Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — MORMON CONFESSES PERJURY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MORMON CONFESSES PERJURY.

President Smith Admits He Didn’t Tell Truth in the Smoot Caae. Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mor mon church, admitted to a large audience in Salt Lake Sunday that he com-

mitted,perjury while testifying at Washington in tlie Smoot case iu saying be did not receive revelations. The doctrine of revelation is one of the cardinal principles of the Mormon faith and the criticism of Smith by the Mormons for denying that doctrine lias been

strong ever since he was a witness. President Smith explained that he gave the testimony he did in Washington “because they were trying to put him into a trap” and because the Senators could not understand what the revelation meant. He denounced Cannon and Smurthwaite and all his other critics. DRINK HABIT GROWS IN FRANCE. Dr. Duplessy Warns that It Is a Prime Factor in Tuberculosis. Alcoholism is steadily becoming worse in France, while it is disappearing elsewhere. according to assertions made by Dr. Poitou Duplessy in a puldie address, cables the Herald’s correspondent. The Speaker is a widely known physician. “To the drink evil.” he said, "could be traced the gradual disappearance of the family and the deterioration of racial attributes. Gradual degeneracy is sure to result unless alcoholism is checked.” Dr. Duplessy declared that drink is a prime factor in causing tuberculosis and madness, misery ami crime.

JOSEPH F. SMITH.