The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-11
THANKS, HYRUM!

The Junior hierarch, with his inherited
ability to blunder, has fortunately and
in spite Of his heredity blundercd into
q good thing.
In the Tabernacle on Sunday, Apostle
Hyrum NJ. Smith, the son of his father,
Smithfully thundered command to his
people to subscribe for and read such
journals as will give to them proper
| information upon the subjects which
| closely interest them. The Tribune
thanks Hyrum NJ. for his unconscious
commendation of this paper-he could
have meant no other, as the facts 20
to prove.
Which gives to the Mormon people
the best information, the Deseret News
and the Improvement Era, or The Salt
Lake Tribuue2 By this we mean i'm
formation that informs, and not infor-
nation that mislnforms. During this
present period of activity in the effort
| TO right some very wrong conditions
| here, The Tribune has informed the
members of the Mormon church as to
the nature Of the testimony given Mt
Washington by the chief hierarch. None
of the church publications afforded this
information to Mormons They delib-
erately ignored the record and sent out
erroneous accounts-and even the
prophet himself came home and told the
| people in the Tabernacle that he had
falsifed in Washington in order to es-
cape the traps set by his enemies. The
Mormon people were compelled to come
to the columns of The Tribune in order
10 get at the facts in the case.
The Tribune also told young women
of the Mormon church, who had fool
lshly allowed themselves to be led into
polygamy since the manifesto, that
when the time came for fixing the re-
sponsibillty for the practice of the
doctrines they would be repudiatcd by
the church as having contracted family
relations which were denied its divine
approval. Joseph f. Smith made posi-
tive declaration at Washington Of the
illegal status of these marriages; but 1t
was left to The Tribune to notify these
young women Of the awful predcament
into which the statement Of the presi-
dent Of the church had placed them
The Deserct News would do nothing Of
the kind, and they were therefore left
rightfully belonged 10 them. Neither
did the Improvement Era, edited by
the prophet, seer, and revelator. perform
a most important duty-make the truth
known as a warning against further
unlawful mating.
The Mormon people were told by The
Tribune that Apostles John w, Tavlol
and Matthias F. Cowley were to be
dropped from their places in the apos
tolic quorum because they had beer
practicing new polygamy and perform
ing such marriages for others, and be
cause their retention in the quorum
would damage the cause of Reed Smoot
before the Nation. The hierarchs de
clared that The Tribune falsifed in
this matter and that it was actuated
by malice and hatred to print these
statements.
The Tribune is telling the Mormon
people today that the Mormon church
is in politics and that the church
abuses them to the destruction of thei1
own liberty; but the Deseret News We
hemently cries out that the statement
is false, thus misinforming it's reader,
in face of the facts. We are saying
now that eventually the Mormon church
will be forced to recede from its un
lawful practices. and this is also de
MED by the Deseret News; and it ever
goes further to contend that these evi
practices do not exist, in spite of the
proof which has been adduced time anC
time again TO the contrary.
But these things will find final dem
onstration, as have the other truths
which The Tribune has been giving {,
the Mormon people. And it is encour
aging TO know that the young apostle
recommends his people TO read The Tri
bune for proper information, The Des
, eret News received a direct apostolic
slap in the face in that sermon OIL
Sunday, and The Tribune appreciate
the unintentional appreciation Of tn,
young hierarch.