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Show THE NEWS RIOTS. The Doserot News continues to Indulge In-dulge Itself In Poet. It rlois In Peet. Even its favorite diet ..f Meakln Is Bel aside while It Imhlbes Peet. It has gone on a wild debauch of Peet. Peet and his $18,000 offer of reward for information which the hierarchy has in Its possession! It appears that Peet procured the Insertion In-sertion of a letter In the Wllkesbsxre (Pa) News In which he renews his offer of thousands of dollars for proof that any plural marriage has been performed per-formed by the Mormon church since September HO, 1M0, and for proof that Dr. T. C Illff "is not telling a slanderous slander-ous falsehood by claiming that more polygamy is practiced in Utah than at any former time since the manifesto." And the News gulps It all down with Joy and gratitude, and expects its readers read-ers to drink It In. Dr. Illff needs no defense from The Trlbune: and therefore his statemnts may stand on his responsibility. But The Tribune will assert, for Itself and for the w hoi minon-ense population pop-ulation of this community and for all the people who do not haut e to riot In the falsehoods of the Deseret News and Its kind, that plural marriage had become be-come again the practice of "elite"' Mormons after the manifesto, In fact, after the admission of lTtah to Statehood; State-hood; that thN common pra. (! reached Its zenith In the year 100.'',. when there were probably more young people In polygamy than at any other time Mm e the manifesto, and probably more than at any other time since the history his-tory of the church, that the ceremony Of these marriages was with the sanction, sanc-tion, antecedent or subsequent, "of the only man on earth who holds the keys of the sealing ordinance," viz., Joseph F. Smith, thut Mormons. In private conversation, no longer den the practice prac-tice of plural marriage, that only recently re-cently has Joseph F. Smith made Inhibition In-hibition against the solemnization of further plural marriages, thereby proving prov-ing that they were entirely under his control, and finally, that four apostles of the Mormon church are today exiles from the State of I'tah to avoid process of the Senate or of the law on account of their polygamous prac tices and their knowledge of plural marriages performed per-formed for others. But against all th s-facts s-facts the News simply presents Peet, Peet. Peet! Peet and his $13,000 offer that no one can prove that the Mormon church has aanctioned these marriages! If any one were to call that bluff what a scurrying there would be to admit ad-mit all the non-polygamous voters of the church Into a council where they could declare, by majority, that the) did not sanction It. Against the bluff of Peet, which so entrances the News, the world accepts the testimony of the president and certain cer-tain members of the church who proved the sanction of polygamy when they gave their evidence befoio the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, and accepts an further proof the- fu t that the exiled polygamous apoBtles are sustained by the general church conference. |