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Show TO THE BOWWOWS No other one artlri nf (he long series of presentations made concerning Jo-tt Jo-tt ph F. Smith and the hierarchy has in the same length of time brought so many comments anel responses as t he-editorial he-editorial of January IQO0, entitled: "Ke-p Your Word Sacred." That a man pretending to speak for God should break his oath to the country, coun-try, his covenant to humanity and his own interpretation of God's mandates, and then stand brazenly In public places uttering the Pharisaical cry, "keep your word sacred," awakens a feeling of Indignation toward him and a f( c 1 1 r i k 'if contempt toward those who act ept him as a sanctified leader As In many other exposures The Tribune In this case Is reejuest'd tu denounce de-nounce Joseph F Smith ss the fraud Of the generation. Well, that Is exactly ex-actly what The Tribune is doing all the time. I f course, he Is fraudulent. The world recognises the enormity and hypocrisy hy-pocrisy of his pretensions. Even among his own people there Is no one who seriously anel intelligently seeks to m il .- more than a mere gPOlOgV, not a defense. Ill his behalf. The ablest among them can only say. "Well, he Is but a man In utiie things, although he is a prophet must of the time." On satisfactory phase of the case as presented under his instruction to "keep your word sacred" Is the fact that most of the commentators are Mormons. They say that if Joseph F Smith does not begin soon to practice what he preaches, the whole business will go to the "demnltlon bowwows ' |