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Show IKvrlUOW THAT IS NO KVIttENCK. There are very few peopla who do nut believe that polygamy is a dead Uiue. It has been giyeu up by the church and thu community realizes that the nction of the church is in entire good faith. The Tribune, however, iu order to frighteu people into remaining iu thu liberal party, asserts a preteuded uciiei mitt tne on i ire it nus noi aoan-iloued aoan-iloued tho practice iu good faith. It realizes that it cannot hope to mane any headway against tho popular belief be-lief without olTuiing some kind of evidence evi-dence iu Mipport of its a.'.sertiou. It thutvfute proceeds to cite iuatauceg of iudividul violations of tho law. It has never been claimed that the law was not violated in this respect by some individual?, in-dividual?, but hiicli wolalious as may occur do not detract in any measure from the sincerely of thechurch nor from the good faith of its people us a body in abandoning tho practice. If a mormon were to steal a horse, would the Tribune Tri-bune insist that the church was a horse stealing institution)1 The only wonder is that, alter the past history of polygamy polyg-amy iu Utah, there are not more violations viola-tions of the law at this time. It was creditablo to the church to yield to the law in advising the abandonment of the practice; and it is creditable to the people peo-ple that they should have so generally broken away from former habits in obedience to the law. Individual vio-, laliuus of the law luav coutiniia until " generation shall have passed away, but the Tribune will out be able to make this community believe that the fact convicts the mormon church of bad faith iu tho matter. |