THE END OF MORMONISM.

Kumara Times, Issue 1477, 22 June 1881, Page 2

THE END OF MORMONISM.

Alluding to the report that Brigham Young, the son of the Mormon prophet, had been indicted for bigamy before the Federal Court at Salt Lake City, a contemporary observes :—" Polygamy, so far from being a cheap arrangement, has become so costly that only rich men can afford to have a number of wives. These ladies will no longer toil like Indian squaws, and fine clothes are quite as costly in Utah as they are elsewhere. The Mormon girls now decline to be anybody's second or third wife, and are beginning to prefer the whole of a humble Genti'e's heart to the fifteenth part of an elder's jaded affections. Moreover, there are secessions from the faith. Joe Smith's sons have pronounced against polygamy, and when the children of the first and only legal marriage claim the whole estate of an intestate Mormon father, the system will receive such a shock that its final collapse cannot he far off. Of late years it has gained no American recruits, while the European immigrants are invaribly the poorest, most ignorant, and undesirable which can be picked up by specious promises in Scandinavia, Wales, and Lancashire. It is therefore clear that Mormonism may, for many years to come, exist as a faith, but as a semi-political organisation its day i 8 over."