The Mormon Problem
by C P Lyford (9780217097635)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. CEIME AND LAWLESSNESS?CONTINUED. From Doctrine To Matter-of-fact: In the year 1876 it was the author's privilege to deliver a lecture in Salt Lake City, entitled " Brigham Young's Record of Blood." He did not take the stories of crime that were current and passed from mouth to mouth among the old inhabitants of Utah; he gathered from reliable histories, from the records of courts, the proclamations of public officers, the charges of judges to grand juries, and from the confessions of criminals themselves; and he was able to get together a record of over six hundred murders, committed by the Mormon priesthood or under its dictation. Of this truly appalling record the " Salt Lake Daily Tribune," of January 25, 1876, says: "It is, perhaps, the most severe arraignment of the Mormon priesthood ever made in a public discourse. His facts are gathered from authorities whose credibility is not to be doubted, and many of the assassinations he so hurriedly recapitulates are still matterof notoriety in the localities where the bloody deeds were perpetrated. The Mormon scribes and their jack-Mormon aiders and abettors, of whom John Cod- man is a shining example, have a great fondness for resorting to figures to show that deeds of violence are less frequent in the Latter Day community than in any other pioneer population of equal number. Such a statement is glaringly untrue, as a comparison of figures will show. It is estimated that no less than six hundred murders have been committed by the Mormons, in nearly every case at the instigation of their priestly leaders, during their occupation of this Territory. Giving a mean average of fifty thousand persons professing that faith resident in Utah, we have a murder committed every year to every twenty-five hundred of populati...

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