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Show INSULTING POLYGAMY, Somo of tho hired liar3 of Apostlo Smoot 's political bureau and Senator Smoot 'n religious bureau, laboring in the East, aro telling tho peoplo that polygamy never waft a cardinal prin-ciplo prin-ciplo of tho Mormon religion; and somo of tho Mormon prints in this Stato and surrounding commonwealths avu cjuot ing the utters nco wth approval. The shamolcssnoBS of tho falsehood and ttio utter degradation of that approval! Every Mormou woman who was induced in-duced to coitsent to her husband's polygamous po-lygamous relations with other wivus an. I every woman in was induood to K-como K-como a plural wife was taught that tho accoptanco of this doctrino in prac lico was essential to her eternal salvation sal-vation that only by and through tho practice of plural celestial marriage could tho man attain to his glory in tho next world, only through it could he have his wife or wives, and only through it could a woman havo hor husband. Thero aro plenty of men and women living in monogamy who were members of tho Mormon church and who woro warned if they did not accept ac-cept aud practice polygamy they would be eternally separated from each other in tho next world. More than ono man now living, whoso name could bo given by The Tribuno was taught by tho highest authority in the Mormon church that if ho did not tako another wife the ono whom ho already had would bo given to some priest who had tentatively picked hor out for nn addition addi-tion to his marital establishment in tho next world. Gentiles can endure the absurdity of this new falsehood; but we have heard Mormons who say that it makes their blood boil men whose mothers woro draggod into tho relation under tho teaching that they and their husbands would bo damned if they did not nccopt polygamy, iTicu whoso siBlors accepted plurnl marriago with all its lorture.i rather than to sec tho men they lovod sent to perdition, and rather than ow themselves separated from tho husband of their choice and given lo some other man whom they did not know, but who had seen their charms of earth and fanoiod that ho would like to rkt in them in heaven. The teaching of tho doctrino may have boon frightful, the denial of it now is an infamy past expression for to deny it now moans that all tho tortures tor-tures havo been in vain. Tho porson who can view such an awful situation with equanimity must bo tho creature who forgets that; ho ever had a mother. It is reserved for tho hired agents and press of tho Mormon Mor-mon church to pay tho final insult to Mormon polyganvv. |