Show MORMON LOYALTY The late refusal of Judge ANDERSON to grant citizenship to seven Mormon aliens and his restatement of the points on which his infamous decision of a year ago was based illustrato once more the fact that there is no accounting for the folly of men when they undertake to regulate other mens consciences and Belief When a man thinks said the late HESUT WARD BCECHEK that he is a celestial hound seton set-on the track of heresy with his nose for a conscience and scents his prey afar off and starts off with tail up and ears set farewell sense farewell honor farewell humanity farewell everything To tho 4 truth of that doctrine of the great preachers preach-ers the people of Utah could bear witness to from facts in their own experience But this reassertion of the position taken by Judge AXDEKSOX not only illustrates the fact above referred to but it calls in question again the loyalty of the Mormon people and their leaders and it is of this we wish to speak We say nothing here of the frequent demonstrations of their loyalty to the United States to bo met within with-in their history not the least of which tis discontinuance of the practice of plural marriage enforced by the manifesto of President WOODUCFF and sanctioned by the late general conference in this citan act which in Judge ANDERSONS opinion leaves the status of the Mormon question unchanged We pass all this and here merely wish to call attention to some of the teachings of the Mormon leaders in relation to tile government of the United States and tile relation of the Saints to it It is now notorious that the founder of the Mormon church taught that the constitution consti-tution of the United States was given by inspiration of GOD and held the view that if only laws in harmony with its guarantees guaran-tees of religious and civil liberty were enacted I en-acted it would afford all the freedom the people could ask for BIUGUAM YOUNG was equally emphatic Said he on one occasion occa-sion To accuse us of bein unfriendly to the government gov-ernment is to accuse us of hostility to our religion reli-gion for no item of inspiration is held more sacred with us than the constitution under which she acts As a religious society we in common with ah other denominations claim its protection whether our people are located In the other ttates or territories as thousands of them arc or In this territory it is held as a shield to protect the dearest boon of which man Is susceptiblehis religious views and sentiments senti-ments JHfcourfes rol II lOn > I I l-On another occasion the same man expressed ex-pressed these views There are thousands of things would like to name with regard to our elves and our government govern-ment Our whole interest ib in it we cling to it like a child to its mothers breast and we will hang to it until they beat us off until we can hang to it no longer and this will never happen unless they drive us from it under the pretext of what Mormonism Is going to do The last clause in the above becomes quite significant in the light of the remarks of President HAKRISON in his massage and Judge ANDERSON in his late decision With the former Utah should not be admitted as I a state lest the Mormons at some future time make polygamy lawful the latter would not admit alien Mormons to citizenship citizen-ship for the same reason Observe that in both instances the refusal to grant these people their rights is justified 0 2 under the pretext of what Mormonism is going to do What confidence this pair of worthies have in th6 future of the republic re-public la the nation going to lose its power so that it cannot enforce its decrees Is the naliDn on the wane Or must the strong man having thrown the weaker on his back hold him there forever lest when on his feet again he would renew the struggle strug-gle What of the great moral forces in the republic i What of the spiritnal power of the Christian religion Are these things to play no part in regulating society in Utah Bah The opponents of the Mormons Mor-mons in undertaking to debar the people of Utah from their rights as citizens of this country or of the right to become citizens of it on the pretext of what Mormonism is going to do are giving an exhibition of their own lack of faith in the efficacy of the moral forces of their muchvaunted advanced ad-vanced civilization or else displaying their own littleness of soul by venting their spleen upon a class of men for the time being within their power |