The Mormon puzzle, and how to solve itBeers, R. W.
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The Mormon puzzle, and how to solve it
Beers, R. W.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
The galley-slave realizes his bondage, feels his fetters, hears the twang
of his master's whip, and longs and plans for a release from his
servitude; but he who is enslaved by a mental or moral dogma, while he
thinks he is of all men the most free, is in the most fearful condition of
slavery. This is the condition of all those who, like the Mormons, are
compelled to yield a blind obedience to the teachings of an infallible
priesthood; and it must necessarily be the case that all such are unfitted
to discharge the duties pertaining to independent citizenship. He, and he
only, is fitted to become a worthy citizen of our nation who strives to be
an independent thinker, and who follows no guide but his own conscientious
sense of right and wrong; but he, and he only, is a good Mormon who obeys
counsel without question or gainsaying. It is, therefore, the imperative
duty of our Government to break up this slavery among the Mormons, and to
do it as speedily as possible. The Government is responsible for the
growth of this system within its domains, and it is in duty bound to
eradicate its evils so far as it lies within its power; but thus far the
root-evil of the system has not been recognized. All the efforts of the
Government have been directed only against one of the branches--namely,
polygamy. The real evil is slavery, and it seems to us that the same
remedy we suggested for the solution of the Mormon Political Puzzle is the
proper solution of the Mormon Social Puzzle.
1. A NATIONAL COLONIZATION SCHEME, which would surround the Mormons with a
people imbued with freedom, and exercising freedom of thought, speech, and
action.
2. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL FREE SCHOOLS of a high order all through
the Territory, by means of which the rising generation would be
continually surrounded with an atmosphere of freedom. Nothing can change
old Mormons, either men or women; but the young men and women--the rising
generation--may be reclaimed.
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