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Copyright, 1890.

BY

Mrs. CORNELIA I’ADDOCK.

Preface

The characters of the story herewith presented to the reader, are taken from actual life. The incidents are such as have fallen under the writer’s own observation, or have formed a part of the experience of her neighbors and friends. To the natural question whether such a state of things as is depicted in the book still exists I reply:

In Salt Lake, and in all the large towns that have felt the pressure of outside civilization, there have been many and great changes for the better, but in the remote settlements the authority of the Mormon Church is still supreme. There are whole counties in the Territory in which there are not a dozen resident Gentiles, and in these counties any crime that is “counselled” by the Church leaders, may be perpetrated without fear of punishment.

“ Polygamy is a dead issue in Utah.”

This is the testimony of John T. Caine, the Mormon Delegate to Congress. Let us see how his assertion harmonizes with existing facts..

The Penitentiary is crowded to-day with men who have been sent there for continuing to live in polygamy in defiance of the law, and many of the convicts, after serving out their six months’ sentence, go home and resume their polygamous relations at though nothing had occurred to interrupt them.

It is true that more secrecy is observed now than formerly

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in the “solemnization” of polygamous marriages, and that many of these marriages take place in the Temples at Manti or St. George, where there are no Gentiles to molest or make afraid ; — but in one of the most flagrant cases lately brought to the notice of the courts, the marriage was celebrated in the Endowment House in Salt Lake, almost in sight of the Federal Court Rooms, where the parties to such marriages are brought up for trial.

The only way to make polygamy a dead issue, is to punish the leaders of the people, instead of their ignorant followers, and to make their punishment as severe as that of other felons. Thus far nearly all of the convicts have been from the rank and file. ’.When a Saint of any prominence is indicted, he accepts a mission to Europe, or finds a safe refuge among his brethren in the outlying settlements.

It has been suggested that the government should either maintain its sovereignty, and enforce its laws in the Territory of Utah, or acknowledge th® prior claim of the Saints to the entire Rocky Mountain region, and retire gracefully from the country it has invaded.

During the lak five years, the United States Courts in the Territory have made a firm stand, but they must be clothed with additional power before they can bring notorious offenders to justice.

The known authors of scores of the outrages that blacken the annals of Utah, have filled positions of public trust and authority for years, instead of expiating their crimes in prison or on the scaffold, as they would have done elsewhere.

The men who have been the victims of Mormon outrages, who have had their property destroyed and their business broken up, who have been maimed and crippled by brutal blows, are still living in the community. Is it any wonder that they object to having the authors of their wrongs placed in control of public affairs?

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The widows and children of men who have been murdered by the Danites are also with us to-day, and it can scarcely be expected that they will forget their wrongs, and consent to live amicably beside those whose hands are red with the blood of their husbands and fathers.

The conflict between the Federal officers and the local authorities can only end when the latter acknowledge the supremacy of national law. At present, there is no sign of surrender on either side. The representatives of the general government are taking vigorous measures to enforce the law, and they are met by an equally vigorous resistance on the part of the authorities of the Mormon Church.

Yet to one who has watched the contest for nearly twenty years, it seems that the final result is no longer doubtful. On one side are ranged the friends of law and good government, on the other, the adherents of a system that sanctions polygamy, treason, and murder. In a battle between such forces, on American soil and in the nineteenth century, there should be no .question as to the party which will prove victorious. If the government of the United States, and the people, before whom the matter must come for final adjudication, sustain the right, it is sure to triumph

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