They who in Chicago and elsewhere smear at
the polygamists have their streets filled with armor,
and the jails filled with their criminal offsprings.
May God help me to smite these things.
Help me, O God, to tear from the
faces of these hypocritical wretches who want to
destroy Zion, the mass which hides them and
show them in their true nakedness to the
community.
Dear doctor, the wretches, many of Zion's persecutors
are thieves in strife, smaller like twine in
the very depths of immorality.
To the shame of men, there are thousands
upon thousands of immoral women in this city.
If we are to have the restoration of
all things, we must go back to monogamic
marriage.
We must punish polygamy.
We must punish tenfold more the man or
woman who lives in solitary and fornication.
Let the people say, Amen.
Audience, Amen.
The iron hand of law, God's scepter, will
smash this accursed social system that pretends to
be monogamistic when it is simply promiscuous.
Animals will take care of their offspring, but
those who hunt for flesh, destroying and deceiving
women, care nothing for their bastard offspring, who
become a curse and a menace to society,
to the church, and to the kingdom of
God.
I go to the foundation, and I want
to turn the hearts of the children to
their fathers.
If I could find the fathers of many
of the poor waifs of our city, I
doubtless would find them in high social and
even in ecclesiastical positions.
Oh, that you might feel, my brother, what
a crime it has been for you to
bring into the world a being who is
left to chance, charity, and to Christ.
No father, perhaps, no mother owning him.
In the moment of your base passion, you
forgot your God and the fundamental law of
human existence and human society.
Oh, that God would turn your heart to
these poor wandering children, and that you would
sin no more.
I stand here, and here I will stand
for monogamic marriage as God originally ordained it.
I shall pour the fire of the thunderbolts
of God into this rotten system of society,
until the law is enforced, until the poor
harmless is taken from this street, and the
harmless abuser finds his place in a prison.