Show pros sah interviewed b tl LK 1 x il it relm sen tati e of the Anocia ted aident joaeph bunth mud the following statement as to the position of tho the church on the matters rL fOrred to doea does tho the mormon church eole sole dinizo or permit plural president smith was wits askea certainly not in replied the church does doos not perform per forin or sanction or authorize ibarria e in any form that is contrad contrary ar to the laws of tho the land why then is it asser asserted tred that prominent Morn mormons ions practice polygamy that is done evidently to mil tills load lead the public pol gain guin under the law is tho the marrying ing of a hug hus band or wd ni while bile tha the log hug lining and arced forced there is 19 no such committed by sanction of the mormon normon church but the prohibition of polly polygamy gamy was vas proclaimed the of we mormon church there miny persons who had contracted plural marriage 9 and arid that relation haa has been con continued tinned in many instances because the men in that position determined not to abandon their families but to anre for and for them and arid cau cate and cherish their children this ie is erroneously constructed as ana da creates te s tho impression 1 that marriages marri agog are still permitted in and by the church to bilat extent arc are se relations of polygamous BUS sus bained it ams ai ascertained 1 by a careful census of 1590 when preside rt woodruff druff issued hie his manifesto a 11 f further urther polygamous mam ages a there were 2 2151 such families to tc tho the church of christ of letter da in the united states in MU ma 1902 a complete and arid thorough inquiry that tho the uri ginal number in 1890 had been beell reduced 02 62 per cf it leaning then only thu the graat majority of whom were of ad aneed age and many oe of ali thim m have bine departed this affo it ia evid evident plit that with no additions to thia this total but a rapid and contina ont muil il decrease the number of polygamous families will soon le la l e reached to zero it is widely asserted that apostle reed smoot ought not to bo be elected senator because hois lie Is a high b agh church dignitary and hii church position is comp com pored ered to thai of a cardinal or archbishop in other ecclesiastical bodies how do you regard this objection the tro two position 3 aro are not par albel pre si d nt smith said an apostle or seventy or elder or bichop in the church of 0 jesus christ of latter day saints is usually engaged in some secular vocation or laboring in some capa city for his daily bread lie ile is or bained to tho the officio ho he holds in the priesthood so that ho he may a in that calling chui required hu ile gives his sen icee icea gratuitously to tho the church there are instances of course when a mans onaca bhole time is i fallen taken up with some church duty that lie remuneration ak f oa j I 1 but a a r il d nien holding these in th priesthood artt are un en gaslin and aro are I 1 affairs awl HP 11 TM bin wt wa 19 u banker bauler lie 10 manage of the largest kanuf f chur a i in the state i 19 s in teree tere tod gro adiv ill mining operations aad othar temporal pursuits lite 4 ite 1 la TC cwg t und ue as a capable and elite biag citizen and his dionn tin thi church need nut not inte r tere way with lua his 1 to the state ur or to the natio a an political oat a ice to aich he lie vao ma bo be it is 9 wt nc etue that he has wen put ara by the church as a aa clin n lato for 0 r public office but ho he has i i som samo 1 right that any other alair m accept any office to which his fellow fullow citi V mu altet him to occupy morino hurch officials have ser led cd in contress ress tor years and arid no objection giai ben offered on that account eiery mormon official has been boen ono one holding holdin tho the priest horl horal and that has dover interfered with I 1 hie duties tho the objection in tho present i without substantial reason or dounda tion novye st leage dec I 1 in alus vi chitty are rejoicing they balma tho aro are oer it lus in s been four lays since a shock was ft f it tribune Tri bunt new york dec 1 4 hany art einy loe of a locomotive work works in paterson J tod toda as the result of a practical joke played on inin by five of hie his felloe workmen work irien they wern ar rusted ested charged cb arge with causing his death it I 1 n alleged that they blew blow up wright with a pneumatic air pump havin a pressure of pounds to tho the inch tho the 3 young oung stomach became fleetly batly ai at d after several lionne of great suffering he died tribune |