Show THE SITUATION Con considering sideling the statements te of the news and of 0 joseph r smith of 0 tho the first presidency on friday list last it Is good to read an article by eugene I 1 young founts in the current north american review on revival ot of the mormon preview Plo problem blem lie ile notes the interview of the first flirt presidency in which they said the c hurch church will not assert tiny any right to control tho the political action ot of its members and again As aa officers ot of tho the church wo disclaim tho the right to control the political action ot of the members of our body tho the comment of the writer is the pledges bind nobody as to action in politics but simply disclaim a right supposed to exist mormon officials urn are its aa tree free as 03 ever to counsel their followers in 14 politics political ILS aa they do lit church affairs and business matters perhaps not asserting any right to dictate but knowing that their makes their counsel the word of 0 god to tile the faithful among their followers referring to new nest polygamous relations mr young says in a recent visit to utah I 1 hall had occasion to investigate in salt lake city twenty cases wherein it was waa charged that new polygamous lyga marriages had been made these were not isolated instances either cither tor for I 1 received evidence that such cases ca ies could be multiplied many marly told fold in other parts pans of the state the evidence I 1 found was ot of such a nature that thai I 1 could not doubt there had been new marriages that the church had sanctioned them and that every precaution waa mas being taken to keep them secret until the blisso should come when the church should see fit to announce openly its determination to restore plural marriage lie ile says ho however llever th that 8 L ill cases or of this nature the cerenio berc mony ny Is beloved believed to have been performed outside of utah then he tells of tho the impossibility lity or of obtaining proof of the he ceremonies but quotes front from apostles owen A woodruff and klebor J bant rant re rc hodr sing their expressions ot of belief in next the writer traces the action of tile the church lit in politico duillio the pa pat paa A unco YS of oc tile hie direct action of the he priests bior I 1 m a i candidate tor for it or of tile choll ft beald last fall lit in tile bamo bame ai attilo tilo ile in refers refer to a the nomination and eke election tion of R betts and copies front from tile latest volume from his pon im tile now witness for god cod lit in which jilch lip he declares that procreation pro creation is id wie olio of the chief t meant means of nr mails exaltation a al I 1 aaion and glory in lint great eternity like an all endless t voltti out I lifford lum ile ho quoits faither train from the same game 1 laurik ink that first and higi lest of till all 0 cers bbunds tile I alst rrnald licy lon of three presiding hagli 1 I tests thir jurisdiction and author lly are universal extends over all the affairs of ilia church as well in temporal as spiritual things the question that a gentile asks the question that the lie Arne american rican people ask ak is on hat eilund 1 mas acu statehood ob taihei for utah what hat was 3 ere to obtain it the only apparent answer Is nothing at all bave that hat now it Is expected that couples dashing to 0 o enter into plural marriage will crosa cro the border of tha stats to hane haie tit llie ceremony corer cerer reste performed perform eil tho the abbt R of this ishi bo be tint that 13 11 II roberts will be expelled from the house ot of represents lives then there x will ill bean be an amendment passed to the constitution of the united states slates which N w ill provide for fop punishing PU polygamy I 1 Y gamy and the old conditions an w ill come back only in more aggravated form and the laws will be enforced that three hundred thousand people will remain sl silent allent lent w ith ath the certain prospect of all these woes boes coming to the state stale Is ia only another proof of what nhat tie mr young writes in this same article as follows at tiny any moment the whole business political and religious pressure of the priesthood ean can be brought against any man who might dare stand as 1 a leader a against it in the history of monnon lin ism has been found strong etrone enough enouch to resist tills this pressure mr thatcher Thatch cr the strongest of 0 fill all tho the revolutionists bowed before the threat that lie he would be cast out from the body believing as aa lie he did that by excommunication muni cation catlon lis he would lose his hope of salvation |