| Show PLO T ALL SAINTS FRUM j 1 1 Solomon F Kimball Kimbal Bailiff oj 1 U S Count Court Tells of the Scheme Sch me 1 1 FORTY POLITICIANS IN IT FORT 1 Taxes to Be Raised and Mor Mormons 1 mons to Be Disfranchised 1 Part of Conspiracy j 1 J Temple to tl ISo no Turned Into n State i C ami Tabernacle Into a It Donee Hall j J jJ Solomon F 1 Kimball Kimbal bailiff lall of ot 1118 Il United States court and who resides at i 74 Sixth avenue In a communication I addressed addre sed to the tho editor of the Deseret Deseret News Kew stales on what he claims to tobe tobe be Indisputable authority that a I of politicians responsible for Cor tho launching ot oC the tho American party nw organized for or tho iho pur purpose i pose OSO of driving the Saints out of oC Utah Mr 1 Kimball sets forth that ho was Informed ot of the plot by hy a gentleman who was at the Initial In ial moot moet mooting ing According to Mr state statement ment this gentleman told him ot o tho scheme when he knew kne that he he was ly lying lyIng ing on his deathbed Mr lr Kimball has mailo mado an lU affidavit and sworn lo to a copy cop copo of o the deathbed confession which ho he emphatically declares he ho received In toto from a well known prominent lion rion The he story told by Mr 11 Kimball Kimbal al almost almo most mo t passes 11 OS belief hel in d twentieth century It IK IR herewith h re in full ul so that the thi reader l can draw his own conclusions The Jho lengths li Ih which unscrupulous politicians Will wi go in 11 order to further urther their own wn ends arc Iro ro apparently ut bounds boud Deseret News Several rl ago the of oC Sail or organized d for the iho purpose of oC driving thy Saints from their homes A prominent gentile gonto and Ill friend ot of mine attended a number qt pf their meet meetings meetIng ings Ing ilc lt was sick soon soon after and atit erl tl e U 5 l l ht yi ls th t he s sn n e o Wh l ill i b d li a s ef but able u to communicate his to me intelligently The a brief account statement Ho began bj saying that lie could licit until ho had divulged a damnable plot Which had been laid by a anti Mormons to drive the Saints from their homes He declared that ho knew the Mormons be hon honest est and upright Among them were many of his dearest friends He had allowed himself through curiosity and prejudice to attend their secret meetings but was not long In discover discovering ing that he was in the midst of a of anarchists SCHEMES PROPOSED Ho was astonished to find apparently honorable citizens oC the States entering into a diabolical scheme of this kind He said that their chief argument ment In justification of this movement was that the Mormons a com community of fanatics who could not live in peace with their Having been driven from their homes several times time had now arrived when they must bo driven again This was to bo accomplished In the following manner They to employ talented journalists to all manner ot false falsehoods hoods the saints publish these lies in their sheets and scatter them broadcast over the land While this work was going on other hired tools were to spend time sowing discord among the saints and andin in tills way keep them divided against one another He told me that special provision waa made to keep Democrats who arc Church members In line while this scheme was being carried out DISFRANCHISEMENT The gentiles ot Salt Lake he said were to form a new party In be between tween the two old parties and Salt LaUe City This accomplished they would take Salt Luko county then double their forces shifting a part of their hired tools to Ogden and keep up tho turmoil county was In their grasp Provos turn was to come next then Beaver These strongholds once captured they would have tho state of tho Mor Mormons mons was to come next then confiscation tion of their Church property Salt Lake temple was to t 5 turned into a state house and tho tabernacle Into Inton n dance hall man TAXES this cruel warfare was going on were to l burdened with high taxes and heavy public Improve Improvements ments The cities counties and slate to be bonded to the limit and the bold robbers who were In bringing about these condi conditions were to receive as their toward the homes of the saints and high sala salaried ried positions The principal cities were to bo colo colonized with thousands of strangers that w rc to be brought from far and near These to take tho places of the poor Mormons who would be compelled tp sell their homes tor a sons My dying friend urged mo most earn earnestly estly to not treat lightly What ha hail as the Mormon people he said would surely be driven from their possessions unless thoy become thor thoroughly united Several times he ex exacted acted a me that I would these facts Ho was hi hs right mind though It was hard for me meto to believe that an Intelligent body of United States citizens could bo so de depraved as to enter into a conspiracy of this nature Soon after I related to a number ot my acquaintances what my friend had bub did justified in publishing these facts until I had found out from other sources that what he had told was true time after this conversation I went before a notary public and swore to the above and placed the document In hands of an influential friend of mine the deathbed confession verified to rah alarming cx |
