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Show H H ' ''iir NOTHING IN IT. B , Ailjl Tne proclamation forbidding further polyga- B s ill mous marriages does not add any binding force H tt i, 4 ; IH i k he first Proclamation made by President B f IB i Woodruff. It merely says that the persons who B '!' H I H may involve(i sual1 b wnat? Excommunl- B rw1 1 Bf ! c&Ved? No, but shall "be liable" to such penalty. B Hrf (R They always have been, but have never been dis- H ' ll UBI Curbed. And they will not be in future. B L Jl Isi When President Snow made his declaration Bt i HIhBI regarding tithing, he did not say that those who H iJiflU refused to respond would be liable to disfellow- B 'i 'I'liBlP ship, rather the message was direct that they B '' mfflk would be fired. B J !lli Tlie new Proclamation can be held only as B "'fi'iSHi another evasion. It was not spoken offhand, but B I 'lis Hfl 'carefully prepared in writing and read to the con- m ' liifflHl gregation. m hmtWil a(lds nothing to the old manifesto, and con- jB iillil idering how Joseph F. Smith looks upon the H; liB polygamy tenet of his creed, we are bound to IB f'JlI B'1 conclude that the only purpose in issuing the fll H (III B ew ProcIamation was that it might have its ef- K 111 mM t on the outside. |