CONTENTS
[ Chapter I. ] In the Days of the Raid
[ Chapter II. ] On A Mission to Washington
[ Chapter III. ] Without A Country
[ Chapter IV. ] The Manifesto
[ Chapter V. ] On the Road to Freedom
[ Chapter VI. ] The Goal—And After
[ Chapter VII. ] The First Betrayals
[ Chapter VIII. ] The Church and the Interests
[ Chapter IX. ] At the Crossways
[ Chapter X. ] On the Downward Path
[ Chapter XI. ] The Will of the Lord
[ Chapter XII. ] The Conspiracy Completed
[ Chapter XIII. ] The Smoot Exposure
[ Chapter XIV. ] Treason Triumphant
[ Chapter XV. ] The Struggle For Liberty
[ Chapter XVI. ] The Price of Protest
[ Chapter XVII. ] The New Polygamy
[ Chapter XVIII. ] The Prophet of Mammon
[ Chapter XIX. ] The Subjects of the Kingdom
[ Chapter 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 contradiction was ever made of one of the innumerable incidents or accusations that it contains. It is here published in book form at somewhat greater length than the magazine could print it. It is a joint work, but the autobiographic "I" has been used throughout, because it is Mr. Cannon's personal narrative of his personal experience.
Introduction
This is the story of what has been called "the great American despotism."
It is the story of the establishment of an absolute throne and dynasty by one American citizen over a half-million others.