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Show TELLOWSHIP IN EVIL. Tliev that forsake the law praise the wicked: luit such as keep the law contend con-tend with them. Proverbs, xxvlll., -3. I boar my testimony that President Joseph Jo-seph Smith Is appointed of God. I met him vears ago In England. I nave known him "a long time. I know that the powor of God Is resting upon him and has al-wavs al-wavs done so. Do we not Itnow ho was appointed of God? I do! And the voice of God is with him as Ho said it would be. Apostle Charles W. Penrose in Salt Lake tabernacle, March 10. 1005. And President Joseph V. Smith is a worthv successor of these men, as well as their worthy associate. He is a worthy descendant of tho prophet Joseph Jo-seph Smith, and a pure, conscientious, upright man. and whatever tho Lord hus to say He will find no difficulty In say-Ins say-Ins It through President Joseph F. Smith. Apostle Francis M. Lyman in Salt Lake tabernacle, March 13, 1905. I dcslro to bear my testimony to tho purity of tho lives and works of the men who have spoken here today. I havo known them slnco I was a hoy, and know they aro men who possess in their souls tho spirit of God. Their llveB aro an opon book to tho Latter-day Saints and to all men. They aro men of honor, men of God, and as was said by President Lyman, they have never had to bo whitewashed white-washed or cleaned, or covered up. As I said before, their lives havo been open and clean. President Joseph F. Smith in Salt Lako tabernacle, March 19. 1005. Whethor tho proverb which wo have quoted was prophotic, or was intended to convey a moral, or both, it is apropos apro-pos of tho situation as wo find it hero in Utah. In other words, those of .tho hicrarchs who havo forsaken the law prniso themselves and each other in their own wickedness. Joseph F. Smith spoko truthfully when ho said that tho lives of tho men whom he commended to tho rcspoct of tho Latter-day Saints were as an open book to them. But what is it that the pages of that open book disclose? They show that each of tho three Mormon Mor-mon lenders who thug engaged in tho reciprocal "whitewashing" which the chief of them all declared had novcr boon necessary in their lives have been and aro notorious lawbreakers. Between Be-tween thorn tbero is that community of interest that exists among any other frauds and criminals. Tt is a matter of self-protection and gang welfare that causes each member of tho organization to bo true to his follows. Just a year previous to these laudatory lauda-tory outgivings in tho tabcrnnclo each of tho men who were there pictured as vcr3r saints and practical associates with deity made confession at Washing, ton that his life was filled with sin ngainst God and man. To consider thorn in tho order of their appearance in tho tabornaclo pulpit, Apostlo Penrose, Pen-rose, during tho investigation of the Smoot caso at Washington, admitted that bo wno a polygamist; that ho was ono of tho high occlcsiasts who had signed tho petition for amnesty in order to procuro relief from the consequences of bis sins against tho law of the land; that as a condition to receipt of that amnesty he mado promiso to abstain thereafter from tho commission of offenses of-fenses included within "tho plural marriage mar-riage relation; that ho had wantonly broken his plodgo to tho Government, after having been tho recipient of its consideration and bonoficent charity; that in so doing he had not only proved himself to bo guilty of tho loathsome sin of ingratitude, but that ho had broken tho civil law which ho had sacrcdl' promised to observo and had defied the commandment of God as ho himself interpreted it. Yet Joseph F. Smith did not hesitalo to call him pure, holy, above reproach and a fit associate for angels. Francis M. Lyman, an apostle of tho Mormon church and president of "tho quorum of tho twelve," also made similar sim-ilar confessions at Wasbingotn. First admitting that bo was unlawfully married mar-ried to a plurality of wives, ho affirmed that be, too, was a signer of tho am-ncst3' am-ncst3' petition. He even went further and said that he subscribed to every condition implied in tho compact thust made. Perhaps wo can do no bettor than to givo Mr. Lyman's own testimony testi-mony in this matter, as it may be found in volume 1 of tbo proceedings before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, page 428, and in this manner man-ner provo that The Tribuno is not misrepresenting mis-representing Mr. Lyman aud at the same timo convinco the reader that absolutely no dependence can be placed upon tho hierarchical pretended word of honor: Mr. Tayler. Do you Interpret that a clause In the amnesty petition as meaning- that you would obey the law respecting respect-ing polygamous cohabitation? Apostle Lyman. I intended to do everything ev-erything that was right in the observance observ-ance of the law. Mr. Tayler. Did you think it would bo right to abstnln from polygamous cohabitation co-habitation with your plural wife? Apostlo Lyman. I think it would havo been right. Mr. Tayler. Tou did not do that, though? Apostlo Lyman. Xo, sir. Mr. Tayler. Then you did wroncr? Apostlo Lyman. ies, sir; according to tho law. Mr. Tayler. According to the law? ' Apostlo .Lyman. Yes, sir. r. Tayler. It was wrong nccordlng to the church law as well? Apostle Lyman. It was wrong according accord-ing to the rule of tho church, Mr. Tayler. So you violated both laws? Apostlo Lyman. Yc3, sir. But, as yon may see b" the excerpts taken from tho hierarchical sermons, the chief Mormon prophet boro testimony testi-mony that Apostlo Lyman possessed the spirit of God in abundance, and that bis life and works wcro of im-maculato im-maculato purity. Then tbero was Joseph F. Smith himself, him-self, to whoso righteousness the others paid most emphatic recognition. He also "bore testimony" at Washington; and his confessions there were sufficient to damn any man on earth even in the eyes of his most confiding adherent. His admissions ran tho gamut ingratitude, dishonest intent, disdain of man, contempt con-tempt for God, lechery and licentiousness, licentious-ness, the begetting of illegitimates, hatred toward civilized sentiment, blasphemy, derision of Christianity and practical denial of the Christ, imposition of injustice upon his followers, tyranny, lawlessness, treachery, and treason all these were included among tbo sins to which Smith confessed. And yet Apostles Penrose and Lyman figuratively figurative-ly fell over one another in their rush to paint this putrid scpulcber in purest white. Now, as against this hierarchical practico of sinning and praising tbo sinner, the decent American citizens in this community have set their faces. "Such as keep tbo law contend with them," and out of this situation, for which tbo chief priests of Mormondom aro solely and purposelj' responsible, grows the strife that has disturbed this commonwealth for so many years. And it ought to be apparent to every intelligent intel-ligent citizen that peace can never como to Utah until these self-appointed and self-styled prophets shall ceaso ro-garding ro-garding themselves as a law unto themselves, them-selves, and shall submit "to tho requirements re-quirements of civil government as other men do. "They that forsako the law praiso tbo wicked," says tho provorb. Was ever better proof of that truth exhibited ex-hibited than in tho lives and utterances utter-ances of tho Mormon prophet and his sycophantic apostles'? |