Show i RIGHTS OF OI WITNESSES IT IX I TilE THE SMOOT S 1001 CASE CAS 4 the tho Inri i t nf ot the Smoot caw case It that unless Do tto honorable committee of af the it I very crY eyeful It Il will willIs es establish e ii I moro more dangerous danK fUS precedent than I ho alleged wrongs It II Is l Inquiring Into In speaking thus I J wish to state what Is well clI known to my friends that I been becil um still opposed c ow i Ing to the peculiar of 0 tin nn Apos Apostle tin tle tb to uniting the tho and tho the I of senator In Iii one unc person BO so that I 1 am ant amnot not nut Ils specially tho tim Junior set sen fortunes In lit ono one WilY way or another I but hut beyond his hi personality I II I and still stilt stillmore more fundamental than the tho question of ot othi hi sent seat are arc the other othet pharos of ot the case which deal with tho the committees fright r right to Investigate un II and l Inquire Into Inlo the thc home life of ur Individuals antI and which apparently tend to set aside welt well known constitutional rights Whether consents to President Smith other testifying or not nol It scorns to tf mo tHU that tho committee ought lo to establish h a IL rule rul that witness a In lit Ih II tl right to not hOt ho bo compelled to ri tI a g and it tot privileged I I Many of oC the ask President tI tended to 10 violate his personal rights the Bonder If ItI l un lew there wan Willi wt Olno to expedite the t he heating h i I n g that hat I the t he committee t dill U I Id I nut not advise him him of his hi rights Of ur what hut tit tt In IK thi right lo to the writ of ot corpus If rather tItan than to In It wo VO allow low our mom HUlt precious I and sacred rights to be lIe infringed I Another r plume of o the tho inquiry In it II as ae asto ASto aeto to the tho I Itt rights of It lad In th I h have their home hOlo and tutu the lie rights of I 0 property thir anti ami liberty sacredly protect and antl It tins lias hal been heel well wel ril wild alil nf of If the Iho great common law II lit I s doctrine ri tie of o C ones onti tight right II ht to ihl 1115 bottle and tind the and Ild privacy Irl Princy thereof mans housa housaIn hou vacy ncy Jot In ii ICY called 1 his hi Why Wh II It Is it by hy a 1 moat or defend jel ed 1 ll by hy a l wall vall No It I may I be n a straw hut i the Wil wind whistle wh tto through It I the rain titer Miter r It I hut but the rull 11 unc If It Ite ife cannot annot Ho Iso its above fC Mated 11 We e drift too far from those tholo established I Irl of citizenship and of or liberty do IC may such a course In anY Inquiry luch f 11 harm to the public policy of or the more ration and atUt tho the state than th I tho the alleged that may nitty exist Personally too 1 desire to say thet tho the fact that tho I somo lomo of ot the witnesses In Inthis InthIs tend to Mormons may this CUM case Ore are 11 Iro prejudice to 10 exIst exl t In tim tun Investigation but hut being II Mormon I tHYself myself I desire to say that t I allow flow no noman man tORI to go to before mo too on the questions n of pf f nl loyalty lo uly amid patriotism to the titi t I of or my country Tho Vho lessons of American liberty libert and 1111 the tho ho growth of oC freedom In IC Iberl the wind w are arc lre endearing to 0 me always have havo beet been Such Mitch K are nrc always Inspiring to be he Mor Mormon freeman whether ho every ever mOO mon eol Jew few or Ut anything a n y I Ii I a g I I would 1011 tend enil to 10 Interfere with them would meet with wih resistance from front any II PI nt oil man mrm manIt It In itt said semper H libre Ihre Mountaineers I are arc always freemen ant and this IB Is II true Irle rime with wih reference to the Iho peo pen pie Ills of ot the tho state of Cit Ir and atUl 1111 tho Hooky Mountains ns ni well wol eti as ns of or other oilier parts of or the tha sail said sa iI that thai the first of Or rights Is IM II equality of at rights nfl James 1 O G 5 aptly Tho llie Ihl 1111 Impulse of ot nn On American Is II l equality and so 0 I say AI that this Idem of equality should hi bo ho maintained I fl t I med In every over Investigation I gation tit t a before every tribunal t nal It I be tie hI so tio 10 or else as I a Lincoln says nYI All li of or liberty will 11 hll be hI lost and wn sn cannot 1 keep kiep klc the Jewel freedom In Iti tho the family of or nations hi hit t bitt the Ih committee In II In 11 this matter r will wil view 1 broad broadly broadI brol ly I the Iho rights of ot nil all 11 concerned In It I and amid consider tho great conquests made lallo by bytho Ii h the tho Pioneers nail ami settlers of or the Iho west Sest ns nil ni well wIl etl as ni tho the of petitioners I Iam Sincerely am 11 at March 7 i 1001 1901 tOl |