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Show SECRECY AND FALSEHOOD. If George Reynolds bad not supplied evidence In bl own case, there was no way In which It i-ouid be carried to a auccc'ssful Issue. Dcscret New?, Juno 23, 1S79. Not a reader in Utah but knows that, lime and again, ihc church orgnns, church speakers, church politicians, high priests, seventies, elders, priests, teachers, and deacons of Mormondom. have snceringly taunted the Gentiles and The Tribune with the following: "If, as you claim, there has been new poh'gamy since the manifesto, why don't you prove it?" Polygamists arc hedged about by the most effective system of protection thai was ever devised by criminal ingenuity. The conspiracy is based upon a combination com-bination of human superstition and religious re-ligious faith. Mormons feel thai it is the duty of certain authorities to in-, vestigate these cases that it is none of their business. Thoso presiding authorities au-thorities instruct the people that if any such cases appear, the church courts aro the proper places in which lo hear the charges; that tho members must not talk about Ihein in the hearing of outsiders. These church tribunals are existent by the grace of the chief of the polygamists. Even if found guilty by the ecclesiastical judges, uo visible punishment pun-ishment is imposed upon tho offender, so that it' never becomes known to the outside woild whether a charge made by The Tribune lias been established or not. Gentiles have no access to the proofs of record which would convict. Tho civil courts aro laughed at if they demand these proofs. Church officials will lie from top to bottom of the entire gamut to prevent exposure. The whole practice is shrouded in concealment and hidden undor defensive guile. Morally speaking The Tribune recently re-cently convicted Joseph M!. Tanner beyond be-yond a reasonable doubt. What have yoii heard of his case since? Nothing at all. Joseph V. Smith performed at least ono plural marriage ceremony since the manifesto, and under solemn oath before be-fore llio whole Nation, he denied it. lie lied, deliberately, outright, and with malice, in order to defend tho practice that he is promoting now as widely as ever and mom viciously because .of its purposeful mystification. Of all the new polygamists (jjicaning those who are admitted by the church to be so), which-one of them has ever, been delivered over to tho civil law, as they all should be? Not one. Tho governing gov-erning body either possess the proofs competent to convict, or thuy have the power to procure those proofs. They refuse to divulge them, and therefore countenance, authorize, protect and connive con-nive in the lawbreaking. ltvai.tjic Senate. of tho UnHodS tat.es failed to secure tfie presence of Uin ... i guilt-bearing records. Then why Hnecr-ingly Hnecr-ingly ask The Tribune to produce? |