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Show POLYGAMY TO THE FRONT. As bearing upon the fraudulent claim of tho Mormon priesthood that polygamy is no longer taught or advocated ad-vocated by the Mormon missionaries, Tho Tribuno has seen a letter rocently written by an intelligent gentleman in one of the Southern Slates, and just received in this citj', which is decided-! decided-! racy in its reeking of polygamy. This gentleman says in his loiter that "Somo time ago, about four 3'ears, I think, two elders came hero, and during tho conversation I had with them tho spokesman said, in relation to bigamy, that, 'David and Solomon were of a much higher order of religion than wo are, for they could practico ipolj-gamy righteouslj-, ' showing plainb. as I told him, that thoy had polygamy hoisted to their masthead and are trying to work up to it, while we are thankful that we have passed that stago and aro now working on a higher plaue." In which .certain- tho writer of tho letter had the Mormon missionarj completely at a disadvantage. Writing further, the "cntlcman sa3's: "Two .years later two others came along, and in conversation with them ou the same subject, after getting them a little warmed up, the spokesman said: 'Last week we attended a meeting meet-ing of ciders in , and the president called on .ill who had polygamous brothers broth-ers or sisters to stand up. And T am proud to sa3" that twenty-two out of tho twcnt.y-four proscnt stood up,' continuing con-tinuing as he walked out: 'I hope to see the time when I ma3 havo seven wives.' That docs not sound like a dead issue or a lost hope with thorn here, and I cannot sec WI13' it should be so hard to discern in Utah; for an idea so promiuent ought to be perceivable perceiv-able to some extent, no matter how much UiC3- may try to keep it under covor." Tho matter quoted with regard re-gard to Utah shows somewhat of a misapprohension of fact. There is no attempt to keep poi-gamy under cover cov-er in Utah, so far as pob'gamous living liv-ing in established relations is con-corned. con-corned. Polygamous living has been notorious and gcueral among those who (it is claimed) acquired their polygamous polyga-mous connections prior to the manifesto of 1S90. And 3ct there are so many young women in polygamy so many wives whose husbauds cannot be openly j ; avowed, that tho pretense that uono but those who wore married in polygamy I prior to 1890 continue in that relation is too thin to deceive au3'bodj But tho matter of secrecy is absolutely abso-lutely and strenuously insisted upon in the new polygamous marriages and con- HU1.-11U11B. jjvcjy ono inaujgjng in this secret vice and shame docs so under the most absolute pledges of secrecy, m3'ster3 and denial on occasion. When Joseph F. Smith made his hbrriblc revelations in Washington as to his own family life, -they were so shocking as to astound this whole community-. No ono had any idea of the extent to which his lawless lecheries had carried him. And 3-ct, while ho was so frank in disclosing dis-closing his own shamcfnl family relations, re-lations, he falsified recklessly and by wholesale in denying that new po-lygamy po-lygamy had been entered into feince the manifesto of 1S90. lie not onl' denies de-nies it for himself, but he compels evcr3' one else to deny theso relations, true though they may be. And though tho community is full of now cases of I pol.vgamy, and ti nh ver3' ono who is alivo to the situation here cannot but know that there is an astonishing amount of new pol3-gam-, it is with tho utmost difficulty that any one would undertako to establish any new case of tho kind, as a legal proposition. Whew .one sees apparently unmarried women become mothers and lose no so-cial so-cial casto, but are cstcemod as virtuous virtu-ous women and honorable mothers b3- j their associates, then it is e.vidont that ! now polygamj' is being entered upon, and entered upon to as great an extent ex-tent as is considered safe: tho primo insistence in-sistence and requisite, the paramount injunction in every case, being socrcc3' even to the dcninls of fact and utter falsification, though the ruin of character charac-ter and standing might bo threatened thereby. Under these circumstanced, tho writer of tho letter quoted above can eaail3 see that thero might exist, so-crotly so-crotly and guardedly, in Utah, a ohamo-fnl ohamo-fnl condition with regard to now polygamous po-lygamous marriages which thoso outside out-side of the inner circle would have no knowledge of in tho least definite or provable, and 3'et tho observer would bo morally certain of tho existence of tho crimo and the continued increase of illegitimate children under polygamous polyga-mous relations. That there is a revival re-vival of polygam3' among tho "elect," that it is guarded with tho utmost secrecy, and that those who know of it aro willful and scandalous liars when they dony tho fact, wo . havo not tho least doubt in the world. |