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Show THE LATEST BATCH. The effort to annihilate the case against Smoot seems so far lo result only In an Intensification of the proof. The last lot of witnesses, like those who preceded, seem to damage more than they help the cause in whose behalf be-half they make oath.' Take, for instance, the affidavits which are offered In contradiction of certain allegations made by Mr. Charles Mostyn Owen. It must be quite clear that when a person clears his skirts of the charge of polygamy, by making affidavit that he is innocent, he thereby there-by confirms the charge against all others who do not offer this disproof. If the Senators who constitute the committee com-mittee understand tho peculiar operations opera-tions of the hierarchical method they know that It is a favorite trick, when the truth Is charged, to furnish Information Infor-mation concerning some other case so that It also may be Included, nnd then to supply testimony to clear the Innocent Inno-cent ono In the expectation that the charge against the guilty will also be assumed to be Incorrect. Exactly the opposite Is the result, however, among those who know this adroit and cunning cun-ning plan. And Senators may possibly rest assured that every Mormon who does not furnish absolute disproof of the charge made against him Is guilty and even some of those In whose behalf be-half affidavits are made may not be as free from complicity as their words would assume. The effort of President Llnford lo hesmlrch Prof. Wolfe is, as predicted, not only a failure, but is nauseating in the extreme. Prom the Llnford testimony testi-mony It appears clear that Wolfe was permitted to remain as the Instructor of young women In the Brigham Young college until he voluntarily announced his withdrawal from the church and from his position as preceptor. If Llnford Lln-ford testlllcd truly (and of this there must be grave doubt) ho, Llnford, as president of the Brigham college, having hav-ing under his direction the lives of scores of young women of impressionable impression-able age, permitted a man to associate with them upon terms of close association asso-ciation who was a part of the time under the Influence of liquor. Llnford supported as a teacher of these young women a -nan whose habits of life were so bad that he was repeatedly warned to reform. Llnford sustained, unless his testimony is a lie which seems probable a drunken vagabond as a guide, philosopher and friend of young women who were taugnt to look upon this drunken vagabond as a man of superior character and attainments. Llnford himself mnkes a viler charge by this testimony, against the Mormon church, than has been voiced by any Gentile or apostate." As to the man Marks: The less said the better. The day will come when his support of Reed Smoot and the polygamous cult of which Reed Smoot Is a responsible co-partner, will be a chapter that he would fain wipe out with tears of remorse. He will be remembered re-membered as a Gentile whose aspirations aspira-tions on eartli were to pay devotions at the feet of the Mormon hierarchy. If there was anything in the proceeding proceed-ing of yesterday to help Reed Smoot it is not discoverable at this time. On the contrary, the testimony afforded seems to have been confirmatory of the Judgment that the Mormon church, of which Reed Smoot is a ruling power, Is an offense against law and civilization, and that no one of Its governing body can take cither loyalty to Nation or Instincts of righteousness Into public life. |