Show j During Durin the year ending en November 18 IS 18 1884 ac according to a n. rep report rt of af the Utah commission there appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap peered to be a revival ot of plural marriage In Utah and the commission commission commis commis- sion sian de declared lared that the Institution was boldly and defiantly defended defend d and ad commended by J the e spiritual teachers and the number of af plural marriages w were re reported to have increased That the commission might aught ascertain as ascertain certain as to whether or Ii not t these reports reaching them regarding plural marriage were founded on fact or ar were rumors the commission sent out aut a circular leter letter letter let- let ter er to the registration of- of fibers Ibers requesting Information from them with the names of those whether male or ar female temae w whom o they might believe had entered I into ta plural marriage sin singe since e the passage of pf the Edmunds law Jaw While these thee reports of ot the registration regis regis- officers are more mare or less incomplete eald eaid the commission there being six counties In which the he population Is almost almast exclusively exclusive- exclusive ly y Mormon Marman from which no ret returns Ins Insh h have ve been received d they show that 96 males ant females had en entered entered en- en tereci pl plural ral marriage marriage- since th the passage of ot the Edmunds Edmunds' act SIGNIFICANCE SEEN There Ther Is possibly ly some some cance continues continues' the In that this reported Increase in ph plural marriages lural marriages seems i to be beCQ be co- co with the completion of at the of-the the thel Logan l ogan temple The bt this temple was attended with with great great pomp pamp and ceremony and and anda a a lar large e number ot of people assembled tb there thre e many many from from a great distance lana Faha- ana was was blown Into a flame flam and arid U. U n which w tv we have ij I Is that plural marriage at that time Ume t re c an ap additional ln Impetus and and which we have no official data Up Upon pon p- p on which to base a statement a a record of af M Mormon rmon marriages If It there here is 18 one ane In this thil territory Is a a a- as a's s sealed book to all the world word i it I Is tr true e that thata th t a an all unusual unusual number 1 a of plural marriages s followed d event event- S The report then refers to the t four ur temples of ar the tM Latter Day Sal Saints s sIn In n Utah Uta two of which h only were completed th the one at St st. George GeQrge and the other uther er at Logan and cited the tat fact that these temples were regarded with great reverence by th the he Mormons In that the temples temple's were vere Intended for tor or the celebration o of c certain covenants and mysteries m among others athers bap bap- tot for jha the he dead and marriage ceremonies which ordinances and ceremonies anies are supposed by by- th the Latter plY J ay Saints Saints' to have havea a pe peculiar peculiar pe pe- culiar efficacy and solemnity when the they are celebrated In ln one at of ot the temp temples s. s DIVINE REVELATION The commission then declares that while three-fourths three or more more of at the Mormon Marmon adults male and fema Ic- Ic fe female ma male e. e have bave never entered Into th the relation yet every every orthodox Mormon Marmon every member In hi good goad standing ed believe that it was Wasa a divine revelation The commission commission commission com com- mission the then gives Its view of the trial of ar Rudger Cawson which trial th the co commission attended th the charge arge i In itt the Indictment being that on August 1 1 1882 Clawson had married Florence Ann DInwoodey de dewith dey with whom he lived as his wife and from tram whom wham he h had l not Dat been bee divorced and that afterwards ds ds on an the first day of June 1883 he married mar mar- rJ ned ried d Lydia Spencer There we vve wee e e etWo etwo etwo two counts In the Indictment V Un Under Jn der the of af act act- congress applicable only to Utah the Jury which was as asto to hear the case would ordinarily have hav been composed of at half halt Gentile Gentile Gen Gen- tile and half Marmen Mormon provided there we were vere e no challenges but In thi cas casp each Juror says the com commission com cam mission was asked Do yo you beleve be- be leve It right for a a man to have hav m more re than one ane living hying and var ed wife at the same same time Andall And Andall all alt answered In the Hie affirmative The result was that the list of of jurors for tor the y year ar 1884 being exhausted exhausted ex ex- hausted an open venire was issued and the panel was completed with twelve non non- non Mormons in the the box some share In the actual ownership ownership owner owner- ship of af a company campany Therefore you yau are Justly entitled J to a portion atthe of at the profits which that company campany makes If It the profits are so 80 great that the value of af your stock stack Increases in increases In- In creases the returns ar are legitimate for tar you ou have merely shared In the earnings of at a company of at which you o own a i part Copyright 19 G. 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