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

course of development, The movement
Is merely tho outward expression of IA
trick that has been secretly worked for
some years past, There has been
steady and persistent rccrudesceucc Of
polygamy that has been not at all dis
tasteful to the Mormon chiefs. So far
rs we arc able TO calculate, and with.
out ability 10 prove the assertion ex-
ccPC clrcumstnntially, there have been
approximately two thousand polygam-
Gus marriages since the manifesto for
bidding them WAS issued and adopted III
1890 Most Of these, as indicated by our
rccitals in over two hundred cases whose
details VIC have exposed, have occurred
previous to the year 1904. As Illus
irative Of our meaning, we Will say that
Walter c, Lyman, president of the San
Juan stake of zion. and brother to
Francis NJ. Lyman, has married Lucy
Halls, daughter of his first counselor,
William Halls. in polygamy since the
manifesto. but slightly prior to 1904,
Elder Ben r. Rich, who still retains his
position as president of the Eastern
''ldltG NllH9lpn VI ln' hloiulph 'hui'p'
has taken two unlawful wives within
that period. Frank Y. Taylor, presi
dent of the Granite stake, has taken ono
in what the hierarchs have determined
to call the 'open season. Elders
George NJ. Cannon, Joseph NJ. Tanner,
Henry S. Tanner and others have prac~
ticcd polygamous marriage within the
season bounded by October .. 1890, and
April Is, 1904, and in one case later. 1T
is even SAID that Joseph +. Smith has
taken on two poygamous wives in that
time, and that Francis NJ. Lyman has
added one to his household, Be the
latter assertion true or untrue, it will
make no difference with the general
proposition. That proposition now is
TO legitimizc within the church all plural
marriages which have occurred previous
to April 6. 1904, There being about
two thousand Of these, doubtless the
hicrarchs deem that number to be suf
fcient to perpctuate the practice
4" against the due time Of the Lord, y
when the saints will again be permitted
W ave lutlT lfIlGlOD b1tulN, Win
no man TO molcst them or make them
afraid Under the ordinary actuarial cal.
culatIon, the number of new polypa-
mists now in the field will be able to
keep the practice alive for from thirty
FIVE to forty years longer. That is the
hlerarchial hope, in face of the fact
that they have repeatedly said that
poIygamy was "dying out In their
present movement they arc giving the
personal lie TO that assertion from
themselves. They are endeayoring to
so shift the operative date of the man
iresto as to shield the upward of two
thousand criminals who now bask in
the hicrarchal favor because they have
served the purpose of the Lord in
having taken new polygamous wives
previous to April s, 1904
Now. the question is, If no reliance
is to be placed on the Woodruff man
ifcsto issued September &c, 1890, and
unanimously adopted by the church
upon motion of Lorenzo Snow by the
conference on October 6, 1890, what de
pcndencc is to be reposed in the pro
nouncement Of Joseph T. Smith adopted
by the conference on motion of Francis
NJ. Lyman. April 6. l9047 The first
was supposed 10 have been revelation
from God; the second is merely the
cdict of a man. If they will break the
first. how much more readily will not
they trampe the second under foot'
Still less can President Lyman S re-
marks on this subject be supposed to
bind those who rejected the manifesto.
The fact is, that within the church
is close corporation of twenty-siX rul-
ers. who deem that commandment of
the Almighty is not such until 1T has
received their personal appreciation; and
within the twenty-six is a company of
fifteen men who determine the action
of the entire body. And yet they say
there is no hierarchy in the Mormon
church, It will be remembered that
during the course of sermon deliv-
cred at South Bountiful, March 60 1899
Joseph f. Smith said:
We feel determined to do tho will OF
God and keep His commandment 10 the
best OF our ability. The doctrine [polyg-
amyl came from God. The matter of
Apparently the chief priests have
that for the present the