Show KICKING AT KATIE t + J A Mormon Wife Scores the New England Virgin SOME OF KITTIES CULTURE A Few Pertinent Replies to a Batch of Whole Cloth Fasehoods The Mormon Monster PROVO May 13 1887 To the Editor of THE HERALD I understand the Boston giantess Miss ColKateField has undertaken the solution of the Mormon problem and that she will preach on the subject in Salt Lake soon I desire to aid her in her noble and selfsacrificing work be lievving that between us we may effectually effectu-ally inconoclast the Mormon Monster For this purpose I here send you the strength of my right arm Please give ui your support by publishing my earnest endeayor Obviously yours ADELINE D CLARK Tu Kate Field You say in the Tribune April 29th 1887 I have no personal feeling whatever what-ever in my antiMormon lecturing I would not if I could harm a hair belonging be-longing to a Mormon head What follows fol-lows will show your unharmful and innocent in-nocent intentions The Mormons will want to know what Miss Kate Field has been saying in tbeffast about them and about the indictment she has with long and patient study drawn against the Mormon Mor-mon MonsterTribune May 13th 1887 I will here note some of your amiable sayings about the Mormons by quoting from a number of your letters written to the Boston Herald and New York World and from references made to your antiMormon lectures by the National Republican Philadelphia Press the New Orleans TimesDemocrat and other papers also from a synopsis of your Mormon Monster lecture in Washington City so that the Mormons Mor-mons may know as your vile apologist apolo-gist suggests what you have been saying say-ing about them in the east In your letter of January 16th 1834 to the Boston Bos-ton Herald referring to President Tay lors article in the North American Review Re-view you adopt this proposition False in one false in all and that one story is good until another is told In following fol-lowing me I trust you will not lose sight of these tests of veracity adopted by yourself In your letters etc the following are some of the chaste and charitable allusions yon make to the Mormons and Mormonismin which you employ the term liar and its equivalent equiva-lent some twelve times and you use the choice terms thieves aliens and hypocrites with reckless freedom This of course must be expected from such a refined brilliant and cultured source They reduce lying to a science Your bare assertion above indubitably establishes this averment I suppose The perjury they committed in a recent case was so appalling that Judge Zane stood appalled What recent case was this and who were the perjurers Has Zane recovered from his stultification stultifica-tion Appalling perjurers can easily be proven guilty and punished Were they punished If not why Can you name the perjurers I defy you to The thieves were Litterday Saints Queer Saints eh Who were they i They are as much aliens to all our institutions as Figi Islanders This is an Alpine falsehood defy you to show up a single reputable example in support sup-port of this malignant charge while devotion and attachment to the Constitution Consti-tution and constitutional laws of our country are phenomenal and run all I through the teachings of the church magnates from 1830 to 1887 With them it is no crime to kill Gentiles A monstrous falsehood Produce if you can the names of the Gentiles murdered by Mormons and the teachings leading up to such deeds Dont name Mountain Meadows and Dr Robinson for you must know that therewas not a scintilla of proof that the Mormon people were guilty of those atrocities notwithstanding the superhuman super-human efforts of antiMormons to fasten guilt upon them I once visited a Mormon family in which there were eight wives ugly beasts of burden This is one of your wholesale falsehoods Did you on your return from the visit inform Marshal Ireland and Attorney Dickson about them If so why was the man not fined and imprisoned Dare you attempt to name and locate the family What a shameful lie you have made out of whole cloth Have you no conscience con-science II False in one false in all The missionary lied They are hypocrites Their word was worth less What elite charges The wives usually support their has I bands Names and examples please You know that such statements are false in both warp and woof There are 130000 Mormons in Utah cursing the flag The altitude of the Alpines is no greater that the magnitude of this unadulterated lie Proof please I myself have seen one room with several families living in ic Did you screen this triple family from the opera tions of the Edmunds act or how was it that theman was not fined and imprisoned im-prisoned for living with three families and that too all in one room The Bible maintains that the devil is the father of lies Is it possible that you are one of his distinguisned daughters Go at once to Marshal Dyer and inform on these people And let us have their names please I was confounded by his lies They are animals He knew he was lying They are addicted to profane swearing More of your polished un founded utterances Before the Gentiles reached Utah the Mormons lived on carrots and religion carrots being the coin of the hierarchy You know this is a contemptible fabrication fabri-cation Had you said the Mormans ate their children and what Indians they could capture it would be just as true The mouthpiece President Taylor of the Almighty was an almighty liar Wtiat amazing audacity Their divorce laws are unscrupul ously loose Give examples will you Dont you know there are twenty divorces in freelove New Englandyour native country to one among the Mormons Mor-mons to the same number of people They arealways in a state of rebel lion Another unblushing falsehood Proof please On went the lying witness after witness wit-ness perjured himself in a manner most appalling to the Gentile conscience I challenge jou to give thenames of the perjurers and cases and the proofs of perjury If the Mormons are such Niagara Ni-agara perjuers why are they not convicted con-victed and imprisoned for the felony Wouldjnot ZaneDickson et al be joyfully joy-fully glad to send them to the Penitentiary Peniten-tiary for perjury if they could Most appalling to the Gentile conscience con-science Thats both appetizing and refreshing re-freshing Hock many Gentiles do you suppose there are in Utah who would hesitate a whit to perjure themselves for six months every hour of the time if by so doing they could sell a thousand thou-sand dollar lead mine for a hundred thousand dollars If there is a thing on earth more elastic elas-tic than the antiMormon conscience I would like to learn its name India rubber cant hold a candle to it At every important mining suit there are mountains upon mountains of perjuries per-juries The antiMormon conscience is so elastic it would if it could encompass all the treasuries and offices now held by the Mormons and all their properties which they would gladly confiscate and all their beautiful wives and daughters and these very antiMormons are some of Kate Fields most devoted roustabouts roust-abouts Polygamy is the second great crime of which the Mormons are guilty The first is treason If you have read up in Mormon history as you profess to have done von know the Mormons are loyally patriotically attached to the government of the United States which they know had a divine origin and that they have exhibited these preeminent traits to a patent and conspicuous degree de-gree the evidence of which runs all through their tragic history The Mormonsjtook up all the land HO the Gentiles could get none In 1880 Utah had 655521 acres of land under un-der cultivation These were cut up into 9452 farms which makes an average of sixtynine acres to the farm The size of the average farm in Idaho in 1880 was 174 acres Colorado 259 acres Wyoming Wy-oming 272 acres Nevada 378 acres Montana 267 acres California 463 acres Dakota 218 New Mexico 125 acres Oregon 260 acres and the United States 134 acres There are millions of acres of good land in Utah unoccupied by Mormons Cant you even by accident acci-dent tell the truth about the Mormons Mor-mons monsHe told a barefaced lie II Another awful falsehood He stated what was false Boston strawberries and eream 1 How appetizing Apostates and Gentiles are to be blood atoned If put in the witness box what proof under oath could you give in support of these and kindred falsehoods Treason is the first principal object of the Mormons oJ Answered above I have heard the Mormon bishops at ward meetings tell the congregations how to vote Another falsehood Names of bishops and wards please Brigham Young cursed the government govern-ment the troopsand the Gentiles and said he would send them all to hell on wooden legs and that they had better supply themselves then when umber was cheap Another evidence of your matchless gift in economising the truth and slandering the distinguished dead I challenge you to give time place book or page I have seen the grandmother the mother and the child all the wives of one man You should be made to prove this before be-fore acourt authorized to take evidence and to convict for libel Dare you give the names cf this man and his wives Why dont you have the man imprisoned You cant prove anything in Utah that is worth proving As claptrap fst Kate F is a champion Isit worth proving that you are unreliable or am I spending my time fruitlessly Let the public judge The women are ugly dirty ignorant beasts How queenly ladylike and charitable 1 It might almost pay the ugly dirty ignorant and beastly Mormon Mor-mon women to charter the young amiable ami-able charming lovable cultured beautiful beau-tiful brilliant soruppy New England spinsterCol Kate Field Esq to bide for a season in Mormondom and in the interest of stirpiculture to exhibit her rare charms her Edenic virtues her unequaled un-equaled attainments her prepossessing manners and her peerless breeding and loveliness for the benefit of the said ugly dirty ignorant and beastly Mormon Mor-mon women and their ugly dirty ig norant and beastly offspring It wasa serious and irreparable mistakeBoston should have had the statue of Liberty Enlightning the World Mormonism is death to patriotism Had you said prostitution yes Mormonism is organized treason It makes serfs of its converts it brutalizes humanity Another attic falsehood Mormonism elevates and immortalizes humanity Mormon children and soc iety are infinitely better cleaner and superior to the antiMormon product Every record in Utah attests this unimpeachable unim-peachable statement The whole Mormon theory implies I that a women is hardly worth damna tion The patent fact is Mormon women enjoy greater freedom of thought and action more franchises and are loved and esteemed more by their husbands than ary other community of women in Christendom a frightful per cent of whose husbands are forever consorting with the bawd and with their neigh bors wives while the Mormon hus bands are proverbially clean pure up right and truthful In this last predominating predomi-nating respect Mormon wives are infinitely infi-nitely better off than their monogamous women thousands of whom are in daily fear of social leprosy from their besot ted husbands while the other thouand could not under oath give the correct names of the fathers of their children The Gentiles are so harrassed by Mormons they cant make farming a success 0 yes this is so The Mormons be ing the most numerous when crickets epizootic diphtheria army worms drouth measles and early frosts appear in Utah the Mormons at once round them np and after nightfall drive them over on the Gentile farms and into the Gentile houses which of course settles the farmers for good Kate please give a few of the names of the despoiled Gen tile farmers or confess to another false hoodThe The Gentiles own two fifths of the property and pay half the taxes of the Territory TheGentiles dont own a tithe of the taxed property of Utah nor do they pay a tithe of the taxes while the antiMormon agitators of Utah pay less than 2per cent of the taxes paiejas the following brief exhibits prove Taxes paid in three years viz 18S318SH18S5 ExGovernor Ell H Murray 4S 03 Judge C C Goodwin Tribune editor 900 J M Goodwin on the Tribune 6 80 Judge Wm Nelson Tribune editor 000 Col 0 J Hollister with strong anti Mormon rabies 000 JT Lynch 000 000 WH Dickson JudgewHDickson 000 Judge Varian 10375 Wm McKay Judge 000 Judge J R McBride 340 0 MarsnalE A Ireland 000 Judge J Boreman I 1380 Rev N Fputnam 0 00 General C HM Agramonte 000 IB Glendenninsr 000 Bradley CapsinJFBradley CapUin 420 Kaighn M M Kaig Judge Baskin 10900 Judge R N 000 Judge 0 8 Zane Bennett 000 JudgeCWBennett 000 Madam La Tour and husband Madam Frolseth 129 20 Her husband 000 General George R Maxwell 000 Revs Blair Carroll Jackson Frank lyn Benner Peebles Armstrong > and Casper 0 00 Total 44S 98 What a formidable sum 1 For three years at that 14966 per annum 453 per capita All antiMormon stalwarts The Mormons have always been treasonable Answered above There are 50000 Mormons opposed to the leaders but they are hypocrites False I demand proof Surely you can give a few dozen names out of the 50000When When Abraham Lincoln was dead Brigham Young said to friend of mine Drape the Theatre drape her Another enemy is gone When Garfield was dead a prominent Mormon telegraphed his wife Thank God 1 Another enemy dead I These are infamous falsehoods false-hoods and fiendish fabrications Give the name of your friend Kate Field and the name of the prominent Mormon Mor-mon Of course you cant do it As a matter of fact comparatively few polygamists support their wives Will you give the names of a few Mormon Mor-mon husbands who do not support their wives Until you do in what light and by what term should you be regarded l False in one false in all Not long since I visited a polygamist endowed with thirteen wives every one of whom is a beast of burden The youngest one bears children He is well to do yet they all live Jike pigs I took lunch with the master The first wife waited on the table The plurals ate in the kitchen This scene occurred net many miles from Salt Lake The man and his wives are Danish They are not women they are cows Kate Field if you had stated that you had visited and taken lunch with a Mormon Mor-mon endowed with 1000 wives that everyone was nearsighted near-sighted baldheaded and bowlegged that they all wore goldrimmed spec tacles knee breeches and a porous plaster on the small of their backs that they lived on roots acorns and spent malt seasoned with New England nutmegs nut-megs and Kate Field salt that their labor consisted in tanning and selling the skins of their children and of pass ing Gentiles in imitation of your own sainted Tewkesbury and that they went around on all fours slept in stables and hogpens and barked like I dogs at your approach you would have told as much truth and no greater I falsehoods than are couched in this snaky and devilish wholecloth untruth This statement appeared over your signature in the New York Weekly World of Feb mary 4th 1885 You knew of the ex istence of thismanywived family and actually took lunch with the polygamous polyga-mous husband yet you uttery failed to apprize Zane Ireland or Dickson of the existence and location of these bold violators ol the Edmunds law I At that time the courts were In the midst of their prosecutions for unlawful cohabitation cohabi-tation and you were the daily bosom companion of the prosecutors yet you did not point out to the noble and wholly upright officers ot the law these flagrant and impudent violators of the law who lived within a few miles from I Salt Lake at that 1 II cant be you j have descended from the prince of liars so noted in biblical history but until you give the name and place of these swinish people or report them at once to the United States marshal that they may be duly prosecuted for their lawlessness I will be forced to the conclusion that the father of lies was one of your ancestors Again if as you say the youngest alone of the thirteen wives bore children were the other twelve unfruitful or did they murder their babes as many of the cultured refined and civilized ladies of the New England States are doing by countless thousands thous-ands Until the antiMormons reached Utah there were no infanticides doorstep door-step foundlings and kindred fruits out here By the way you seem very anxious anx-ious to make money Cant you induce this Danish family to follow you around the country in exhibition Creatures as low and brutish as you represent them would need but little coaxing to engage in such a venture Think of this There may be millions in it I tell you religion had nothing to do with their expulsion from Nauvoo it was because they lied and stole and considered it right so lang as they lied to and stole from Gentiles Neither have you a scintilla of reliable evi dence in support of this statement All the reputable records prove that our people were driven from the States because be-cause of their religion and that the pillagers might get their properties precisely on the same grounds that the local crusaders are waging a war of ex termination against the Mormons today General Kane Hon 0 H Browning Governor ford and hosts of other nonMormons have verified my I statement Liars and thieves dont I quit the confines of civilization and go thousands of miles beyond its boundaries bound-aries where there is nothing to steal Your indictments are selfevident false hoods to those at all familiar with our history and the fruits of our labors They disfranchise from office all who do not enter into celestial marriage Such monogamists are deprived de-prived of office As presiding officers their reign is at an end For example the paints of the Tenth Ward are greatly exercised on the subject their bishop Adam Speirsbeing a monog amist The oldest I polygamist in the ward steps into his shoes The oldest polygamist of the Tenth Ward is devoid of character and the Saints talk about protesting against such an ungodly appointment Another string of unblushing false hoods A very large majority of the officers of the church today are mo nogamists And not a single person to my knowledge has ever been displaced because he > was a monogamist Adam bpiers is still bishop of tie Tenth Ward I and is as likely to remain in possession of his bishopric as other any bishop of the Territory There is no truth what ever in the statement that the oldest polygamist in the wards puts on the abandoned shoes of deposed mono monogam ists It is passing strange that the re fined Boston Amazon innocent as it seems she is of maternal instincts should breed and give birth to such a fearful array of Unmittigated anti Mdr monism much The less worst could not be written ami spoken I have given o you the very best We will let the Mor moos whom you have so outrageously wronged and shamefully villifiprt sit iudgment on this statement also w in like your others is born of t whch One hundred thousand tophet can make oath that you fepne ° ple pudent and unblushing falsifier are an hn It is not my religion to kill but would be vastly better to kill than It torture soul and body Prate to blood atonement In thfro about the murderous spirit within the exhibit bent of murder The wish is mother cainic the to t thought What a pre eminent pietist moralist and Christian wo Now in the light of your own propos womau tion False in one false in all how do stand in the yon e eyes of the public From the multitude c of your misstate ments you must be a literal scion of th the historic Ananias and Saphira Snrp they have one descendant present in tV flesh Let us hope that at the conclu sion of your seedless life their postprit will be wholly snuffed out posterity In you letter of January 16th 1881 to the Boston Herald let you this gOOd sized cat out of the bag I am re garded jay more or less Cemented by eastern friends No doubt your eastern east-ern friends arc right They should look after you With your notorious penchant and gift for misrepresents tion what show for life would the Seven teenth witchburners csntury of your own State have given you had you lived in their neighborhood l You advocate ad-vocate cremation I believe Wen youll get there sure if you dont mend your ways and cease abusing a people who are as much cleaner than the people I peo-ple you mix up with than snow is whiter than mud Let me give you some advice Cut the dirty company you have fallen in with in Utah Dont vou know that many of your local pallbearers pall-bearers are leprous men accustomed to the embrace of the harlot Dont you know that quite a number of them unceremoniously fled from Utah ceremoniously about a year ago because of their guilty co partnership with Fanny Davenport Mrs Fields and other notorious won gn of the town Dont you know that among your chief snufftakers are men who during their drunken orgies have boasted of their triumphs over female virtue having as they admit ensnared both white and black women Did you ever hear of the prominent Mormons you are holding up for public reprobation guzzling whisky all day long and vomiting over hotel carpets and stairways and associating with the riff rail ot WhisKy Street and Tribune Avenue Do yon not know that the antiMormon aversion to the Edmunds Tucker test oath is solely because they have to swear that they will not commit com-mit adultery or fornication You must know that if the antiMormons were to take and keep that oath every brothel would close for want of support No doubt the prostitutes will verify this statement if you dare consult them Of course the Mormons can take the oath because as a people they are clean and their intention is to remain so Recurring again to your antiMor mon indictments which I have quoted from your letters etc Suppose you were summoned to the witness stand couldnt you be easily convicted of rant libel and perjury Do you remember re-member the notorious frauds Eliza Pinkerton and her abettors How exactly I ex-actly you have imitated this perjured negress and her echoes In the calcium light of the foregoing answers to your uncalled for misrepresentations misrepre-sentations will you continue the shameless shame-less scandal monger or will you repent of your wickedness and make what amends you can in the great wrongs you have done to a people distinguished for their many virtues We will see There are yet a number of devilish items in your letters etc which cannot can-not now be considered After noting the bitterness of your soul no one will charge me with undue ascerbity Adieu for a season ADELINE D CLARK |