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Show vv;;;j manned of man art thou?" "&brJv hrtve me, holy man If' V ' ' ' Jn nU crossed his brow: '" " w5r.QU,ck-" luoth . "I Wd thee say- What manner of man art. thou?" . ' A v Ancient Mariner. , If ex-Apostles Taylor and Cowley were to be called upon to make a speech to President Joseph F. Smith, we fancy they would copy the two last lines of the above. Ex-Apostle Taylor has not much endeared himself to the people of this region, butkthe devil, we are-told, ought to be given; his due. There are excuses to be made for him. He has been condemned and punished for ' what we presume President Joseph F. Smith, would explain as doing the right thing at the. wrong time. - . But, then, it must not be forgotten that under the preaching here twenty and thirty and forty and fifty' years ago, this unfrocked apostle was born so saturated with animalism that he never has been altogether responsible for .his mental peculiarities. . - In that respect. President Joseph F. and about eli the me.n. about him are in the same boat. Teach a child from its mother's knee that in the world 'to which we are swiftly approaching there will be a 'judgment, and rewards wonderful to the elect, but that the award. will not be for special graces, but according to - the number of women tnat a candidate candi-date can show he has on his string; nnd such a child, if he" matures' into a strong man, will be most ' liable to determine that if he takes anj but a first prize up above, it will not be his fault. .. The ex-apostle proceeded on that theory. -He had, moreover, the full consent and blessing of the holy -church which teaches that refined doctrine, or he would have had a restraining order served on him. (See Deseret News for proof of this.) Well, having received that consent, he proceeded , along the identical lines that Joseph F. Smith took his solemn oath in Washington that he was proceeding on, and he clinches his testimony by admitting that he. was violating the laws of both God and man. Very well; the question isjat once presented, Why should exr Apostle Taylor, who" does not know much . better, be disgraced and punished, while Joseph F., who does know better, still hold his honors as the rooster that is boss of the barnyard? We confess to a great contempt and fympathy for . ex-Apostle Taylor. Contempt ,for the alien and lawbreaker that he I; sympathy that he should be mad to suffer by one who probably taught him in Sunday-school to do exactly what he has been -doing, and all the time setting the example for him to follow. ( A dozen years ago, under oath, President Smith testified that he construed the manifesto of President Presi-dent Woodruff to mean that polygairty was no more legal; that it applied as well to living with plural wives as to taking new ones. In Washington, this same President Smith testified that since then he has had thirteen children born to bim. Then in what respect is his status different from that of the bounced apostles? Then, when we look around for a cause, that ' fidds to the infamy of the business. It was done for what? To maintain the purity of the home? ' Not much. To give notice that the Mormon church chiefs are determined to , stamp oul polygamy? Well, hardly. It was done to make a diversion ii favor of Reed Smoot and to maintaiu the political control of the chiefs as they proceed to build up their merciless kingdom on the soil of this Republic. J Except for that, neither Apostle Taylor nor Apostle j Cowley would ever have been disturbed. Hence N the manner' of the dismissal, while it was perfidy : to them, it was meant to again deceive the people : and Government of the United States, by seeking 1 to convey, to Congress and the country an'impres- sion that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day : Saints no longer holds polygamy as a holy sacra- ruentand means to blot it out which is the very furthest possible remove from the troth, i It ought to supply to Congress the absolute i proof that no member of the Melchlsedek priesthood . of the Mcifmon church ever has'a thought of giving .any but a secondary allegiance to( the Government I cf the United States, and that they will stoop to 1 any falsehood or fraud to carry their points. |