The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-22
WHEN AND HOWP

The Butte Miner hns an editorial
ness. which is reproduced in this issue
of The Tribune.
1t is a great pleasure to The Tribune
TO note the concurrence of Mr.. Charles
Dudley Warner and the Butte Miner in
The Trlbune's commentators of indl-
vdual Mormon industry and thrift. No
praise can be too great to bestow upon
the earnest toll, the perseverance, and
the other fine qualities the possession
OF which Is demonstrated by many Nor
mons. The Tribune has made a special
feature OF urging public recognition Of
these merits. We have differed some
what from those adulators who have
assumed that Mormons were the only
individuals on earth who were demon
strating such qualities; but we VIII not
be ungracious enough to find fault with
the character of the praise SO long as
II is sincere praise and Is deserved.
With one paragraph in the Miners
article the facts make a direct issue.
How newspaper. published so near to
Salt Lake City and possessing the gem
eral intelligence of the Butte Miner,
could make the absurd error which it
does make. passes comprehension. That
esteemed journal says: Now that the
Latter-day Saints have eliminated po-
lygamy from their creed and have an
nounced that they have severed the re-
lationsnip between the church and busi-
ness sh
When and where and how did the
Mormon church eliminate polygamy
from the creed? The only authoritative
declaration on that subject followed
of course, at later times by interpre-
tations thereof was given I'm 1890. in
the famous Woodruff manifesto. That
was sixteen years ago-not now" as
intimated by the Miner That pro-
nouncement by President Woodruff was
supposed, by the Nation and by the
Mormon people, to put an end forever
to polygamy In the church, It was sub
sequently restored under the example
and the precept OF the hierarchs. To-
day there lis not In any authoritative
II,
ton against polygamy. On the con-
trary. every accepted work OF the
church which deals with the question
at all. declares for polygamy as per-
missve doctrine and practice, or as n
mandate to the practice coming direct
from God The Doctrine and Cove
nants is the official record of the creed
of the church. 1t contains no Inhibition
against polygamy. It's latest issue car
ries the revelation which was always
construed as a command to the prac-
tice OF polygamy. Not even the Wood
luff manifesto has been permitted to IN
wade the volume The Compendium is
n work compiled by one of the greatest
theologiahs of the church, and In It's
latest issue is the following paragraph:
II plural marriage be unlawful then Is
tho whole plan of salvation. through the
house of Israel. fnilure. and the entire
Probably the Miner has been misled
by the act OF the church in dropping
from .he apostolic quorum two man who
had notoriously entered into new plural
marriage That was merely because
their presence I'm the quorum was
deemed TO be hurtful to Reed Smoot
Their of1ensc was that they were found
out. In the conference which deposed
them there was not one word said
about the creed. The hlerarchs are
merely trying TO avert the present
storm. preserving their creed in the
meantime. so that they can refer to it