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Show ; WHO DAN PROVE IT'? "You can 'I prove it!" Tn supplementing supple-menting this dare of the polygamous cult The Tribune is required merely to present the same challenge to the polygamous polyg-amous man and tho polygamous woman who have boon unlawfully joined by the Mormon church. And wo foel con-lident con-lident that not even Elder Joseph E. Taylor him of the liberal reward money will say lhaf the proof of our position presented herein is "only another an-other Tribune lie." Here is the testimony testi-mony io the point, as found on page 51G, volume 1. of the Stnool proceedings: proceed-ings: Mr. ,Tav!or. When was that? Mr. Thomas II. Merrill. That was In the year 1RR5. on the 21st of April, 1 believe be-lieve the 21st or 22d, I am not positive which. Senator Dubois. Have you a certificate of that marriage? Mr. ThomJis II. Merrill. No. sir. Senator Dubois. Is there any record of the marriage? Mr. Thomas U. Merrill. Not that I know of. c Bishop Merrill was describing his marriago lo his second wife, Maggio Thompson, in the Logan temple. Suppose Sup-pose that Mr. Merrill should desire- fo prove' lo the world tho fact of his uuTrriagc lo this second wife, where would he naturally be compelled to go for tho proof? To the Logan ' temple, uf course. This particular ceremony occurred five years before the issuance of the manifoijto, yet there was no certificate issued to cither of tho'par-ties, tho'par-ties, :so that they would be unable to establish the iaet of the ' occurrence without permission of the church authorities. .How much "-more impossible, impos-sible, then, to an outsider? Suppose that Tlio Tribune, for instance, had taken Mr. Merrill's admissions to be 1 true and had then proceeded in an at- iempl to prove that, this marriage occurred oc-curred at all; does anyone imagine Hint it could have obtained, the necessary proof from the Logan temple, where it reposes in security? Not by any means. And that being true, how "much more diflienlt it, would be for us to prove a polygamous marriage since tho manifesto,! Some day, if Bishop Merrill Mer-rill should offend the polygamous cult, and should thereafter desire to prove the legitimacy of his own children by the polygamous wife, married before the manifesto, he would be "in the devil's own fix " if the. offended cult should sneeringly taunt him with its customary " Vou oant ' prove it!" And perhaps that liltle reflection may ai.d some of our obtuse ones in discovering one of the reasons why a man, once in the toils of polygamy, can never thereafter call his soul his own. |