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Show THE IB STOLID FALSIFICATIONS. It scarcely would seem possiblo that tho chiefs of the Mormou church can know altogether the effect that their policy of evasion and falsehood along certain lines is having upon the minor ccclesiasts of tho church. The story comes to us that a stranger was traveling through tho northern part of Utah, who met an experienco that was novel to him in evory sense of the word. It seems that he was of an invostigativo spirit a man who could not believe all tho stories he had heard concerning tho unscrupulous lying ly-ing that is sometimes indulged in for the purpose of covering up tho sins of Mormons in high places. Ho approached ap-proached an cldor of tho church -with a query as to what truth there was in the statement that thoso who were living liv-ing in polygamy wero fathering and mothering numorous illegitimate children. chil-dren. The reply he got was ro tho effect that these recitals wore nothing but a pack of lies; and ho made special reference to tho case of President Joseph Jo-seph F. Smith in their "refutation." Ho declared that ho -was well acquainted ac-quainted with the "prophet" and his several families, and that he knew for himself and of. himself that the youngest of Joseph F.'s progeny was a son of twenty-fivo years of ago! Of course, the visitor had read tho testimony testi-mony of Mr. Smith to the effect that he had had born to him olevcu children since the manifesto of 1890, and he had also boon apprised of tho court record which shows 'that in tho year 1005 Joseph Jo-seph F. wns fined three hundred dollars dol-lars upon a charge of uulawful cohabitation, cohabi-tation, as proved in the birth of a twelfth child just a short time previously. previous-ly. But "what can be expected of elders who hold jobs by grace of their chiefs, when thoso chieftains now come forward for-ward with tho proposition to fix tho opcrntivo dnte of tho manifesto at April, .19,04, fourtcon years aftor its issuanco?i |