A Campaign Against Mormonism

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 24, 1913

A Campaign Against Mormonism

AN active campaign has recently been inaugurated by the Chicago Journal against Mormonism. It calls the people not to a war on the church as such, but a war against a “cabal of treacherous and criminal bosses in politics.” Petitions have been prepared and circulated, addressed to the Attorney-General of the United States, the Postmaster-General, and to the President and members of the Senate at Washington. According to the Continent of April 3,—the Attorney-General is asked to prosecute the Mormon Church under the Sherman act for maintaining combinations in restraint of trade, chiefly in the

beet-sugar industry. The Postmaster-General is desired to deny the privilege of the mails to the authorities of the Mormon Church because they continue defiantly to practise and teach the crime of polygamy. And finally, the United States Senate is petitioned to reopen the case for the unseating of Senator Smoot, the Mormon apostle, as the case against Senator Lorimer was reopened.