The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23
defeated by them was that he was q
good church member.
1.-THE KEY NOTE"

The organ Of the Mormon church, the
Deseret News, faunts this line to the
breeze on its front page Of its issue Of
last night; "Send the Mormon Lead
ers to Jail, The Key Note" meaning
thereby that such was the key note Of
the American party resolutions adopted
in the Salt Lake theater on the day pre-
ceding.
A more abject confession of general
law. breaking by the leading men of
community was never made, The key
note Of the American party resolutions
was that laws were made to be OBJ
served, and that no ecclesiastical sta
ton and no religious pretension was
sufficient in this country to justify any
Withholding OF the power Of the law by
suborned or terrified officials. If the
Mormon leaders have committed crimes
for which they should go to jail, they
were meant by these resolutions; If
they have not committed such crimes
they do not como within the scope of
the resolutions. But the Deseret News
makes tho confession and in doing 80
it also adds an awful accusation of
the p,isgovernment OF this county, for
1t acknowledges that if the laws were
enforced the law-breakers would be IN
Jail; and as the leaders are all at lib
erty it must be that the officers are
derelict in their duty,
Tnasm,ch as the News has brought
this subject forward, let US appeal
directly to the record and, from the
testimony Of the accused themselves,
see which of the Mormon leaders should
be in Jail. Bear in mind that The
Tribune has refrained from making this
accusation specific in the past, but as
the News makes the confession in gen
eral the particularization will preserve
the innocent from misjudgment:
Joseph +. Smith, president Of the
church, who has confessed himself to
be living in polygamous relations con-
trary to law, and who was party to
feloniously certified birth certificate
registered July 7, 1906, in Salt Lake
County-that of his forty-third child,
born to him by plural wife.
Francis Marion Lyman, who con-
fessed in Washington before the Smoot
investigation committee that he was liv'
ing in violation OF the law and intended
to continue
John Henry Smith.
Heber +. Grant-for whom a warrant
is now out, and who only escapes the
service of that warrant by remaining
out of the country. turn and turn about
with his different wives. He is the
man who boasted before the State Uni
versitv students that he had two wives
and would have more if the government
would let him. He is also tho man who
begged permission from President Snow
to secure another wife because he did
not havo children enough, or o. the
right sex.
Charles W. Penrose.
Seymour B. Young.
Brigham II. Roberts
George Reynolds.
There may be others but The Tribune
will be more just to them than the
Deseret News, which includes them all
in its vicious confession. All others are
entitled to the benefit Of the doubt. in
fact, one may say of them with
certainty that they do not belong IN
iail, but only those Of whom testimony
has been directly given that they are
living in defiance of law should come
under the frightful anathema which the
Deseret News itself pronounces.