The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-28
4 SAM IS
EACH GOSPEL
||F THE SAVIOR
|uh F. Smith Defends
mon Church in Signed
|atenlent Published in
New York World.
sUsES HIMSELF
FOR PLURAL WIVES
ibutes Outburst Against
llreh to Hans Freeze
ID Frank J. Cannon,
NY Bitter Enemy"
GDSES HIMSELF
FOR PLURAL WIVES
I'd Wire 10 The Tribune.

X,sed Wire 10 The Tribune.
"a YORK, Nav 27.-Thc World
nov will print q signed statement
rsph r. Smith. spiritual and tenn
1ead of the Mormon church. de-
.e the organization from the re-
sitscks on it in England and in
.cuptry. The statement says:
h Latter Day Saints are doing
<rland only what they have done
. {er the past seventy-four years
ling the gospel of Jesus Christ.
.r seem strange to some that we
4 send men in this day to Great
ID and throughout the Christian
4 ID preach the gospel, but we are
.t;ne the same gospel that was es
Led BY the Savior during his min
[fKith the same power, authority
f.fipline that existed in the primL
tkrrch We believe that this gos.
<ps been revealed by divine au-
n and command after departure
my centuries in the Christian
/ Prom the true teaching and spirit
dmitive Christianity.
rs Accept the Bible.
IA accept the Bible, King James
un. as the word of God. We be.
in God, the eternal Father in his
Jesus Christ and in the Holy
h and that it is necessary for man
'io be obedient TO the laws and
snces Of the gospel In order to be
De first principles and ordinances
J complied with are:
hith in the Lord Jesus Christ, re-
|nee from sin, baptism by INNER
<6k remission of sin, which mast
|rformed by one having authority,
be laying on of hands and the gift
|e Holy Ghost. In order that al
nav properly preach the gospel
5hciate in its ordinances he must
llled by God, by proper authority,
be laying on of hands, Of those
Azye that authority.
be believe in being honest, true,
Z, Benevolent, virtuous and IN do
pod TO all men. Above all that
|ope must be kept pure, The mar,
|'yow is a covenant entered into
y flmc. We are true 10 our wives,
s!eadfasi in our fidelity TO them
|eour children.
Alsves In Being True to Wives.
For myself it may sound strangely
oa-ihat means that | believe IN
gtfue to FIVE wives. who are living,
contented and happy mothers.
shave been my wives for from
Ey-four years to over forty years.
'haye looked up to me and have been
through all these years, and ]
! held my love and duty 10 them
hall things else, my love for
my conscience and my manhood
Z not allow II 20 be otherwise.
2 England individuals have ma
NY mIsrepresented MS, as they have
'in the United States. They have
We seek TO win women and girls
their homes to come and live
z MS. There are more women in
nov than there are men, and you
'ina this TO be true not only IN
out elsewhere throughout the
y, ~ This statement is so absurd '
'tostauding its wide circulation,
Y needs no denial, for IFS falsity
ne apparent TO all. They say that
z bringing girls here for immoral
yes. This is Infamous. The fact
ht we are seeking to purge Utah
Y iniqultous white slave traffic,
no place in the United States
9 The fight against II is being
= more vigorously than here in
IN the strictly Latter-Day Saints
suents prostitution is unknown.
'sys immortality Not Tolerated.
- may be pardoned for saving that
Venrch of Jesus Christ of Latter
saints is distinguished for one
among others-that it purges 1T.
s1Sm @ everything in the nature of
'sdlfy and crime, In other words,
;;an or woman can retain member
= tne church and AT the same time
lily ot gross immortality.
ICY say that we are traitcyous and
~ q. tne government. This charge Is
''e4 M In The spirit Of absolute false
ne have shown our loyalty to
pa .sste, which We have founded, and
~ out OF a desert. II is an Ameri'
s!ate, as those who live in il are
'asans' ~, The first fling raised here
Al american flag. hoisted on En-
pax In 1917 and the only flag
naS ever been waved here by j
sb 'Js1 was the American flag. -
se.uent Smith attributes The hue
nssS against his church TO Hans
n, inc son of an apostate from
'TSorhion church, and former Sen
- riiank D. Cannon, "'my bittc'