Show WHAT IS 15 THE MANS MAN'S NAME It is just possible that Mrs Florence D. D Richards of the Central Ohio conference conference conference con con- ference of the Methodist church has been deceived We shall not believe anything else until she compels another another an an- o other er bell belief r S 1 t r JT t V j j 1 t f j At a recent session of or the general genera conference o tho the Methodist church held beld in Baltimore Mrs Richards was honored with a place on the platform and there she slie delivered an address against polygamy polygamy advocating advocating an amendment to the federal constitutIon constitution constitution tion making pol polygamy gamy an offense against the United States That is all right She will receive no opposition in iu Utah But she supplemented supplemented sup sup- her ber argument with the always always al aI- al- al ways effective personal appeal Here 15 is the tho Va way she has bas been quoted in ina I a hundred papers in every part of the country I know what this evil elI is because I had a friend who married a Mormon in lu New Now York They lived there happily happily happily hap hap- for five years oars and then thon moved to Utah Some time Ume ago he was notified by the elders of the tho Mormon ormon church that he was not living up to his duties duties du du- du ties lies and that he must take another wife He did Now ow t that at should be an easy case caseto caseto caseto to prove Here Is a a. woman who knows the first wife and knows her husband She knows the plural wife And it seems to come within the prohibition prohibition prohibition pro pro- oi ot the tho manifesto Mrs Rich Rich- ards says the plural marriage took place some time ago That should mean recently It certainly cannot be understood as meaning eighteen years oars ago Who Is the tile roan wan Mrs Richards What is his name If he be lives In Utah whore where does he live e If It she doesn't know that she certainly knows the address of his first wife wife her her friend There has bas been a good deal of Innuendo Innuendo innuendo In In- and a good deal of hinting about new polygamy amy We Wo do not beHove believe be be- Hove lieve an any exists and the ground for fot our disbelief Is that the accusers do donot donot not cite a single established ease case se Hero Here should be an exception to the rule Hero Is a woman godly enough to be Le sent as a delegate to the general gen gen- oral eral conference of the Methodist church She should have havo so strong a I regard for her word that she would not bear false witness She should bo be sufficiently impressed vi with h the the r solemnity of or her position to be ver very careful of her facts for she Is c charging arg ing lug a thing which If It tue ue t arraigns a 11 great people It arraigns a n state It gives warrant for the defaming of Utah But if ir she cannot give e the namo name of or the man who has within the past eighteen years committed polygamy If she sho cannot tell the name Dame of her ber friend whoso whose life Ufe has bas been wrecked b by the addition of a plural wife to toI her household If U she does not produce produce pro pro- I duce the proofs of the very grave charge she has made why made why then Mrs Richards was improperly sent as a delegate delegate- from Central Cental Ohio to the general Conference of her the tho most moet impressive and solemn as as- of Christian men and women wo wo- men known to lo all Methodism What is ic the name of your friend Richards Where Whore she live What Is the name of her husband husband- tho the man who f some some time ago nho added a plural and polygamous wife to his household If you rou will support your our charge with the reasonable proofs which you must have had bad before uttering it wo we 0 assure you OU the man will be punished |