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Show THEIR SHOCKING POSITION. Senator Hoar. I do not mean In ihn case o some accidental omission hu In the case of a person who s not 'mar Joseph F. Smith. No, sir. In that testimony at Washington, the protended prophet stated tho attitude of his church toward people who mar-' ry without obtainiug a licenso from the county clork, who is supposed to record an niarr.ages in the civil public records What is the awful condition, then' of those women who havo been led into polygamy in the Mormon church since) the manifesto? Sometimes the leaders dony that any such illegal mar-nages mar-nages have occurred since the issuance of the Woodruff document-and some-times some-times hey confess thafc somo such unions have boon formed. Besides two apostles have been deposed on accoun? of .the practice, and for the additional oflense of having performed tho cere mony tor others. It wa6 announced by tho church at tho time, through Pre.i- that theso two raen woro dropped be! wT -7 "Ut 0f harmony?' with their quorum. That ali-covorL hypocrisy was used to pvade the con tention of the American party and Th. .Tnbnne which finally resnlted fn tnc discrediting of these men by the Vnr moa. church. J 0 2loT- The Doctrine anrl commanding plural marring nontly printed in its pages, and with ho manifesto inhibiting polygamy omitted (although Joseph P. Smith made so emn promise that it should be inserted) Justifying themselves by the law-break-ing of their president and other leading men, and by the teaching of the Doc trine and Covenants, Mormons have continued to marry plural- wives since the manifesto, and none of these marriages mar-riages are recorded by civil ofheers, as required by law. In view of this declaration of illegitimacy illegit-imacy in these cases, as made by Jo-scph Jo-scph F. Smith at Washington, what a terrible condition of things "will be evolved in this community if the polygamous po-lygamous practices - of the Mormon church arc to be continued! Hundreds of women and children outcast, because neither the Inw of the State nor the the Inw of the church will givo them recognition. Now, the church, in its April manifesto, mani-festo, confessod that now polygamous marriages hnvo occurred among its. membership. JJow long will American citizens, whether Gentile or Mormon, stand by while the wrong is being perpetrated per-petrated which endangers tho whole social so-cial fabric? The American pnrtr '9 here for the purpose of protecting the manhood and the womanhood nnd the childhood of Utah, and it is tho duly of overy well-thinking Mormon to join with tho Gontiles to establish here the domestic condition which has mado of the Amcricnn home the most powerful factor in the world's progressive light for liberty- ' The charitable wny is to fight the battle out now, and not to let it drag in prolongation of a controversy which must end in but ono way after all. |