The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-30

splendid men and women In Utah who
were born in polygamy. But there Is no
one who can successfully deny that the
OrderVilie pervert would most likely have
oecohe an upright citizen, instead of the
ioathsome being he now is, had not the
poIygamous Iron entered his mothers
heart.
The champion of the beauties and
benefits OF polygamy may urge that the
case just cited is an Isolated Instance,
Ihe reply is. that for this one instance
oil polSgamous degcneracy, accidentally
uncovered. there are hundreds of other
cases whose antecedcnts have not been
traced. And 1t is not without sufficient
evidence that the assertion is made that
numbers considered. there have beer; been
fltty per cent more cases OF bcstiality
among Mormon poygamous offspring
s. man among those born in Mormon
homogeneous marriage.
MI. Carmel three miles below Order
vllIe, is in the south end OF Long valley
from which point. hair-raisIng road
and nerve wrcCkins dugway, which
must be trarersed before the high di-
vide TO the east and down into Kanab
CANYON is reached. Owing 10 the fact
that deep and wide wash occupies al
inns country were compelled To hew
miles OF the road out of the sandstone
chr IN order to keep the roadway above
the terrific floods that converge in Ka-
nab canyon
TWO miles northwest of Kanab is the
datnsite into which the 500 inhabitants
WIZ be able to again irrigate their small
farms and town lots, which were left
nigh aud dry when the dam was washed
out laSt August But the destruction
OF thc dam compelled the installation OF
an $4,000 water system.
There ls a general impression through
our Iiah that Kane county is an ecclesl-
astical and political despotIsro. lrIIcd hv
Edwin ID. Wooley as president of the
kanaO stake OF Zion That imnression
Ils WE countess true until the present gen
Grafton OF young men and women as
serted their Independence.
But the once alleged spiritual and tenn
portl boss OF the kanab stake seems to
oe kept busy in desperate effort to hold
tht young Moimons in the ecclesiastical
corral. Fifteen To twenty years ago the
young people had to content themselves
WIN one or two round dances during an
evenings exercise But the young peo-
PIC rebelled; and the result is that CO.
unions; reels, etc, are well-nigh forgot
;, zen; watts and two-steps alternate in
e9ch evening $ programme
Gear Wooley's Edict.
In this once hotbed Of polygamy open
ana vigorous denunciations OF the Zee
lesttal order OF marriage" are now not
intrcqucnt. Some five or six wears ago
n,nresiaent ,n Wo0ley so IL is charged by
INC SAINTS, publicly proclaimed that the
practlce oi polygamy among the Mormon
pcopi" would soon again be general, His
statement was no doubt made 10 silence
criticism OF Elder Joseph H. Robinson
who had Just added wilma Brown and
Hattie Spencer 10 his poyrgamous house
hold. and Of First Counselor Thomas
Chamberlain, who had but recently os-
nouscd Mamie WOOlay as his ninth wife
But President Woolcy's proCla nation of
a polygamous revival was met by such
a storm OF criticism and protest that the
once cZar OF Kane county has not since
advocated the holy doctrine Of pledge
| breaking polygamy.
To It's list OF thirty-one well autben-
hcdted cases OF recent polygamy ! may
add the names OF those elders lust men
/ TONED. and Of Mahouvi NJ. Stecle OF Pluto
county. who. after securing tho appoint
ment OF member OF the state land board.
amy, 10 withdraw In favor OF his father
who now draws tho salary.
While on the subject IL is pertinent TO
| suggest that the prophets who recently
! cXcommunicatcd Dave p. Felt and Joe
Musser Tor recent pQlygamy., should
/ good eS-bishop OF Ordcrvllc.
| As an illustration OF the disancctlon
/ Of young Mormons the following will be
! intcrcstine: y bishop OF ono OF tho cen
| trdl-southcrn wards recently sent I'm his
| annual report of tho standing OF the
members Of his flock. His report con
! taincd total OF l9S names. OF which Tg
| were listed as mot converted" I" And that
| ratio OF about 10 per cent mot con
verted' may snfely be taken AS a fair
! average of practically dead branchos'
| whose names appear on the member
! ship records OF tho Mormon wards in
J Utah.
! There is real pleasure I'm making tho
| statement that nowhere In Utah is there
| a more intelligent and progressive aggro-
! ing I'm kanah j. +. GIBBS.
Kanab. Utah. January. 1910.
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