gratitude; for instead of heaps of men and women unnecessarily slaughtered, we would have A REDEEMED PEOPLE--redeemed from slavery to liberty, redeemed from disloyalty to loyalty. We are firmly convinced that, if this plan were faithfully carried out in all its parts, less than twenty years would see Utah, with her rich harvests and vast mineral wealth being developed, and her million or more of people, shining forth as a bright star in the galaxy of American States, her people as loyal as those of Massachusetts or Connecticut--loyal to the very core; and where now the Stars and Stripes are cursed, trampled under foot, and placed at half-mast, they would then be greeted with loudest cheers. PART III. THE SOCIAL PUZZLE. "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."--INSCRIPTION ON THE OLD LIBERTY BELL. "The strength, the perpetuity, and the destiny of the nation, rest upon our homes."--PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. CHAPTER VIII. Polygamy only one of the Mormon social evils--Their social system _a system of bondage_--Contrary to natural law--Contrary to the spirit of the age--PERSONAL BONDAGE of the Mormons--Missionaries _must_ go on duty--Dictation of the priesthood with regard to boarders and rents--Immigrants under their control--All members subject to Church orders--Power of the Church over daily business--Mormon mining contractors--MENTAL BONDAGE of the Mormons--Converts illiterate--The Mormon Church the opponent of free education--No independent thought--Excommunication of Henry Lawrence and others. If nine tenths of the people of our land were asked to denominate Mormonism as a social system, the answer that would be given by unanimous consent would be this: "It is a system of polygamy." And yet, after a careful study of the social condition existing among the Mormons, it is evident that _polygamy is only one of the social evils_--one of several branches from one parent stock, and therefore cannot be said to be descriptive of their whole social system. One of the great political parties of our country has denounced slavery and polygamy as "twin relics of barbarism;" and that is undoubtedly true. But with regard to _Mormon_ polygamy, it will be seen that _slavery_ and _polygamy_ do not occupy with reference to each other the relation of twin sisters, but rather the relation of _mother_ and _daughter_: Slavery is the mother of Mormon polygamy and of all the other social evils of the so-called Latter-Day Saints; and therefore the proper denomination of Mormonism as a social system would be a SYSTEM OF BONDAGE.