Show THE PEHFIDY OF IT ALL I The News is bitter beyond expression i at the paper put out by the clergymen favoring a constitutional amendment In Its anger It loses all control of itself and treats the clergymen a common liars and slanderers I takes advantage advan-tage of Its own wrongs to mako I n case For Instance It declares that the statement In the address dress saying there was any specific condition that living In polygamy should be done away with n a pledge to obtain Statehood Is a deliberate and premeditated falsehood Now when the manifesto was first put out The Tribune called attention to the fact that It was Jacking in one essential particular particu-lar that It only prohibited future marriages mar-riages that It did not pretend to change the obligation of the Saints or the law on which that obligation was founded tho socalled revelation For I copied acaled rcvelaton behold I i reveal unto you n new and i everlasting covenant and If ye abide I not that covenant then are ye damned for no one can reject this covenant and bo permitted to enter into my glory I the That was the covenant that was revelation commanding plural marriage I mar-riage The Tribune stated In those days that with Statehood granted the I president of the church could at once receive n new revelation and recom I i mand obedience to this law I cited other extracts from Mormon holy books like the following from the Journal of Discourses When our father Adam came Into the Garden of Eden I ho came into It with a celestial body I i I and brought Eve one of his wives with i him This was furiously fought I I I was pointed out that the manifesto had i been indorsed by the people and it was I plain that it came as much of pressure I from within ns without Time went on I Then President Woodruff under oath declared his understanding of the manl I festo and he declared It as president of tho church something which Mormons Mor-mons had always obeyed even to the extent of going to the penitentiary when they wanted to agree to obey the laws of the land AVe believed that l that was genuine mid would be kept When the question of Statehood came I up Delegate Rawllns In Congress treated nil references to polygamy or living In polyganw as ancient history I was clear too by the amnesty of both President Cleveland and President Presi-dent Harrison what their understanding understand-ing was and Congress treated the matter mat-ter as something settled and as something some-thing that needed no further legislation I legisla-tion savo that the State should promise prom-ise to do what the people were then doing I do-ing ceasing to take more wives There is the bst evidence In the world that I this was tho understanding of all the Mormon people and It was lived up to for two or three years until Statehood I was secured I was shown In the birth records of the Territory I was shown j by the law passed by the first State Legislature which gave legitimacy to children born up to a certain time So when the News declares that there was no pledge made or agreed to it simply confesses that there was a deliberate purpose on the part of those in authority author-ity first to convey the l co to the country coun-try that living in polygamy had absolutely abso-lutely ceased making it unnecessary In the enabling act to have anything more than a promise or an inhibition against further marriages There was 0 thought too In the minds of Congressmen Congress-men that tine business having been settled set-tled In good faith It would be cruel to draw around the requirements of Statehood State-hood something which might Impose great hardships upon poor people In the country who following blindly 1 blind priesthood had each Involved three or four women in the meshes of polygamy while having but one house in which to I keel l them all Tho pledge that polygamy lygamy had ceased was as absolutely made as any pledge ever could be I was guaranteed by 1 the head of the church I was Indorsed by the apostles of the church I was certified to by tho Delegate In Congress and there Is not a Mormon from the Idaho line t St George who does not know that IC there had been any other understanding understand-ing Statehood would have been postponed post-poned Indefinitely The above Is enough to show the spirit In which the criticism of the News was made I is simply a repetition of the course of that paper for moro than a quarter of a century and the strange thing Is that Its advice on any vexed question has never been followed but that It has brought unmeasured un-measured SOITOWS upon the Mormon people I still seems determined to keep that up and the Mormon people swallow It because It la the organ of the Lord mind under the quasi at least indorsement of tho president of the church |