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Show Ardtnt Supporters of President Smith. i Even if the younger element of the Mormon church is still amazed at the story told by President Smith and Is inclined to be lukewarm in support of iim, there is one class of Utahns who will throw up jStheir bonnets and shout: I I ILong live President Smith, that king among jtnenS" '-'.-- i '. - i It would be superfluous to explain that these ar-'denf ar-'denf backers of the church head are the plural wires jef Utah. And what other course could they takeT ; While one may differ with the plural wife on the ! Question of the morality of polygamy and of polyg-lundns polyg-lundns relations, it must be admitted that the logical poliSy, the policy of self-interest, is for the plural ,wiY(fs to stand by the polygamists who made them pluCal wires and upon whom they must depend for ( protection and support. . ... I fVTiile the first wife of the head of the dominant :chutch may declare polygamy to be divine, there are other plural wires who entertain- different views. ' Take Mrs- Hans Folkerson, for instance. -I Polygamy may hare been dirine for other moment, mo-ment, but it has been hell for me," she declared, as she fwept. - . - - tl do not beliere polygamy is dirine, I know it Is," was the opinion of the first wife of the president of t-he Mormon church. j yVhat a difference in the sentiments of these two .women, both first wires, both veterans in the practice prac-tice of polygamy. i ( ' - |