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Show REPETITION OF HISTORY. The Idaho World and the Welscr Signal Sig-nal are conducting an Interesting controversy con-troversy concerning Mormon polygamy. The World having given a certificate that It (polygamy) was practically nonexistent, non-existent, the Signal replies: The statement Is given In the World that Smoot Is not shown to bo a polvga-mlat polvga-mlat himself. Tcue, but It has been shown that as an apostle of the church by sustains and upholds, eccleslastlcaily, men who have brolten tho covenant with the Government, who are living In polygamy polyg-amy and In defiance of the law and have taken new wives since tho manifesto. The World publishes a denial that polygamy polyg-amy doca In fact exist. Well, the World might publish a donlnl that the earth revolves re-volves but would Intelligent people believe be-lieve It? The Smootltcs have not been able to disprove In the slightest degree tho evldenco given the Senate sommlltec that polygamy Is extensive, and that new cases have been and are being entered into that church apostles with new wives taken since the mnnifetUo arc fugitives fu-gitives from Justice. Joseph Smith and church apostles confessed tho living in and present practice of polygomy when they were before the committee, so what does the denial printed In tho World amount to? It amounted lo as much as, and no more than, the denial of the Descret News, and the denial of the latter paperso pa-perso vociferously made for a time amounts to nothing, for It has been stilled and overborne by the whirlwind of proof. By the way. history repeals Itself. In Nauvoo, the leading polygamlsts made nflldavlt that there was no such doctrine as plural marriage or "spiritual "spirit-ual wlfery" taught or practiced In the church. Later, after they camo to Utah, some, of these same persons testified that polygamy had been practiced at Nauvoo and that they were witnesses to and participants In the, fact. And similarly .the Descret News, after asseverating as-severating that there was no new polygamy polyg-amy In the church after the manifesto, Is now compelled to admit by Its silence si-lence under the churge and proof, that apostles and others have taken new wives since 181)0. After awhile the'News will come out with its belated boldness nnd claim that everybody knew all the time that polygamy was never abandoned, aban-doned, and that no revelation was over received commanding Its cessation. So that the way may be open for thlB claim, the church still falls to print the Woodruff manifesto as a part of the Doctrine and Covenants. it Is not surprising that the Descret News should catch itself In this kind of a trap; but. even making allowance for the self-interest of Its political allies, al-lies, It is wonderful that any Gentile newspaper In tho world can be so Ignorant Ig-norant or so sycophantic as to defend tho Indefensible and to deny the things which every well-informed man In Utnh knows, tho church and the Descret Des-cret News will soon be asserting. |