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Show H ' tfPAII STATE NEWS. B Tbo track of tho Leamington cut- H oft Is now fifteen mllcH holow Block- LLLW Work M'aa commonccil Monday, on H tho canal for tho electric IlgliTJSlaiit H for Bprlngvlllc. Tho plant IsjBelnrr H put in by tho city. vj' H John Alexander, a carpenter,- . Is H dead from Injurlon sustained by fall H - . t Infr from n biilldlnR on which ho -was j - working In Halt Lake City. H Jittlah Howolls of Salt Lako City J B la tho owner of n. fmnit nnt i....... uifin B "week. Tho lf . '' LJm tjr-3Uc or warcli loth tho Knrmu -H Jt Cinder the hbadlng of "Manlf- jH j-Conslstcnoy" after rcferlncr to tin H g df tho MruUfisto, arid tho qtics H of It blndlng'Jnature- upon the B rrao'n'' people, says ''tThcro arc PPH o who bince that covenant was J Jo hava taltqn plural wlve-s. Some PPH uk tosllcucfa nrffumont by dcneylng PPPJ "s, but denials will not weigh against pBpBPJ .nowkdtfe. That these marring! s PPPJ could not bo proved In court 'has no PBpBpj bearing' orl their existence" B Tho Salt Lake Tribune copied the H Clipper's article In it's Sunday edition PPPJ and by request published it tho second PPPJ time. If tho Clipper has any knowledge PpHj at anything of- this kind being done PPPJ cjther wlt,h or- without ,the consent of PPPJ of tho Church it Is its duty to make tho PPPJ matter known, to llic ofllccrs of tho PPP lawi just as it. would bo If it wtls cor; PPB nljiant of u case of larccucy, burglary, PPP murder or any other crituo. Wo havo PPP .nstnto law to punish adultery, and the PPP loan who knows of tho conmlsslon of PpH sucH a crime Is not doing his duty to PPP he state wlio fallo to report tho fact to PPP tlid proper ofllceri, lint it often hap- PPB pens that tio person, in possession of PPH " ,, such knowlcdgo does not like to inform PPP on tho lawbreaker lost ho Incurs his 111 PPH will or his vengau,co Jlut this docs not PPH justify hra in publishing n general PpH accusation such as tho one In question PpH nnd throwing tha responsibility of the PpH Crimo on the community among which PPH llileh (he transgressor resides or .Upon H ihd rcllgidUs body to which he is alleged PPJ to belong Tho Clipper writer tacitly PpB admits that the marriage or marriages pBpj could not be proved in court, though pBpi how he knowd If ha has not tried is not pBSj easy to Understand; but he appears to PBS assume that tlio church knows they M cr.ifft, altlloiigli he Says that tho church H i"riol responsible for tllotn It they arc H not performed In thd ''IIoUso of Oodi" pBVJ and he does not say they were pcrfor H fned there. Tho whole matter seems to pBVftM be a sort of neighborhood rumor. .V L boH ot "Thby say'1 uftal?.- Tur. Ur.conti K beliovcs that tho manifesto was issued VW In good! faith, and it also bellovos that K i&liti litis Mot been broken, It alio l fWle'fes that there is likely fd bo men B tMthln tho pales of the "Mormon" pBar church who arc law breakers just a$ PBPJ there are men in other churches of that HBl, stamp, and it Is in tile interest ot all HBi ;ood law abiding pcbplc "Morrodn" PBPJ or i)oimonuort to have such people HB bhown up in tUelr true light. If tho Bl writer In ttfo Clipper hiiQWs ot st(c(i HB people It d up to him to point them out, HVJ especially now tfirtt 1o has began on HVJ the subject; otherwise he Will havo W J dono injury to tho innocent and allowed H tho guilty to escape. PBa ' He cannot kno'w that (ho crimes char P ged cannot be proven in court unless P ho tries, and lio can at least kIiow his P good faitU by making tho attempt. Let pBV ( lllfn file a legal complaint at oneo nud H Vc sliall tliert be able to at least scp the P groUn' ill? 'upon which tie builds his ac Plp cusa'tlon. J The attitude of Itic Church on theso H matters Is authoritatively voiced In tho PBPj f y following quotation from the DehCrct, H NcitrJ 6( ,.Hily ISth lOOii. H ''An tlfcrc Is but "llu nlan !'t a time H pa earth who holds the keys ot this seal K bg power in celestial marriage, when F that one man declines to cxerqlto the B authority vested itt him, there id no B vay to pbfain tlio privileges of the law HJ ,that gpverns tho matter. Tho tcvela H - J-lori Is vt;ry plain concerning it, as nil m may seo from Doctrlno and Covenants, section otic hundred nnd thirty two. ., H There is not any need to comment on - he Manifesto. It needs np explana M tlofli IJyqrbody who reads can undor mm stand ito fiimplo algblflca.llon. It Is H scaicoly open i-0 "construciqn" as that ,- j . tet-mjis cottimtiftly used, it riicanswhat HP? it says, no lest and no more. It has wD r- accomplhihed tl9 bnd Intchdcd, and tho MR door is -now bhtit aptl scaled by the Ma church against anjfnarrlages contrrfry j& to tlic ii&wAbf tho lapel, nnd the, State n. r lnbatfed theJn by soyero penuiUr?. H W . tlitiy liato entirely ct'ased in Utah and VP f wherever tlte. church is in ecclesiastical Control. |