scaped. These have been placed in my hands by
certain patriotic influences, and are here reprinted as The
Mormon Menace. Much that was shocking and atrocious has been
eliminated in the editing, as unfit for modest ears and eyes.
What remains, however, will give a sufficient picture of the
Mormon Church in its hateful attitude towards all that is moral
or republican among our people. A black kitten makes a black cat;
what the Mormon Church was under President Young it is under
President Smith, and will be with their dark successors.

The purpose of the present publication of Lee's story is to warn
American men, and more particularly American women, of the Mormon
viper still coiled upon the national hearth. To-day, as in the
days of Lee, the Mormon missionary is abroad in the world. He is
in your midst; he makes his converts among your neighbors;
within the month, on one detected occasion, he stood at the
portals of your public schools and gave his insidious pamphlets,
preaching Mormonism, into the hands of your children.

More, the Mormon Church has, in addition to its religious, its
political side, and teaches not only immorality, but treason. On
a far-away 5th of November a certain darksome Guy Fawkes and his
confederates, all with a genius for explosives, planned to blow
up the British Government by blowing up its parliament, and went
some distance towards carrying out their plot. The Mormon Church
of Latter-day Saints, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, is
employed upon a present and somewhat similar conspiracy against
this Government, with Senator Smoot as the advance guard or agent
thereof in the halls of our national legislature.

As this is written, a Senate inquiry into this conspiracy wags
slowly yet searchingly forward. Stripped of formality of phrase
and reset in easier English, the question which the Senate
Committee is trying to solve is this: Is the Mormon Church in
conspiracy against the Government, with Senator Smoot's seat as a
first fruit of that conspiracy? As corollary comes the second
query: To which does Senator Smoot give primary allegiance, the
Church or the nation?

By every sign and signal smoke of evidence the conspiracy charged
exists, with President Smith of the Mormon Church its chief
architect and expositor. Smoot takes his seat in the upper house
of Congress with a first purpose of carrying forth, so far as
lies within his hands, the plans of the conspirators. What is the
purpose