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Show still five others; he makes bargains with great political parties and boasts that he and his followers cast the decisive vote in the last National election. <br> That is some evil progress in twenty-one years! What will twenty-one years more mean, or even half of it, if his traitorous aggressions be not checked? <br><br> Commercial* <br><br> Commercially, the Mormon kingdom is a combination in restraint of trade and commerce; therefore a violator of federal statute. This was authoritatively established in the federal court as late as 1912, in the government's case against the sugar trust, when it was found upon examination by the Department of Justice that the great sugar merger was formed in the office of the Mormon president at Salt Lake. <br><br> No other of the great trusts of the country is fixed so firmly, so dangerously and so arrogantly as the Mormon Church trust. As "Trustee-in-Trust" for the Almighty, the Mormon prophet holds title to millions of dollars' worth of stocks and bonds, lands, mines, flocks, herds and merchandise. As president of the Utah Hotel Co., Inland Crystal Co., Utah State Bank, Zion Savings and Trust Co., Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution, and as president or principal director in a score or more, additional, of the great corporations of the country, this "Trustee-in-Trust," claiming authority over all industrial and financial activities, misuses the government trust fund restored to him which, with its accretions, to-day amounts to at least $400,000,000 of quick or mobile capital, and for which he has never in all the twenty or more years he has held it given an account to the government. <br><br> Money is power; money in the hands of unscrupulous men like the Mormon prophet and his official associates is tyrannical* power. Such is the power today being wielded covertly in this country, especially by the greedy tyrant, Joseph F. Smith, who has despoiled the public school funds of millions; who asserts divine right to plunder by his monopolies; who levies tribute not merely upon his own people but also upon those outside of his kingdom, to maintain his polygamous grandeur; and who appoints his apostle, Reed Smoot, and priest, William King, to the United States Senate to guard the interest of his government trust so criminally used. <br><br> Polygamous* <br><br> The Mormon kingdom denies on occasion, that it practices or teaches polygamy, and it has been able by influence upon commercial and political allies, and by its inducements to venal agents, to procure a widespread endorsement of this denial. <br><br> The prophet of the church, ruler of the kingdom, lives with four known plural wives. He boasts of that fact, exulting publicly that he is father of forty-three <br> [Continues on next page.] <br><br><br> * Words are italicized. <br><br> |
