THE MORMON ORGANIZATION.
By North American Review
WITH the death of Brigham Young, the American leadership of the Mormons ceased. Taylor is an Englishman, Cannon is an Englishman, and almost all the leaders are of foreign birth. The Mormon church is a foreign kingdom, hostile in all its features to a republican form of government; it is guided and controlled by foreigners, and depends upon foreigners and the children of foreigners for future expansion and power. It is absolutely un-American in all its attributes. It is a theocracy managed by a plebeian aristocracy, for intellectually the whole organization is of low order. Now in addition to church ties, there are family ties to hold this people in unity. The organization is fanaticism and superstition solidified. It numbers probably 150,000 souls, and is increasing as fast as polygamy and immigration can accomplish the result. It is swiftly peopling all the agricultural valleys of our richest Territories, and its leaders boldly proclaim their intention to subjugate the whole Union and bring it under their rule. They exalt their church over the State, condemn all laws which conflict with any tenet of their creed, are as careless of their oaths as a Chinaman, and bear as little allegiance to the United States Government as do the Chinese. The control of the chiefs, as in Mohammedan countries, is absolute; their organization, superb; the discipline of people, perfect. From tithes, $1,000,000 annually is collected with which to strengthen their position; they are a hardy race, indifferent to hardships and privations; already they are such a power that demagogues in their own country, other demagogues in Congress, and moneyed corporations, with their subsidized newspapers, pander to them; and it is plain that this institution, which was jeered at but a few years ago, has now become an absolute terror and menace to the United States.—North American Review.