The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-02-22

its time of need.
That is faint suggestion Of his
character as he would have. it known.
By contrast, other human creatures
are burdened by dark unworth. No
other person since Adam quite fills
Editor Penrose's ideals; all are en-
titled to his apprehension in some de-
gree, and particularly is that man an
object of anathema who will not ac-
cept as divine the leadership Of the
present hierarchy of the Mormon
church. Such man, Penrose calls
traitor.
But let us see this Penrose-
Charles w. Penrose- he really Is.
He has committed treason to the
government which he swore to sup
port. afs
He lied to obtain amnesty from
President Cleveland.
He pretended that his latest plural
wife was wed to him in 1862; in re-
atty he had taken another man 8
divorced wife and married her in po-
lygamy (making her his own third)
about 1886.
Cleveland would not willingly have
granted amnesty for polygamy; and
yet by treachery Penrose procured 1t.
Penrose promised to afterward obey
the law; he has defied it.
He promised to teach obedience to
the law; he has taught evasion, tricks
and perjury.
He guzzles rum, and pretends that
he is fit to be one of can Infant Band
of Hope"
He is knavish liar, and yet he
pretends to speak for the All-Truth.
He is miscreated, fiend-like hyp-
ocrite, preaching in the name of
God; and practicing in the spirit of
the Arch-Demon.
He talks OF virtue; and yet be
would mislead hundreds and thous-
ands Of young people into plural mar
riage In defiance of ''the laws of God
and man.
His oath to this, his adopted coun-
try, was only made that from within
the ranks Of citizenship he might teach
faithlessness to the flag and contempt
for the constitution.
He has been the parasite of all the
church leaders for fifty years; while
they live he fawns-when they die he
plucks the honors from their names
to add to his servile praise of their
successors.
He sought for an apostleship; and
to gain it he crawled through such
fawning paths for generation that
men know his figure now because it
will not, cannot, stand erect. His
cowardly lustful yearnlngs to crafty
the hierarchy and himself have caused
him to suggest to it a way back to
plural marriage and polygamous CO.
habitston-treason to God, treason to
Government, treason to the men and
women who self sacrificingly lived it
in the past, land treason to the in
nocent girls who are being impurely
dragged into 1t today.
His pharisaism, his plausible "
Ing, his double-tongued hypocrisy,
his canting, shamming, perverted
misstatements in the Deseret News
have misled the Mormon leaders and
many of the Mormon people into that
iisloyalty which feeds his hateful
heart with the only emotion it ever
'eels toward country.
He would not yield one jot of the
bower which has been the reward of
to save the whole race of
men from hell.
Since he swore his lie of allegiance.
le has lived by connecting villiany
gainst the nation.
He is an apostate from his church
kept in the Office which it allows
lin to misuse.
He is betrayer of this land which
ave him an asylum and his claim of
citizenship Is dishonor to the State
nd country, whose soil he treads
nth cloven hoof.
oowardice is his courage; bias
henry is his religion; theft is his
onesty treason is his love of coun- ,
y rum drinking is his abstinence
liking divorced woman to his home
nd bosom as his third living wife is
Is virtue; sneering at the dead is :
Is chivalry playing the lickspittIe |
Is maniiness., and serving the devil ]
his love of God.
When the Salt Lake Tribune pub
shes such scathing, damning state.
ent as that, on Mormon Church
postie and that Apostle does NOT ha