The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-10

| church, as Joseph F. Smith testified, and
Is widely advertised by the News
Pick up the periodical publications of
the church. designated for the education
and instruction OF the young and there
may be found all sorts of announce
menrs concerning the Doctrine and Gov
enants always at so much peri, with
the assurance accompanying that the
work is published by authority OF the
Mormon church
But where, In these publications, Is an
announcement OF the existence OF the
manifesto. directing the dlscontinuance
of polygamy7
And now that one is able to purchase
paper-covered copy OF the manifesto,
that poor little walf Is thrust upon the
world without official ecclesiastical
stamp OF authority. II Is not event
copyright, 1906, by Joseph f. Smith,
Trustee in Trust for the Church OF Jesus
Christ Of Latter day Saints" But that
dignity is unblushingly accorded TO the
concordance which makes IL easy TO find
the revelation commanding polygamy as
Doctrine and Covenants.
Notice the sermons preached In the big
Tabernacle in Salt Lake. and the only
references ever made TO polygamy are
those in justihcat tion of the practice and
in defense Of its practicers.
Observe the personnel OF high eccle-
siastical offlcialdom In the Mormon
al tl,o
ones
Rumors OF offenses against the laws OF
God and OF disregard Of the statutes Of
the State of Utah fall upon unheeding
ears when conveyed TO high officials OF
the Mormon church. Or they are met
with the comforting rejoinder, You fur
nIsh the proof" the accomplishment OF
which Is at the same time we'll known
10 be impossible: for the parties 10 the
crime are the only ones who possess
that proof. and Joseph F. Smith will not
use his authority TO compel them to pro-
duce that which will tend to destroy his
favorite principle"
Bishops OF wards In the Mormon church
are diligent in searching out from among
their Gocks those aged members who
drink tea or coffee. or both; they will
dig up every non-tithe payer in their
bailiwicks and apply the thumo-screws
to cause n renewal Of contribution, they
will threaten with dire consequence the
Young man who patronizes any place Of
amusement except those under the ei-
rectlon of Mormons, But let a rumor
come 10 his ears that young Sister So
and-So Is married TO Elder What s-His-
Name, and the shepherd OF his little
flock becomes gloriousy oblivous to any
offense against the church.
And for this condition OF things Joseph
Smith declared himself to be re-
snonsible in the following repeated tes-
timony;
Mr. Worthington.-The first presidency
hove the authority to do rs they ploasc in
church matters. even against the advice Of
all tine apostlcsf
In conclusion. let it be remembered
that Joseph F. Smith testified before the
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections at Washington that he would
have the manifesto inhibiting polygamy
inserted in the next edition OF the Doc
trines and Covenants, He has not done
an He therefore stands as a perjurer
and a betrayer before all the country,
On the contrary, he has caused the
nrinting Of edition after edition OF the
Doctrine and Covenants to be printed
s,,cc that time. in neither OF which has
,here appeared line of the manifesto
prohibiting polygamy, but which nave
on,,ined the revelation commanding
noIvpamy, and he has promulgated all
other pro- -poiygamous literature and ser
mona as the rule OF life of the Saints
and The law OF the church. IL is only by
,nou,ry that a copy OF the manifesto
r,av he obtained, and even then II is not
sen, forth as the law of the Mormon
church on polygamy
Thus to Mormons, and even more nag
rantlv 70 Gentiles. has Joseph f. Smith
again re established polygamy officially
oc a practice of the Mormon church, and
he has taught and he is teaching that
nriuciple TO the youth OF his peop)e and
TO all the world,