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Show B3' which "Truth" says: - This is utterly false. It is and H has been a matter of public notoric H ty, undenied, even openly confessed that Joseph F. Smith and other po- H lygamists tinder the oid regime have H been living with their plural wives. H There was no secrecy about it, and H why has it been impossible to briny H the offenders to punishment? Per- H haps County Attorney Westervelt, H one of the signers of the protest, h couui answer that question if he would. When the late grnnd jury H was in session, impanr.eled at the B instance ot bsnator Kt-ains for the H sole purpose of invi-stigatiiiij tlu M marital relation of members ot the M Mormon church In the lujpe ot co 1 crcmy the church into rxerciMiig its 1 p'Jitly influence in belnrlf of hena M t( Kt-.tniH .ind Pti iv Heath loi M c ion to i ii- United Stales senate, M Ciiiiy Atiitniey WiMervclt had for M a Mine charge of tm raud jury. M Ii' was expected to imu to the B k owlcdgf of the uit-mbcr of me 1 grand jury violations of the law' m County Aiiorney Westervelt knew. H as did every signer ol the protest, m for it was a matter of public noterie 1 ty that many of those who had en H teed into polygamous relations H p-iiir tothe issuance ui the minifesto H forb. riding any nmrc polygamous H miiues, were still maintaining 1 tl se relations. If County Attorney H W. trrvelt did not know it prior to K tin- convening of the grand jury M (w.nch is scarcely possible), he cer-m cer-m lj. in Jy learned of it while the grand H jniy was in session, because his at M ttntion was time and again called to H it .nil) the proofs offered to him, H but County Attorney Westervelt de-M de-M cliued to entertain or investigate in-H in-H to such cases and stated that it was H not such cases he wanted, Evidence of new polygamous marriages, he said, was what was desired. There was no disposition to prosecute the ! old polygamists, he said. If Mr. ' - Westervelt denies this, Truth is in a position to furnis.li overwhelming and absolute proof that he was so informed and made the statements attributed to him. Yet he was one of the signers of the protest stating th.u he had no knowledge of such infractions of the law and read Pres- ident Smith's testimony before the. J Senate comittee with "amazement, Ha indignation and disgust." Colonel H') Nelson, Senator Reams' hired man. also no doubt read the testimony H ' with "amazement, indignation and ft disgust, although he for more than a l year has been in possession of a list ' of the children born to polygamists H ' since the manifesto, . n""frWwoTrPPJHBB TrArffirTTrrrtTMTtjnA.?Cii , p from Montreal toVuncouver, the points of interest being tlio quaint old Canadian Canadi-an cities .Montreal nud Ottawa, Niagnrn, tin wheat district of the Northwest, the Roeky Mountains, and various other features of interest en route to the 1'iicOc. Tho pictures are- striking and express adequately the characteristics characteris-tics oi the great region, and interest is nut lost amid a host of dry facts, for the narrative is as pleasant reading as lletion ! mm i mini |