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Show DENIED CIVIL AUTHORITY. The Latter-day Saints do not consider this question of their monogamy or plurality plu-rality within the purview of the State, but purely an eccleflflp Ileal mattor governed gov-erned "by divine law and administered aud regulated under divine authority. Dcseret Dcs-eret News, January 16, IS79. That assertion of the church organ does not at all dovetail with its present avowal that, the Mormon church has. abandoned polygamy. The. Deseret News holds the same opinion today as it did in 1 879 its tine sentiments havo undergone no change between then and now. Its present attitude is put forward for-ward as a means of deception, beneath which the renewed practice of polygamy polyg-amy may proceed without exciting the suspicions and arousing the indignation of the citizenship of tliis country. ' As ; The Tribune has pointed out upon many occasions, producing irrefragable proof to this effect, the denials of the church, whether through its officials' or its organs, arc not to be depended upon in the slightest degree. The biernrcbs and their newspapers have always practiced the grossest hypocrisy throughout the '"whole history of the church-, and especially espe-cially concerning the matter of polygamy. polyg-amy. It is their favorite vice, and nothing is too low or loo repulsive to be utilized in defending or hiding .it. The most astounding part of the programme pro-gramme of deception is that after the hypocrisy i scores of instances has been proved, the chief priests do not hesitate to return .to the same old game in their efforts to pursue their treason and hide their crimes. The doctrine of polygamy, as the present printed iaw of the church declares, is a fundainen-tul. fundainen-tul. necessary, and immutable commandment command-ment from tho Almighty. It. has been fixed us a principle whose observance is indispensable to man's highest salvation. salva-tion. Let the hierarchs and the News fray outwardly what they will, tbeir innermost hearts hold to the divinity of the doctrine qf. plural marriage now; as much as ever." A'ntl, -holding this view, the chiof priests secrotly couutenanco, encourage, and practice polygamy. To show that the doctrine is an irrevocable oue, wo will further refer to the utterance ut-terance of the News in 1870: Jf the whole people choso to repudiate polygamy they would have to lake the consequences of rejecting a cardinal part of their religious belief. It is the preaching of the Mormon authorities that the gospel has been restored in these last dnys, never again to be taken away nor given to another people. 13 very written authority of the church agreeB that polygamy is a part and parcel of this gospel that is never again to bo taken away nor given to another people. Upon occasions too numerous to recount the Deseret News has said so. Joseph F Smith and all of his associates have made this declaration. declara-tion. Those men who promulgated the Woodruff manifesto, we believe, did so in sincerity, and with full, intent that the obnoxious practice which it inhibits should ceaao altogether. Today, however, how-ever, the old interpretation of the law, and the original declaration concerning tho irrevocability of the doctrine as a vital religious tenet, are-being enforced as the binding conclusions. The Wood-lTUff Wood-lTUff manifesto is being evaded as to its direct provisions, and is being disregarded disre-garded as to its authoritative interpretation. inter-pretation. Every possible tbin device is being utilised to wriggle from undor the pledge of Statehood, and the "work for the dead" proceeds merrily apace. In other words, polygamy is again rampant ram-pant in tho church. |