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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

And if he have ten virgins given unto
him by this law, he cannot commit adul-
terry. for they belong TO him, and they
are given unto him. therefore, is he JUS
tilted.
And again, verify verify I say unto
you. If any man have wife: who holds
the keys Of this power and he teaches
unto her the law OF my Priesthood as
pertaining to these things. then shall she
believe. and administer unto him, or she
shall be destroyed saith the Lord your
Cod for l Will destroy her, for | will
magnify my name upon all those who re-
ceive and abide In my law.
Those quotations from the Doctrine
and Covenants, the authoritative doc
trinal law book of the Mormon church,
constitute the whip with which the HE
rarchs drive the young men and young
women of their following into polyg
amy, against the civil law. They also
prove the justification of the man in
his immortality, and the brutal slavery
to which the woman is subjected in her
ministering to his lechery. AS to her
freedom or discretion in this matter of
polygamy, once the man has determined
TO sacrifice his life companion to his
own qualification, let Joseph j.. Smith S
inspired definition of the woman S
rights be sufiicient-as he gave it be-
fore the Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections at Washingtou.
Senator Pettus-Have there ever been
In the past plural marriages without the
consent of the first wife?
Joseph +. smith, do not know Of any,
unless 1t may have been Joseph Smith
himself, THE best possible example that
a good Mormon can iollOw.l
Senator PpttnS-Ig the language that
you have read construed TO mean that she
Is bound 10 consent?
Joseph T.. Smith-The condition is that
if she does not. consent the Lord will
destroy her. but do not know how he
will do it.
consent her husband is exempt from the
law which REQUIRES her consent?
Joseph f. Smith-Yes; he is exempt
from the law which requires her con
sent.
Senator BaiIey-She Is commanded to
consent. bat II she does not. then he is
exempt from the requirement?
Joseph i. Smith-Then he is NJ liberty
TO proceed without her consent, under the
law.
Senator Beveridgc-Tn other words. her
consent amounts TO nothing
Joseph +, Smith-It amounts TO nothing
but her consent.
Senator Beveridge-So that so far
there is anything I'm there concerning her
consent. 1t might as well not be there?
Comment is scarcely necessary, But
in order to show that this authoritative
teaching of polygamy by the church is
willful and malicious, it may be well
to again quote the prophet, seer, and
revelator OF that body When asked
why the manifesto, which inhibits po-
lygamy, and which is supposed to have
been a revelation from God, was not
published in the Doctrine and Cove
nants. Joseph +. Smith replied;
IL appears 70 me that 1t should be In
the Doctrine and Covenants, and | shall
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06
SUTHERLAND TO CONFERENCE,

Worse men than Senator Sutherland
have spoken in the tabernacle; and few
men are in a better position than he
TO give to the Mormon people some
wholesome advice, if the leaders of the
church could but sec their way clear to
permit him to deliver sermon to this
conference. President Joseph f, Smith
would not be imposing a very severe
task upon Mr., Sutherland, if he should
ask him TO speak TO the people, because
the Junior Senator could merely repeat
some of the things which he said in
Washington in defense of his Senior
colleague, and fill the bill perfectly.
First, he could quote himself thus:
Mr.. President, every one OF these men
who has taken a plural wife since the
manifesto. in addition to being violator
pie. II had my way, every one
OF them would be In jail serving out the
extreme penalty of the law.
That statement would be particularly
interesting TO the people; and it might
be the means of arousing the member
ship of the Mormon church TO sense
of their duty toward the Taylors. the
Cowleys, the Tanners, the Smiths, the
Newtons, and all the rest of the multi
pie bridegrooms And especially inter
esting to Joseph f. himself would be 4
repetition of the Sutherland denuncia-
tion of the pledge breaker;
| He has set them 1.-THE Mormon people ]
In false light before the country and
| compelled every one of them. I'm the eyes
of a large portion OF the American people.
To share the shame OF his lawlessness
| Such man has not only broken the law
! of the land and the law Of the church,
but he has broken his own pledges. II
not expressly, al least impiedly, and none
! the less solmenly given TO the Nation. AS
| / gay. there can be no word of liberation
uttered for that kind of an Individual
And in order to definitely identify
the class of person in the church TO
which that language applies with the
greatest significance, Mr.. Sutherland
could take up the testimony. to which
he made frequent reference on the floor
of the Senate, and quote:
Joseph f. Smith-That is correct, and
wish TO assert that the church has obeyed
the law OF the land, and that II has kept
| It's pledges with this Government. But
l HAVE NOT, as an individual, and
have taken that chance myself.
Again, as means of showing who
it is that diregards the law and brings
the whole Mormon people into the dis
grace pictured by Mr.. Sutherland at
Washington. this further testimony OF
the prophet, seer, and revelator would
bear reading to the children of Israel
in conference:
Chairman Rurrows-Do YOU obey the
law in having five wives at this time. and
| having them bear TO you eleven children
since the manifesto of 1890?
Joseph f. Smith-Mr. Chairman. have
not claimed that in that case have
obeycd the law OF the land.
| Chairman Burrows-That IL all.
Joseph r. smith, do not claim so
and / have said before that | prefer &c
stand my chances AGAINST TUE LAW
While 1t is highly improbable, yet il
is not altogether impossible, that Scna
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06
THE PROPHET AND HIS GOD.

The FIRST name which will be pre-
scnted to the conference for the peo-
pie Is approval will be that Of Joseph
f. Smith. This man viii appear before
his followers to ask for their support
as a prophet, seer, and rcvelator TO all
the world To hold an Office of such
high dignity and power the man should
be of a type with the One who thus e1-
pressed his humbleness and obedience
in these words:
Father. II thou be willing. remove this
cup from me: nevertheless, not my WILL
but thine, be done,
But note the contrast! In his testi
mony at Washington, published TO all
the world, this was the view expressed
by the man who poses as the representa-
tive of the Almighty among mankind,
and who is asking that the saints ac.
knowledge him so to be;
Mr.. Tayler-But do you mean to say
you. at your pleasure, obey or disobey
the commands Of Almighty Cod?
Joseph f, Smlth-Yes, sir.
Mr.. Tayler-Communicat to you?
Joseph f. SMITH obey or disobey at
my will IT., ,. 49,.
Joseph i. Smith-Just as / please
Mr.. Tayler-And that is the kind OF a
| God you believe in?
Joseph =. Smith-That is exactly the
kind of a God / believe In.
Good Mormons, what would you think
If the president of your church should
rise in his high place in the tabernacle
and teach to you that doctrine9 Do you
believe that you could honestly approve
of him as an exemplar to yourselves
and to your children4
Just think this matter over in al
seriousness-remembering that your
own act will fix your personal respon
sibility before the world.
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

figures paraded in support of the allie
CATION that po!ygamy is dying out, are
MS misleading as the persistent quota
tion of precept which practice does not
follow. They may be approximately
correct, though the church leaders have
frequently and loudly proclaimed that
they had no figures on this subject
But whether correct or not, they ignore
altogether the numerous polygamous
marriages that have been entered into
in recent years Until these are brought
into account, and unless polygamous
marriages shall altogether cease, the
parading Of such figures as are given
arc n deliberate insult to the intelll-
gence of the public,
The absolute separation Of church
and state Is insisted upon because of
certain declarations quoted, But it is
surely q poor answer to the charge OF
persistent and open violation of these
very declarations, to quote them again.
The charge is not that there are no
such declarations. but that in practice
those declarations are not observed;
they have no controlling force. IT is
idle for a man who commits homicide
to quote the command, "Thou shalt not
kill' as proof Of his innocence. What
does it amount TO TO disclaim the con
troll of politics and civil affairs, when
that control is notoriously exercised?
And especially what impudence it is TO
say in one paragraph that the church
has no control of its voters, and in the
next to proclaim that it can and will
control them as against n hostile or
ganization (meaning the American
parity?
We print in full this morning this
weak and trilling declaration, signed
by the first presidency of the Mormon
church, and adopted at yesterday morn
ing's session Of the conference It's
thorough insincerity, its pitiful begging
of the question on points in contro-
versy, its painstal5ing and repeated
declarations Of loyalty, the subject be-
ing iterated and dug up and iterated
again, mark this as the most .contemp-
tible Of all the insincere, Begging, and
contemplate outgivings Of the Mormon
leaders to an abused and afflicted pub
lie
If it was in fact meant to say any
thing real or decisive on the subjects
treated of in this long statement, why
not say in plain words what is aimed
at3 4 simple declaration that the
church leaders had withdrawn absolute
ly from political and civil affairs, that
no high church official would be a can
didate for civil office, that none of them
had, claimed. or would exercise any
control, by counsel" or otherwise, in
temporal affairs of any kind; that po-
lygamous marriages are absolutely under
the ban of the church and that its of
ticlals would prosecute to the extent Of
the law any one taking part in them
that the manifesto must be lived up to
in letter and spirit; these declarations,
not necessarily taking more than a hum
dred words all told, would have been
worth million times more than all
that food Of words But nothing def
mite was said; no reassuring word was
spoken; il was the same old dry rot
And the manifesto was not even men
toned, which shows the absolute OBJ
livion into which it has fallen.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

The Deseyet News has not announced
that it will publish in full the testi-
mony OF Joseph F. Smith at Washing.
ton, so that conference people may have
an opportunity TO decide for themselves
whether the prophet told the truth or
not.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

election on account Of the possibility
that Mr.. Dunno may have at some time
recalled something that the President
had said-and had therefore ruined his
own reputation.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Mr.. Smoot's personal advertising bu-
reeu can assure Mr.. Foraker that his es-
innate of the apostle s purity was emf
nently accurate.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

II they are in need of particularly
funny stunt for thoir minstrel show,
the Elks might he able to induce Apos-
tie Grant to sing for them.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Messrs. Taylor and Cowley will not
be asked 20 report their progress i'll the
particular mission which they undertook
before losing their apostIcship.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Congressman Howell is sure that the
best way TO stop the opposition to the
Mormon church is TO have an elder and
not an apostle for Senator.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Conference. visitors are reminded that,
both in the tabernacle and on the
streets, they should avoid taking any
bad money,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

In order to fully protect innocent
visitors here, there are others than Mr..
Parent who should be kept under lock
md KEY.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Loving life as he undoubtedly does,
Mr.. Hyatt will be careful TO let the
ladies wear their new bonnets next Sun
day also
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Business communications should be nd-
dressed; "The Tribune. Sa)t Lake CITY
Utah.
Matters for publication. to Editor The
Tribune. Salt Lake City. Utah,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

that there has never been any change
in Thaw s mental condition
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Carmen will not strike, because then
they would not have the pleasure of
seeing people hanging to the straps.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Trainmen having decided not to walk
out. travellers will also have their shoe
leather.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

In fulfilling his mission to the Senate,
Apostle Smoot found that he could not
travel without purse or scrip.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Being so busy spending the money,
Joseph T. has not yet had time to make
out any tithing accounts.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Mr., Roosevelt may have instituted a
controversy with railroad magnates as
n third-term preventive,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Apostle Smoot will probably hesitate
tc pull the temple down about his own
ears.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Although, according to the prophet,
it has embraced the gospel, the Nation
is a little too large to be baptized.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Aside from matters astronomical. tel
escopes are material in making the oh.
scrvation that conference is on.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

the ecclesiasts will politely hand around
a large number of lemons.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Governor Cutler is sadly disappoint-
ed in other gentlemen of the CLOTH
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

There is still room for few more
notches on the hig stick,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06
Saturday, April 6, 1907.

In beauty contests the evidence is
taken for its face value
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

1t may be that Mr.. Roosevelt took
Sides with Mr.. Busse in the Chicago
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

Entered at the Postofri@e at Salt Lake
City as second class matter
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06
THE EFFECTIVE WHIP.

And if he have ten virgins given unto
him by this law. he cannot commit adul
terry. for they belong to him, and they
titled.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-06

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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-03

Miss Rose Morgan OF Rhinelander
returned home Monday, after cou-
ole of weeks visit with Mrs. Dan
MOriarity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mahlon of Rochester,
Ind, who spent a couple OF weeks
with Mrs. Mahlon's father, james
Bell, returned home Saturday.
VA. Foster and E. NJ. Worden were
posting bills for the carnival in sur
rounding towns Tuesday. L Y
made the rounds in Mr.. Worden s
auto.
Tom Baker, T. nj. Thomas, DR.. H..
r. II. Ross and John Cosgriff OF this
city and John Corbett OF Bruce left
Monday morning for La Crosse, as
witnesses before the federal grand
jury.
The ladies of the Christian Church
will serve oysters and also lunch
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, Oct 9, 10, IL, and l., in the
Filipec building. All will be cordially
treated. zol
Don't forget that Pingree shoes
are guaranteed and every pair is
made of leather. No paper soles etc
as are found in some lines. Ben e.
Lee & Co. are exclusive agents for
Pingree shoes.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-03

= H. w. True of Glen Flora has just
received the appointment as deputy
State Game Warden.
A Wisconsin Central special came
up Thursday with the railroad Off
cials to inspect the new road.
LosT.-A small pocket book with
the initials NJ. l.. ID. on the inside.
Finder please leave at this office.
|. Renals n d family departed
Thursday for OrnargO, H., where
they will make their future home.
Mrs. j. w. Fritz and son Rob and
Miss Lillian Jessel made a business
trip to the twin cities Wednesday.
The Rusk Co. Lumber Co. is re-
building it's mill east of Ingram,
which was burned some time ago.
J. M. Conrath spent Thursday In
Bruce and Weyerhaeuser posting
bills for the Odd Fellows Carnival
dance.
f. S. Sloan and A. N. I.adin OF
Ironwood, Mich, stopped off here
Wednesday to visit on their way c
Chicago.
Booths fresh oysters in sealed
cans, selects in the small family size
large family, small hotel or restau
rant Siza and LARGO c0nSumar'S Oa Hon
size.-Vienna Bakery. 22tf
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-03
Farmers Organize Union

]. II. Carnahan of Black River
Falls, organizer for the A. S. OF +. held
meetings in the Flambeau town hall
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
nights, explaining the object and
workings of the American Society OF
Equity, the great farmers union.
The meetings were well attended, con.
sfdering the rainy weather and con
siderable interest was manifest ted. A
local union was organized with l.
charter members. The following
officers were elected: Jas. Frost
president; /. Perry, vice president
l.. Labarge, secretary, John Wiley,
treasurer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-03
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Lloyd Gillett of Barron arrived
Tuesday to visit his niece Mrs. A.
Dohl.
Mrs. M. A. Moore made business
trip to Tony and other stations east
this week.
Delbert Woodhouse went to Tony
Monday to help his father on John
Helms new house.
Rev. j. |. Carter left Monday to
spend two or three weeks visiting
friends at Warren, Ohio.
Mrs. A. Dohl returned Sunday
from Barron, where she has been
visiting her aunt Mrs. Soule.
Miss Susie Edgar is attending
the carnival at Greenwood and Wis
iting friends there this week.
Misses Agnes Arnold and Sylena
Roesler spent Saturday and Sunday
with the formers parents at Ingram.
Do not buy any boys clothing till
you try on one OF our suits and note
the saving in price.-Ben G. Lee &CO.
Mrs. Chris Fox, who has been Wis
iting at Barron and Ladysmith, re-
turned to her home In Donald Mon
day.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-03
FIRE WARDEN SYSTEM
With List OF the Men Now Serving
in Rusk County

Owners of wild, land in the state OF
Wisconsin should know some thing
of the fire warden system which was
established to protect timber and
marsh lands from fire. and also the
men who are appointed tn serve Tor
their county or town. The annual
loss by forest and marsh fires is very
large and in many eases absolutely
unnecessary but is gradually decreas-
ing through the work Of the fire war
dens and as the laws relating to fires
are better known.
The state forester is empowered to
appoint one or more men to act as
fire warden in any organized town
where he deems it necessary. AS
most of the forest and marsh lands
are in the northern half of the state.
it is here that appointments have
been made to the number of about
three hundred to gu lrd property in
terests.
As everyone knows who has lived
in a timber region, a forest fire is
often allowed to burn or shoulder
uncared for until a heavy wind
springs up and then it is usually un-
comfortable. This is a striking IL
lustratiOn of 'everybody's business,
nobody's business, but that is what
fire warden is there for and great
part of his value lies in having a
man whose duty it is to get after
fire at once and stick to 1t until it is
out.
The farmers are the men W h o
are chiefly responsible for h e
fires, as our reports r o N the
fire wardens for the last three years
show that in clearing land and burn
ing for pasture they have caused
over so per cent of all the fires. Such
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-03
FATAL ACCIDENT
AT ATLANTA
Claude Bartlett OF Bruce Loses His
Life While Going Hunting
lI on SUNDAY

Claude Bartlett OF Bruce, aged 20,
was accidentally shot Sunday and
died of his injuries 81 few hours after.
Claude, his older brother, and
stranger were going hunting on a
hand-car. In carrying the hand-car
around box car which was in their
way, one of the guns, which were
laying on the hand-ear, was dis
charged sending its contents into his
bowels. He was conscious to the
last. His mother was with him
when he died The funeral was held
Tuesday afternoon, He leaves three
sisters and one brother. Mrs Pierce
Brown of this city is his sister.
Claude had many friends in Bruce,
Ladysmith and elsewhere. He had
been working as "handyman' in
Arpin's mill at Atlanta.