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Show THE SAME OLD MEANING. The cry of the Dcscret News that The Tribuno is a peaco destroyer and a persecutor of the Mormon church is the favorite cry of tho polygamous cult. It. is emitted only in the hope that our campaign against immorality may bo "silenced "si-lenced and tho conjugal pluralists may be' thus protected and permitted to continue con-tinue to fill this cornmunit3r with, illegitimates. ille-gitimates. It is but a repetition of the old efforts of the polygamists of years ago. The following is quoted from an address issued by the polygamous Mormon Mor-mon first prcsidencj' under date of May 2(5, 1S85: The warfare against us is not upon individuals, in-dividuals, but is upon the church as a body, and upon the religion which wc all profess to believe and practice. Wc do not think It advisable for brethren breth-ren to go into court, and plead guilty. Wc must nol'Iook at our own cases from individual standpoints, but in tho light in which the whole people may be affected af-fected by our action, whatever that may be. So it. may bo seen that tbe Dcscret News would even havo been moro understandable un-derstandable had it simply reproduced that outgiving of tho first presidency. It might have proceeded along in about this strain. "31 is not agaiust tho new polygamists that this warfare is being waged, but upon tho entire church, and upon the rightfulness of the principle of polygamy, in which wc believe as much today as wo ever did; and therefore tho ..opposition is merely persecution of tho whole people and an attack upon the religion which wc all profess to believe be-lieve and practice. We do not- think it advisable for new polygamous brethren to permit evidence of their practico to get out to tho ungodly Gentiles, and by no means should, they let officers of the law got hold of the facts. Wc must not .look at these cases of new polygamy from tho individual standpoint, but in the light in which the whole people may be affected by their exposure.- Wc are all in tho same boat, so to speak; or, as our respected and revered President, Joseph F. Smith, moro elegantly put it in his testimony at Washington, wo aro all 'in tho same status.' So each and every- new polygamist should bear in mind the fact that if lie squeals,' then the Lord help tho rest of us! 'United we stand, divided tvo fall.' A word to tho wise is sufficient." In effect, that is what tho Dcscret News has been saying ever sinco the American party was organized in .100-1, aud its cries of persecution and peace-destruction peace-destruction are moro shams lo protect tho criminal polygamous cult. |