Show E c 1 s Colu nuL tuo thu is not rot for tho the vi wa of its cort it t alms to be b the polar PK r of ilia abo people mil and its columna kro are ope open I 1 to V to law any awl out only it abat it bo be mij id alonz will W dot be b aubi published bcd T abo 6 a dame of uio the renal la in ca acs be fum furn lied wied THE MORMON BLUE LAW editors salt ade the undersigner undersigned under signed having triv elea r cd somewhat nely io ill foreign lidia as well as 3 through the iho states bergby bertby arcs as the result of years of observation that io in DO is ia tile iho sabbath day so irreligiously regarded na as ia the territory of utah now ow As alii the ore are nearly all al 11 of them and children brought up in that hit particular re religion and as ai they are no norio alday as salata break ere erb than they have all almog been aro are we dot in ia tho the conclusion that tho cho Ol igOu vc of iho maraion 1 11 alro phet a and d thi the religion ioa of christ in ia this beat bear no great resemblance to each other christian Chri nation a car laitila tai uly have and do maintain a sincere respect for the lords hy after so BO many years of uninterrupted and add almott almost unmitigated sabbath brealie 1 radical to dicki for far sat eitt like lake is IB not I 1 proposed no posed but ordered ord orfed by tho the city council Cou ocil insofar lo 10 BO far tenor na our city fathers were influenced in ill their action by a st sacre acer e christian spirit aad by a genuine the lords day that chat action certainly carla bioly would havo have been commended provided thai any by cos con wid erable amount of wilia had been exercised in 10 framing the ibe late into sunday ordinance aut it will b bo to cour itice the publio public that the entire ordina ordinance cico lilo like others which have preceded prec cdcil it was as not fort don Alor cormons mormons mons alone anil and with wilh that impression they roust must regard it in the light ora of a hostile oct act the question as 88 to what constitutes I a proper ab observance of the Sibbal Sibbi lib lt dy him has loog long since silica been act tied ie as not pr 0 say liny nce tary labor as ta bouw connected ted with tho the toilet the family tho the govero meat the press with commerce with purely intellectual pursuits puru une and with rational lionil rt enjoyment and recreation these of course are arc general to 6 be so BO in ia ter prated and modified in JQ their application to different bud ud la his to meet the iho conaci eat ealious ious lad aad common minoti co sense approval of intelligent christian masses this ws was tho the practical view or of the sunday question balvia by the cormons mormons Moru ioos when they first came to utah thu tho bard necessities bece itiL of their calso cabo them to any listed day of rest and fr that din did regard they acre arc dot reproved by those wheat estee ined as a thur religious instruct instructors yet that ne ne ceaty long moco parsed avay absy and that too without uil boul leaving leaping io in na jis place a wholesome reformation now if tho at its it lt last nekton had bad passed a payday law ar U directly and effectually to stop plop and others frota from cutting nod and aiding timber on tho the sabbath to stop the adolio maker tho the oaf cai punter pooler the ibo shoemaker tho the weaver from frola worT ilog on that day there would havo have been some in the act because such buch labor at ai hsuch time bad ceased ased to bu be A necessity essiy sad nod the general health would bits ho a beon been pro boici hereby cut but tho the action of the city council extend out side eldo of ibo be corporation corpor alioti limits and 1 there is a largo in the ibo city either entire or temporary residents whose hofle only bottle is a i board boarding nag house base tiro are of necessity maja in i created forc foff that pur pobo and whose only places in which to deot or form sc quaint slices ore the colette and other places or public rort dud by couitt common ion usage and consent the world over the day abobo ull all others for buch meetings is id the sabbath public ordinances to have amoral a bearing be do BO coo con strutted ted out only only with ith reference I 1 to the he I 1 principles involved but to ad nil the upon which their influence is ill to be brought to bear that the in natural total effect or of their ppe ration would b be a reformation among the people yet it cannot bil be that thata a I 1 mormon locution city council expects expect fl to reform re the american pops population lation of the tb capital of 0 the territory by aff iving severe penalties pen allic to tho the Tio violation lation of cc certain r tain moral rod nd religious principles and precepts which they themselves hyo have never properly respected and nd more eppe C bally when they have hate embodied those penalties penal liri in an ordinance worthy of the times limes when tho the puritans Puri ra rit taos of new kagland hong bung women because they ajo wart hopard hagard in ID appearance zid 1 hd had a cracke c voice apici and killed C can 0 for catching rate ri and whipped tiller cider barreal ar sunday men do pok not billingly illin gly obey a law lair which they cannot respect end dd they lannot cannot in their hearts heart respect it law abich ibich bich upon its ill rites hife unmistakably ti bann ears the of is t ole ranco rod aad arr m ati on and when they know irow u will flaty AN ili ey choi know noy hayt thing hiag tint that it was irea created ted not sincerely in the in arct f and an d religion rel won hat but to t administer to the cupidity of the he trian ditt deity who once did find and who still to reign supreme over these of iha on lutat ria it dont do the con congregation 1 gation a bit of good when the devil priD kIes the abe holy water the th americans a salt lake city who drink liquor will continue to do so the only differ crice being the bottle will be substituted for the th alaj aglais and tho the profane oath will be ba bold in abey abec a 01 boly ly to be uttered io in multiplied d ralin fainn and nth i increased De leased if this thia lie be fio be the tapo 1 even the moral of the law is wrong and can only pro duco daco evil and out abot good onil hod therefore the ordia anca itself should bo be either cither modified or repealed waiving tho consideration of the utho u unconstitutional onal features of this mock ordinance ordin acce let us briefly inquire ialo the meaning of 1 profaning aning the name of the deity what hat deity 1 la Is it the sove sovereign reigo lord of deseret Deser ct whom all good mormon 6 should qualifiedly worship wor thip if they expect ever to meet with the god josephann Josep hand and to which latter they choy should also pay divine damo honors if they expect to with adam their father and nd their god or does the word refer to the almighty god I 1 strongly suspect that the former is really meant it in that the name of brisbain BrIg bain young is too freely by our american Ameri caa fellow citi ac lens and I 1 too frequently associated with loud laud thoughts oot dot over repute we hie and language laDu ago not dot able to be together altogether agreeable if the latter laller what rulo rule aro ara we wa to adopt ts 0 govera a legal definition of that bat term A aro to we to adopt the ancient acci nt rule that the aims of ii jiho jibe TA id that it cannot pi ausy be pronounced as ft a whole that table must le be separated fro from its aciano syll by intervening words word and even eten whole seat cuties and that any olber manner of f utterance in profane T or are re we to take tho the more r definition difini tion t that to profane the name of god is uto to pollute pul lute the same bad and to put it to a wron Ruie guse if the latter then thee the loo gravity of the subject there la is a sense of irony iu in the ordinance which approaches even to iu is its singular all ah as coming from a mormon city council I 1 each of those council lots lora is ia a priest yet whoever board fro from a mormon priest and fro from a mormon Pill pit or even from tho the salt lake city council chamber ilioof it a prayer p that god would bless the prea iden t of the united states slates sad and all those io in in 14 the be american government that he would bacs and preserve the nation and nd pour ilia his ciol holy spirit upon I 1 y yoa smile niile fi ge catle it Is reader as a must a ai old aid nor cormons mormons alone who have hava times without number and that to toi sometimes oo OB tho the most moat holema public occasions heard beard from the priesthood pries chood the tb holy name damo of deity invoked to curse with utter niter destruction both the rulure and the ruled of all tho the governments upon the faco face of the ho earth and moro more especially of the united Us te d states I 1 tho the prayer of the inebriate who calla upon god to d n hil eyes chei is in as aa noth log ing to outrageously profane sup sop as this thin to the throne of tho the areat G real father of it ua 11 all U and this w wholesale hol eselle profanity is was as am boly ly in intensified in in its ill moc iatrow wickedness doess when the congregation responded odea amen I 1 elum es of this character could be ran edbur but they mire arc too revolting for repetition but there ibrie is i another view view of this matter that is exceedingly practical if not very satisfactory there is a very reverend gentleman iq in utah who quietly yet rigidly dictates to tad and controls con trola the action of the be city council god bd who io lo variably does so either in ta his hia own ova personal interest or in IB that of mormonism generally to this preacher ier the ake presence of americans and apostates apoe tates from mormonism in utah and nd particularly yi ia Q S salt ait L late ake city is very annoying II 11 lie unquestionably regards regard i the opening of the ibe mines the net callag import a ance nce 0 cil I 1 the ibe cow commerce merco 0 of the and the influx of an american latsonas lation lat ionas aa a formidable menace to him all and over the people and therefore it ia it with him a matter if pulley to make salt lake city as disagreeable sod binl uninviting to tran stran gri as Pos possible bible then again as this preacher edicts a tenth of a all I 1 I 1 revenues that he CAU call reach within the be territory and that too aitho without u t 5 any y certain or prescribed limits the vici victims tims lw ortho sunday law call perhaps id made to help tho the coffers in ia the tithing office la in this connection the writer states his hi firm rm conviction that all fines finca colace collected to d in the municipal court tire are tithed and further that the food or cited by city and county licensee li ceneca IS i it thed with this eliw view icier the tb sunday law instead of bolog intended as a moral agent for the iho laid 1 I good is only viell dell laid to administer to the tha cupidity of lb ill 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