Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-12-19 | Page 4 | What the Pledges Were

WHAT THE PLEDGES WERE. The pledges of the Mormon leaders upon ,whlch Utah received her Statehood State-hood were as follows: 1. The petition for amnesty, which pledged the faith and honor of the Mormon leaders and followers alike. 2. The manifesto, forbidding further plural marriage; the official interpretation interpreta-tion thereof, construing the manifesto to mean abstention from continuance of plural marriage relations; and the use of the manifesto under oath to procure restoration of church property. 3. The restoration of church property prop-erty upon conditions made and accepted. ac-cepted. 1. The promise . that the church would not attcrnut to dominate in affairs af-fairs of the State. 5. The State Constitution. 6. The general understanding had with the entire country that, following amnesty, party division, restoration of church property, and Statehood, the church leaders would no longer antagonize antago-nize the sentiment of the United States. These were the pledges, as shown by evidence still In existence. The Deseret News has had much to say in recent times about there having been no pledges; and if there were pledges, of there having been no violation viola-tion thereof. Wo challenge the News to dispute, on the authority of the present president of the church (the News being the organ or-gan of the church), that the foregoing were the pledges upon which Utah Statehood was obtained.