The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-23
Gives Detailed Narrative Of Men
Who Have Violated Pledges
to the Nation.
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new and younger Mormonsm 1t was
tremendous shock, therefore, when Abra
ham Cannon himself became one OF IN
earliest violators OF the manifesto. II
1896. his brother. David. died while ol
mission In Germany. David had beel
engaged for some ,mc TO an attractive
young woman OF Salt Lake City. a Mis-
twenties. a graduate of the Brigham
In the early. part OF June, 1896. Abra
ham flatly Informed his third wife tha
he intended TO marry Lillian Hamlln
But you cannot do it," she replied
God has forbidden IT,; and she recalled
married the girl outside the United
states he would not violate the law
He acknowledged [laterl that Inc
had married Lillian Hamlin; that the
ceremony had taken place in tho state
| room Of steamboat on the high seas
so ss!omewhere a1n,;I between Los ANGELES LI and
cording. TO common report made another
confession. He said that the maria &c
ceremony by which Lillian Hamlin be-
came his plural wife had been performed
by Joseph F. Smith-the same Joseph +,
Smith who is now president OF the Nor
mon church Though President Smith
iial evidence against him Is strong, BY
his own admission. there were only four
people In this. California party-himsef,
and Lillian Hamlin,
Twice Plural Wife.
| Soon after Abraham's death she was
made teacher at the Brigham Young
universty-a church institution A few
years ago Miss Hamin became the
plural wife OF another Cannon. Lewis
M In other words. this lady has mar
riod polygamously twice since God.
through Wilford Woodruff, put an end
wife OF two Csnnons for time, and win
he the wife Of another Cannon for etcr-
George Teasdale not only married n
new plural wife, bur made no attempt TO
keep the matter secret. Up to 1896.
Apostle Tcasdac. so far as is generally
known had had four wives.
Hired Girls Captured.
Both Apostles Cowley and Taylor. who
other Normons' Violated the S' manifesto niii
themselves Cowley married. as new
plural wives Lucia Parkinson of Pres
Lnke City, Al the time OF the mani
Two OF them. Nellie Todd and Nettie
rate houses in FarmIngton a small town
ABOUT fourteen miles north of Salt Lake
CITY, In this town there were two sis
IeIs Rhoda and Roxie yelling. who.
when Apostle Taylor arrived. were six
teen ana eighteen years old. These young
women went 10 live hired girls" In
ne houses Of Taylor''s plural wives.
known that Taylor had become the hus-
band OF both these girls. Clearly. this
was violation of the manifesto. since.
when that document was issued the
yelling sisters were only eight and ten
years old
appears quite. in the normal order of
from their earliest days. AS small chill
dren. In the Sunday school. they have
oeen taught the divinity OF plural mar
rage; Cod himself, and Jesus Christ
as polygamists. Even though the church
mas ostensibly given up the practice, il
mas never, even ostensibly. abandoned
us belief in the principle II constantly
npholds as models 10 its growing chill
dren men who. almost without exception
are. or have been polygamists. AS late
as 1905 the Mormons used the public
alton. for teaching the principles of Nor
monism. Here. under Mormon public
school teachers, the children studied the
ilves OF such men as Brigham Young.
lieber c. kimbail. John Taylor Lorenzo
SNOW, Joseph +. Smith. John w. Taylor.
George Teasdale-all polysamists.
Polygamous Principle Adhered To.
The church still openly teaches polyg-
amy as orthodox Mormon doctrine. 1t
derives its authority for the principle
from the revelation given to Joseph smith
IN 1898. This Is the longest revelation
in the Doctrine ard Covenants" the
book which Is the canonical theological
woTk Of the Mormon church, In spite
OF the fact that the church has officially
gwen UP polYSamy, IL has never taken
the revelation out OF this volume. On
lhe other hand. ii has never included
There are many books OF Mormon theolo-
gy still circulated, and still purcha sable
at authorized Mormon book shops, which
uphoid In the strongest possible terms the |
doctrine OF polygamy.
Plural Marriage Encouraged.
UfI
In pcrpetuating the practice is that so |
large n proportion of these younger Nor
mons are themselves polygamous chill
1ren. They cannot dishonor the Institn-
ton without dishonorlng their own faith J
ers and mothers. and placing a bar sin |
Ister upon their own birth. Not To ad- |
NIT the purity Of polygamy," one promI-
nent Mormon said to the writer 'is TO |
pin the scarlet letter on my own mothers
breast, and | will never do that" The
polyganous wives OF the older genera
lpholding the principle. Many of, these
women have encouraged their daughters
to become plural wives because only in
his way can they Justify their own lives.
PolSBamy was good enough for me; is
Z not good enough for my daughter? ?"-
his just about represents the attitude Of
many OF these women.
Apostles Opposed Manifesto.
Mnen Inc Mormon church, IN 1890. Off
,ially abandoned polygamy. the impress
'ion was conveyed that the leading au
lhorities were unanimously In favor of
his action: This, however was not the
'ase In the inner circles of the aposto-
ate there was. faction bitterly opposed
o the revelation, The president OF the
,hurcI, who preceded Wilford Woodruff
was John Taylor. a man who had con-
'lstently refused 10 yield on this inn
oortepl point. In Taylors mind the mere
suggestion OF giving up this cardinal
.enet OF the Mormon faith could como
Dniy from one source-the devil himself
The men who were advocating Il. In his
yes were merely the cmissaries of Sa-
an: il was not until Tayor's death. in
SsI, that the possibility OF changing the
'lilciai attitude on this point gained any
Roadway In $780, though Taylor was
lead, his Influence was still felt in The
iposues quorum. the ecclesiastical body
al rules the church. 0''
Merrill Polygamously Active.
Among the older members who stIl
,phe,d Iaylors attitude wcre Joseph F.
smith Mariner w. Merrill Brigham
Young, Jr;. and George Tcasdale Merrill
vas probably the most influential Mormon
n the northern part OF Utah. He de-.
'erves special niche in the Mormon