Show i i = RESOLVED The Young Mehte Mutual 1 Improvement I Improve-ment Associations of the Salt Lake Stake i have been holding a conference in this city and have created some talk by their action in regard to the crusade now going on What is this crusade and what are these persecutions with which the air is filled and whose cries rend the car It is simply this a continued prosecution prose-cution of a continued violation of the laws of the United States It is simply what Should be so long as the laws under I which indictments are brought remain upon the statute books The repeal of the law of 1862 the Poland law and the Edmunds law has never once been called for by the Peoples Party Their platforms plat-forms have never mentioned them and have neithersuggested what should be nor what should not be Montague Tigg has been a chief adviser and how not to atlL their whole policy The assembled Associations have I 4 if 1 b 1 adqpted a long l < set t of resolutions the preamble of which says U WHEREAS There exists in the Ter I story of Utah at the present time a conspiracy con-spiracy agaihsHhe peace and liberties of i the community of Latterday Saints generally and our parents and friends I particularly and so forth I The Associations should have gone I farther and told suffering humanity where the conspiracy is and whom they suspicion as beingat its head If we are wrong in our surmises correct us if we are right say scf for here is the cons piracy I pir-acy and these the conspirators A determination de-termination by United States officers to enforce the United States laws against polygamy in United States Territories The chief conspirators locally are Chief Justice Zane United States Attorney I Dickson and United States Marshal I Ireland and at the back of these arch I conspirators there stand men whose names are alien and strange in I Utah and among these unknown names are Grover Cleveland Thomas Bayard j Lucius Q C Lamar Augustus H Garland j Gar-land ea parte Garland and others Had I James Buchanan had in his Cabinet such advisers and keen lovers of the Constitution I Consti-tution as these Associators the conspiracy I which went on in his very presence would have been detected and crushed I in its incipiency and many millions mil-lions of treasure and many hundreds i hun-dreds of thousands of lives would have been saved and Grant would never have known Is it not time to bring these conspirators to justice and call for their impeachment To know of a conspiracy and not denounce it is to be accessory before the fact Evidently something is wrong in the enforcement of the laws made in pursuance pursu-ance of the Constitution and itis of great it is of vital interest to the people to know what it is Is it the law that is I wrong or its enforcement Which I I |