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Title: Under the Prophet in Utah
The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

Author: Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins

Release Date: December, 2004 [EBook #7066]
Posting Date: May 30, 2009

Language: English

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UNDER THE PROPHET IN UTAH

The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

By Frank J. Cannon

Formerly United States Senator from Utah

and

Harvey J. O'Higgins

Author "The Smoke-Eaters," "Don-a-Dreams," etc.

Contents

Chapter

Note
Introduction
Foreword
I In the Days of the Raid
II On a Mission to Washington
III Without a Country
IV The Manifesto
V On the Road to Freedom
VI The Goal--and After
VII The First Betrayals
VIII The Church and the Interests
IX At the Crossways
X On the Downward Path
XI The Will of the Lord
XII The Conspiracy Completed.
XIII The Smoot Exposure
XIV Treason Triumphant
XV The Struggle for Liberty
XVI The Price of Protest
XVII The New Polygamy
XVIII The Prophet of Mammon
XIX The Subjects of the Kingdom
XX Conclusion

Note

When Harvey J. O'Higgins was in Denver, in the spring of 1910, working
with Judge Ben B. Lindsey on the manuscript of "The Beast and the
Jungle," for Everybody's Magazine, he met the Hon. Frank J. Cannon,
formerly United States Senator from Utah, and heard from him the story
of the betrayal of Utah by the present leaders of the Mormon Church.
This story the editor of Everybody's Magazine commissioned Messrs.
Cannon and O'Higgins to write. They worked on it for a year, verifying
every detail of it from government reports, controversial pamphlets,
Mormon books of propaganda, and the newspaper files of current record.
It ran through nine numbers of the magazine, and not so much as a
successful contradicti