Mormonism in Idaho

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 22, 1883

Mormonism in Idaho.

The black, baleful shadow of mormonism is steadily spreading over Idaho. In place of one Mormon representative in the Territorial Legislature, six years ago, there are now ten, if we should not say fifteen or twenty, as one of the ten is a bishop. Mormons are a third of the 65,000 population. All act as promptly at the beck of the head of the church at Salt Lake, as an orchestra at the beat of the leader's wand. Priests and teachers, circulating incessantly among them, direct for whom to vote, with whom to trade. A Gentile or "apostate merchant is treated to a dose of bankruptcy for his spiritual health. Proselyting goes on apace. Youth of both sexes are first "sealed" to the church and then taught to scorn and scout the laws of the United States. At a late ceremony in the Endowment House the national flag was trodden and spit upon.—The Advance.