Show 0 Z WHAT DO 10 the loyal hearts of the 11 toil oil beag Iea gura u v ers of utah go ko pit a S pat PM 28 a they wonder if the members of the eop e a ar iiii aki 60 oath path NY tri I 1 be required require d of etem edmunds bill 1 30 n owdia W in tho hands hans of the president beco become 1 nii s a law the organs pf the liberal party with remarkable alacrity op open it their facial or orifice 1 and id forthwith insert their pedal extremities therein by stating that them r J the peopled peoples party i will not hesitant hesi tat tato eto to perjure them selves in arder to retain chii their air hold on ott a few paltry secular I 1 offices 1 now in ahe first place plic e if cheze offices are ie paltry why should the mer members I 1 of the mino minority fity opposition be so anxious to be ees cure them 7 2 in the second place thit hoodoo hoo doo about abut perjury is ii the result t of the having caving I 1 discovered d that after all their plot plots forlie I 1 squelching of republican in seit alons are futile and their hard ear m n w applied to an all ignos ble purpose have been spent in vain agthe HERALD ha has repeatedly pu D 1 out the bill notwithstanding it a ie is an tin outrageous piece of legislation is not what the rule or ruin clique has been clamoring for it will not satiate their r ravenous hunger fox spoils and the probability that they will till still have to fight supremacy at the po pulls 3 is disheartening to them the r re C I 1 cent election in ogden has shown them juet abw they are situated they exhausted every expedient in the hope i of securing success and then were werd subjected to defeat tile their mercur mercurial lil hopes have dropped to zero zer and their ardor the outcome of 0 expected place and pelf hag has been effectually dampened by a wet bl blanket from the national legislature but alo t return to t the original question guestion will the mormons take thet oath the HERALD q elated yesterday that undoubtedly the thi mormons ca would settle that question individually 7 when the time for ir tak a 1 ing the oath comes it it patr ever does doe s come the deseret news in irr dis dia cusing cubing 0 ibis question 1 sati fol lows new now the gormong ere are not worrying crying over oyei this juet yet when the bill Is it actu actually allya n law and an elec dec t tion offiel or new ia is it hind 9 probably yf ibey twill 1111 begin to think seriously Beriou sly jatho ou whether hether or br not they can take the oath and xer cise ciao the franchise jn in all ill probability some Mort noBe jake the thi oath cath indeed it is almost joure thata that a por pori i tion of ilia people will decline to do eo so mie who have more inore wives thao than one living and will most likely refrain from swearing bw earing ar ing anu toting bat that will no not taffe cathe result mach o 0 for they have from toting for nearly flye ay past there are oiron ow wio c contemplate or intend I alar plural wives ar or who man mean to adlae others A to do so id they way would probably forego the pleasure plea eure of swallowing the pill prescribed by congress Coa yeas ihie might leaen aba number of merman in some email small degree 1 I 4 but Butt there hefe aremady mormon mormons walo hay nat formed claral family relations noi any ony intention of doing of siding or acI advising other to take that step andia and it they are in iii the sarai mind and condition 1 when the question of taking the teat test oath comes forcibly to their attention they will no doubt consider nIder co it carefully and decide for themselves as to whether or not they will register and vote and whatever decision they may arrice aej att wet are inclined I 1 idt to think it win will not be materially affif eted by the views of their anse unscrupulous rup ulous enemies as to their consistency or depravity or anything else that may be said about them ahem we are afraid that the schemers who have fieve staked their all the th 0 question bostion of agon RI some secular 0 offices ces w will I 1 have to remain in sickening eicken inc suspense about what the mormons will do until the time cornea comes when they do something eom ething in that direction B bat t wo we think it well enough to consider here the ground on which ch it Is predicated that the mormons Mort aona cannot vote without abandoning the position the have taken before the he courts thare are none io blind as those who will not see anyone who uses his bis mental eyes can discern the radical difference bt reen the question fuestion that confronts a mormon defendant defendant in court and that which W will ill come up for a mormon decision when registration is at band hand the conditions are diverse the individuals ire are not in the tb earne position the questions are dissimilar in court t the e defendant is a polygamous mormon on we use the popular term the Tho person to register is a monous monogamous mormon here is is an essential difference of conditions one Is asked to aglys up something that he has covenanted to keep for ever the other has not taken noon upon himself any such obligation the mormon under sentence is required to obey the laws as construed by the courts the mormon about to register simply azam to obey the laws as they are the courts make a demand that no honorable man can comply with the test oath is one that a great many honorable men can take we are profoundly affected by the solicitude of those hungry hypocrites lusting for place who are so shocked at tile thought that any mormon will v violate his conscience for the eak asks of voting it Is very kind of them to be so tender on that point joint we lye can imagine the crocodile tears they shed while canting on this question upon which they depends their nice appreciation of honor is truly moving A adif they only state the position fairly or with an approach to correctness bow how much more striking their attitude and exhortations would be bel but we cannot consent even to comfort them a little in their pendulous and hara harass saine iniz condition that our friends should be bamboozle bamboozled d into the idea that there is anything in common between the disgraceful p pledge e d go demanded of jl f carried rile d mormon defendant in court courland cour tand and and a bachelor or ono one before the registrar A husbard of two or more wives whom he has vowed before gd god to bold hold and cherish as hie his for time tim a and eternity would be lare aking faith with them aad with deity if be he agreed to do what the courts require in order to escape imprisonment but a single nan man or 0 the husband of one wife who has daano no present intention of entering into plural marriage might take the oath prescribed as a condition to registration without doing violence to his faith or hia his integrity it is a question lor him to decide for himself and no other person can full decide for him the courts demand a great deal more than the law what they require is cruel inhuman and far beyond either the the spirit or the letter of any enactment tho the teet test oath embraces none no of these features it is md b ad legislation framed with the view of excluding it if possible the majority of our citizens from the poll polls for the benefit of the minority Ino rity but the constitution stood in the themay way of making it entirely exclusive and BO go as I 1 it stands it does not directly infringe u upon on a mans belief or the expression of that belief and it affects a differ ent class of citizens from those affected by the pledge demanded bythe by the courts court ff there is no fair comparison to be made between the two in any shape form principle or effect affect the effort to confound the twain or make them one ia Is worse than sophistry it ie is direct misrepresentation it chows that the inventors are as a weak as they imagine their leaders readers to be the question then providing provid lae the bill is signed by the president must become an tin balone ua lone it comes comee to the citizen himself as a matter for personal determination if he is in any doubt aa as to what ho he can do honorably and consistently consistent lyt he must examine hia his own intentions and compare them with the oath if he Is I 1 still in doubt he will most likely a k advice from bia his friends unless b he e Is a dolt and an imbecile imbe eile elle he certainly will not seek counsel from the scheming ing rascal who expect to profit by his relinquishment of ther right of suffrage euf frage |