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Show fllSj let Tiir.u nnt.Msii 1111: rnonis. HHJ It was to bo exjected that the MHy .'Liberal" Utah Commission would bo HMH applauded by the Liberal" organ for EflBfil till further misrepresenting the con- MB dltlonof allalre In Utah. The Cora- MMBJ nilnlon baa been lately governed by HuBM that organ and the organ but teen DHU ready to defend tho Commission. They KffHHa have fftfrkod together for tho table end. TgHStf They bare talkid tha lame thlngt. jjHBl They have scattered threainoslandcrs. HH And when they have hem asked for JBatj proofi they have utterly failed to re iijHHj tpond, but bare demanded that the ac- wjHfi cuiedahallprove their own Innocence. jDI Tbeorganiiow want ua to prove a IBBj negative. jHH I not thla the proper mode of rroccd-fHH rroccd-fHH urei The Comraltalon make the ftfWTB charge, In tflrct, that Hit ten malo per-jHflJH per-jHflJH tons have during tho at yrar entered Bj Into polygamous marrlagei. J.tt HHB the namea of thono ierouH be Bjm given. If ttie CctnuiUiloucre have RJHBm thtm they enn produru them. If they H9H have them not, til eybnve no right to JaMB make tho charge. Anil, If they do mPWM not know time namea, they bavo the HUjH uamea of thu pemoua who make thla HH WW rnpoit t) them; lit them give the IsHfE mmoa of the nccukeri. If they will JBI not do either, why ahould anybody be SHpfl ixptcted to alttinpt to dloprove the hBmu accusation. Hut the organ complaint uBMSJj ltmt woare engaged, ('not In dltprov-SBBjlTO dltprov-SBBjlTO Ing the cberget imtile, but In bulling JHPBh nnathemat at the Uommlttlon." Ko SBI1 nnathemat, however ttrong, would do BHttij Justice to tho fetllngt of coiitdinpt we KBk feel for men who take thn cowardly VBbJI cOurte that these Comrulialouera bavu InBcmf pursuid. Hut why should wo be in Vol Rtgtd In "dlxprovlng" a (mid nsnertlou flHSJ without a tolltary (not or argu mint or flBJH wltuisito tuport It, and louihod In HMH aucb language that thosu who make It HH dodge from (he Issue In tho most sneak-HHB sneak-HHB 1 w manner xislblc? HKS Tba Commlulou are repeating tho HHf old alindor they bavo teen repiateilly Elffijf i cballtnged to tubttantlate. They have PTHj3 never attempted to prove their covert HJflplK charea. The l'risldeucy and tbo HBK General Conference o' 'he Church HHff1 aolamnly deulel them and tho only Btt answiroftho ofllclal slandirera Is, Hl denlals and denuulrattous prove HB nothing." It la lor the Commission to BcK furnish Ibe roof. All that the other HBilh tide Is required todols topliad. Ifno mPjjg svldeme It fortlitomlni; tloro la no HDSI'; mod for uuytbluK but the denial. Hh Again wo challcngo proof that llltei n BifK or any number of maloettont lio JAJb contracted polygamous marrlagen In KWm Utah duilne tho post yiar. Tin y am HkH ' afraid to give the Laaua of thu)wrtons UAw alleged to bu tusiectid, ticcauro the HHk' fiilnliood of thecliaige ciuld Iheu te BMB expficd. That Is what Is the matter, KWm Their organ rushes to their re.cue pjttinn with tho Insinuation "liny may have MHw gono nvtr the lino to lemanied." Hpfr They "may'' have gono to heaven or PHpHi some other place. What they may BjmK have done Is nut tho polut. Give us HHf ' the namca and the proofs. Wo deny RflKjl'l "'"' either In Utah "or over tho lino," MHrw wherever that msy be, thtro have been IHjJy' slioi the adoption of thu manifesto HHwk Ulteon polygamous marrlagta aolemn-PjHf aolemn-PjHf ltJ by the "Mormon" Church or any jSHK of Its authorise 1 mlulstert. BHfMK The Comm'tsloner'a organ eays HWtlfij "Auymimber of the piltsthood cnu (alHSf many n Mormon man to a Mormon tlUlllM sioinan aud by tome trick n good many Vlt n of those marrlagea bavo bien solemn-Ill solemn-Ill IT ' lied." If by "thnee marriages" In r $ aieaat plurs1 tuarrlages, the slutts IV mint- li utterly and knowingly falrc. Kn member of tha priesthood In Ibis Torrilory la eimitud by tbo Church or Its authorities to marry any 'Mormon" woman to h "Mormon" man who bli lawful wife living and uudlvorird. Nor Is it true that "any icroilnrof Ibe rrleflliood" la aulbor-Iredtoaolrmnli'e aulbor-Iredtoaolrmnli'e a marriage Utween n "Mormon" man and a "Mormon" wornin, even If It be lawful, Tbo Cominlt!oncrs'organladialliiln (be tame kind ot deception as the Commissioners Com-missioners are themteltes. The civil hw pcimtls a recognized minister of any denomination to aolemulre a marriage, mar-riage, but the Mormon" Churoli does not authorise all the members of lt 1'rlttlbood to to officiate, and tho whole ttttimont to tho conlrary la manufactured to deceive. We deny that "by Homo tricky" or In any other way, Ihoo polygamous marriages that thu Commissioners and their organ are circulating lies about, have occurred during tbo tost year or tho year before that, ilalilng up tumors nboutnllegcd occur-unci's occur-unci's just after the passage of the KdrjundtlAotwIll.not do. They will not divert atlobtlon from tha charge that durlnKthe present year or two, notwithstanding not-withstanding tho msulnfosto and Ita iilOllon, poljgamlout marriages bavo continued to be contracted by tho "Mormons." That charge It ground-leat,aud ground-leat,aud wo bellevu no one understand! that better than the Commissioners who Klva It publicity, aud tbo organ that supports thtm In their duplicity. At) to the belief of tha "Mormon" people, thank God rultlier the Commission Com-mission nor any other earthly uwer baa any business with that I Our opinions aro our own. Wo ask nobody's content to entertain thtm. Wo are Indifferent to tho ttntl-merits ttntl-merits of suib persons as thu Commissioners In relation to thim. Willie we submit to the law tho law baa no Issue with us. .If wo tboosB to uphold the law, even believing It to be unwllo or unjust, we aro constitutionally protected pro-tected In our friedcm of faith. And If there were no constitution or declsr-Hon declsr-Hon of human rights In this respect, tho liberty of thought aud belief txlsts and la be) ond the ower of mortal man lotuiprtMi. We sty .at tho "Mormon" Church and thu "Mormon" people have ceased to solemnize and contract plural marriages, mar-riages, out of deference lo the law of the laud. We say that they have been wonJurfullyauhml-slve to tho acts of Cougress In relation to polygamy tlncu tiny agreed to observe them. And we regard tbo eflort made by the Commission to bold them upas Insincere nod recreant to their agreements, as oneot the moat dastardly dastard-ly and cowardly and merconary attempts at-tempts to malign a noble ieople, for the purpose of retaining k petty ofllce, ever fcrpetratcd In a civilized country. "Denials and dtnuuclatlons"moy be distasteful to jtrsons who engage In sui.li malicious work, but tliey provoke di nlale by their assaults and lay them-aelvisopen them-aelvisopen to denunciation by their repeater dissemination if slandcra for which they oflcr no clement of proof. Aa It If, they aro official retailors of state soandal, and even thilr groatly reduced salarlca -are, for tucli Willi, a gross lniicslllon upon the goTeruini nt and leoploof this counlrj, |