The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-23

that has become known. Reckoning OF
this basis, we should have anywhere from
ffteen hundred to two thousand such
represent the real state OF affairs. Il
means that polyeamy Is almost as preVa
| lent now as Il WAS before 1890. The only
| that il is more secret IL must be re
mcmbcrcd that, even in the paimiest days
| OF Mormonism. only a comparauvelS
small number OF Mormons were polyg
amists Plural marriage, under the Nor
mon system, WIS intended only for the
eIect-for those who had advanced to q
certain stage OF, grace. If there have
| been fifteen hundred to two thousand ne"
| polygamous marriages since 1890. there
seems no immediate likelihood that the
practice will die out Indeed, IL polyeaml
should suddenly stop and there should mo no,
| be another plural marriage, enough young
people have entered the relation recently
to keep the institution alive in Utah 10,
| at least another nfty years.
Hold High Church Positions.
| More significant than mere numbers
| however. is the fact that so many OF these
| offenders hold exalted positions IN inc
| church SIX. and probably seven, apos-
| ties. as already detailed. have violated
| the law; and other high church dignitar-
| les have followed their example, In the
| Mormon administrative system. the high
est ecclesiasts. next To the apostles. are
| the presidents of stakes, In the relative
Importance and dignity OF their ONCE.
archbshops in the Roman Catholic sys-
tenn, Several OF these stake presidents
have married polygamously since lS9V.
In Salt Lake City there are four stake
presidents, and two OF them-Hugh J.
Cannon n brother or ex-senator Frank
J. Cannon and Frank Y. Taylor-nre I'm =
questionably new pluralists. Not far
from Salt Lake City Is the Davis stake,
presided over by ], n. Grant. brother
OF Heber J. Grant. n Mormon apostle. j.
II Grant is new polygamist. So is
written. Mr., Lyman and MIR. Jolley have
been removed from their ecclesiastical
positions), president of the San Juan
stake-a brother OF Francis NJ. Lyman,
he the next president OF the church. In
deed all over Utah and other Mormon
communities one can find stake presi-
dents, councillors. bishops and other dig
nitaries who have been celestialZed since
the manifesto. One especially interesting
case Is that OF Thomas Chamberlain. first
eonneilor TO the president Of the kanab
the most influential Mormon In southern
Utah: among his other distinctions must
be recorded the fact that at the present
estimates, he possesses eight wives. 1t Is
a tradition in his locality. that on his
fftith birthday. few years ago. Cham
berlan's hfticth child was born. He has
1890; this Is Mamie Woolley, the daugh
ter OF e. d. Wooley. president Of the
kanab stake.
Church Promotes Polygamists.
The church has promoted many Of these
new polygamists since they have mani
rested this allegiance to their faith II
made Josiah Hickman principal Of the
Murdock tchurch) academy at Beaver, al
thou Though hodr his PPoIyugamogs history was an
Salt Lake City Mr.. Tanner. who spent
three years studying law at Harvard uni
versity. was for several years president
OF the State Agricultural college. AS
has married since the manifesto, and Is
thus criminal before the law. the Utah
,'entiles objected TO his remaining as the
head OF an educational institution sup
ported by public taxation. Under this
pressure. Tanner resigned. The Mormon
church recompensed him by making him
superintendent OF the Latter day Saints
SUNDAY schools throughout the world
Polygamous Cities Of Refuge,
Tho desire for self-protection and Sc
crecy has led 10 the establishment OF
several polygamous settlements There
are two within trollcy-car distance Of
salt Lake City-Forestdale and Bounti-
tain their legal families" In Salt Lake
and stow away their celestial households
IN one OF these places. Here. likewise.
they send their wives for their connne
Inohly mo S refer to such penetralia as lamb
= The frequent complication OF names be-
trays the existence OF polygamous house
holds. There is Mrs Jones. for example.
whose little girl is entered In the public
school as Helen Cannon. In fact. Mrs
Jones Is the new" polygamous wife of
George M. Cannon of Salt Lake City
This same Cannon has stiil another plural |
wife In BountifuI. There Is a Mrs, Pierce |
whose child is entered under the name !
But the largest cities Of refuge nre
round In the northern part of the rcpub- !
lc or Mexico. Here. In the last twenty |
I'VE I'VE years Years the Mormons have built sew
,otnott,, ra, ettes purely Tor the purpose OF per
!uarez, Colonia Diaz, Dublan. Pachecho,
Morelos, and other Mexican settlements
he tatter,day Saint Elves his religion
WINS Performed the Ceremony.
And here. as in Utah, the new polyg-
imlsts are found chiefly among the high
ecclesiasts and the socially important
3ishops, stake councillors, educatorsN
.hese arc the dIgn!taries who have as
nmeh % The responsibility of perpetuating
offenders is Guy e. Wilson. who is The
lead OF the Mormon educational system
II II mexico. besides being president Of the
nursn nrnss -sTpposted up st. academy at Juarez
on academy. there are two adjoining
'rlck houses. In one lives Melissa Ste
ems and In the other lives Anna Wins
'o,h are Wilson'S plural wJves-and both
ave been married to him since tho man.
iieesto. one In 1902. the other in Iooa
here is third wife, the legal one; but
ne ilves al Provo. Utah. about fifty
1iles south OF Salt Lake City, The case
u Anna WINS is especially signjhcsnt
s she is the daughter of Anthonv W
vlns; at present one Of the APOSTLES NJ
ne church. MIR, WINS himself. when nrce
lent of the Juarez stake and ihuI rs
ecclesiastical head of all the Mormons N' IN
leIic9, performed the ceremony tbat :
1msae m ms own daughter a girl about %
cars old, the plural wife Of Wilson NJ
as PERFORMED other similar coremonios
ot3Dly that of Annie Burrel In Iooz
, , lanes carroll councillor 10 the bisbnr,
PolYpa amY Practinnd st.