Show u r f fD WHAT WAS WS I The Northwestern Christian Ado i cato attempts tin nil answer to Senator Ie Smoots article In n the American j iu Tho rho Advocate contends that I i tho famous Senate Investigation proved hY that the Church ban hM broken sacred sacre l ltd td c pledges given by Il It to the nation re reo i i Y Jn polygamy In tho the language i of tho the Advocate The Tho Investigation did no such stich thing It 1 proved that r whatever pledge was waR made mude by hy b the 1 Church has haa ha been faithfully kept I It proved ta th t tho tito satisfaction of ot n 11 t largo majority of ot tho the Senate that tho thu thoI I 1 number of or families living In plural marriage diminished from the time of 1 tho Manifesto with Ith almost marvelous rapidity No o stronger proof could pos be Jc adduced as OK to 10 the faithfulness I with which tho the Church carried out the tho i pledge relating to polygamy Tho The in investigation n further proved that Thero Thera i was a 0 common understanding both In InS Congress Utah that there thero were vere not nol p S only to be no more plural plum marriages Ie but that prosecutions for tor polygamous i cohabitation had become so 50 that there thero NOH wn a practical suspension of at ati i them thein and that time was the only certain ceri i tain thin solution ot or the tho perplexing lem 1111 Proceedings Before Defore the tho Commit Committee t tee on and Elections Vol IV IVI I 7 Pago Jago The Tho report continues This ThIll L sentiment s has not tl t only ever since con continued coni conci i ci hut hill wIth tho the constant diminution tion of the nurr number ber of at o polygamous pol fain Call families flies und and the rapid i approach of oC tho the time when hun n nil 1111 will have hIte passed away there lies lias ns como onlo a II natural strengthening of tho thu sentiment ni Vc re beg the Advocate to notice es as especially that the common under understanding i standing ading both In III Congress und and Utah wan yaM that tin prosecutions of polygamous j cohabitation on had come so M difficult i that them thero waA aa aR a U practical suspension of ot them This worked neither harm barn nor hardship to anybody To Interfere with relations entered Into years be belore lore foro tho the manifesto would have havo been beon persecution nod and nd nothing else And tills this all It c citizens of ot o Utah fully lulli realized and anil still realize t Tile The Advocate writing TIling from a II IUS tunce tance may not hOt BEle things pertaining to this thin State as ns denny as wo we here her In 5 l see seo them Perhaps an Illustration a alion lion tion lIay ho bo helpful Some Som communities ties tieR are suffering u from froth Uio iho operations operation of blackmailers New York YOlk haw had n II cOso caso not nol so l very cry long ago of ofa ofa a certain periodical would try tr to 10 extort sums uin of at money men of ot pi emin eminence J ence under II III tho Iho threat of ot publishing f something derogatory to 10 their moral character or ruinous to their standing j In society This Illustrates somewhat the t origin and motive of ot the 4 jg tho leaders of oC o tim tho Church in tah To be he sure lIure It Il wits was not money f 1 tho tIji agitators 1 wore were trying to force from them It H vui tin In favor ot ci their political schemes and ambition And when this was refused the tho th agitation tion ted An excuse was waB easily ln Il I found to Blackmailers never are arc at tit a 0 loss for a 11 point of ot attack Had iad the thc political support hoped halted for tor been heen given glen glent t there thero would have been no disturbance It the agitators who broke broko tho the pledge or oi violated the tho common under understanding standing sla Onu Qua point In iii tho the article of the tho Advocate cato cate Is IB especially noteworthy The Tho paper has very vcr pronounced views ng ns nato I to tho tile necessity Of iv Ii I Constitutional against polygamy my and polygamous cohabitation Hut But what ot of the tho tit offences ell that cannot ho bo called i 1101 polygamous IS 1 M |