Show I OPPOSEO TO POLYGAMY I POSITION OF REORGANIZED SAINTS IS DEFINED Joseph Smith President of the Church Speaks to His People nt Annual Reunion in Kansas City Kansas City Aug 30Inn address today to members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ f o JcsmrCh1lst Latterday Saints Joseph Smith president of the church and son of Joseph Smith its founder defined the churchs attitude toward polygamy The occasion was thc meeting oC the Saints at their annual an-nual reunion at Washington park Joseph Smith stated in the most emphatic em-phatic words that tho Latterday Saints did not believe cld beleve in polygamy fhutr they < nevei iadxbcHovEdJniJtrjjiajt their founder Joseph Smith had W stated again and again In unmistakable words In the Doctrine and Covenants of Joseph Smith published first In 3833 and published again and again after that plural marriage is forbidden raid President Smith Thc covenants are unmistakable No one of us at that time ever thought of plural marriage until Joseph Smith founder of the church died Then a few years later that branch of the church which had gone to Utah proclaimed pro-claimed its belief through revelation in a plural marriage Thc Doctrine and Covenants were published in Utah with that section eliminated which forbade plural marriages The section forbidding forbid-ding plural marriage Is contained in every edition until the Utah church publlshecl its own edition We Latterday Saints arc heart and soul opposed to plural marriage Wo believe that bigamy forms no part of the teachings of our hureh My father fath-er has been dead fiftysix years I have teachings consistently followed my fathers I am here the representative oC the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints I am also here as the son of my father I am trying to follow out the doctrine of my church and to rescue my fathers name from I obloquy My father was notn lawbreakers law-breakers neither was he a polygamlsL I Is for me to say this that the American Amer-ican people may not Injure the church and do my father a wrong |