The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-13
IT'S VAIN RAGINGS.

II the success Of the church organ
| in lying cqualcd it's brazcnncss, il could
| effect more evil that il is able TO do
under its limitations. For. the bald
ness of its dcnials is so hagrant. their
unworthincss so patent. that they in.
jure the very cause they are meant to
serve.
Last night, for example. in column
editorial reviewing the "statement
read at the Conference from the First
Presidency, it denied that there was
any compact or pledge of the church to
the Nation on the matter of polygamy
But the amnesty petition expressly
pledged obedience to the laws. and the
amnesty proclamatiops of President
Harrison and President Cleveland were
expressly conditioned upon obedience
to the laws. Testifying on this point,
in his evidence in the Smoot case, Pres.
ldcnt Smith expressly admitted the
pledge, and, while claiming that the
church had kept its pledge, he admit
ted that he had not.
Similarly. the dcnial of church in
reference in politics can not 90 for
anything. when the control of the Nor.
mon vote by the ecclcsasts is so no
torlous and So open. What docs denial
amount to when VIC see the Demo
cratic vote Of the church transferred
bodily To the Republicans, as was done
last Fall, and in the general election
Of 1905?
The answer on tithing is equally vain.
1t is idle to protest that all is well,
and that no complaint is due. as long
as the tithe accounts are kept secret
If those who question the proper dis.
posal of the tithcs arc wrong, and if
the resources of the whole community
are not depleted by the enormous with
drawals of money for enterprises in
Mexico and Canada, it ought to be easy
to refute any misrepresentation and
allay all suspicious by an honest, un-
reserved, busincss,likc statement of the
receipts and expenditures ON tithing ac-
count,
In an outburst of rage the church
organ last night cditorially said:
The anti Mormon" organ in it's sniv-
cling way. processes disappointment at
the replies contained i'm this statement
but notes that some progress at least
is made on the poyesmous proposition"
=, The hypocrite! The Tribune knows
that complete change Of policy was
effected on tina question twenty years
ago. and that the Improvement" If that
Is the word for If. dates from the mani
rcsto OF President Woodruff It knows
q TnF Ia. 4
$1,000 by proving one case OF plural mar
riagc entered into by the sanction OF
the church. And then IL comes now and
says 1t is glad there Is some improve
ment,
There is nothing "sniveling' about
1T, unless the church organ does the
snIvcling. With regard 10 eases of new
polygamy, we presume there can be
no denial of the facts that Apostles
Abraham Cannon and George Tcasdale
entered into polygamy after the mani
fcsto; aud it is generally admitted that
Apostles Taylor and Cowley have done
the same. 1t is absolutely sure. also,
that none of these would have entered
into that relation except under and
in conformity with the ordinance of
the church. What, then, becomes of the
frantic protestations of the false organ7 7
Who is the hypocrite? And with what
face shall the News ask The Tribune
to produce evidence which is all held
in the secret places of the priesthood
Surely the church organ, in its rage, is
going insane, and imagines that blus-
ter and imDudent lying will serve to
overturn the truth, that is fully known
to the well informed, and especially to
itself.