Excerpt from The Great Contest: The Chief Advocates of Anti-Mormon Measures Reviewed, By Their Speeches in the House of Representatives, January 12, 1887, on the Bill Reported by J. Randolph Tucker as a Substitute for Senator Edmund's Bill Against the Mormon Church

As this pamphlet is mainly a review of speeches, the immediate interest in which is past, and regarding a bill partially law and partially destroyed, it may be thought an attempt is making to revive a dead issue, to re-fight a battle that is over. There is one solid reason against such a thought: In all times the same charges are forever being made against Mormons and their faith. Though constantly denied, and persistently proven untrue, they are still repeated, and it is not unlikely that they will continue to be. The design in this work is to prove that these statements, thus made, and coming ever from one general source, must be false, because inherently contradictory, and being contradictory, they are valueless and discredit the source. If this can be done, and I am sure it is possible, something of perennial value to the cause of truth will have been accomplished. The reader must judge to what extent the object has been attained, how far it fails of being reached. But the subject itself is not a dead issue, and will never be uninteresting so long as there is opposition to the work of truth. There is no other excuse to be offered for this pamphlet.

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