Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-21 | Page 4 | Sneaks Repeat Themselves

SNEAKS REPEAT THEMSELVES. There Is also a paper published in this city, whose mission seems to he to disseminate dis-seminate falsehoods, nnd vilify and misrepresent mis-represent everything and everybody whose actions In llf o aro not directed and approved ap-proved by corrupt and disappointed ofllco seekers, who direct and control that journal. jour-nal. Mrs. E. J. D. Roundy lu Descret Xows, August IS, 100S. 'rho Chairman. If you will ho kind enough to givo them to mc. I meaning thr names of tho alleged polygamous wives of Joseph, Jr., tho founder of tho Mormon churehl I will ho obliged to you. Joseph K. Smith. Eliza rt. Snow. Tho Chulrmau. When did ho marry her? Joseph F. Smith. Ho married her in 1S4L I think. Tho Chairman. Well. anothcr7 Joseph F. Smith. Eliza Maria Partridge Part-ridge was ono of his wives. Now, if tho reader will havo tho patience pa-tience to cxamino volume fivo of tho Nauvoo. Times and Seasons (occupying tho same position as tho Doscrot News does today as the official church organ) ho will find a somewhat lengthy statement, state-ment, sigued b3 over a scoro of good women of tho Belief society at that time. Among tho names signed to that document we find that of Eliza P. Snow. This statement was in tho naturo of a certificate to tho effect that thero was no polygamy in tho Mormon church, either taught or practiced, and that tho rule of marriage existing at that period was of tho accepted Christian mono-gaiuic mono-gaiuic custom. The ladies declared that they know of no other S3-stcm of mar-riago mar-riago than that which was taught in tho Doctrine and Covenants, which then was uncompromisingly monogamic and opposed to polygamy. Yet we find Joseph F. Smith, tho present inspired prophet of .tho Mormon polygamous cult, deposing that, ono of tho signcis of that declaration .was a plural wife at tho moment when sho affixed her signature to the denial of tho doctriufl and practice. So wo arc conslrainod to ask why it is that a good woman will submit her name to bo used by a Mormon church organ for the furtherance of tho coward-13 coward-13 prophetic desires'? Some day tho Descret. News will, hi all likelihood, turn its unbravo venom upon tho woman whom today it has procured to defend it. Because the Desorefc News, being the serf of the prophet, is not superior to a prophet.