Show it THE MOTHER OF VICES J k + SOIIIP I of HIP Heititlex of IoljBiuii t I t Clearly Ildnieil j oj j Jiulffn Dliksons 1 lniiipnl Sjicodi at the Imlllnn last Sight k k it i Cn ci Hint Hint omc Umlcr the ri Irosirulors IVrminnl Nether flu HptLch ililiXLn 1 by Judge Dick Soil it tlio Iuilwn list LNciiltii Ins instil M much lominoiit < 1 cxutcil so inucli inteast III tlio mibjcct 111011 t ttlmh 1m Ki poke that the IhOclIT Ie hJ tided to print it erlntim iwljiken b II reporter of tills paper fliu address was h lollllre1111 1 a tkar flowing 1 Uofjuent in inner > 111I1 1 wa frunipnllj Inttrruj tod In loath hursts l of ipplinsi allli I when 4 g tin noire shier IlinMii 1 tins clappilll of liniiNroiitiniud form unll minutes JUIMII iiickNON mi rui Ui CAniinnii Mtnbeif nf tSr 3 sat f i 1 n tini i and 1 I ftttici ifllic J cliff IJ 1 1 th call nnsuro jou Hint wherever jou linlt on hpg Jour jounioj to thin 1acillo Coast through ii t t pptr1V every town mul hamlet l thai jou puss jon it illbo received with lOt tJiul welcome I flint t1 I 4 you are entitled to And 1 wish to insure I a sot thai nowhere cm jou receive tl heartier fr welcome than the ioyti cith7eitnof Utnli wish l tjl j to extend to you Indeed think poruapn a1 tfn tlmthero thoynro moro inniefit than else hjltt i whore beciuwo wo unity feel that vn mod L U flflj the support and nnufttnnca of thin loyal 1 citizens of the United States everywhere r ii i Wo nro RrentlyeuconrnRcd I negro you by l your presence hero among us because wo feel Hint j ou will not forget iw when j on return I f re-turn to your homes ill thin Lnsl nnd us you 4 h ttiQ may Rot to understand Honielhmc of the k situation here wo hope tint jour voice will hi sitistt halliard on your return the ittitta hhttg fiom hI pf jour Sumtorn nnd lIe teesoit tiithvr in Con LreW redress for the hgttty evil Hint cnrao 4 this Jcrritory I I CANNOT UT TIIIH rOllTUNITi Ills ithi I think no loyal cilic ought to let H pan without Bivfiij soraothiiiK tovon loyal tent ten-t t plool the 1 nst of tho itrie ous rniiRH wo ftl4i have to complain of SIte story of UtidiB I hhauio Iho depth and hrctulth of tho infnnij here the mighty wrongs nnd great ctimo Hint I I hays I Iil high onrninl hero for lob these mnny years cnnnot bo told in mi hour nor t O In n < lay Tim most wo olin do is I to touch t I ts upon Ito salient points and wo ask yet It k when you LO bitch > soar homes to Hay to fi t jour neighbors in the East thnt I measures v uro sndly needed to right turns wrongs What inn npt to Bay will bo largely matters C mat-ters that have como under my own personal h observation i voI have no di inlentloii l indulging I t I I i indulg-ing In exaggerations nor shall uiidortiiko 1t ti h to palliate nuy of the wrongs null crimes in that run not here Wo wish to nay that tho I RO called Church of Jesus C hnst oft of-t b Latterday Saints is striped III disloyalty LId ii dis-loyalty tu tho Government of tho i I United States Wo lillY again that i the Church in Utah hasnsurpod CIvil aulhor I ity throughout tho territory Wo say more d than that that tho purpose of thin Church I hero ono of its pirltoulnr purposes is to I overthrow the American homo nnd overturn it I tho family l altar in this country Wo siy that thus Church the people who nro tho a J herents of that Church nro Bleeped In sits lojalty Gentlemen could you eipect any tswl fl t to k thing Iso when the truth is that every week C every Sunday flinco the first settlement of I the territory it il has been preached from tt pulpit that thin Government of this United c States wan this enemy of Mormon Church and people tied as that dootrmo tins been g dnoi uttnf i instilled r into the minds of the youth of this I country for the last thirty yearn conld wo I expect any other outcome when rt they reached 41 the ago of discretion then that the masses h h t WOULD US IIOSTIIK TO THE OOVKHNUENI I a As evidence of tho disloj altj which reigns here I may say that when tho great Lincoln a was assassinated nod when the news of his I assassination reached this ierntory Brigham t i Brig-ham Young then the President of this Church maid not nod did not repress his I t exultation over it In 183 whin the HO I 1 called Ldmuuds bill WHS passed which i struck at the practice of polygamy nud iilmcd to t suppress the poljgamons lIIfi > use I tl hold in this Territory that command of the i i tt Government was met by a challenge issued I trots the rJvu of the Church here nod the order went forth given by President Inylor and George J Cumon nnd Joseph tv Smith itvsn n i calling 1 I upon tho people l tolivo their I reliuou i I r nnd enforced it by tho threat thnt every 1 1 mania tho Church who held nu office nnd tit t o who hull not moro wins than ono should pa bo forced to yield up his olllce unless ho took another wife in violation of tho IIIW8 1 J of his country and Hint no man Mich wns the order could hope for preferment in tho I Church unless ho took unto himself moro I wives thnii ono and from the slay that Inn I was passed until the present time it has Si been steadily preached to the people I hero lfiie t ot itJI t that it i rt was their duty l to live i thtir religion l tllVIOLATJ tr MOLATF THK LAW OF THE UMTK1 STATUS I And to take unto themselves more wives S than ono and since that time it had been 4 4 more Lenernlly earnestly I and vigorously pressed upon tho adherents of this Church than it ever was lief ore And it hns come to a this pusst speak of what I know and what leh fh ngfvtll1i 1 ° I 1 hmo seen hero that a member of this Church who ham been arraigned ut the bar m of this court for his violation d this laws oft of-t i C his country who has been indicted tried i and oonv poted when he has been called upon hi to answer if he has anything to stay vjhj the I l judgment of th < i law should not be pro nonnced against him everv man who hag j dared to say that from this time forth it Is i his intention to respect nnd obey the laws of i his country has been iinathoraalired by the Church nuivi8itud with tocial P ostracism i 5 by the dominant authorities Why it hoi ho-i mi but n few months BlnooI can appeal for b proof of this to out of your members Judge MoICay since tho coin ersntlon took place in his presence that man indicted for violation viola-tion of the jhird btctlou of the I dinunds law r cud who know he was guilty and it would mm be no use to stand trial booauso thu tint Il t donod of his guilt wa8Iallll > le and within C 0 the remit of the prosecution made n elite t I j ment to mo the uubstmco uf which I was t lme fiuej1ed lbs law OC the jubt SIC 4 mouths as the courts oC the lerntorj have Ii construed it is my desire to hiss within 1r the law in the future but I untie NOT STOOl UP IN OU11T And promioo to obey the lawn of this euuu try I am a wealthy man it IB true Lot all my capital invested iu business in Him I city and should i make that i romiao in the t I presence uf the court I I ljll bo utterly I ruined and destroyed in mj business here I Bixmlc of this in order that jou may better I understand something of the power that I this Church wields our its ptoj lu Iu re To hirauihse ohcedbeitee ta lbs lames 1 sf the Intel 1 ol 6 gb vslI tgyI It regarded tiy this Cisunch its tmpostssey tutuS tutu-S re9uK ill Ilyhlr the whIp md the HOurge in socal ostracism and a boycott III busness until ovpn jann of wealth in this territory us Diuwoodeyjiajs knows that his business will bu destroyed by the Church that rulcn here I Buy to you thnt tho touching hush preach iiig here for many yours has been that tho Government tlgfr this ouutry is lbs enemy of this Ihurph nnd I have nlluded to it becnusu It was necessary in order to show wh it the I L natural outcome such teachings must be i When they como to years of manhood nnd JUcrttion what else can they be but rebels a their esuuhry Why it is on hmuier im I o 4 that the Foerili if July M5 hlli r I IUllty Oourlhouse III this city overlho Oily lIall III thl city over lbs Salt Lake reylftnnllfto n u V m Cooperative l Mcrcautilo I Ilibtltutlou over 11 S the Gardo Houuo where the iiiviaible I pres L cites uf the President of the Church ii sup 1 posed to dwell ocr tho Jleieret Nell office t I e 4 over the unfinished walls of the Mormon I Temple over this roof of that I SiN It or ivrqnr tne rfDowsicd novsr 1 ho American ling on the Nations l birthday i lle was trailed nt halfmastl And jet they say Culled i Wo are thomost loyal people in the United States nnd this wns the means they took to calmness their loynlty to the Government 1 on the birthday of tho Nation I his I think ladies and gentlemen Is sufficient perhaps to lend yen to believe i that there Is I something some foundation for the charge we make here that the Mormon Mor-mon people na n class nro disloyal Wo Bay that the Church has nsuriwd tho civil an thority lucre Wo nil kllow It and nobody will caro to gainsay It I think Them has not been an election held in this territory but what this I ticket has been nmdo up by the Church authorities and has been voted I for flolidh by very member of the Mormon gi usr VIIY J iail rg rttol Onol Church bach I a thing could not bo in any other I country but this It would not boss i hero unless there was a power behind that ticket which tho members of tho Church dare not disobey Now I B dd that they also attempted and ende nored to overthrow tho American homo and overturn tho fnmily altar Win I can point von to n plnco in Utah called n home where man dwells with three sisters and OAI LS CACtI BISTFH HIS WiFE IB rearing children by each one of this three nnd all dwell under tho sauna roof called bj the sacred name of homo 1 cnn point you to nnother place nlraost within a stone8 throw ro this building I whore n man is dwelling under the solos roof with a mother l n daughter and IIO n rand daughter I and calling each by tho sacred name of wife and has begotten children by each of them What oO you t Ikrlr must bo this effect of ouch examples ns these if allowed to to on ill tho future ns in the past Ilio tendency of tIthe crime of polygamy nud of tho tenching which onoo ira osit is I this Hint tho publlo morals of Iho community nro becoming debauched de-bauched there is being reared up hero a community of hypocrites ind perjurers IhaUsiiBtroiigterm to use but I use it fuUlstdly I say just what I mean Iho one crime begets another it is tho prolific mother moth-er of orimo hero It is almost a dally oo ourrenco when tho courts Ire in session to itness this sights end hear this words which irovo this I r rel of this Htnlcmont I have aeeii n t Avoman to upon the witness stani oust hold np her hand before hIgh henvei nud Hwcnr to toll time truth this wholo I trnth nnd nothing but limo tt truth nnd when she took her sent upon bbs stand after taking tho oath admitted thnt sIts was this mother of II jonng vionuin who was a member of her household that tho daughter hind given birth to n child tumid tlinl the daughter Wllq married but this mother conld n it tn ono her soul from i erdili iUII TEIL SmutS TilE irusiiANn WAS I I have melt u young woman ro upon this witness stand nnd admit that sho was lie mother of a child but to save her soul fron everlasting l damnation she could not tell 1 who i its father wns ti1 do sl not wish to often Mrs polite but I think tho lime has com when wo ought to spoik of things in Ulnas Uln-as wo know thorn to exist no that the lou pie of the Last may know something too of tho infamy of this thing I have know njouiHj woman 12 or 1TJ years of ago mod est in ponrnnco and of ordinary intell 10otei 11ar uWteW Leuco take her onth to tell this trnth ho wlulo truth and nothing but the truth who went upon lho witness stnnd and admitted I that clue won married moro than two year before that time but lo BUVO her soul from everlasting destruction she could not tell whither sho had FVKIl times A WIFE TO lien HU8IUSD1 Theso things justify mo ill saying that the crime of poljgamy is tho prolific mother oC other crime and that thero is rearing hero II communitj nndthnt I the of Chnich hypocrites or those and in perjurer authsrity in the Church indirectly if not directly encourage this hypocrisy and wicked per hire I that Is committed in our courts nlmos daily lund occasion to allude to this matter once before and was challenged by tho Desci ct News to lay my finger upon n tenet of tho Church that taught this Saints to be hjpocrites or perjurers Of course I could not do that m is tRio bo supposed that they would put it in black nnd white and htramsi uhgtte it ns n tenet of their faith But while that is so no know that no word of condemnation by any ono in authority has over been uttered against the perjury daily committed in our courts and that that por lion ot the press which voices tho sentiment of the dominant authority here so far from speaking n word of coudemnation DULY APOLOOIZF3 FOB AND DEFENDS Amt praises those perjnrerafortheircunniug while upon tho witness stand How long oh how Ions must this thing bo endured When will the time come when tho American 100110 speaking through their reprcsenta tires in Washington shall say it must stop I Bay to each one of von when you go back to your homes in the Last do not forget us lko these things over with j our neighbors until l the popular sentiment becomes aroused and lbs public voice is heard demanding re dressof tho wrongs that wo have to complain of Why is I it that the nation will hesitate why is it I say when it is so palpable that the r priesthood I that I rules the tc lglb of this territory are disloyal nt heart tho nation will hesitate to wrest tho ballot from them why hesitate to strike it from their hands Why should tho civil authority bo allowed to remain in their hands there is nothing Vmerioan in such legislation because the people hero do not really exercise the fran thisc they DO AS THEY Ann IIUW TO DO Jly the priesthood thoto nun who stand mt this tend of the Church George Q jiuinon John lajlor and Joseph P Smith Would it be any wrong to this people to Htriko from their hands the ballot winch they never freely exercised and which they IUIVOBO long prostituted lint they say when wo demand this that is n cry gotten up l by a little ring of federal ollicitU in Utah and a handful of Gentiles who wish to get the offices into their own hands nnd plunder tho people Wo do not tuck for nnv offices All wo tab i9 hut the ConLnss of the United States take tho gavem utine lit of this lerntory out of tho hands of disloyal men nnd into its ovrn hands iho let tiles nre willing that the ballot should 10 I taken from their hands too if thnt is the only wny hit the cr ing evil can lio rom smiled All they lIok is that the coLLar lit TAXES icon U1SUJ1AI HANDS And thnt the conduct of nlfnirs hero nhall be reposed in n Commission to be appointed bv thus Prcbident of tho United btatcB by and whit tho advice and consent of thus Suiatc iutid let that toimmssion rule the civil affairs IIf > the It ml on And let mo say atain lust Iho ollly measure that will correct thocrjing evils existing hero is n law that will take from the priesthood tho civil power that power which they use to aid them in crud lUg nnd defeating the laws of tho United States nnd we never can reach thus root of the evil until that nnthoritj in i taken nway from them Now lavish to snv n word un two nll > nt eJt8t the pernecutioim here in Utah IOU COVhCIlNCl BAKE The unlj answer perhaps neceuaary to tislrllt I lrllt te rr make is that there never has been a man convicted in hue courts uf this Ierntory for offciibes of 11 hum nature referred to but the t-he has been free to 10 unwhipt of Justice without any hiauiish maim lit without n dollar of line If he would but promise lo obey tho laws in future In what other country ore criminals treated with such leniency as this here has never been a man culled for sentence m the third District Court or in the First or Second District ourts but who had the chance to kothencefrcuwithout I punishment of any kind if he would but mini ly say I roiu this time forward I will obey the laws oC thq United Stated Nut only that but shoitly after His xcellvtio Governor West CHIIIO among us n few VI twe I months ago he went up to tL e icintenllnrj n few miles south of this city where nt that time some fifty ur sixty members of the ujh r 8rurof Mormon Church were incarcerated for IOHUiill AND USLAWtUL COIU111TATIOV And said to them All that this great countrj asks is that you shall be loynl and obedient citizens If you will I n iw promise i ill guuod faith you will in the future keep the Issue I of the United States I will uso HIV in JI J 11 W rlItJ lla llueiicu nud other I ° cdernl i iillleials will join j I with me m nuking the President of hits United btatea to gtllnt you a full p irdon And no mitt of them dnrud to Hay ho would keep the laws rlO hia country Wel preference to bbs laws uf the Church Is thcru any per I hccution in this j And still thu howl gore up that 1 this iieople are being persecuted J liy YI h lbs redernl olllcials in Utah What found i m > 1sfr1tftirr llltto5 usc > CI sJf1cT > J caticut I I am willing to admit and do concede that the great mass of the people sincerely be lime what they lire taught by the head uf 1 the Church but I am convinced thnt those lit authority in the Church are not sincere I in what they claim to believe It is sImply lust for power with them There Is no reo llgion in it nt nil And Ill tell yon why I think no and that Is because of the course pursued by George Q Cannon nnd others for the past year nnd a half in this Territory When tho Edmunds bill was passed I have already alluded to the fact thnt the author ties called upon the people to live their region tI re-gion George j Canaan was the editor of the Jnrenite nifrtiefor nnd as Into ns April 1883 In the columns of that paper ho said that there was no limn made power whether it be vested in Kings Presi cuts or Congresses that over wonld make his people gIve up the practice of that tenet of their faith And he taught nod ireachcd upon this theme until ono day tho grand inquest of this district took his cues IIllltcr investigation and when Iho members I of his faintly were summoned to testify therein hound not the courage of his con ctlons but sought his hole in tho ground ANn WENT INTO HIDING Allrl ns soon as indicted ho ran away and hid and has been skulking and hiding ever sluice thnt time thai ho had daily and weekly amid monthly called upon his people to do what ho had not tho courage to do himself l And when nt last n price was sot upon his head nnd when ho saw that there avers thoso nround him who were tempted to give him up to the officers of tho law ho tipped over tho territorial has into the adjoIning Stats of Nevada nnd when the herill undertook to arrest him La denied lila Identity ns long ns there won nny hope of escape by em i doing but finding that use Sf IaVJ J ltVl 1fi m Ices ho said to this fnithfiil 1 ofliccr Hero ia 1000 to say that I nm not Georgo Q Mnnon amid let mo aT This is the man aslus claims to bo the virngcrcnt of this Imlehty who claims to bo no highly fa W lrJ vf oied that he holds daily communion with the Throne of Grace and that his mission hero on earth is to point tho path to heaven for his followers And when finally the Ulcers from this Territory went to Nevada to receive him on the waj back ho nndcr took to jump time train LIKE Av ORDIIUIIY iionsL TniLF AmI run assay and when ho was reoapturn ausd lunged under bonds of lri l 000 then did ho call upon llishop Sharp to give his minus for 2 > UUO of thnt nniount and that man horn ho had hshcd hut n few months bo ore because ho ilnred to piomiso to obey the lawa of the United States comas forward anrl placed l his Rignaturo to tho bond for lint nmoutitnan guarantio that when his Cannon name was called ho would bo hero to respond Hut lo and behold when the day of trill cam cud his namo wns dhd ho was not thereto to respond end ho has never been sect insLon 11 1ilOwIgs wants to see him most tho olhccra of the law Can j ou gen tlcmen seoanj distinction between the conduct con-duct of this I alter dav Saint who stands nt the hind of this Church and the condnc Jon would exptct in the ness of city OrUnSAlll AND VtlLOAB MALrFAGTOll Now in c MictuHi in I wish each one of jou when yea go home to think theRe hiiigs ov or nnd see Hint the public l mind imm the 1 Last is I ronnht i to t understand this I jues Ion Anrll Ray to c ich olio of jon those of Jon who aro mothers and sisters ns jon lass yonr homes ns jou value honor in men am irizo virtue in I women son to it that I yen conso not our agitations until jour rehire sentebi yes in Congress hnvo done their tint > to Utnh |