The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-04
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The Tribune does not delight In call
ing attention to the matter which we
herein treat. 1t would prefer that such
a review AS this were impossible; be-
cause ii counts as friends many men
and women who are victims, and would
have liked to continue to call friends
many of the men who are guilty of the
unclean impositions that have been
made upon the public.
We now refer 10 what tho Dcseret
News cheerfully calls Hformer prac,
ticeN i'll the Mormon church, and to
scribes as keepers of their covenant to
the Nation, to the commonwealth of
Utnh, to their neighbors. to their wives
and TO their children. The Tribune
has said, and it repeats tho statement
now, that there is a greater number of
new polygamists within the Mormon
church than could be shown in a count
of those who entered the unlawful re-
lation previous to 1890. On account
of this statement made by The Trib-
une the Mormon church organs, speak.
ers and members have become consid-
crably angry. They all have denounced
this paper more or less vlciously, and
some of them have cursed it. Honest
and blessed. To all of the members of
the Mormon church we submit the fol.
lowing facts;
George Teasdale was an apostle. He
broke his VOW to the love OF his youth
and married polygamously under such
circumstances that in the hearing of
the case of Reed Smoot it was neces"
sary for the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections to hear the
Teasdale matter behind closed doors 1t
was too unclean TO be printed in the
record. And certainly The Tribune can
not print the facts here, although it has
them at hand,
Owen Woodruff was an apostle. When
emplar of the homogeneous reform that
had set in upon the polygamous Nor.
mon church. He became i'll and died in
Mexico. And then the news came out
that he was polygamist He was un,
fortunately under the control Of de.
termined and deliberate lawbreaker. He
fell, and made fools of his brethren
and sisters in the church who are dis
posed TO be honest in their beliefs and
practices
A l. L.
He married polygamously the fancee
of his dead brother. Joseph +. Smith
who was at the time second counselor
in the first presidency of the Mormon
church, aud who is now the supreme
head of that organization, performed
the ceremony which thrust just one
more polygamous crime upon the un.
offending Mormon people.
Brigham Young, Jr., had for his par
ticular mission as an apostle the over.
seeing of the Mexican Mormon colony.
He married polygamously, as well us
TO perform the special and privileged
ceremony of polygamous marriage for
other Mormon lechers,
John w. Taylor was an apostle. he
"resigned" from his quorum because
his new polygamy stood in the way OF
Reed Smoot' IS political ambitions He
Insulted the young women of the tab
ernacle choir by telling them that their
rehearsal nights furnished too much op
portunity for the practice of immoral
ity. At the same moment he was break.
ing the law as fast as he could. and
assisting others to do the same thing.
Matthias +. Cowley was. an apostle
He also "resigned for reasons iden
tical with those governing in the John
w. Taylor case. They say that there
is scarcely any other one thing that
looks quite so much alike AS "twc
peas In a pod. Illustrated in hu
man form, Taylor and Cowley present
the finest picture.
In addition to these notables Of the