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Show High Councilor of Granite Stake Enters Into New Polygamy in Salt Lake. CHILDREN OF PLURALS ARE NEARLY TWINS Cruel Injustice Is Done Bessie Badger, Who Is Induced to Marry Higgs. i BY MAC. Joseph W. Mussor is chief clerk and assistant secretary of tho Utah Light &' EailVR3' company. His father is assistant as-sistant historian and political mouthpiece mouth-piece of the Chnrch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ho i6 b'imself a high ecclosiast in the church, though but about -10 years of age. lie is high' councilor of Granite stake and as such passes on tho differences differ-ences betwocn the Saints of his stake and his decisions are final, save that an' appeal ma3f be taken to the first presidency. presi-dency. Tho president of Granite stake, Prank! Y. Taylor, and his second counselor, John M. Cannon, aro publicly known to have recentl3" contracted plural marriages. mar-riages. So have tho Sunda3' school superintendent su-perintendent and others of this stake. Jn fact, Granite slake is the hotbed of new polygamy, and Forostdnlo, which is a part of the slake, is oftimes spoken spo-ken of as "Polygamyville," inasmuch as it is a refuge of thoso who aro violating vio-lating the laws by "living their religion. re-ligion. " Joseph W. Musser's legal wife is Roso Musser and nor home is at 2-127 South Seventh East street. She is the mother of seven or eight children. Joseph "W. Musser has married since tho manifesto. Mammio Hill, who ia now about 156 j'cars of age. Mammio is said to livo al'Mill Creek, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth South streets. She has threo children, ono of which was born early this car, A moro recent marriago of Joseph W. Musser was within tho last two or three years. This was to 1511a Shipp, a daughter of Dr. Ella R. Shipp, a well-known well-known Avoman physician, whoso home is at 7155 Second avenue. Ella Shipp was for a number of 3'cars a teacher in tho public schools. At the lime when tho church issued tho so-called Woodruff Wood-ruff manifesto, putting a ban upon pol3'gam3, Ella Shipp was but a child; not; more thiin 10 years of ago in 1890. She now lives with her mother on Second Sec-ond nvcnuo and appears on tho public streets wit.li Joseph W. Musser and a 0 or S-monlhs old babe, which her Mormon Mor-mon neighbors admit is the child of Musser and sa3" that there has been no legal marriage. The church authorities and tho Dos-orot Dos-orot News will sa3r that, this is no proof of polygani3'. Tf it; is not pol3'gamj-, what is it? Tho church authorities know that Joseph Jo-seph W. Musser is living with Ella Shipp and Mammio Hill in defiance of the law. Ho is rc-taiued as a high oc-elesiast oc-elesiast in the church. He is honored bj- employment with one of the greatest great-est institutions in tho c i ty . He sits with the mighty in Mornionism. Ho is a teacher of children and as n lonelier and a reputed "man of God" children Continued on Page Three. JOE MUSSER HAS NOW TAKEN 0. 3 Continued from Pngo Ono. aro expected to emulnto and honor him. This is the first expose that has been made of Joseph W. Mussor's new polygamy, polyg-amy, .lie will not bo punished for his violation of tho Jaw because ho has the sanction of tho teaching of tho church through tho 123rd ehaptor of the Doc-trino Doc-trino and Covenants, and through tho life of IPresidont. Joseph ?. Smith, who admits that ho is living with five wives and who pleaded guilty to tho charge of being tlie father of tho last of thirteen thir-teen illegitimate children, recently being be-ing fined therefor the measly sum of two hundred dollars! Pour years ago the Herald got a grouch on it and overlnstinjly lambasted lam-basted tho Amorican councilmcn because be-cause an appropriation of one hundred dollars was made to aid tho old soldiers in the expeuso of Decoration day. The Herald and Inter-Mountain decliuo to contribute anything toward the expense of tho encampment, although the latter has been grafting the business men of the oily for a special edition for that occasion. And yesterday when a request re-quest was made by ono of the clubs of the city for a free copy of tho Herald for the uso of tho soldiors who will make their headquartors at the club, tho Herald declined to contribute this free cop3 although the cost of it would bo less than a quarter. - What's the matter with the Herald and its boasted generosity? Notwithstanding the protestations of tho Mormon authorities and the Dosorot News that polygamy is not tolerated, there is no one who can point to a single instance where any Mormon has lost his standing in the church, because be-cause of an expose of his polygamous relationship. 33von iu the caso of Apostles Apos-tles Taylor and Cowley tho church authorities au-thorities declaro that these two ecclesi-asts ecclesi-asts wero unfrocked because they wero not in harinonv with thoir quorum. Neither Taylor'or Cowley or any other saint has been punished for entering into new polygamy, nor has any elder in the church lost casto for performing a polygamous marriage. Now polygamy is rampant and the nttompt which the Nows makes to cast tho stain of indecency on tho women who entor into that state, is so contemptibly con-temptibly base that it is a wonder that even the News's depravity would permit per-mit it to sink to such a level as this. Bcssio Badgor, tho last of the misguided mis-guided young women to onter into polvgamous relationship, is no more a prostitute, as the Nows and Smoot's porsonnl organ would make her, than is either ono of tho plural wives who aro exalted daily in tho church, or have over been exalted. She was in the very nest of polygamy and doubtloss had it dinned into her oars from time sho was a weo girl until un-til she grow into womanhood. It is the most natural thing in tho world, considering con-sidering her training and environments, that she should enter into a polygamous relationship with a high ecclesiast of tho church who was her daily companion. com-panion. Of course, sho committed a crime, but with all this, her sin is in-finitestimally in-finitestimally small compared to that of tho leaders of her chnrch who teach tho young that polygamy is divinely right and who sanction, by silenco and by secret benediction, tho moro courageous cour-ageous ones who chooso to live iu de-fianco de-fianco of "man-made laws" in order to "servo God and to obey tho divine laws." "All roads lead to tho tabernaclo" is tho sentimont breathed and proudh- ox-pressed ox-pressed by the Later-day Saints when tho' reflect on tho fact flint the- center of activity next week will be in tho buildings constructed by them and dedicated ded-icated to the Mormon prophet. Incidentally it may be said also that thero will bo more' patriotism in tho tabernacle next week than ever beforo in its history. Governor Spry may be Congratulated on the exercising of good judgment as to tho eternal fituoss of things whon the public understands that he has appointed ap-pointed an Ogden saloonkeoper lo servo as a delegate to the national irrigation irriga-tion cougress at Spokano. This appointee is in the irrigation business which is a thing that cannot be said of some of the men who have represented Utah on such occasions in the past. And he is a good fellow, loo. Sonic one has addressed a letter to the writer which reads sis follows: "The law forbids the district attornej-from attornej-from defending criminals, so it has been fixed up this way: District Attorney Loofbourow catches them coming and going; Assistant District Attornoy Lentherwood has charge of all criminal prosecutions leaving tho district attorney attor-ney freo to gather in tho civil cases. And Loofbourow has a young, law partner part-ner who defends tho 'criminals that Loofbourow should be prosecuting. Can you bent it?" Not with a club! Salt Lake will bo doubly honored uoxt week and should put oil her best clothes and exl;ond tho glad -hand as never before in her histor The Grand Army will bo ho re and so will that high princo of tho church of Rome, that distinguished, liberal-minded Christian gentleman, Cardinal James Gibbons. Did you cut the weeds and put j-our place in presentable shnpo for tho eyes of the visiting thousands next week? If not, why not? Senator Sutherland so loves tho men of the Grand Army of tho Republic who will bo guests of his home cit3' next week that he has concluded to spend the time at a wintering place on t no Atlantic seaboard rather than to bo whero he should be in tho front rau Its of tho entertainers. Tho Senator Sen-ator should bo nroud of his decision to stay away and "avoid the mob." Congressman Howell has a real estate es-tate deal lo close up in New York, but it is aiiuouucscd that he will return in time to sco tho finish. Senator Smoot is hurrying home primarily pri-marily to aid in adjusting the news-papor" news-papor" muddle hero and incidentally exhibit ex-hibit himself as a latter daj savior of tho country as a high-priest of protection. protec-tion. The Tribune ?s horoscope, a readable bit of matter and which appears daily, is being turned to with as much regularity regu-larity and equal zesl. as the average person turns lo his morning meal. Jtoop your eyes on tho horoscope and Cozetto will be found a worthy guide, philosopher and friend. If any restaurant, hotol or rooming house k'eeper attempts to invoko extortionate ex-tortionate rates from the public next week, give The jTribuno tho particulars and thero will bo something doing for the holdup mon that will keep them busier than caring for encampment, crowds. I'ood Inspector Walter Era'ier is doin a great work for Salt Lake City, lie is building a monument to himself, hut 1f tho monuiDCnt; in not in fact builued, the babies who survive the period of impure milk and arc given to iiudorstand tho perils of thoir infancy, in-fancy, when they grow up, they should chip in and orect a monument for the energetic food inspector -who, in his dav, "seen his duty and done it." The milk crusade has saved, many a precious j'oung life. Tho school board will accept bids for four thousand tons of coal for the ensuing school year next Monday. The last contract let was a, scandal and ought to have landed someone in the penitontiary. It 'was tho raukost bit of collusion that has been witnessed in many 3'oars, A contract wns let to tho highest bidder and split up between tho successful contractor and a mem-bor mem-bor of tho school board who is in the coal business. But tho raajojrity of tho members of the school board nave been so busy in defending themselves and their relatives against public criticism criti-cism that they did not have tho temerity, te-merity, if tho will, to inquire into the scandalous coal contract. The criminal editor would have it appear ap-pear that the relationship entered into by two employes pt tthe Mntual Improvement Im-provement association was identical to his own, in which ho has a court record in Indiana, and is liable to havo a record of soma kind in Salt Lako if he porsists iu his nocturnal visits to tho lionio of a certain black-cycd widow in tho city. But the crimes are different. |
