erns them in the spirit of Mammon. Any remedy for existing
evils which would injure the mass of the Mormon people would be most
deplorable. I believe that they would loosen the chains which they wear
if it were possible. I think that many of them pay blood-money tithes
simply to avoid social ostracism and business destruction. I believe
that many of them do the political will of the church monarch because
they are led to believe that the safety of the church monarchy is
necessary in order that the mass may preserve the right to worship God
according to the dictates of their conscience. The church monopoly, by
its various agencies, is usually able to uprear the injured and innocent
mass of the Mormon people as a barrier to protect the members of that
monarchy from public vengeance.

It is the duty of this great body--the Senate of the United States--to
serve notice on this church monarch and his apostles that they must live
within the law; that the nation is supreme; that the institutions of
this country must prevail throughout the land; and that the compact
upon which statehood was granted must be preserved inviolate.

May heaven grant that this may be effective and that the church monarchy
in Utah may be taught that it must relinquish its grasp.

I would not, for my life, that injury should come to the innocent mass
of the people of Utah; I would not that any right of theirs should be
lost, but that the right of all should be preserved to all.

If the Senate will apply this remedy and the alien monarchy still proves
defiant, it will be for others than myself to suggest a course of action
consistent with the dignity of the country.

In the meantime we of Utah who have no sympathy with the now clearly
defined purpose of this church monopoly will wage our battle for
individual freedom; to lift the State to a proud position in the
sisterhood, to preserve the compact which was made with the country,
believing that behind the brave citizens in Utah who are warring against
this alien monarchy stands the sentiment and power of eighty-two
millions of our fellow-citizens.

[Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors were corrected:
tryanny to tyranny, autocracts to autocrats, monorchy to monarchy.]

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