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Show LINKED INFAMIES. Circumstances have linked two Infamies Infa-mies together those of Ezra T. Hyde and Joseph F. Smith. Hyde has rushed to the defense of Smith and Smith has rushed to the defense of Hyde. The Tribune welcomes the conjunction of these two creatures and enjoys the combined assault which they make upon up-on The Tribune, its writers and that element of the community which opposes op-poses the partnership crimes and the partnership protection of the polyga-mlsts polyga-mlsts by divine ordination and the polygamlsts by fraud. According to the report from Provo, Joseph F. Smith defended in the pulpit Ezra T. Hyde by speaking of such writings writ-ings as the Irving Sayford letters to the Los Angeles Times as "damned lies," just as Ezra T. Hyde defends Joseph F. Smith by abusing The Tribune under cover of a letter pretended to be written by somebody else, and by an attempt to transfer the charge of community wrong from the baleful and blasphemous blasphe-mous hlerarch to somebody else. What a chaste and gentle prophet of the Lord is this man Smith, anyway; who appears before the congregations of Israel and, with a profanity upon his lips which is exemplified In his life, teaches vile language to his listeners: If those who hear and follow him are coarse, If they fall to see that their sins must be answered by themselves and can not be defended by accusation against others, they havo his word and his example as their prototype. Is It any wonder that Ezra T. Hj'de Is selected and approved as a defender of the church when Joseph F. Smith, chief prophet, can resort to such words' und methods and still be looked upon as the representative of Eternal God? |