The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-05

1t was he who solved the perpiexities
of tho difficult and vcxatious problem
of domestic service, by making matri-
monial alliance with 4 holy apostle the
price for good and faithful attention
to menial duty.
With a foresight which is extremely
rare in these hurry-skurry days, Mr..
| Taylor had provided for himself places
of refuge In Canada, and likely in
Mexico, in expectation OF time OF
exile; and it has been surmised that in
these distant colonial homes abide
ladies who bear his name, and who also
bear his children.
Mr.. Taylor was ono of those who
voted for the manifesto i'll 1890, and
who claimed at that time to consider it
ms revelation from heaven, forbidding
the further practice OF plural marriage
and unlawful cohabitatjon. But in the
subsequent meantime something must
have happened to tanglo up his views;
for 1t is freely said of him, by Apostle
Smoot, that he has since failed to abide
by the manifesto-not only for himself,
but in behalf of younger members Of
his church.
When the Senate committee desired
his presence in Washington AS a wit
ness the chief poIygamist promised that
distinguished body of legislators that
he would use his oily powers of per-
suasion with Mr.. Taylor. in order to
have him appear and tell what he
knew, OF course, Joseph T. Smith
must certainly have kept his promise
to himself. So far rs his request
to Mr.. Taylor is concerned, it is quite
likely that Mr., Smith kept this pledge
as religiously as he has observed some
has doubtless heard. Some people have
been spiteful enough TO say that the
invitation which the president of the
church sent to the nomadic apostle
read: Sufficient to the day is the
subpoena thereof, - and that John
w. understood the hint, and that he
also and Immediately devoted his
energy TO an industrious compliance.
Which merely serves to show that when
the president Of the church wants an
not want him to do it-unless he wants
him to do 1T.
Anyway. John w. Taylor exiled him
self-not from home. because he either
carried it with him or it was located
at the place TO which he was going;
but from country, because he could
neither carry the country with him nor
find it where he went to. Although the
Smoot case is settled, and notwith- !
the fact that some of the |
other new polygamists have since re-
John w. is reputed to have
ocen so indiscreet in his marital acces- !
'ions to self, and in his presentations
% others of his belief, that it is no |
certainty that he Will ever come back. |
And after considering the historical
.acts in the case, there can be little
wonder that the bogus revelator was
glad TO keep Taylor OF the Senate
premises. BY the time Joseph +. Smith
rot through with his own testimony
before the Senate committee he had
made such mess of the situation that
Iot even John w. Taylor, with his
otorious penchant for blundering,
ould very well make it any worse.
But this narrative, truthful as it is,
viii possibly cause the Smoot Mouth to
efrain from requesting the powers that
e TO prosecute the subject of these
emarks. The proof rests with the
ierarchs-the proof that will convict
nut the public is so sufficiently con-
inced Of the facts that it maintains
is own opinion, regardless of the
louth.