Show I Reorganized Mormons Wincing Over I Polygamy I jl I have been asked several times why I delivered lectures on polygamy and why I had a polygamy lecture printed in pamphlet In answer I will During the year I lectured on Utah and the Mormons in D. C. and other eastern I was representing some business men in Utah who desired to have the so-called prejudice against Utah the falsehoods and the tracts of the Salt Lake Tribune and the devil-fish pamphlets and the lectures of the Utah orthodox preachers had frightened the eastern people so badly that gentile emigration to this state had almost UTAH BUSINESS The business men and the rail reads in Utah wanted this prejudice in this capacity I worked in the above mentioned and other cities to put Utah right with the In every lecture I delivered the subject polygamy would invariably be The so-called Christians who heard my lectures on Utah and the Mormons would always argue that polygamy originated in Utah that it was contrary to the teachings of the bible and that Joseph Smith the Mormon prophet and Brigham Young started FRIENDSHIP AND LIBERAL I was a member of the Friendship Liberal League of and after delivering a lecture there on Utah and the Mormons the Bible Polygamy question came up and was the subject of a spirited to try to settle the matter the president of the league invited me to give an address on polygamy from a bible MY Not knowing very much about the subject of polygamy I went to D. C. and spent several weeks in the National Library searching for information on the subject and to my I discovered that polygamy from a Bible standpoint was upheld and encouraged eminent doctors and preacher every denomination before Smith the founder of the mJ I mon church ImI looked through the religions j pers of the present day and dp that the following bi present day rule of all of the ol religious missions in fort countries on the subject of It follows mf CHRISTIAN a convert before a Christian has married wives than one in with practice of the Jewish M the primitive Christian church he shall be permitted to them but such a not eligible to any office in In no other case is pa gamy to be tolerated amS I also that while polygamy and amous cohabitation was out among the Mormons it increasing in the Presbyterian X other Christian churches 3 from the above information built up a lecture on without using one sentenced quotation from any WHEN IT WAS On 1906 I this lecture before Fri ship Liberal I was quested to deliver the same M ture before the Secular Lea in Baltimore I was so FW in my that I decided to printed in a small booklet in 9 der to give every person in the J where I lectured on subject an exact copy of all I jj so I not be That method worked like a and eve I was not misquoted one heard the lecture the booklet home with them m compared its Bible and other M They also learned vm the people who went up down the country against polygamy in Utah 3 tolerate polygamous in all the converts that they martin L received a few inquiries 1 Efly from England concerning in re-preference Martin The Madan the greatest J Lie from a J of polygamy of which we have was first a he heard England and was he was ap-Kd Chaplain of Lock where he wrote on of polygamy from a The was author of those Bf old fashioned Presbyterian Kimes the Herald and other popular Seas songs of The In Seal Encyclopedia gives a history of the Ma dan's SECOND the second edition of my on polygamy I added pages for the The Mor-K are all Utah they Hi go farther to keep a man to Utah than to convert a do not appear to Kny gospel or a message to In fact the not discover that they until fourteen after Joseph Smith was as- continually as-LUtah as a polygamous state originated in Utah Band it was to correct their which hindered to that I Pages- K inquiry in regard to my lecture pamphlet was r- S. a the Mormons in which he stated Pave received them by I can learn our whole R membership has received IS y mail in whatever state Have you Emulated or has the church done inquiry explains P have had so many calls pamphlet here in my of-KJ different ones have bought gf by the hundreds one of EL he was a his people to stop the everlastingly howling about polygamy in Utah when he actually believed that it was started in Nauvoo before the Mormons came to several of the pamphlets were addressed in my office but I did not pay any attention to whom they were I am also inclined to think that the Gentile Bureau of Information of Salt Lake City and the Seventh Day Adventists publicity bureau distributed some because some of them delight in talking polygamy and nearly all of their tracts concerning the Mormons are filled with There has been more polygamy in the Salt Lake Tribune and in the tracts and lectures of the Salt Lake Preachers and the during the past four years than there has been among the Utah Mormons and in there publications since Utah was settled in I do not think that any of the people who purchased the pamphlet were sent by the Mormon church to secure them I am more inclined to think that the Mormons who did buy them were returned Mormon missionaries and that-they mailed them back to the in the fields where they had thus giving their enemies a as a farewell V. 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