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Show A Uzw Viy to Constrca tha Lsw. How clumsy and Inconsistent certain witnesses in the 8 moot case have shown -themselves to bo when they were compelled to meet charges' that they have taken plural wives since the manifesto was issued! - Take for instance the polygamous son of a polyg-amist, polyg-amist, who swore that he had married two wives before the manifesto; that the first wife died eince the manifesto, and that he had married another woman wo-man .after the revelation suspending polygamy. Now this polygamist explained that he had not violated the law by the marriage contracted since 1890, because he considered the woman who died his legal wife. But what of the second wife whom he married before the manifesto? The witness swore he would not desert his wives for all the world, but when cornered took refuge behind the claim that the second wife was not a legal wife, and therefore he had no wife when he married a new wife since the manifesto. " This witness admitted that he had lived with both his new and his plural wife since the day he married each of them, and that each wife had given birth to children since the manifesto, yet he persisted per-sisted in arguing that he had not violated the anti-polygamy anti-polygamy law. To the layman this is a clumsy construction of the law and a bungling effort to evade responsibility. responsibil-ity. If this polygamist had no legal wife wpen he married in 1891, then how does he explain his relations re-lations with the plural wife he married before the manifesto? |