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the individual withering but the world growing more and more."

But occasionally, my friends, a life is taken away from our
midst under such circumstances as makes us pause and brings to mind
with distinctness the bitter truth that man's inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn. The personality of men like Leo Frank down
in Georgia or Joe Hillstrom in Salt Lake City is not a matter of so
great importance, but the communities' spirit of injustice, of intolerance
and despotism that ultimately wipes out that personality from
existence, - that is a matter of inquiry, and that is what is interesting
us today.

The genesis of this transaction and of this tragedy out in
Salt Lake City took its rise in that bureaucratic power that the pioneer
fathers of Illinois detected in the early attitude of the Mormons towards
cherished and established principles, and which lead to the expulsion of
the Mormons from the State of Illinois, not because of their religious
belief, my friends, not that, but because of those peculiar tenents and
practices that threatened to undermine a well ordered community; to
deprive the individual of his liberty and to lash him and whip him into
submission by threats of the power of vengeance by the leaders of the
Church, a spirit that resulted in the Danites, and execution of the
commands of the Mormon Church, a power that adopts any means to accomplish
its own personal ends.

And so when they were expelled from Illinois they sought a theatre
in the far West for the peculiar practices of the Mormon Church. It was
arranged with Bridgeman, the discoverer of the Great Salt Lake, and with
Wiggins, a scout, his companion, who died only a few years ago in Denver, -
with these two men as guides of these pilgrims that went out from Illinois, -
that they should start for that region piloted by these two men, Bridgeman
and Wiggins and they were lead by Brigham Young, and they were after a new
land that they might go in and possess it, and after they had passed the