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Show POLYtUMYINNAUVOO: MR. HICKS REMEMBERS IT Spanish Fork. Jan. t. Kdilor The Tribune: In your Issue of yesterday I road, with interest, your editorial edi-torial under Ihc heading. "Unjust to .Senator Cannon." In whleli you quote a few lines from lion's ensign, a. reorganized reorgan-ized church publication of Independence. Mo. One quotation begins with these words. "Wo can excuse the magazine writers who never have Investigated these writings and find It in our hearts to extend a feeling of charity toward them; but what shall we say of a man who, like Frank J. Cannon, has had all tho facts laid beforo him and yet Ignores them in his public writings!" Krom the gist of your odltorjal comments com-ments I presume that ihc ensign editorial lays the whole blame of polygamy at the door of Brigham ' Young and the Utah Mormons. I wish to Inform your readers that. I know that polygamy was practiced prac-ticed in Nauvoo. I know that. I know that Parley P. Pratt, ono of the Nauvoo apostles, had four wives in Nauvoo. I know lhat. and I still remember two of .their names Elizabeth Brotbcrton and Mary Woods. My parents and tho Pratts were very Intimate, in Nauvoo. Brlgliuni Young was not without faults, but he Is nol the author of the polygamous "rcvel-ntlon." "rcvel-ntlon." N"o, sir. I, distinctly remember remem-ber William Smith, also an. apostle and a. brother of the "propbot," preaching- a polygamous sermon in Nauvoo. Why our "Joseph! lo" friends will continue to say that polygamy originated In Utah evinces lo my mind that they don't know what they arc talking about or they are wilfully wil-fully wicked in blaming the Utah Mormons Mor-mons With originating the so-eallod revelation reve-lation authorizing plural marriage. I do not have a personal knowledge that the "prophet" had more than one wife, but I can't believe he would allow Pratt to have plural wives unless be himself had them. ' G. A. HICKS. Spanish Fork. Jan. I. |