MORMONISM ON TRIAL

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 50.

MORMONISM ON TRIAL.

MORMONISM can be eradicated in only one way. The strong arm of the law must smite it dead. It is a wicked, beastly form of socialism, and will spread throughout the social fabric, the political organization of the country, until it passes beyond the control of the government. We predict that unless the government of the United States takes Mormonism seriously and crushes out polygamy, the black plague of concubinage will be a factor in American social life in less than a score of years. Every year this polygamy is allowed to go on, the difficulty of controlling it is multiplied by ten. It is a curious problem. Even people of ordinary good sense on other subjects have an apology for this form of social bestiality. One would imagine that the women of Utah would rise up against such a monster, but they do not. The most dreadful of all curses over Western Asia is polygamy. The tenacity of Mohammedanism is traceable to polygamy. The American people may strut about in a fancied security; but they should look with calm, level vision at the growth of this withering curse in Utah, in Wyoming, in Idaho, in Arizona, in New Mexico, and in nearly every great city in the East. It is not contended that these newly converted Mormons practice polygamy. They are content to establish a hierarchy which is based upon polygamy. It is an esoteric doctrine at first, but gradually comes to the surface. We favor a constitutional amendment invalidating every polygamist, denying him the right of franchise and the right to hold any sort of office.—California Christian Advocate.