Show WAS FAB A the jerald herald yesterday declared that no one except THE bianu NE hadeler had over heard any ono say that the declaration which was endorsed by the mormon church on monday last was a revelation II 11 if it was not a revelation of course it has no binding effect upon the mormon people wo mean mca that it if the saints do not understand it as a revelation but Elmp lyas tho the words of a weak old man then it IS will not count as against the former declaration which all saints have been taught to understand was a 0 revelation when it was delivered in tho the tabernacle aclo on monday bonday Q NO lu in sub substance tance said 1 I arid and brother WOODRUFF have be been en appealed to ninny many times to do something wily why not tell the world that wo do not practice polygamy our enemies say that wo practice it I 1 in R secret and why not publish a denial wo we havo have waited for or tile lord to move on september tho the spirit camo came upon president I 1 know this proclamation Is right much as it goes against the grain but when GOD speaks I 1 obey WILFORD WOODRUFF Is h the only man on earth who has tho the scaling power for or only one man at a time can bo be its possessor further on president Wooi EF said this step was not taken without a long season ol of prayer I 1 havo have consulted GOD about it and know it Is I 1 am too old to do anything wrong now it if this comes from tho the lord as CA vox says it if lie ho sent the spirit upon president on the ol of september lit f GOD spoke at that time did not that laiko inko la in iko ko this command a revelation from a mormon standpoint II if it did not then tho the whole thing Is ia a swindle ot of course it has been toll full of 0 kinks all the way through rt it Is plain anong that that the dispatch was sent out because the bill was pending and there hero was danger in the last days ol of congress that it might bo be picked il up and made a law then mr CAN jowas was cunning enough to notify tho the people oven even while mittle endorsing tho the proclamation that it was because WILFORD WOODRUFF is tho the only man mail on earth that holds the sealing scaling power that for that reason the counselors did not sign ile ho kept his name from that declaration this raises the suspicion in many minds that ho he was thinking that if in the providence of GOD after a while WILFORD WOODRUFF goes to his bis fathers possibly he may attain to tho the presidency then in tho the meantime if statehood shall be secured for this territory ho he may notify this people that while this command was given when the church was under great stress and while ho he obeyed it in tho the spirit of a good mormon ho be had never esteemed it a revelation and that tho the timo time of the suspension of the original order hid had ceased the whole business is a little crooked we are arc not very familiar with the customs of the mormon church lint but our impression has been that whenever tho the head ol of tho the clinich assumed to havo have a revelation before it has always been endorsed by the first counselors tho the statement of the herald that this Is no revelation adds to the doubt rf of tho the sincerity of tho the whole business and raises the suspicion that possibly after all it was but a trick played by mr CANNON on oil a poor old man mail to help tho the church tide over a serious difficulty but really if Is no matter about that neither within nor without state lines will the mormons cormons ever again in those united states openly profess that polygamy is a tenet of their faith which must bo be obeyed in delivering tho the to tho the people the president of the church said that it camo came from tho the lord and in congratulating himself thattie that the people had sustained it lie ho declared it i t was useless to fight of aud and throw threw tho the responsibility of tho the whole business upon the american people and declared that tho the lord would hold tho nation responsible for taking away tho the rights of the mormon people on oil account of their religion all that is an indication that it was only under great pressure that this arrangement ran gement was brought and that woon WOOD rati PL P L and the rest are still nursing their dreams of vengeance but they never can openly restore polygamy no matter how much they may desire to because there is not deb only CO GO of people opposed to it but the lights that the last days of the nineteenth century are flashing into tho the kingdom itself will make it impossible to bring the people back to it truo true they swallow things when ordered with a great deal of alacrity two or three years ago P a president ert of a stake was asked in till this s city in III case this order should come what he would do and lio he boldly announced that such an at order forder would mould not bast a moment that tho the lord would sweep from tho the earth those who issued lt it the order has come to ho lord has done dona no sweeping and tb this Is president of a stake atako accepts it at least ho he dare not protest against it that little fri incident shows that things are moving and that within tile church itself while it ts Is a slavish institution while it obeys orders it still ha a little public sentiment and that sentiment will not permit the open return to polygamy in pointon point of fact young utah is ashamed of tho the polygamous practice tho the brutal practices which were introduced lero hero by anlo bolno and which havo have been carried out by the people for forty years we iva know little of what transpires in tho the back settlements of 0 utah but every low few days there Is as an account of solnie atrocity which it Is horrible to contemplate and young istah Is growing tired of these things thoy they aro are ashamed they begin to realize the position that polygamous wives and children aro are in and they will not have it any more and while as before thoy will oboy obey there will willbe be something which will prevent any president of this church ever again giving an open order for the carrying on ot of this infamous practice praet ico tico T diio herald affects to believe that tur THE tanu m is lo in a muddle over this manifesto there is no muddle about it IHK liko like every everi gentile in utah is sin iu doubt about it 11 when tho the advice was given by telegraph bythe by the president ot of the church wo we said it counted for nothing unless it was ratified it if wo we mistake not such a thing to ho be binding on the peo people plo would weald have to bo be endorsed by the counselors and the twelve apostles thera them hm has been no such public endorsement GEORGE Q CA ox Is ono of 0 tho the counselors and lie ho arld ho he bowed to it wo believe ono apostle gave his seeming endorsement at ali best it was but a suspension of a bocal led rear revelation alon at best it was but a 3 halfhearted half hearted thing it was made only to apply to the future therea the reason given was because the laws against polygamy had been pronounced constitutional by the Su court of the united states stales and the church desired to obey tile iho constitutional laws there Is a a double deception in hat because the law was pronounced constitutional a dozen years yeam ago and what a mornion mormon means by constitutional law Is ono one that the head of 0 tile tho church has declared ca constitutional and the authority ot of the supreme court Is no lie morn more to it than that ot of any other judicial tribunal then it if tho the sarto ment had been sincere it 11 would have compelled the head ot of tho the church at the same sama time to order the breaking up tip of polygamous families and separation separ atlon ot of polygamists from all their plural wives nothing of 0 the kind was done bence gentiles havo have a perfect right to look upon the whole business with suspicion the IT herald objects to our criticizing criticising critic ising 9 the visions of president Woon nu we a have never doubted doubled but what ho he could have had a vision all people have visions and when people grow jold old and their sto stomachs maclis got get weak and their minds get weak they flioy are moro more prone to have visions than those with healthy sobs but that president WOODRUFF saw cobern SMITH scurrying through the avenues of the upper country hurrying to make preparations for the coming ot of the bridegroom Is just the least bit laughable it evidently struck Q caon as a fraud and a little bit ridiculous because after the president of tho the church had very strongly intimated that tile the lord might inight be looked for next year GEOROE Q CANNON took look occasion to explain to the credulous people before him that next year was too soon that before the coming of tho the messiah jerusalem must bo be restored and the alamani les must be converted was careful to lay out work enough to keep the promise off to a time when he at least would not be obliged to answer any troublesome questions about tho the coining ot of the bridegroom we wonder what sincere but sensible cormons mormons think about all that jugglery first it if josepn had tho the gift of prophecy the lord 6 Is to come in 1891 but the revelations overlap se sees that it wont do to have tile people on the lookout and so hastens to explain to them that there is another revelation which imposes any amount of work before the world will be prepared for the bridegroom and then it if put to the test we presume that the explanation would be to the people that both prophecies are all right that it if JOSEPH siira could have lived till next year tho the work would have been finished but inasmuch as he was arutoff cut oft things thing have shave dragged oven as mines go to the dogs when the superintendent Is absent but what do sensible men think ot of all that kind of stuff skull Is it not about time for sensible mormons cormons to riso rise up and cry I 1 you have made us any amount of trouble on this polygamy business you have forced our men to go into tho the practice you have taken away our beautiful daughters and made them the second third fourth fifth or sixth wives of old reprobates now you come out and say that the lord has changed chaigen his mind that this must be stopped ilow much longer longcr are you going to torture us with this internal infernal foolishness wickedness and shame Is it not about time tor for you to adjust your church ou on civilized principles you have got a creed you havo have all tho the time represented it as coming from the almighty under great pressure you can call get a revelation from him bring tile the pressure upon him now ask him to send down a in message aich which will make our system conform to the laws ot of civilization lZ iza tion atlon more than that all history shows what has been tho the result when a company of priests have assumed to be the legal political rulers of a country brush away that feature for it always ends either in anarchy or extermination give hitup it up and lot tho the mormon church become a genuine american church and stop this everlasting contusion confusion this everlasting friction this everlasting harassment which you are subjecting your people to it would not take moro more than a dozen of the strong men ol of the mormon chuich to bring that around Is it not about limo that they began to move let them think back think of all the anathemas ana themas they have hurl hurled cd at ti TUB 13 for its I 1 in n so lenco in telling thern them they must before they can have any peace give ui tip certain of their obsolete and features and still the thing they duns clung to so fondly fetidly the tiling thing which join declared it ib would be ba a damnation to ignore has hai been recalled president WOOD nurr says by tho the lord the other will have to come and it if nothing but a pressure will bring it that pressure will b put upon it because is as WOODRUFF says it Is useless to try t oppose people |