The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-11

THE Mormon Revival of Polygamy''
gives many instances Of polygamous
marriages ma that have taken taken place @ since since
positively that plural marriages are now
the rule among the Mormonss and that
they are sanctioned by the Mormon
church
Without insisting upon that, how
ever, we will present the points as sum-
married. in the circular as follows:
l. That one OF the problems with which
the American people will soon have TO
deal is. the. revival of polygamy In Utah
for the Mormon" Church has violated
marriages con tracted before 1890 have
not been given up and new plural mar
riages have taken place on considerable
2, That new polygamous marriages
have been entered into by young men
and women 20 TO 30 years old,
3, That IL polysamy should suddenly
stop. enough young people have entered
the relation recently to keep the instt-
tuition alive in Utah for another fifty
years. l. .....
4. That II is nearly as prevalent there
s. That the long list of recent polyga
mitted to be. correct by 'Mormons" as
we'll as Gentiles.
8. That the Church still teaches polyg-
amy openly as orthodox Mormon" doc
I That the Church stil keeps in its
book OF Doctrines the principles OF polyg
amy and does not publish the manifesto
| s. That books strongly teaching poyg-
amy. are circulated at authorized Nor
| mon book shops
g. That the Church honors and pro-
NOTES recent polygamists
10; That the "Mormons" maintain
Ss Of stations, in Uhee Us4 wesh bs tHsy posa call
NOUS children are born.
II. That the prevailing custom In
"Mormon% settlements In canada Is to to
their polygamous wives In Utah or Mex
IL. That the ''Mormons" confess that
they. practice poygamy, on a large scale
In Mexico, which is OF vital concern TO
the people of the United States. because
the ''Mormons" who thus marry In Mex
| leo are American citizens and bring their
plural wives back to Utah
| 13. That Apostles Cowley and Taylor.
who were shown by the Smoot trial to
Church claims to have d!sciplIned for
| 1t are still apostles preaching In Nor
mon pulpits: though they are not Of the
port o.te of the senate nate col Committee on privI-
ieges and elections said: THE dropping
of these men from the quorum was go
evidently done for popular effect that the
cept as an admission that Apostles Tay-
lor and Cowley have each taken one or
| more plural wives since the MANIFESTO.
Yet Golfers in April contains a letter
from Mr.. Russell in which he cites the
dropping OF these two men from the
quorum as proof OF the sincerity of the
IA That the Mormon" Church Is sim
ply great religious secret society ex-
listing very largely for criminal purposes
15. That the only way in which the
American people can control the situation
is by n constitutional amendment giving
power to Congress to legislate against po-
l1.grr - H.. 4,
federal government could again send Its
communities and punish offenders.
other proof of the Mormon" hierarchy
lack Of good faith and OF It's lawless at
titude is this; When Brisham H. Rob
or the Eqse OF
Mormon" Church gave him high po-
sitlon in the Church and among other
duties duties the charge of the Ye1ng Peoples
spending to the Christian Endeavor So
ciety in our churches.
| Will you help wipe out this dlsgraceful
blot from our country?
You can help by your prayers; by your
contributions; by becoming active mem
bers IS, OF this council. and by assisting one
| l. Christian ministers OF all denomi-
nations can request their people as con :
Eregatons to pass the following resolu-
ton and send copies to the. President OF
the United States, to each Of the Senators
and Representatives, from their States
You can ask your minister TO DO this
2, You can also help by copying this
resolution and asking your friends, es-
pecially those who are voters. to sign
Simllar requests and send copies to the
! President. the Senators and Representa- :
tIves from their States.
RESOLUTION
Inasmuch as the Mormon Church ha 3
viola ted Its pledges in this nation by re
turning to the PRACTICE OF polygamy and
and adjacent States, be 1t resolved that
this convention Cor that wei urge the
President Of the United States. the Sem
ators and Congressman from this State.
to use all OF their influence, personal
and official, to have such legislation
passed Immediately, as will forever end
I%Sss power our from sS and the VI" MdTms m
hierarchy In Utah. Idaho or any other
States or Territory of the United States
The church organ on Wednesday
evening undertook specific denial To
each of these points 1t fatty denied
statements No. 3. 4. 6, 10. II, l2. and
13; but those denials are merely tech.
meal and formal, Just as a defendant
in court would reply TO accusations
made. The fact is that the state.
mcnts made are as nearly accurate as il
,s possible TO put them in such con
deused language.
AS 10 statement No. /, the News
claims that it is false: that the
''church has not violated the mani.
fcsto, and there is no problem of
polygamy in Utah. But everyone in
Utah conversant with the situation
knows that there is a polygamous prob.
lem in Utah, and knows also that the
church is responsible for it, nike in its
origin. its promulgation. and its prac.
tice.
As to No. 2. the News says that
new plural marriages may have been
entered into, but not with the sane.
tiou of the church, violations of the
law occur in every State" But, as
before stated, these marriages cannot