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Show ENCOURAGEMENT. "Tho apostles of the Mormon church do not encourage unlawful marriage practices." says tho Descrot News. Tn his testimony at Washington Jo-I Jo-I seph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, said that nearly all of his associates as-sociates in high places in tho church, including many of tho apostles, were "in the same status" as himself and ho exemplified that status recently .Ivy-going .Ivy-going into court and pleading guilty to the offenso of pohgarnous living, and he was fined thrco hundred dollars for oecup3'ing that si.alus. ' Apostles John W. Taylor and Matthias Mat-thias F. C0WI03' were discovered lo have taken new wives since tho manifesto, mani-festo, and to have performed the polygamous polyg-amous ceremony for other saints. No apostle of the Mormon church has ever advised the chief offender, according ac-cording to his own testimony at Washington, Wash-ington, to discontinue Ins unlawful conjugal con-jugal p'racticcsj and Joseph F. Smith particularized Apostlo .Reed Smoot as having been negligent in this respect. According to tho logic of the organ of the bogus prophet, for an apostle to practice polygam3' and polygamous living, and for him to perform the core-inon3 core-inon3 which would unite others in that unlawful relation, is for him to discourage dis-courage the practice. If tho assumption assump-tion of the News be carried nearer to a conclusion (heaven knows whero it would end if pursued to a finality), then the more pol3gamous wives an apostlo may have, and tho of toner ho unites others in unlawful wedlock, the less ho enourages the practice of polygamy. The Mormon cliurch, of which the apostles compose part of the high responsible re-sponsible governing body, has established estab-lished pohgamous colonial refuges in Canada and Mexico; and when danger from the law threatens one of tho minor law breakers he is iinmcdialcly shipped off to safct3 among his other polygamous brethren in theso colonies, .lust following tho recent semi-annual October conference of tho Mormon church and just preceding tho election fearful that proceedings would be taken against tho notorious Joseph M. Tanner and other pohgamists, U1C3 wcro sent awa3. Tanner wont to Mexico Mex-ico and Canada; tho blasphemous announcement an-nouncement being made that ho had gone into retirement for the purpose of writing the life of Christ. lie was looked upon as a holy prophet in these polygamous colonics as a man who had shaken the dust of wicked .-vineri-can Salt Lake from his sanctified feet and had journeyed off into the wilderness wilder-ness to dwell with the spirit of God in safet3'. Incidental this, same Tanner has roturncd and swaggers the streets looking with leering C3es; but the refuged re-fuged are still maintained, and ho and others liko him can go back whenever their physical safety demands it, profaning pro-faning the name of the Redeemer again 1)3 claiming that the3 are purposing pur-posing to write for tho edification of tho Chrintian world concerning the works of the Savior whilo on earth. Tho peculiar News logic would have it to be a discouragement of poh'g-anions poh'g-anions crime to shield nnd protect these poh'gamous criminals. The apostles of tho Mormon church' are ncccssoiy to the sin of robbing1 their adherents of (on per cent of their earnings in the blasphemed name of the Almight3'. Largo amounts of these funds arc expended in the purchase of territory in which to brood polygany; and still other amounts aro spent in defense of the crime as practiced in the daily lives of the chief prophets. Other and larger sums from thoso ill-gotten ill-gotten means aro rnthlcssy used in flic maintenance of political machinery for the' purpose of entrenching the hier-archs hier-archs in their politicnl power, to the ond that 1)3 means qf this power thc3 11133 perpetuate the practico of pohg-nni3 pohg-nni3 in this Nation. But tho organ of tho Lord would havo that appear to be a legitimate discouragement of pblygann. And the News knows that, liy and with tho willing consent of tho apostles apos-tles of tho Mormon church, pol3'gi"y would today bo opony rampant throughout the church wcro it not for tho insistent American demand that tho unhol3' practice cease. But following its favorite course the Dcserct Ncwa is determined to fnlsif3 up nnd down and right and loft, upon .'1113 subject concerning con-cerning the hierarchs, in order to merit their vile approval. |