Foreword : FOREWORD On the fourth day of January, 1896, the territory of Utah was admitted to statehood, and the proscribed among its people were freed to the liberties of American citizenship, upon the solemn covenant of the leaders of the Mormon Church that they and their followers would live, thereafter...
Xv The Struggle For Liberty : CHAPTER XV THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY As early as 1903, before the Smoot investigation began, the Utah State Journal (of which I became editor) was founded as a Democratic daily newspaper, to attempt a restoration of political freedom in Utah and to remonstrate against the new polygamy, of which...
Xviii The Prophet Of Mammon : CHAPTER XVIII THE PROPHET OF MAMMON In an earlier day among the Mormons, the ecclesiastical authorities collected one-tenth of the "annual increase" of the faithful into "the storehouse of the Lord;" and this was practically the entire assessment made by the Church; although, by the same law...
Viii The Church And The Interests : CHAPTER VIII THE CHURCH AND THE INTERESTS Meanwhile, I had been taking part in the Presidential campaign of 1896, and I had been one of the four "insurgent" Republican Senators (Teller of Colorado, Dubois of Idaho, Pettigrew of South Dakota and myself) who withdrew from the national Republic...
Vi The Goal And After : CHAPTER VI THE GOAL-AND AFTER Here we were then (as I saw the situation) assured of our statehood, rid of polygamy, relieved of religious control in politics, and free to devote our energies to the development of the land and the industries and the business of the community. The persecutions th...
Xvii The New Polygamy : CHAPTER XVII THE NEW POLYGAMY In the old days of Mormonism-and as late as the anti-polygamous manifesto of 1890-the whole aim and effort of the Church was to exalt and sanctify and make pure the practice of plural marriage by means of the communitys respect and the reverences of religi...
Title Page : UNDER THE PROPHET IN UTAH The National Menace Of A Political Priestcraft BY FRANK J. CANNON AND HARVEY J. O'HIGGINS. Boston, Mass. The C. M. Clark Publishing Co. [1911] Next: Note
Xi The Will Of The Lord : CHAPTER XI THE WILL OF THE LORD The Mormon leaders were now hurried down their chosen path of dishonor with a fateful rapidity. A reform movement was demanding of Washington the adoption of a constitutional amendment that should give Congress power to regulate the marriage and divorce laws of all...
Ii On A Mission To Washington : CHAPTER II ON A MISSION TO WASHINGTON I went discredited, as an envoy, by an incident of personal conflict with the Federal authorities; and I wish to relate that incident before I proceed any farther. I "must" relate it soon, because it came up for explanation in one of my first interviews with...
Introduction : INTRODUCTION This is the story of what has been called "the great American despotism." It is the story of the establishment of an absolute throne and dynasty by one American citizen over a half-million others. And it is the story of the amazing reign of this one man, Joseph F. Smith, the Morm...
Iv The Manifesto : CHAPTER IV THE MANIFESTO I found him in the office of the Presidency-in the little one-story house that I have described in my early interview with Joseph F. Smith-and he received me with the gracious affectionateness of a fatherly old man. He asked me, almost at once: "What are they going to do...
I In The Days Of The Raid : CHAPTER I IN THE DAYS OF THE RAID About ten oclock one night in the spring of 1888, I set out secretly, from Salt Lake City, on a nine-mile drive to Bountiful, to meet my father, who was concealed " on the underground," among friends; and that night drive, with its haste and its apprehension, w...
Xii The Conspiracy Completed : CHAPTER XII THE CONSPIRACY COMPLETED The Smiths were no sooner firm in power than rumors began to circulate of a recrudescence of plural marriage, and I heard reports of political plots by which the Prophets were to re-establish their autocracy in worldly affairs in the name of God. I sought...
Vii The First Betrayals : CHAPTER VII THE FIRST BETRAYALS Before I reached Utah, my friends, Ben Rich and James Devine, met me, on the train. The news of President Woodruffs "revelation" had percolated through the whole community. The Gentiles were alarmed for themselves. My friends were anxious for me. All the old enmities...
Xiii The Smoot Exposure : CHAPTER XIII THE SMOOT EXPOSURE Just before the subpoenas were issued in the Smoot investigation, I met John R. Winder (then First Councillor to President Smith) on the street in Salt Lake City, and he expressed the hope that when I went "to Washington on the Smoot case," I would not "betray" my...
X On The Downward Path : CHAPTER X ON THE DOWNWARD PATH During the last years of President Woodruffs life there had been a slow decline of the feeling that it was necessary for self-protection that the hierarchy should preserve a political control over the people. I cannot say that the feeling had wholly passed. It had...
V On The Road To Freedom : CHAPTER V ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM In any discussion of the public affairs that make the subject matter of this narrative, a line of discrimination must be drawn at the year 1890. In that year the Church began a progressive course of submission to the civil law, and the nation received each act...
Xx Conclusion : CHAPTER XX CONCLUSION Of the men who could have written this narrative, some are dead; some are prudent; some are superstitious; and some are personally foresworn. It appeared to me that the welfare of Utah and the common good of the whole United States required the publication of the facts that I...
Xiv Treason Triumphant : CHAPTER XIV TREASON TRIUMPHANT While these disclosures of the Smoot investigation were shocking the sentiment of the whole nation, the Prophets carried on the conspiracy of their defence with all the boldness of defiant guilt. In Salt Lake City, the office of the United States Marshal and even...
Untitled : This is a memoir of Frank J. Cannon (1859-1933). Although born into a prominent Mormon family, Cannon was a freethinker and a progressive. He recounts an insiders' view of the painful process by which the Mormon church and the state of Utah became integrated into the United States. He played...
Ix At The Crossways : CHAPTER IX AT THE CROSSWAYS In 1897, the Church, freed of proscription, with its people enjoying the sovereignty of their state rights, had-as I have already said-only one further enfranchisement to desire: and that was its freedom from debt. The informal "finance committee" of which I was a member...
Xvi The Price Of Protest : CHAPTER XVI THE PRICE OF PROTEST The members of the Mormon hierarchy continually boast that they are sustained in their power-and in their abuses of that power-" by the "free" vote of the freest people under the sun." By an amazing self deception the Mormon people assume that their government is...
Iii Without A Country : CHAPTER III WITHOUT A COUNTRY So I came to Washington. So I entered the capital of the government that commanded my allegiance and inspired my fear. I wonder whether another American ever saw that city with such eyes of envy, of aspiration, of wistful pride, of daunted admiration. Here were all...
Xix The Subjects Of The Kingdom : CHAPTER XIX THE SUBJECTS OF THE KINGDOM But what of the Mormon people? How can such leaders, directing the Church to purposes that have become so cruel, so selfish, so dangerous and so disloyal-how can they maintain their power over followers who are themselves neither criminal nor degraded? Th...
Note : NOTE When Harvey J. OHiggins was in Denver, in the spring of 1910, working with Judge Ben B. Lindsey on the manuscript of "The Beast and the Jungle," for "Everybodys Magazine," he met the Hon. Frank J. Cannon, formerly United States Senator from Utah, and heard from him the story of the betrayal...
