its effect on Congress. Notwithstanding the protest of the "Mormons,"
another law was passed against them, (March, 1882), called the Edmunds Act.
This law provided that no polygamist should vote or hold office; and if
found guilty of polygamy a man might be fined five hundred dollars and put
in prison for three years. If a man lived with more than one wife, he could
be fined three hundred dollars and imprisoned for six months.

Officers were now sent to Utah to enforce this law, and what is called the
"Crusade" began in earnest. "Mormons" were not allowed to sit on juries or
have anything to do with the courts, so it was an easy matter to convict
all "Mormons" who came to trial.

Arrests now followed fast, and it was indeed a sad time for many of the
Saints. Officers, called deputy marshals, were sent into all the
settlements of the Saints to spy out and arrest those supposed to be
guilty. Many of the brethren left the country or went away in hiding to
avoid being arrested, leaving the women and children to manage as best they
could. In Idaho no "Mormon" was allowed to vote or hold office, no matter
whether he had broken the law or not. Three brethren were sent from Arizona
to the penitentiary at Detroit, Michigan. Nearly all the leading brethren
were in hiding; and, as they could not speak to the people in their
meetings, they wrote epistles which were read to the Saints at their
conferences.

For a number of years this persecution went on. Seemingly, the strongest
anti-"Mormons" should have been satisfied. But no; they asked Congress to
make yet stronger laws to put down the "Mormons." Accordingly, in 1887,
another law was passed, called the Edmunds-Tucker Bill. This law, among
other things, provided that the property of the Church should be
confiscated, that is, taken from the Church. United States officers went to