Reorganized Mormonism and Polygamy
By Editor
SOME time ago we were taken severely to task for designating as Mormons those people who masquerade under the high-sounding and pretentious title of the "Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints." A late number of a paper published in Oakland by one of this sect has found its way into our hands, and in it we find a long eulogy of Joe Smith, the founder of Mormonism, an extract from the "Book of Mormon," and a fierce onslaught upon Congress and the Federal Courts for their "persecution" of the Utah polygamists. Surely this is Mormonism. It should be understood by all, that any who eulogize Joe Smith, and who profess to be his followers, must be, theoretically, at least, in favor of polygamy, however strong their assertions to the contrary, for he introduced the Turkish harem into the United States, as the "Book of Doctrine and Covenants" plainly shows.