I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right but his duty to God to enter int...o plural marriages, and that the man who has the greatest number of wives stands highest in God's favor, than I do for the man who has been taught from his cradle that the unpardonable sin is the desecration of womanhood; whose religious training and the moral code of civilization in which he is reared make it a crime to violate the Seventh Commandment and the established law of monogamy. Yet, judging from the testimony we see all about us--our ... lying-in and foundling hospitals and our fallen womanhood--the married or single man who lives a pure life is rare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that t...here's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the [Utah] Territory is virtually under the theocratic government of the Mormon Church. The union of church and state is compl...ete. The result is the usual one, the usurpation or absorption of all temporal authority and power by the church. Polygamy and every other evil sanctioned by the church is safe. To destroy the temporal power of the Mormon Church is the end in view.... Mormonism as a sectarian idea is nothing, but as a system of government it is our duty to deal with it as an enemy to our institutions, and its supporters and leaders as criminals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mormon colonization south of this point in early times was characterized as "going over the Rim," and in colloquial usage the same... phrase came to connote violent death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you excommunicate one of us there will be 10 more to step up and take her place. Excommunicate those 10 and there will be 100 t...o take their places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »