The Lights and Shadows of Mormonism

This is a turn of the century look at the Latter Day Saints by an opponent of the Mormons who hated them. It offers a glimpse of the kind of opposition faced by the Mormons in America during the late 19th century.

From the intro:

“The initial thought in connection with the writing of this volume was to assemble the evidences relating to the political perfidy of the Mormon “prophets,” and to make a brief statement of the political incidents in Utah from 1890 to 1909. The underlying motive was to prove that the continuous asseverations of the Mormon press and speakers to the effect that the prophets were not in politics are absolutely false. The falsehoods uttered and diligently circulated throughout the United States, and testified to under oath by the prophets during the “Smoot” investigation, relative to the non-interference of the Mormon leaders in politics, were so interwoven with their treachery in the matter of polygamy, that one phase of the subject could not be discussed without trenching upon the other.”