Show J B STODDARDS LECTURE lie Addresses a Large Audicuso In Ogden Last night at Corays Hall about 200 people gathered to hear the lecture of the young apostle of freedom J B Stoddard lecture on Mormonism in conflict con-flict with the Government of the United States He exposed the falsehood written concerning con-cerning him by Elder Joseph Hall consigned con-signed him to the tempting of Eve in the Holy Temple and let him be there The Saints claimed to be the Kingdom of God while all the rest of the world belonged be-longed to the devil His recent visit to Chicago had opened his eyes so that he preferred the latter He had been threatened with the vengeance ven-geance of God and of the Saints Any religion founded in blood and lust ought to go under along with its cutting out of tongues by the roots of hearts and of members of the body Such monstrosities monstrosi-ties should not be protected by the Constitution Con-stitution of the United States He lived under the protection of the law and defied de-fied his Saintly enemies to attempt what they formerly committed on apostates If the Mormons had existed at the time of the Revolutionary war they would have frustrated the founding of the Government Gov-ernment by thrusting a church ticket on the people David Eccles was made Mayor of Ogden City because he paid a cool thousand thou-sand dollars at a time for tithing Fred J Kiesel ought to have paid 1100 to get ahead him The Mormons should be disfranchised because they are not and cannot be anything any-thing like American citizens He then drew a lifelike picture of the Mormon Kingdom of God with the vice regent John Taylor underground giving pretended revelations from heaven to govern it and a priestcraft to rule it and contrasted the system with the very opposite op-posite one of Democratic government in which the voice of sovereign people was GodHow How funny it would be if in different parts of the United States church tickets were run in politics and several churches were obliged to fuse and order to swamp the dominant one The audience laughed at the account of a bishop sitting on his own case and deciding in his own favor In describing the temple pantomime and the general features of the system he exposed many ridiculous humbugs and highly amused and edified the audience The cruel heartless and degrading teachings and doings in polygamy were shown up in their glaring colors and all done in the name of Deity This Asiatic barbarism must go for American civilization civili-zation and it can never live together The kingly days of Brigham were contrasted con-trasted vith the present state of the hierarchy which had retreated inch by inch from the day that Godbe and Harrison Har-rison apostatized and the Tribune was started The time must come when this monstrous iniquity and despotism with its barbarisms superstitions and dark shadows will be laid in its eternal tomb OGDEN March 5 1887 |