Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast

CHAPTER XII.

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_Mormonism in General._

Mormon Industry and Thrift.--Their System of Irrigation.--Small Farms.--Good Homes.--No Drunkenness or Gambling.--Salt Lake City again.--Mormonism itself.--A Colonization Scheme, rather than Religion.--The Bishops Sharp Business Men.--The Tendency of Mormon Teachings.--Mormon Disloyalty.--Mormon Women.--Polygamy an Insult to Civilization.--A Crime against Humanity.--It should be Stamped Out, _sans_ Ceremony, and Instanter. 199-205