| Show MORMONS AS CITIZENS STILL adgit AT THE COURT B achim f tai la city utah dec 3 this the Buba tance andersone Ander sona decision deci eion each of the beyea applicants la a man of a good charac tT except that he is a mormon last after a fall investigation tho Third district court of utah decided that a member of the chorchi chor cli no matter how his maral character was ie was not fit to become a citizen until the ia palanco of w bat is known as aba manali efesto this territory hay followed that decision deci eion then the first mid third district bonyta have not made the laci ot in tuai church a teat in the naturalization 0 aliens I 1 am sorry that I 1 cannot with decisions the manifesto s very carefully alt the the church says mv advice to the saints is that you should hereafter contract no marriage that ie contrary to the law of the land at the conference con terence immediately after abe of the manifesto george Q cannon tho real leader of the church extolled the virtues of those polygamists who had theretofore refused to obey the law over those who premised anch obedience this manifesto does not pretend to discard polygamy as one of the cardinal doctrines of the church it only alie practice as long it is contrary to the laws of the land before the anti polygamy act of 1862 there was no law in thia territory against polygamy if tho acts of congress against polygamy were repealed or if utah should become a state thero would then be no law against polygamy and the presumption is that the people of the territory would make no law against it and the chiefs of the mormon church would then be at liberty to renew their mandates to their mea ibers to enter into polygamy and it would then thrive in full bloom there would not be a syllable of this manifesto it i the mormon church has courts of its own eliat in many instances override alie decrees of the courts of the i states their members on their endowments take an to avenge the blood of their prophets joseph and hyrum smith against this government wilford woodruff the present head of the church in his dedicatory prayer at the st georae temple prayed the lord might destroy this nation with a besom of destruction polygamists when convicted have always been honored by all the members of the mormon church and en boine to and returning from the penitentiary were given oya eions the church created a defense i fund employed attorneys to defend polygamists and who are still employed for that purpose they have for many years given great trouble to this government the position of the church in those matters is unchanged an ilien aho vho comes to this country and joins such an organization should never ask to become a citizen mr barlow ferguson appeared on behalf of the applicants and pleaded hard for thorn but the judge was immovable the judge expressed a desire however that if it were possible an appeal should be taken to the supreme court of utah herald |
