MORMON POLYGAMY.

Northern Advocate, 11 April 1911, Page 3

MORMON POLYGAMY.

MARRIAGES STILL TAKING PLACE

A cablegram of recent date published in the "Advocate," disclosed the fact, on the admission of the Mormon Church president, that 1100 polygamous marriages had been solemnised by that Church in 1010. No fewer than five different magazines (says the March issue of the "Current Literature") have taken it upon themselves to proclaim in trumpet tones that Mormonism is once more y. burning issue, and that the Federal Government will soon be compelled to face the problems raised by the revival of polygamy in Utah. Ex-Senator Frank J. Cannon, himself the son of one of the ablest and most sincere of all Mormon lead-rr., declares in the first of a series of. articles in "Everybody's Magazine": "I propose to show that the leaders of the Morman Church have broken their covenant with the nation. I undertake to expose and to demonstrate what I do believe to be one of the most direful conspiracies of treachery in the history of the United States." Mr Burton J. Hcndrick, in "McClure's Magazine," brands the Mormon Church as "a great secret society existing very largely for criminal purposes." Gf the five exposes, that in "McClure's Magazine" is presented in the neatest aud most compact form. Mr Uendrick briefly reviews the history of the Mormon Church in America, and the events leading up to the admission of Utah into Statehood. Deep ingrained in the whole history of Mormonism, he reminds us, has been the struggle to retain polygamous marriage. At one time the Federal authorities sent more than a thousand polygamists to gaol. Only twentythree years ago, Congress confiscated the property of the Mormon Church on the the ground that it was a treasonable and law-defying organisation, and proposed to defranchise all Mormons. It was not until 1890 that the Church confessed itself beaten and disclaimed polygamy. It was then admitted to Statehood.