CHAPTER VII. 



PERILS. — MORMONISM. 



The people of the United States are more sensible of 

 the disgrace of Mormonism than of its danger. The civ- 

 ilized world wonders that such a hideous caricature of 

 the Christian religion should have appeared in this most 

 enlightened land ; that such an anachronism should have 

 been produced by the most progressive civilization ; that 

 the people who most honor womankind should be the 

 ones to inflict on her this deep humiliation and outra- 

 geous wrong. Polygamy, as the most striking feature of 

 the Mormon monster, attracts the public eye. It is this 

 which at the same time arouses interest and indignation ; 

 and it is because of this that Europe points at us the fin- 

 ger of shame. Polygamy has been the issue between 



