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Show smiE EQUAL ; TO OCCASION ; Judge Shurtliff Says It ! Took Nerve to Make .3 - Admissions. ' j . - . . ST. LOUIS, March 26. Judge -L. W. ; J Shurtliff of Ogden. Utah, president of j the Mormon church for the district em-j em-j bracing; Ogden. and an Intimate friend ' j of President Joseph F. Smith of the ' J Mormon church, is in St. Louis in the '. , interests of the Utah World's fajr com- - v mission. Speaking of Mormon iem ; he !l . said: . ,' "I am a Mormon, but net a polyg- amisL Of course, some Mormons who had plural wives before the manifesto '.Z. against polygamy wu issued by the .. church havev continued to live with them. President Joseph Smith so stated on the witness stand recently. "I think it took a great deal of nerve for a man to get on a witness stand a and make such a statement, but Presi-. Presi-. dent Smith was equal to-the occasion." . - - |