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Show POLYGAMIST AND LIAR. The San Antonio (Texas) Express of Saturday, Jul' 23, 1910, contains a local lo-cal news item concerning a new Mormon colony "across the Rio Grande from Del Rio on land bolongiug to tho Tru-vino Tru-vino estate." In connection with the item is a statement "by W. D. Johnson, John-son, a bishop of tho Mormon faith, who has cliargo of tho colon'." That statement state-ment is in part as follows: Contrary to the general opinion prevailing pre-vailing in the United States, we do noL practice polygamy In our Mexican colonies. col-onies. "Wc have not receded from our position that It Is right, but In practice plurality murrlagos are not sanctioned, nor do thoy occur. It seems impossible for a Mormon elder to bo a new polygamist. without at tho same time being a liar. Bishop William Wil-liam Derby Johnson of Colonia Diaz, Mexico, is both. Ho went to Mexico a polygamist among others who, as the Juarez Stako academy prospectus says, desired to "enjoy in peaco the relations of home and family." About tho time of the issuanco of the Woodruff manifesto man-ifesto of 1890 there wero a great many polygamous lawbreakers who left tho United States nnd went to foreign countries, coun-tries, and Bishop William Derby Johnson John-son was one of them. Tho Tribune has many times printed his name among the list of new polygamists, because ho has taken at least one plural wife to add to his harum since going down to Mexico. And Bishop William Derby Johnson has not seen lit to deny the charge of new polygamy as made by this paper, for the reason that he knows we could produce pro-duce from Diaz enough evidence to send him to jail if he lived anywhere in the United States where the polygamous lechers of tho Mormon church' do not wholly or partially control in politics. "We have not receded from our position posi-tion thnt it is right," says Johnson; and that statement is sufficient to damn him. He is a practicer of new polygamr, and numerous members of his flock at Diaz are in the same marital status or even worse. We printed, on yesterday morning, morn-ing, a list of ono hundred and thirty-nino thirty-nino names of new polygamists, among which appears tho name of W. D. Johnson, John-son, and the majority of them reside in tho Mormon Mexican colonies, where the crimes wero committed. Bishop William Wil-liam Derby Johnson knowB that our statements in those cases arc true, in so far as wo arc ablo to get at the truth in a practico that is covered up in dark secrecy, and is lied about as Bishop William Derby Johnson lies about it. But that is tho very means that tho pestilent outfit employ in order to in-trudo in-trudo their bestiality into tho several communities that thoy invade. They, lying, protest innocence of tho polygamous polyg-amous practice and marry new wives under un-der tho very noses of thoso to whom they lie. |