The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-26
ONLY A FEW OF MANY.

On Monday morning in these col
umns we gave list of nearly one
hundred of the "few sporadic cases
Of new polygamy which the Mormon
church officially and deceivingly con-
fesscd as existing within the member
ship of that organization.
These are merely the cases concern
ing which information has leaked out
to the public from reliable sources,
even despite the dense secrecy with
which their preparation is surrounded.
1t will be evident to any right thinking
mind that, in view of the circumstances,
The Tribune has been unable to get
at perhaps more than one In ten of the
actual number. And even now, If one
were to 90 to Apostle Anthony w.
Ivins. for instance, and ask him II
the report made by this paper IN the
matter were true, he would say that
he knew nothing about the cases men
toned, or he would deny outright that
they existed. And this in fnce Of the
fact that he is said by persons who
have been polygamously married to have
performed the ceremony In several IN
stances, The whole officialdom Of the
Mormon church would so profess ig-
norance or make total denial If ap-
preached on the subject. So that the
difficulty Of getting at the facts being
so great as to sometimes seem Insur'
mountabIe, it should be plain to all
that not tithc Of the crimlnallty
has been exposed by The Tribune.
And while upon this matter of diff
6culty in getting at the facts, we feel
that il is no humility to this paper to
make couple of corrections in our
recital of Monday morning, because the
deceptiveness and lying characterizing
the commission Of these polygamous
crimes, and in subsequently covering
them up, renders accuracy almost I'M
possible in first presentation. A pub
ication OF that sort, though, usually
brings the proper correction from ad-
vised individuals, and finally we are
enabled to get the matter straight, So
we Will now say that the story told
Of "Milcs P. Romney, Jr,' should
have been credited to Elder Miles A.
Romney, and that the name of "Miles
P. Romney, Jr, " should be stricken from
the list Then there is the case of
Elder Peter Skousen, He married the
widow Robinson near the time of the
issuance of the manifesto (1S90) as
his second wife, and that he has mar
-. .i,1t Vs.
ly makes it worse for Elder Skousen,
in that it credits him with three In
stead of two wives. The distance be-
tween Utah and Mexico is somewhat
great and we imagine that we have
done rather well to strike so near to
the facts as we have done.
But the whole subject is one that
concerns Gentiles and honest Mormons
equally. The one accepted the promise
of the other that this Wholesale law
breaking within the Mormon church
should stop. BY reason Of this promise
and others Statehood was achieved for
Utah. Now that the Mormon hierarchs
are entrenched behind the barrier of
State sovereignty (they being ir po.
litical control of the commonwealth
these promises have been broken and
the crime goes on unrestricted and
unpunshed.
The Tribune has been accused, in call
ing attention to this wholesale slaugh-
ter of faith, with stirring up unneces-
sary strife But we have all along
known what he were talking about,
and we now ask Geutiles and honest
Mormons what they are going TO do
about IL They hold the remedy In
their own hands, Have they the cour-
age TO apply it and wipe out the evilf
We are told that the Colonel is TO