Show r Sl SMITH 5 S OUT OUTS OUTi i t S The frank rind mid made mader p hy by 11 President Joseph K F Smith before Ji tho the Senate committee ns ne III to his hili family relations he published throughout t 1 the land and will probably be he variously I Interpreted He was under no lon elan In the matter but having nothing not f I to hide hWe he ho h unhesitatingly the fact that he ho had lived with his Me I wives calves and children In relations i tho tiro It v such Buch I 1 cohabitation holding himself elf ready to meet the tho consequences whatever they might be he life Ills perinea Is le well defined Ho lie mar hM life hl wives calves before the tho manifesto of President Woodruff given Riven to and f adopted lell by b Urn till Ho lie has not married bf tt Il y kIne that time lime Nor or does he omit Il mil but avows to 10 tho Ito ron con c n that lh the Church has ha au an authorized any plural marriages He lie re reo r garde his hla covenants with his hl tin wives s na ns sacred mud and binding and ho will not de lIt desert desett sert sett them theta or cast coat them ort oft If It ho Is In Int t lawfully licensed und anti prosecuted for tor fort t t this ho he In la ready to meet the tho Issue Ho Hoi r i conceals nothing ns na to his hda status or na nil nato anto II to 10 his hili belief bellet In tho the principle of or plural marriage j i There Thero Is In 9 nothing now new In thin to 10 tho the people of Utah or to u n great many well persona residing In other f parts of the tho country countr The compact be lit preen tho the Nation and this State on en entering entering tho the Union wan Ill that polygamous nun ous marring should bo be forever forcer j I They been prohibited by b bla ft y law la 1 Thero was wali no nn condition exacted jj ns OR to 10 tho the living of oC torn men with the tho wives married Tho The new now newt t Sinio lawn as to the tho of ot i y tho the sexes and anI they may bo be executed executer and enforced i Hut lint It In Is well known oon that public net gen ell u daunt was waa widely In favor 01 of permit permitting j ting ling existing relations to remain i 1 1 without disturbance mi sa ll long an all further I polygamous marriages wore were not con rOil conti ti acted The Tho laws lawn of ot Congress lad had do de lined hued tho the difference J between tho the two I condition and tho the had been hrh i c I adopted by b President Smiths Is In l well wel understood and hero has hns been no lining lifting of ot tho the curtain n all an r alleged The has ban h dilated ciliated upon the situation repeatedly und and those imbue journals that have understood It n and ml did nut wish to to confuse eon tine tho Iho pub pith public lie lic mind have havo explained It II In III the tho ammo nuno light i As to to the lice revelation on plural marriage Smiths position U II plain and Ho liD in III Its ilK divine authenticity Hut Rut Ruthe hI he conforms conform 01 Co fill to 10 II the tho I he of nt resident Woodruff Ito llo und and every other man limit has inn hn u n 1 right to the tho free tree elite of his hili religious belief beller No Nt person pecans court fir or earthly power may rightly interfere with or attempt to punish him hum fur for his abstract faith II h Ills Ill seta acts however are alo within the pur purlieu purview view lieu I of the tho law Ill IllIf lawIt If It no as I u II vowed stowed by U come toino persons perola It ItU ItIe U Ie 1 the Mormon Church mid not teed Heed n 11 that Is III under Investigation while the mate may lOay have hlo ito no lawful author Ity In It to tn nn man inquiry 10 o hope It will be so 10 o and fair that It will be u IL real ron G Wo Soo have havo been trying to o for tor moro than lhnn n 1 century The Tho notional will do more to aid ohl that work than anything that has ban hap happened happened during that period tin tho Ih result may IH Ix as an to Individuals nail their rights ns OK citizens and legislators tin tho truth be hold held up tip for rOl at ol attention and will emerge out of the tho clouds that inny InA be cast cant n round around It II bright and latent for the tho glory of or lot Clod and the of ot Jill Ills er great U work ork |