Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-18

pertaining to law and equity, This was
wise and good, IN fact 1t was then
necessity.
The change from that condition was
naturally slow. The battle was fought
and the war 'Waged Tor many years on
this question and that of polygamy,
which was vital principle Of tn
Mormon" Church Since the nantes
TO OF President Woodruff, We have had
only echoes OF the past, which In realt-
ty are now barely dlscerniblc.
The polygamy question is Fighting IT.
self In an honorable and humane way,
which Is the only way The Obliga-
tons, the family ties and the compiled
tons OF home affairs can only be un-
derstood by people who think and IN
vestigatc and there are few Of these.
No class OF people could have rightel
the mistakes OF the past In n better AMI
quicker way than the Mormon peo-
pie have done and are doing. The OH
order of things ~ passing away, what
has gone before is past worry and let Il
go into the past Thinking people know
full We'll that the results OF marriage
system lived under for 60 years cannot
be oblterated. nor expected TO be, IN
10 ye8rs--henco polygamy is not dead,
but II ~ fading away. dying a natural
DEATH but this fact gives those who DO
not understand the inner depths of
these relationships a basis for Trades
of unklnd words and deeds against the
Mormon" people.
In my estimation. an attempt 10 OBJ
llterate the polygamous relationship az
one stroke would be unreasonable, un-
merciful and un-Amerlcan.
a good man cannot desert a good wife
and their children.
President Joseph f. Smith has been
raked over the Goals for telling the
truth, In his testimony as TO his family
relationship. He couldn't do otherwise
and be man. The women he had
married were his wives, the children
they had borne him were Of his flesh
and blood.
He did and said before the committee
what every true man would have said
and done under similar circumstances.
or course it was a great disappolnt-
ment to the detectives for hundreds
Of pages Of typewriter manuscript Civ
ing dates, hours, minutes, etc. were
valueless after he had told the truth.
70 some extent, "Othello had lost his
occupation"
Mrs. John A. Logan, ! see, now tod
dies into line and adds her little kick
TO the rest Of the kicks against "Smoot
ana the Mormons."
l ne bDbu ldtN dttuhfN CtlAhlNl Gllpbl
OF subtlety and training In the art of
evasion.
How these good women DO like to
talk on polygamy and how disappointed
they are when the story comes out
without sensational climax
She rejoces because somebody re-
Yealed the secrets Of the endowment
house, and produced as she says, the
garments which are part OF the "in-
iquitous ceremonies" | wonder wheth-
er she would use such language as that
about a Catholic wearing his beads or
his cruchx2 Mrs Logan must learn
that a PERSONS religion and the cere-
monies OF their religion are private
property and sacred 10 the holder or
wearer; she should learn not to laugh
or scott until she Is ready to be laughed
and scoffed at herself even then II
were klndlier and more Chrlstlanlike to
refrain,
think we should all be careful OF
our dersion of another's religion be-
cause the best through all the ages,
have been laughed mt and cruciied. The
world has peculiar fashion OF can
nonading while In life and canonizing
after death.
Mrs. Logan's TRADE Is ungenerous
ana untrue The Masters prayer is an
appropriate answer to her unkindness,
Father forgive them they know not
what they do"
The dear lady gives the lash to Joseph
II. Smith for being truthful and the
whip to Reed Smoot for being evasive
Gas she says, or for not telling the
truth. IL Is case OF be damned II
you do and be damned If you don't; an
other case Of not understood"
The cry Of 'tithing' Is another awful
thing laid at tho door Of the Mormon
Church; here is an apt illustration OF
the whole matters
Two men We're passing down Main
street the other day; | overheard the
following:
Timpkins-What makes your nose so
red Simpkins2
Simpkins-It gows with pride sir, mt
not pokng itself into other peoples
business.
l cannot see how any institution can
run or exist without funds. The plan OF
every church for the collection of funds.
is the private business of that church.
The funds OF the Mormon" Church
belong TO the "Momons," and it's the
sole business OF the "Mormons" as to
how they pay and as to what they do
with these common funds, and no one
elses.
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