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Show ANOTHER "OPINION'' BY JODSE MCKEAN. Through the courtesy of Chief Justice Jus-tice McKean we are in possession of a copy of his last ruling on naturalization naturaliza-tion and polygamy. The greater por- lion 01 io l ueu.ea 10 me citation oi auth jritios to shiw that thi common law of'Ejglaud extended over this Ter-ri'ory Ter-ri'ory from the treaty of Guadaloupe H'.dalgo until Congress passed the Anti-polygamy act of 1802; and that, con:e'iuently, all polygamists were crimin Js at law! We always thought Congress didn't know much when compared com-pared with some of these Territorial Judges! If the Congress which passed that act hid on'y known what a super-ogatory super-ogatory labjr it was engaged in ! We can't accommodate the Territorial Territo-rial Chitif Justice this morning with all the law, common and statutory, that is tingling d jwn to our finger-ends on th i subject, but will be pleased to give it in small pills gradually, two or three for a dose. After having, as he think?, established estab-lished the position taken, he cays : It is i lite time that certain men in thi-i c j iiu i'lby who mislead the people, peo-ple, who prite abiu'. th :ir 1 y.lty to the C jntuiuti n while th :y denounce every law that, opnose.1 their luirn; it is l'i te time that such men had learned tnat the "jurisdiction of a nation, within its o7u territory, i.i exclusive and absolute. It is sueptib.c of no iim tii'ion not impo-ed by itself." ( I'heEfctungc vs. Mct'ad lotij C'ranch, 110 ) L:t them miico up their minds that, this luiw i w.ll cifirce in Utah the same la.fs that are enforced everywhere every-where elst in the civilize worlu. Let those men wh ) h ive been ii;mran'ly or willing. y milled into big itny, make provision for trie support of their ille giuujatu children and the mothers of I hose children, and then let them cea-e to cohah.t with their concubines. After they shall have done and persisted in such "woiks meet for repent anre," th'-ro will he time enough lor them to app.y lor American citizenship citizen-ship on the ground that they are men " of guoi moral character, attached to ilie principles oi the Constitution of tin; f oiled riial.es, and Wei! disnoncd to the i'ood order and happiness of the .-auie. " Wlia'ovcr the present applicant appli-cant f r naturalization niny have hup-p hup-p is' d hi r-vard to the Jaw prior to f-.OJ, ihry no.v know that, the law condemn con-demn 'he r conduct. 1 1 I h ' v have aoy de-ire cveraiiu to become the law-aoidiug law-aoidiug men which the court, presumes I hey on ee were, let them at once ):y'ti Vi obey the law law in harmony with the principles and practices of all civilized civil-ized nations ; let them no longer listen to the precepts, no longer imitate the exomples of false teachers, who would have them believe that the man who turns away frr m the wife of his youth, and takes to his bed and board and bosom one er more young concubines, does a deed of piety a deed, however, which reminds civilized men of the filial piety which prevails among certain cer-tain African tribes, where children rid themselves of their aired parents by knocking them on the head with a club. "Oh, learned judne !" He should have reflected a little before penning the last long sentence. The judiciary of the Supreme Court of Utah ought to be careful in speaking about "the man who turns away from the wife of his youth." It should be a tender subject with some of them. Let them hold a judicial consultation on the point. Of course the applicants for naturalization, natu-ralization, who had each married two wives before 1SG2, and were still hon-otable hon-otable enough to keep them, were refused re-fused naturalization at the end of this "opinion," |