THE MORMON MENACE BY RT. REV. SAMUEL FALLOWS, D. D., LL. D. AND HELEN M. FALLOWS, A. M. ૩૬ CHICAGO WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION 1903 Ohance 2 Bibical Init 3-25-30 A FOREWORD THE MORMON IN THE SENAT (The Rev. W. A. Bartlett, D. D., Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Chicago.) The history of Mormonism is one of the blackest chapters in the chronicles of the country. In 1853 a Mormon mob unseated United States District Court Judge W. W. Drummond. In 1857 the Nauvoo Mormon Legion, after promising protection, massacred thirty Arkansas families. In 1857 Brigham Young, who had twenty-six wives, defied the United States. troops to enter Salt Lake City. The same year the Mormons, under Lot Smith, destroyed three supply trains for the army. In 1862 an act of Congress provided for the prevention and punishment of polygamy. This was defied, and in 1870 a mass meeting of Mormons was held to protest against interference with polygamy. In 1871 Brigham Young, ordered to be tried for polygamy, escaped. Hawkins, an "elder," was sentenced for adultery. In 1878 Brigham was again indicted for polygamy, and adjudged to support a wife who was suing for divorce, refused and was. imprisoned in his house. In 1890, after nearly fifty years of anarchy, uncleanness, treason and rebellion, the Mormons "renounced" polygamy. This was sim ply a part of their deceit and cunning to gain statehood for Utah. I have just read a protest from thirteen superintendents of missions, representing nine denominations, who say among other things, "The Mormon attitude. and Mormon practice has not essentially changed since the days of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Its priestly oligarchy threatens our government; its grasping priestcraft invades property rights; its varied vices are destructive of good morals. The ambition of Mormons, which they do not even conceal, is to secure control of state after state until by means of balance of power they may make National legislation against Mormonism impossible. They boast of having 2,000 missionaries in this country alone. By its colonization it is said to have now practical control of Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Nevada, and the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. These Christian missionaries say "though often denied, there is no doubt that its practice of polygamy continues in defiance of all the promises made to the United States when statehood was granted." The entire Mormon system is a return to the blackest heathen sensuality. The doctrines they teach, the oaths of the charnel house of endowment are all based on the subjection of women. A Mormon man shines in proportion to the number of wives he has, and one of the direst threats a man makes to his disobedient wife is that he will not "call" her at the resurrection— a threat which terrifies her into immediate subjection. An old lady near my church was recently visited by a Mormon missionary, who told her the Bible sanctioned plurality of wives. So this propaganda is being carried on in Chicago. Eugene Young, Esq., a grandson of Brigham Young, made an impassioned address against Mormonism in 1898 at the annual meeting of the Home Missionary Society in Cleveland. Among other things he said of the Mormons: "They defied settled churches and government from the first." Again: "Everywhere and always the women are the bulwarks of the church-they have laid their hearts in the dust for men to trample because they thought they were aiding the Kingdom of God. What more could a woman do than to go to the stand of a court and because the priesthood said to her polygamy must not be confessed, say she did not know who was the father of her child?" Mr. Reed Smoot is an "apostle" of such a condition in direct line with the presidency. In refusing a seat in the Senate to this apostle, the decision of Judge Anderson, who refused citizenship to one John Moore, a Mormon, is in point. After shocking disclosures had been made about the Endowment House, the judge said: "The evidence in this case establishes unquestionably that the teachings, practices and aims. of the Mormon church are antagonistic to the government of the United States, utterly subversive of good morals and well being of society; that its members are animated by a feeling of hostility toward the government and its laws, and, therefore an alien who is |