The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-11

f1lppant at the. expense Of his brethren
of the hypocrite squad. as he appeared
to view them. Has il ever injured
me- he exclaimed with twinkling
rising infection in his voice, sin any
sense Of the word, because Il. c. NJ. T..
drug store kept liquor for sale?' And
speaking Of the surreptitious Guzzlcr of
Mormondom, coupled with the habit of
the entcrprisinG L. C.-M. l. of clandes-
Timely supplying sanctifcd satisfaction of
his burning thirst. Joseph F.-hc of the
financial thriftiness-e1plained that "If
he conld not get it there. he would not
patronize Il. G, NJ. +. at all, but would
go somewhere else to deal
''What a base argument" repeating
Apostle Mckay, "to insist that this
business should be carried on because
it perhaps benefited some people fuan,
ciallyl'
And now MS TO the incident in Nor.
mon community life which furnishes one
example Of certain evil effects described
by Apostle Mckay. 1t was only last
summer that Elder Alpha j. Higgs--
of like riminals-plungcd his family
into the ruin doplored by Sunday Is
speaker at the tabernacle. He was en-
gagged as right-bsnd man to Joseph +.
Smith in the publication of The I'm
provement Era, an organ of the Mormon
church prctcndodly intended to elevate
the youth Of Zion, and whose motto
is ''Thc Glory of God Is Intelligence. -
In the Office was Miss Bessie Badger.
employed as stenographer Elder Hlggs
was married man. and possessed of
splendid wife and beautiful family.
But that fact weighed nothing as
against the .'revelatious Of God to .Io-
seph Smith SO, to put il briefly, he
married the girl in new polygamy as
his pretended second wife, and then
ran away with her TO Canada. To imi-
tate Elder McKay's npt description of
effect, Higgs broke up his home,
he ruined the virtue of Bessie Badger
and he left his children fatherless. And
there arc hundreds IN the Mormon
church Just like him, Not all of them
have been found out, and under that
circumstance the legal wives suffer in
silence; the homes are practically bro,
ken up under suppression Of sentiment. !.
the virtue of the women dragged into
the polygamous filth has beer ruined !.
the children are practically left father
less because the criminal scoundrcl who
is the author Of their being devotcs all
his attention 10 his latest and prcsum.
ably (at least to his perverted eye)
more attractive couiugal acquisition.
Yet there is nothing done about these
things by the church, nor no apostles
set up in the tabernacle to declaim
against them.
Referring TO Apostle WINS, it seems
that he spoke principally upon doctrin-
al matters. But he uttered faulty
that should be noted, He declared that
he had read many books. but that he
had never found one to breathe so much
of Christ and Christianity as does the
church, Let us see, as an instance. The
teaching of Christ and Christianity is:
ETake heed and do not treachcrously
against the wife Of thy youth ''-Mala-
chi. il, 15. And, Whosoever puttcth
away his wife, except it be for forni
cation, and marrieth another, committeth
adultery. Matthew. xix, g. And in
order to establish this general Christian
sentiment out of a work which undoubt
edly Mr.. WINS regards quito AS highly
as he does the New Testament, VIC quote
from The Book of Mormon, Jacob H..
"a: "Behold. David and Solomon truly
had many wives and concubincs, which
thing was abominable before me, saith
the Lord Yet we find the following
in the Doctrine and Covenants Gn
which Apostle Twins pretends to find the
most exalted exhibition of the spirit
of Christ and Christianity:
And II he la Mormon who has observed
certain ordinances and regulations OF the
church, have ten virgins given unto him
by this law 1.-THE law commanding the
practice OF poygamyl he cannot COM
nit adultery. for they belong to him and
they are given unto him. therefore he Is
justified.
We said that Apostle Twins is re.
garded as man Of hard common sense
but in this instance. it seems to us, he
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