its
eyes, and to blindly aid and assist the secret brethren, an army
of near 10,000 men, richly equipped with wagon and pack trains
and supplies for ten year's, was sent out to Utrh; witl. the usual
‘tering claptrap and out-ery of “enforcing the laws and
crushing the Mormons.” Then all was turned over - almost
given to the before declared enemy, but now “repenitent and
industrious citizens,” who, meanwhile, among other outrages,
butchered in euld blood 180 men, women and children, appro-
rviating entirely the wealthy emigrant train, stock and fortunes
©. their victims. All this with the utmost impunity and almost
in sight of a court-house of justice (?).

That was a white man’s secret order, tribal tribute, led by
a ring favorite of the Government—John D. Lee.

And right there to-day is one of the “grave yards!”

Wagons, mules, harness and fire-arms were most needed
by the brethren at that time in their business. They worked
diplomacy, tact and treachery on the Kentucky-California-
bound emigrants, thus disarming them, but could not secure
their property in peace without killing them, so they could not
be “revengeful and make trouble.”

But they could get the Government trains securely. by dip-
lomacy and secret intrigue, without killing a man, woman or
child, though they paid a trifle of the money, meanwhile filched
from the Government in the deal.

The army was disbanded at ‘Camp Floyd when the sup-
plies had been brought to their doors, where they were “sold”
to the brethren, whom Officials are secretly sworn to assist

Satt Lake City AND UTAH.

and befriend, and whose secrets they are sworn to “ever conceal
and never reveal.”

Wagons worth two hundred and fifty dollars there then
sold for fifteen dollars. Arms worth twenty dollars for two
dollars, ete., ete.

Brigham “bought” $30,000 worth of pork at one cent a
pound, and then re-sold it to Gentiles at sixty cents a pound,
etc., ete.

Much of the supplies had just previously been bought here
of the Mormons at fabulous prices.

Great quantities of leather, harness, cavalry equipments,
clothing, blankets, small stores, ete., etc., ete, were likewise
turned over to the secret brethren, who dominate and direct
the action of Government and Courts within their influence.

I was told that they were eve allowed to run off Govern-
ment mules by the band, and then sell them back to the Govern-
ment thus prostituted, which then turned them over to the
brethren for a song. The Mormons were thus greatly assisted
in their business at the expense of the people, and their era of
prosperity began at these fruitful victories over the Govern-
ment. Mormons believe this out-come to have been secretly

fixed, when the expedition was gotten up and sent to them.

The matter of the Mountain-Meadow massacre, and other
like tributes to secrecy, they postponed with secret influence
at court, for twenty years, until Royal Master Lee had gotten
in bad standing in the order, and his life was about run out
anyhow, when the brethren consented to give what was left of
him alone up, as a sacrifice to appease and blind the people;
as if they had lost their secret influence at court, and justice
now prevailed. This was to be a receipt in full for such
cowardly, treacherous, brutal murder for plunder of hundreds
of disarmed men, women and children by well-known masons
under the shadow of Court-houses of Justice (?) and the United
States flag.

That company of emigrants could sv.ccessfully defend
themselves against the Indians, but could not do so against a
gang of secret ring favorites in the Government. Nor can any-
body when the courts are thus subverted.

About November first, started on my travels, horseback, to

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conceal

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for two

cent a
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ipments,
likewise
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yr to the
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. secretly
them.
nd other
influence
d gotten
run out
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THE Mormon Tempe, &c., Sat Lake Crry

50 Sat Lake Ciry AND UTAg.

the South. Weather in the valley was warm and delightful,
while snow could be seen drifting and flying high up on the
mountain peaks. One of these, Mt. Nebo, was said to be
over 11,000 feet above the sea.

A hundred miles, and I was out of Salt Lake Valley, over
the summit into a mountainous desert region (with some
watered spots) sloping towards the Colorado river, some four
hundred miles to the South.

Salt Lake Valley is the only farming country of any mag-
nitude between the 98th longitude and California, except far to
the North. This valley is thickly settled by the Mormons,
with a considerable number of Gentiles at and to the North of
Salt Lake City.

The Mormons live in villages with extensive lots for gar-
dens and fruit purposes ; have their farming and pasture lands
fenced in common, and dig and own their water ditches like-
wise.

They adopted this system of living in towns as a protection
against the Indians; but as they are confined to small farms of
say, twenty-five acres, of which there are ten to filteen
thousand, the disadvantage in living apart from them is off-set
by the saving in fencing, and social and school advantages
gained.

Wherever a body or spot of soil is susceptible of irrigation,
there is a Mormon village. The principal ones of these settle-
ments, for some 75 miles after leaving Salt Lake Vulley, are
Filmore--once the capitol—and Beaver, on Salt Creek and
twenty-five miles from the Mountain-Meadow graveyard. St.
George is 350 miles from Salt Lake and on the Rio Virgin;
there being some small settlements between Beaver and
St. George.

Wandering along leisurely, reached St. George in about a
month from Salt Lake ; found it a fruitful oasis in the desert,
nicely situated and laid out and of considerable importance and
population. Snow seldom lays on the ground; a climate semi-
tropical and as salubrious as can be found most anywhere ; en-
joyed the best appetite here I ever had. The soil is mostly a
bed of sand, cleared off sage-brush, and water brought on it
at an expense in labor of twenty to thirty dollars per acre.

Y:
ho
tw
da:
he
the
ran
but
tree
sett
fron
bein

wors
time;

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nume
that t
on ace
solve,
for ped
ment
foree j
At

our o
sailing
or gain
Ta

salt the
it some

‘Satur D

In I
deposits d

ee

ightful,
on the
to be

ry, over
h some
me four

ny mag-
pt far to
[ormons,
North of

for gar-
are lands
shes like-

protection
| farms of
to filteen
h is off-set
dvantages

irrigation,
ese settle-
Valley, are
reek and

pyard. St.

y acre.

io Virgin;
aver and

n about a
he desert,
ytance and
mate semi-
vhere ; en-

mostly 2
ught on it

ALL ABOoUI THE Mormons. 51

Remained here a month with and working for an intelligent
Yankee Saint, and they called me “Dodge’s Clerk.” This is
how I clerked: Hauled lumber and wood from a mountain,
twenty to thirty miles off; went on an Indian raid of a few -
days with a local company, commanded by a General ; anyhow,
he was a clever and agreeable man for the occasion, as were also
the others of the company. Stock had been stolen from the
range by the Navajoes, and the company went to overtake them,
but did not succeed. Took a load of grape roots, cuttings, fig
trees, and other things, to sell in the then extreme southern
settlements on the Muddy Creek, 180 miles away, and twenty
from the head of navigation on the Colorado river. Cotton was
being raised here.

Sold out mostly on Sunday, as the saints had gathered to
worship and do business. Remember their singing, “ Hard
times come again no more.” Sunday is the principal business
or trading day in mining camps and other new settlements with
the Gentiles also.

The religious phase of the Sabbath or Sunday question, as
to a particular day or date, is a tangled muddle anyway.
About every day in the week is claimed as sach by some
numerous sect or people. In studying the question we find,
that the changes in official calendars and the difference in time,
on account of the motion of the earth, makes it too difficult to
solve, to be honestly certain as to time, so it seems captious
for people to quarrel as to the same. Let the general govern-
ment name the day, as one of rest for man and beast, and en-
force its reasonable observance.

An island and longitude in the Pacific Ocean, according to
our official calendar, has two Sundays together for any vessel
sailing West, and none for those sailing East. They must drop
or gain a Sunday in passing this longitude.

[ also got a load of rock salt at a mountain, or mount, of
salt there. Much of it is so clear, one can read print through
it some inches thick. Is mined with drill and powder.

“Satur Derposirs 1n Nrevapa.—Vast Fietps oF PurE Rock Sat To BE
Founp 1n Lincoun County.

In Lincoln County, on the Rio Virgin, is one of the most remarkable

deposits of rock salt on the continent, says the Dayton News Reporter. It

52 Sar Lake City AND UTAH.

is found in hills 500 feet above the level of the valley, and chemically pure.
Blocks of it over a foot square are so transparent that one may read a
paper through them. So solid is this salt that it must be blasted out the
sane as if it were rock. This deposit of salt lies about three-quarters of
a mile west of the Rio Virgin and three miles south of the Mormon village
of St. Thomas. There a body of this salt is exposed for a length of nearly
two miles, which is about half a mile wide and of unknown depth. The
deposit runs north and south and is seen on the surface for a distance of
over nine miles. In places the canons have cut through it to a depth of
sixty feet. At these points the Hiko company formerly blasted out the
salt required in working their ores. This great deposit of salt is situated
at an altitude of 1,100 feet above the level of the sea. It is undoubtedly
very ancient, as in one place it has been covered by a flow of basaltic rock.
In other places it is covered to a depth of from one to five feet with vol-
canic tufa. At Sand Springs, in Churchill County, besides the salt that
may be shoveled up from the surface, there is found a deposit of rock salt
fourteen feet indepth. This salt is as transparent as the clearest ice and
does not contain a particle of any foreign or deleterious substance. It
may be quarricd the same as if it was marble. Itis said that one man
can quarry and wheel out five tonsa day of this salt. It is only necessary
to grind it to render it fit for table or dairy use. Sixty or seventy miles
north of this, at the eastern base of the Dun Glen range of mountains, is
the great Humboldt salt field, This is about fifteen miles long and six
wide. In summer, when the surface water has evaporated, salt to the
depth of three or four inches can be scraped up from the surface.
Beneath the surface isa stratum of pure rock salt of unknown depth.
This rock salt is so hard, that in order to get it out rapidly it is necessary
to blast it. Were a branch railroad to run to one of these deposits, salt
would soon be a cheap article in the United States. As there are in the
same localities great quantities of soda, borax and other valuable minerals,
it is probable that the day is not far distant when some of them will be
tapped by branch railroads, which could be cheaply laid down through
the level districts.”

My route to and from the Muddy settlements and Salt
Bank lay mostly along the Rio Virgin “river” (as most any
stream is called in sections where water is scarce), the road
crossing it in the quick-sand many times. The Indians (Piutes)
had in cultivation a few patches on this stream, and the Saints
had started a settlement, or two. But the bottom is too narrow
to till, except in garden patches.

With the exception of bunch-grass, very wide apart, some
sage and grease brush, the surrounding country is a barren,
dreary, rocky waste. There is no soil on the highlands, even

mu
ste
it,
wag
tear
ther

and
toil ¢
that
make
their
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order
ete., it
T
die,
ism, as
of the
contro
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ment
bitious
but it j
They a
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business
advise al
pursuits!
Siders,
Ine
usuai an
order, w]

ALL ABOUT THE MorRMONS. 53

—_——————

ly pure. if there was water.—The principal wagon route from Salt
“yead a Lake to Los Angeles, Cal., leaves the Rio Virgin by the
out the most rugged hill I have ever seen to be travelled over
wters of much with wagons. It is two or three miles to the top,
n Mirae id steep, and crossed with ledges of rock. While T was passing
Te gh it, gazing at one of a train, high up on the hill, as the
meaiod: Of wagon was being tugged along with a well doubled up
depth of team; it broke loose, tumbled back, scattering itself between
1 out the there and the bottom. I passed over the same route afterwards.
aca The Mormons, as a people, are as prosperous, contented
altic rock. and happy, perhaps, as any other people, who have to earn by
with vol- toil about all they get, and their government is so administered

e salt that
of rock salt
est ice and
stance. It
t one man
y necessary
renty miles
suntains, is
long and six
salt to the
he surface.
own. depth.
is necessary
sposits, salt
bh are in the
ple minerals,
vem will be
wn through

that they come very near getting, holding and enjoying all they
make; unless the tenth of what they produce, that goes for
their general protection, welfare and enlargement, be excepted.
Inasmuch, as they would need no costly protection, if polygamy
was not openly practiced by the few, so long as similar secret
order governments of oath-bound brotherhoods (called “masons”
etc., instead of “church”) are tolerated by the people.

The most of the Mormons dislike polygamy, and it may
die. But it is not the worst feature of the system of Mormon-
ism, as to the general government and the full-fledged citizens
of the same, if the government is to be supreme and un-
controlled by secret alien kingly governments within.

There are but few salaried officials in the Mormon govern-
ment—even the bishops draw no pay. The more able and am-
bitious frequently acquire considerable and exceptional fortune,
but it is made by rugged industry, or filched from Gentiles.
They are not permitted to trick or rob 2... other of their
property, under any pretext. Lawyers are kept from power
entirely —they are treated as pests, as grass-hoppers and chinc-
bugs ; except sometimes in dealing with outsiders. It is the
business of the officials and dignitaries of the order to counsel,
advise and protect any faithful brother in ordinary business
pursuits and in their troubles with each other and with out-
siders.

In case of trouble with outsiders, assistance is extended in
usuai and natural ways, and also by machinery of the secret
order, wich is worked in the dark.

and Salt
most any
), the road
ns (Pintes)
the Saints
too narrow

| a barrel,
lands, even

54 Sarr Lake Ciry AND U'rAH,

They are a secret masonic order of various degrees, and
bound together with masonic oaths, although there is nothing
secret, sly, or mysterious in the first degree, whereby any per-
son, and Indians in large numbers, are taken into the “church”
or order without hesitation. They constitute a secret, mystic
and complete government within, and distinct from that of the
state ; an irresponsible and foreign government, to which they
swear, with masonic oaths, supreme allegiance.

But yet they are allowed to join in maintaining the forms
and pomp of courts and yovernment of the Gentiles, for use in
dealing with and filching the outsider, and as a fortress of pro-
tection against them. Making of it a cat’s-paw, a tool, a trap,
a blind, a handy machine, worked and controlled by their
secret, oath-bound obligations in the dark, where five men may
overcome and override five thousand true citizens, which is
very fine for the secret brethren. Butthe Gentile, or outsider,
must suffer accordingly, for he has no assurance of security or
justice, when treated or done for by either of the courts and
governments thus managed and controlled in the dark. They
are the power behind the throne, though it may be played so
fine that, if the victim be ignorant, he does not understand it,
and will blindly vote to sustain it.

About the only verdicts rendered by the courts of Utah
against Mormons in good standing and influence in the order,
are secured by special legislation of Congress, which would be
overridden were Utah a state; and even in these comparative few
cases, they have frequently beaten the cases against them by
their secret influence in appeals, just as other masons do.

Polygamy is but a red rag of masonry, the spears and
knives to stab the government are hid behind it.

The Chinese, Jews and Indians, in the United States, also
cherish, maintain, and are governed by, a distinct alien govern-
ment of their own; a state within the state. But they have the
modesty to refrain, at least openly, from taking part in the
government of the Republic. They do not intrigue and scheme
for office under it, or to judge and govern anybody but them-
selves, which they do by their own alien governments. They
love their big sun-flower titles, and pagan pomp and “mysteries”

of idolatry, and worship the shades of Mogul Kings.

and

comr
r

relati
their
by th
dark,
T
is but
is thei
hot co
ruption
instead
“enon
An

For, wi
the cou
and tur
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not hay
governr
The
theocrac
mass of -

This
and amo)

But
heart’s b:

Inde

———

s, and
othing
ly per-
hurch”
mystic
of the

ich they

e forms
r use in
of pro-
, a trap,
vy their
nen may
which is
outsider,
surity or
urts and
k. They
ylayed so
rstand it,

5 of Utah
he order,
vould be
rative few
them by
do.
ears and

htes, also
govern-
have the
‘+ in the
d scheme
ut them-
g. They
ysteries”

EE

ALL ABOU? THE Mormons. 55

Though such people be naturalized or born in this country,
they are not real citizens at heart of the Republic, but are
practically foreigners, aliens, owing first allegiance and belong-
ing to their own peculiar, secret, class and tribal governments,
wherein is their supreme authority and law, which they are sworn
by horrible, blood-curdling, masonic oaths and penalties, to cherish
and obey!

What then becomes of our Government with these masons
in office ?

Where is there any standing room for it with them in
command ?

They cut it up and prostitute it as they do the marriage
relation, and wave it as another red rag—in another phase of
their play —to divert the sight and sense of the people, where-
by they are thus shaded to get in their deadly work in the
dark, thus working for universal conquest.

The religious phase and the polygamy rag of Mormonism
is but lightly considered by the more intelligent Mormons. It
is their Government that interests and attaches them. They do
not conceal this in individual discussion. They know the cor-
ruption and prostitution of our Government so well, that,
instead of joining to reform and clean it, they declare it an
“ijgnominious and hopeless failure.”

And we must honestly concede that this is partly true.
For, with the boundless natural wealth from ocean to ocean,
the country even already stocked with buffalo, elk, deer, fish
and turkey,—the mass of the people ought not to be mere
slaves to unrequited toil, corruption and tyranny. And could
not have been much less prosperous under any other form of
government.

The Mormons, indeed, even under their masonic-pagan
theocracy or kingdom, have been more prosperous than the
mass of real American citizens that have surrounded them.

This is also true of other secret masonic gangs elsewhere,
and among the peorle surrounding them.

But they have stabbed, drawn, sucked and fattened on the
heart’s blood of the Government and the people.

Indeed, the prosperity of many an individual of the gang

Pie errasarenterseceremnameermatiei ttn et CCC CC CITES!

pepe

en ees

56 Satt Lake Crry anp Ura.

represeuts the downfall, ravage and misery of hundreds of the
people,—men, women and little children.

Such “prosperity” (?) need not be boasted of to be be-
lieved. There are too many victims who too keenly /eel and
suffer the fact of such “prosperity” continually

At heart they do not like or respecteven the form, or the
great and beautiful sentiment of our government, which is the
religion of real liberty loving Americans, who, in the face of
all history and suffering, will fight to maintain it, work and
vote to reform it, as their only hope for liberty and justice,
and will never give it up for any gang, though they irrigate the
ground with their blood!

Disdaining and detesting both the spirit and form of our
government, as not secret, selfish, pagan and kingly enough
for them, therefore, whenever they take part in it, it is not for
it to work evenly, or to reform it, or clean it of the gang; but
to secretly conspire to corrupt, debauch and use it for a cat’s-
paw to filch the people, and for a fortress to shield them against
their victims.

But while scheming and playing for place and power in it,
with brazen sarcasm, they sing patriotic songs and wave the
American flag.

A strong, centralized government like England or Germany
might, if any, safely tolerate various foreign secret government
rings within their own, as they cannot exert as much influence
and power there as in a republic. Yet these governments
have had to watch and keep down all seeret, alien govern-
ments and rings within their own, in order to keep their own
power supreme and from being defied and overthrown.

I believe, that belonging to any secret sworn brotherhood,
disqualifies a person for the holding of any public office in
Germany and other governments in Europe, Central and South
America. Consequently Jews and other masons belonging to
secret alien governments, are punished for their crimes like
other people.

This has to be so in republics if they are to endure.

All who vote or hold office under the general or state govern-
ments, should be dependent on that government alone for
protection, justice and government; so that all would be

simp]
being
there:
there
E

their |
ghost
hh
agains
justice
trolled
A
kind of
experi¢

the
sir

As

———

f the

e be-

Ll and

yr the
is the
ace of
k and
justice,
ate the

of our
enough
not for
1s 5 but
a cat’s-
against

er in it,
ave the

ermany
sarnment
ifluence
‘uments
govern-
eir own

erhood,
bffice in
1 South
ging to
hes like

govern-
pne for
) uld be

57

ALL ABOUT THE Mormons.

interested in its reform and purity; making the one govern-
ment simple, safe, supreme and evenly just to all alike.

Let those who are so selfish, clannish, crafty, sly-sneaking
in the dark, grasping pagan and kingly as to not be satisfied
with this, live and do as other and legal aliens do. For, aliens

and often traitors they are.

“When bad men combine [even by blood-eurdling oaths
in the dark], the good must associate, else they will fall one
by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

“A monarchy may be free, whilst a republic may be a
tyranny.” When “servile millions kiss the spoilers’ rod, erouch
at their feet and tremble at their nod.”

As to the Mormon wing or phase of this vital subject, let
us not forget that, like other communities, multitudes and
orders, there are good, bad and indifferent people among them.
A Gentile might live and deal with them for years without any
trouble, if himself be just, and he does not oppose their system.
Being friendly towards them, should he get into trouble with
another Gentile or a Mormon; the Mormon courts, as well as
the other, are open to them. As they are both controlled by
the masons, they stand a better show for justice in the more
simple Mormon court, and if justice is what they want, both
being Gentiles, they are quite surely satisfied with the result. |
therein, which is not delayed, and they do not have to buy it’
there being no “ bar.”

But if one is outspoken, or otherwise earnestly opposes
their secret order system of government, he does not stand the
ghost of a show for justice in Utah.

In the case of a Gentile against a Mormon, or a Mormon
against a Gentile, the outsider stands just the same show for
justice that he does outside of Utah in a court or courts con-
trolled by members of secret order brotherhood governments.

Any observer can know, and all voters should know, the
kind of a show that is, without learning by hard and miserable
experience. |

“The whole machinery of the state, all the apparatus of
the system of government, and its varied workings, end in
simply bringing twelve good men into a box.”

As a rule, the Mormons deal honestly among themselves ;

%

58 Sart Lake Crry anpUran.

sometimes, however, they have to kill or imprison one of their
number for horse stealing, betrayal, or other crimes against a
brother. They transact their business and run their courts
without lawyers or other vermin, to which they owe much of
their prosperity and peace. But this could be done just as well by
the people under our form of government. No honest court re-
quires a lawyer in or about it. And the same price paid for
their scalps by the state, as that now paid for more human and
less destructive vermin, would make them harmless.

The Mormons have no orthodox or salaried preachers.
Everybody is expected to be able to render something of a
moral speech in meeting, and, being raised to it, they are more
apt and able in that way than other congregations. They ab-
hor profanity, and think about all Gentiles to be immoral and
profane. It was said by some, that I was the only Gentile they
knew, who was not profane. They tell of mules, gotten of
Geutiles, that could not be managed, or made to pull, unless
swore at by note.

Their poor and distiessed are liberally provided for fom
a general fund ; there are none of them beggars.

A large portion of them are emigrants from other countries
and their children ; there are some from every section of the
United States and Canada. The foreigners are principally
English, Danes, Welsh, Norwegians, etc. As the Mormons
settled in Utah in 1848, and were quite a body before in Mis-
souri and Illinois, a majority of them were “born in the church”
or order, and on American soil. They are masons therefore
more of necessity than of choice,—which cannot be said of
Gentile masons, etc. They are now about 300,000 strong.

The founders, chiefs, etc., were and are Yan 'ree-masons.
They can pay to their brethren in ( ng oss, courts and army
big sums of money for bribery ses and their mutual
masonic obligations, and death } \ties for beti.yal insures

secrecy and safety; and they are bou:1 to sssist their brethren
without pay.

The Mormon endowment house ceremonies, oaths, oblig»-
tions, penalties, etc., etc., are masonic.

The founders of the church-order set themselves up as an-
other Moses or Mohammed, and their Sunday school books

_—_——

their
ist a
yurts
th of
ell by
+ re-
d for

n and

chers.
; of a
-more
ay ab-
il and
e they
ten of

unless
xv from

untries
of the
cipally
ormons
n Mis-
hurch”
herefore
gaid of
strong.
masons.
dl army
mutual
insures
rethren

oblig”-

p as an-
it books

Pyrammp Lake, Uta.

Satt Lake Crry anp UTAH.

60

teach it as truth as to Moses. Their secret order “church” is,
like other specviative or spurious masonry, founded on hum-
bug pagan “raysteries.” Their bible being discovered and
attached with about the same silly legend as that of the “Great-
est jewel and mystery” of speculative masonry.

They have the “mystery” bible of their own, but use ours
;zincipally, in which they are well versed. They have much
of it memorized. They are much given to prayer, and always
pray for salvation through Jesus. Not all of their dignitaries
practice polygamy, and, according to the records of the “courts
of justice,” there are but few cases of polygamy in Utah. But
according to my observations and more reliable information
than ring-ridden courts, about one married man in ten of them
is a polygamist. Though, for saying this of any one of them,
he could prosecute me for libel at the people’s expense, and
say, “Damn you, prove it,” and I could not establish the plain
fact in the courts. Such is their secret inflvence and power at
court. And it is as wide and extensive as masonry.

The greatest comfort and protection a polygamist’s wife has
is in her children (they call the other wives of their father
“aunt”). A boy will not see his mother abused or discarded
if he can help it, which they often do. Still several sisters will
frequently marry one man, one after the other, and the latter
ones ought to know pretty near what they are about—as near
as you or I could tell them.

Those of the saints who have travelled about and abroad,
preach of the immorality and depravity, and dangers of the
outside world, and—like in other secret lodges—picture Utah
and the folds of the order as the only place where virtue and
truth is regarded and protected.

They also make it appear, that all those who have taken an
active part against them at any time, have been accursed by
God and man; that many of them have repented, and beg of
them in humility and tears for mercy and forgiveness.

If according to the courts there is so little polygamy in
Utah, or if it be no crime; nor a crime to make an occasional
killing and tribute against outsiders—as is done by the gang
everywhere with impunity—then the Mormons are an except-
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ous people. By the court records they are most exception-
ally virtuous. And if these questionable deeds are the
work of a small element only, which I believe to be the case,
then they are that anyway, and in truth.

Ix four respects the Mormons are as far in advance of
the Gentiles, as John Brown was of the republican party.

First.—In that they permit no gangs of parasites or artful
tricksters to practice among them, so they all know and
understand their laws alike; cases are judged and decided on
their merits ; and not being so many middlemen, they get the
profit of their labor.

Second.—They first made woman suffrage universal, and
they were no more “insulted” at the polls in Utah than at the
post-offices. Those who would keep politics too secret, corrupt
and unclean for their wives, sisters and daughters to know or
touch, when their welfare and happiness is so greatly depend-
ent on its purity, and who think it more out of place for an
American woman to vote, than for an English woman to be
chief ruler and make political speeches, should not complain
when they reap the result.

Third.—They carry out and enforce their temperance
principles and laws, without flaws, quirks or foolishness.
There are hardly any saloons, gambling, or prostitution known
in their community.

Fourth.—In their management of the Indians.

And yet, an outsider really has not equal security or even
justice anywhere where their alien government or secret in-
fluence controls the government or courts, as could be vividly
shown by the miserable experience of many falsely imprisoned,
or robbed of their property, and by the bleached bones of so
many others that have been “run over the ridge.”

Having, by secret intrigue, conquered the United States
Army, ete., when in their infancy, and Congress and the courts
ever since, they have strong hopes of complete control and of
universal conquest. Polygamy is their red rag in the conflict.

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