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Show AT LAST, PART ACTION. To those who have disbolievod the recitals printed by this paper concerning concern-ing the prevalence of new polygan in the Mormon church, and especially to the Deseret News, The -Tribune commends com-mends attention to the following notice: no-tice: Xolicc is hereby given io the members mem-bers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that Elder Charles Woolfenden, on tho 4th day of September, 1010, having previously been dlsfollow-shipped dlsfollow-shipped by the bishopric of the Beaver East ward, by action of the high council of the Braver stake of Zlon. was excommunicated excom-municated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, These actions wero based upon charg'.-s against Elder Woolfenden for having violator the maplfesto Issued bv the late President Wilford Woodruff, and adopted by I he church, and contrarv to the rules and teachings of said church. WILLIAM G. BICKLEY, Clerk of- the High 'Council' Beaver City, Utah, September 10, 1910. Elder Woolfenden was exposed by The Tribune as being a polygamous criminal, but the Doseret News took no notice of tho accusation. Now, however, it transpires that flic officials of the Beaver stake thought the matter worth while looking into. The result, as soen in the notice here given, has vindicated this paper. Wo have printed the names of one hundred and sixty-nine other men who huvo been equally guilty. Of course, a few of them are how deceased and no action could be taken in their cases; but why not proceed against all the other offenders who are living 7 It is manifestly unjust to punish one and permit others to go unmolested. There are many in the list of offenders who have more grievously sinned against the community, in that they have been several sev-eral times guilty of the new po'gamous crime. Take, for instance, .the notorious notori-ous Tanners Joseph M. and Henry S. It is well known to the church officials that these men have taken several polygamous po-lygamous wives since 1890, and that their offences have been particularly flagrant; yot no action has been taken against them. Still others are rparticu-larly rparticu-larly deserving of punishment, iu that they arc stake presidents and b'ishops of wards supposedly exemplars to their ecclesiastical constituents. Undoubtedly Undoubted-ly their examples have encouraged other and leaser lights to similar lawbreak-ing. lawbreak-ing. Incidentally, Tho Tribune loarns that Doctor D.- A. McGregor, also a new polygamisl, and also a resident of Beaver, is making preparations to es cape to Mexico. Now, the church authorities au-thorities of the Beaver stake are awaro of this fact, and If they permit the man to run away bofnre being properly 'punished thoy will prove themselves to bo in serious dereliction of duty. Finally, what is there to prevent a criminal prosecution in tho caso of Woolfenden? If the ovidenco produced before tho ecclesiastical court was sufficient suf-ficient to warrant excommunication, tho same proof ought, to suffice for criminal crim-inal conviction. WI13' do not the officers offi-cers of tho law now proceed against htm? Ay few of these fellows thrown into jail would do more than nothing clso to stop now polygamy, and if tho Mormon church is in earnest about the matter of abandonment of tho polygamous polyga-mous practice it will furnish the evidence evi-dence necessary for their conviction. |