Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast
CHAPTER XII.
_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