The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-27
obliee both Of their old friends, Chair
man Hammond and Chairman Marti-
mean.
THE REVIVED PoLYoAMY.

Evening News, tho Mormon church or
gan. Of date August %. 1906, and
which, for the purpose Of General infor.
nation, is reprinted under the title:
"The News on Polygamy, in this is
sue Of The Tribune.
All readers who have not lost con-
science and mental morality Will de-
tect the spirit of the News article and
will see therein the ruling influence in
Utah affairs in this epoch. namely, by
pocrisy
AS the center and heart Of the News
contention against the antipolyga-
mists, it saws:
lHel has not denied TIN, polygspous mar,
| rloges have occurred, nor hes he admitted
| the charge.
That is the case from the hierarchi
| cal viewpoint They cannot deny the
charge and directly prove their denial;
but in their warped intellect and in
their sodden conscience abides The sen
| tIment that. by refusing TO admit n pal
| pabe fact in some mysterious occult,
divinely inspired way, they destroy the
| fact. 1t is this kind of expression thai
| lire in this State, Ninety-nine persons
out of every hundred who defend the
hierarchy in their misrulc and in their
crimes offer as the sole defense that,
while polygamy and church interfer-
ence may be rampant, no one can prove
the facts by testimony which will be
| accepted by those who wish TO evade
the facts. If this is not community de
moralization run mad it would he diff
cult TO conceive of n state of society
where Generalization exists. This is
hypocrisy in general and in particu-
lar.
Following this complete exposition
Of It's gospel of evasion it is not sur.
prising 10 read in tho News editorial:
No such tpolygamousl marriages have been
soIemnized since tho manifesto by the church
or with its knowledge and consent, That is
tho simple truth
On the contrary, that Is tho compli
Gated lsehood-complicated purposely
by the News to give TO the falsehood
the appearance OF truth Just so soon
as plural marriage-snce the mani
festo-is proved, tho News and all its
that they. can lead the argument off
into by-path and maintain discus.
sion forever as to whether the church
consented or approved or had knowl-
edge of the crime. And as that is a
mere matter OF augmentation and as
the News has all the machinery of the
church at its command, the discussion
becomes interminable The Tribune
prefers to deal with the facts and not
with the argument, and therefore it
Will cite all interested readers to the
following showing:
Three apostles of the Mormon church
who have died in the odor Of sanctitv
since the manifesto, but whose names
are not published because il is unneces-
sary to harrow up the feelings of their
families, entered into plural marriage
after the manifesto and were honored
and maintained in their station as
apostles TO the day Of their death. AT
their funerals the chiefs testified that
the dead men had lived their religion
and had died in their holiness. These
three men received their new plural
wives at the hands OF other apostles,
and with the consent of the president
of the church, or they could not and
would not have entered into the rela-
ton and they could not and would not
have been sustained as apostles. If in
their new plural marriages they had
transgressed the law Of the church or
the will of the president of the church
they would have been instantly re-
moved. The polygamous ceremony for
ono of these apostles was performed by
the present president Of the Mormon
church, Joseph F. Smith.
Two other apostles Of the Mormon
church entered into plural marriage
after the manifesto. AS they are liv-
ing their names may be given-John
w. Taylor and Matthias +. Cowley.
There is no dispute on this point. They
received their plural wives at the hands
Of other apostles and with the consent
OF the president of tho church, When
Joseph F. Smith, the present president.
was asked concerning a certain noto-
rlous case III which one of these apos-
ties had figured as the husband, Presi-
dent Smith answered that he had no
authority to withhold this privilege
from apostles who asserted the right
to participate in such marriages, either
as principal or oficiant Neither John
w, Taylor nor Matthias +. Cowley was
removed from his position as an APOSTLE
or assailed in his authority in such Do
sition until three years after the ex-
posure of the offenses Of the two men
had occurred, until the whole world
knew they were guilty, and until 1T be-
came necessary IN protection of the
hypocrisy of the church to remove these
men. The church knew Of their Of
fense all the time, until all the world
discovered the offensc, and then the
church ceased to have knowledge Of it.
according to the argument of the News,
The church sanctioned 1T all the time.