Show Jl ImSXISG COUMENT os TIE L EVIVJWI i i Inc aco investigation ati to j have been instituted for the pcirj > osc of deciding whether Q not racm 1 Church h 1 i Mwnlilj In tire Mormon bur r cvtnpatiblewlth good cltizcnihlp ha been watched g ken inter it lij I the who con munity A ruuniug glance over the evidence produced falls to warrant tni other conclusion thus far than that the i Latterday cneu Faints are a loyal a pojftte as live within the Kcpubllc In iwt one instance has I teen Jiowu that the Inthood have II j meet taught dteloyalty to the goer I I has been darkly hinted I y some 1 of UHJ WiDI known to b pronounced I nounced and bitter cnemic of the IKIi eneme I J Cur that some ofrtbe teachings t might have been Inferred t have a Iftut in that direction but the Infer 1 utialfem of opponents is always t betaken with a fur grains of silt The explanation of Mr Lawrence Law-rence on the point was significant The cxprefeions of the authorities were not directed against the gov ITIUt but against ofhcjals acting under it who dealt jircsivch nnd unjustly with th Mormon people from the latterttnndpoiuu A long and almost inexhaustible 1M of wrongs could be enumerated Not only the authorities but the whok community have taken ex1 cej > tls t mijsurcS of that character char-acter I t is not necessary t g oufeide of the courtroom where the T investigation U in progress for illustrations illus-trations Mr Ditk on is understood under-stood to have furmulated and I applied when lie was U 8 Dirfnct attorney what has been called the tcgregalion system by HieiiisofBiikh beingau indefinite multiplication of indictments for 4 one ofleusc Mormons could L tent to prison fur severn hundred 3 ears ana I linal a Him impossi We ot satisfaction by i Jtoth chlld The exDiitrfct attorney and the wh operated with him were criti CKed to some extent fur this nn uarrantable course We liao never thought that the censure ap l > le to that measure and the US ofllcers who worked I was unpatriotic unpatri-otic or treasonable AVe couldnt a think of aich a thing because it would be an undue reflection upon the Supreme Court of the United Slate HhicJi smahod segregation and characterized it a nn unprece tent legal moiitro itj Instead of it bung thown that the Mormons have been disloyal even their corrals in the prcceod K ings of the last few days have testified testi-fied that they have always held to the belief that the Constitution inn insured instrument The logical inference from this position is that all U laws ntadu in pursuance of it a o HID Nwe geniu if I his cUe t I1 6 that men and measures can net he criticized without those cmclu witot tho engaging en-gaging in flat Constitutional exercise exer-cise bring Hot only charged with dteloxalti but virtually punished bydibUt j dlbmt > or it then let free dom sforeik and liberty fall prostrate in Uicmuil to be kicked to disflsure nteut by the iron o feet of tyran iij 1 iijBelief Belief during the jieculur inves le J > lir Inc tigation in question la been intro duced as an element of unpatriotic ijuKiuy nut the > ho is o the other foot the enemy of free government g ernment mIng he who would nuke Ilk fellow an offender on nh ont of a mental couuition superinduced by evidence A man can no more helj his belief on any ubjct coming within thin purview of hh intellect than he can the shape and size ot lite head The spirit that scold ap 1 > coercive process of any kind cither in the shape of o hap disabilitv a ibuniUMrren or an 2uklccrjicr to Jr f a man from one belief u oinniwr las not drunk at the living fountain of liberty but might have been esteemed average citizen of g ctbn an unlimited 5 djKfi m in thin dark age of the worM hIstory The Supreme Court of the United States has as f erted on this 1e < Ucstiou that the lau deals only will del otrtacts be lief not being a J roper tuljtct 01 i restriction The attempt to present a phi e of 0 disloyalty In the tndou menta IIT failed the teUmouy a a whole being be-ing to the eflect that the eftt tht govern goer I scoot I K not mentioned in connec tion with the n auj urn Then Meps in the iufcrcntiai whIch M > all the coloring there w 15 to the I allegation inJ i docs not amount 10 more lan w much smoke The attempt to how that there i any obligation of jioygamy associ i ated with these eacretl riles 11a utterly failed Of course it lit been iJiowu that a certain clam 01 witnesses w ill tettifj to anytiung ca w Joni a they can gratify their sf4een against the Church with which they nero fonnerly couiicct wih cnnl oe Wanlell Is i an iutancc in poiut His evidence slwwn to l > e totally ttl i false readied the point ofluJicrou ner when examined in relation to the oMieatioi of polypni in con nection with the en Jo wment Be 1 i ing ny atked after he had tinted thai le j I ieu 10 iis nature he said Mibstantially that some one I Mle exclaimed claimed CAI tliote in favor of Ink ing more wives than i mor thn one say ae Contrary n The ayes have it Of cour e nobod including the i tl Liberal proecutors llieed a t word the old man raid The blood atonement or death oeth 4t penalty business h Miarcd n sirni jar fate Xot one In tn Ins been cited of any tueh penalty having j been inflicted this act of iUeil ueiug unanswerable as showing ifc nonexistence Of courts the witness f I the wit-ness War eJ tried t furnish a case man named Green a resident of rannlnglon who was bloodatoned In an Immigrant train near Green River There seemed t hare Lon a great del of green about > this alleged sanguinary circumstance Some facts were elucidated in r ii i laittal that threw a shadow on WardeHs blood and thunder The only Green tat ever lived at Tarm I Ington was produced In cur and a was ready t testify that he was notat Green Hirer in 1S6J and hat to the best of his knowledge and belief ho had never been killed As a circumstance of that a kind could not very well hao D I cuied without Ill being cognizant of the fact Mr Greens evidence In < rebuttal could not b considered as I remarkably weak I any more proof were needed I r furnished by Mr Follctt one of Wardells to the taking oil of tyewltnetscs t tkin ot Mr Green If c said that there w no Green in the train After that broad statement his subsequent ai section that he never saw the man who wasnt there murdered had a slight tinge of Miperfluity abut I WardeHs son and daughter both supported the statements of Messrs Green and Follit Throughout the iiivesUgation a particular feature was noUcable Whenever witness J > ould testify In a way that ilamnged the Liberal Liber-al cau e Mr IJIckson would almost al-most Invariably ask Arc you a Mormon H Tho answer was occasionally casionally in the negative The point tought to b made bj the attorney at-torney was that If tie witness was a Mormon he could not be fully relied lied upon At this point it is appro I priate to reproduce the testimony of Mr Hobert > Baskin i h already al-ready appeared in the > EWS given before tho Congressional House Ctommltlee on TerritOries on January Janu-ary 21tt 1S70 I have been for five car iat a resident of tub I must do the Mor rieDt th mus tc mOM the justice to say that Mr p < t I toM treiigMM doss < eater info tht cnaru in ordinary cases I have never detected any bias on tim part jurors there in this respect a I at first expected ex-pected I have appeared L cases where Mormons and Gentiles were wber GeDte wer opposing op-posing pre In the caw and saw much to my urpn o Usa jury do what is right We do not know wh < her Uie case If tuch HEIIJ bcdcaignatrd now In progress before Judge Anderson ha ever been definitely entitled Several name hive appeared upon the Infer connected with It Vo do not wish to be obtrusive but if a mild suggestion I In order how would this do Thel5oses of the Liberal Party AS Constitutional I Rights and Keliglous Liberty |