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summit of the Rocky Mountains upon their pilgrimage and had gone down into
the peaceful slopes of the beautiful Weber Canyon, Brigham Yound told these
two guides that their destination must remain a secret, and that they must
appear to some suddenly into the promised land, and so Wiggins told him that
just around that Mountain in the distance he would see the beautiful Salt
Lake, and so he said to Wiggins and to Bridgeman, "I will hold the body of
the pilgrims here and I will go forward and I will strike upon the ground
three times with my staff and then the Lake will suddenly appear as a revelation
from the Almighty," and that was agreed upon, and so Brigham Young goes
back to his people and he says, "Beloved, see what I through the Lord have
brought to you," and they raised up their eyes, and there, with a firm
belief that it was created by the omnipotent power of their leader, when
they saw the great Salt Lake spread its beauty before their almost enchanted
eyes. When they looked upon the summits of the mighty Wasatch Mountains
clad with forests of pine and fir, and lifting their crowns into the eternal
fields of snow, the long tramp through the dry and dusty desert was forgotten
and the people believed that they had at last come into a veritable promised
land, one flowing with milk and honey.

Now this is history. It must be conceded that Brigham Young was
one of the greatest executive men of the world; that as an empire builder
he was without a peer, but the moral slant of the man, his great selfishness,
his lust for individual aggrandizement, and his destruction of the family
ties and of womanhood narrowed and scarred his work, and today over and
above that mighty empire there is a bureaucracy dominated by greed, selfishness
and a plentitude of power that has defied the government of the United
States decade after decade, and today teaches the followers that supreme
power resides in the Church, and that it will visit with vengeance upon
and questioning of that power.

Don't let anybody, my friends, fool you into the belief with the
lying story that this power is diminishing. It was never as powerful as it