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Show WILL ANSWER ANY TIME. . : Vc are sagely tpld by the Deserot News that' members of 'the Amoricau party will . have to answer ' 4 before the bar of -Internal .lusliec" for attacking at-tacking Apo&tlo-Senalor Keed Smoot. ,Now it ought to be apparent 'to the church, organ thali nobody will become frantically alartnl'd over that threat. Iu the first place bcusible persons do not regard tho News as good authority' authori-ty' upon the possibilities of the horc-aVler, horc-aVler, because in that matter it has been compelled (o recede from about every position it has taken in important impor-tant affairs having lo do with tho sal-valion sal-valion of mankind. Por instance, there was a time when it declared in all seriousness and fervor that no man would bo pcrmittod to aUjiin lo glory and exaltation in Iho horeafler unless he took more than one wife. It loudly proclaimed before all tho world that tho doctrine uf polygamy was one of Ihe immovable fluhola of tho Mormon' faith aifd belief, and that the lis w;ih no choice, in iho church an to either acceptance or abandonment of . this particular item of principle." It declared that polygamy was 'au institu-lion institu-lion established by . Iho command of Ihe Almighty, and lhat any repudiation or abandonment of that "principle" would show tho Mormon w people and Ihe Mormou church. to bo recreant to a , tacred trust. It was altogether out of the power of the c,hnrcli, its officers or.ils members, according lo Ihe, News, In retreat from that which the Lord had sot up. .Lhil. Ihe outcome shows that the !N own falsified the situntiou ' ul that timo; for the church, its ofli-cers ofli-cers ami ils members havo till abandoned aban-doned polygamy, insofar as oflicinl pronouncement, can bo called a,n abandonment. aban-donment. With respect lo this matter mat-ter of polygamy Ihe Deserot News 'a! observations had special rcfereuco to what would occur in Ihe hereafter as a result of obedience 'to or rejection of thai "principle"; but Ihe church organ 1i;ih abaudoncd its position in 1 ho mailer--provided il is honest u tl s present pronouncements upon the question showing distinctly and unmistakably un-mistakably that it then knqw and now knows absolutely nothing concerning the hereafter. For that reason, no- body is going to flee iu ' torror because , of its gruesnino threat iu behalf of Apostle-Senalor !$moul. These little lales of the Nows may be all right as bugaboos for children and weak-minded weak-minded dupes, but they will novel' count with men aud women who have thU eommon sense with which tho Al 'mighty is supposed to start human IO-iiiHH IO-iiiHH out iu life. .. And as lo Mr. Smool hlinnfall'. Are , thfu-c noj. some things for which that gentleman will be required (o answer? le said that lliero was no ecclesiastical ecclesiasti-cal influence exorcised Lo procure for him his Senntqrship, when, in fad, he Iniow very woll that he was compelled to ask tho president; of iho Mormon ohurch for tho favoi'; and his political machine, used iu furthering all of his p'oi'Monal nnd .selfish ambitious, has always al-ways been (he Mormon church organisation. organ-isation. In the course of his testimony at Washington he uttered many falsehoods, false-hoods, of which Iho foregoing is a sample. sam-ple. But we are disposed lo do a littlo more definite promising than that done by tho Nows. Tho Tribune promises Air. Smoot and his honeb'mon that thoy shall not have to wait until Ihe hereafter here-after lo answer for (heir political sins tho accounting will come here and shortly, upon demand of tho decent eit-iaonsltip eit-iaonsltip of this State. And wo imagine that a promise of Mint sort holds more terror for ihoso usurpers of the poo-pin poo-pin 's rights than the threat of tho Nows can possibly hold for Americans. |
