| Show WHIT HiNDO LIll HUSKS MY cof that a measure as vicious and undemocratic lis as the so called edmunds edmunda tucker wa should any con conditions editions whatsoever lit r receive tile the approbation of the legislative department of tile most per fert feet free government govern men t lit existence proves pretty conclusively that tile security ol of personal depends more upon caal integrity I 1 y than upon constitution or precedent Wil hoxit wishing to disparage in the slightest manner out our forms forma of law lair lawmaking making wo we candidly believe that among the tyrannical measures of james if hi of england it bigot and fanatic remembered only to lie be ablio red of all mankind there thera cannot bo be found it a more despicable law than this that ling just passed tho ilia american Congress and that too loo without as much deliberation as have been given an all or 01 binary pension claim riot not to speak of tire disgust ing demonstration that passage pasa ago though tile bill may never become a law of ii which aich wo we must say day there la is yet some probability I 1 lity the fuel fact cannot be blotted out that a body in whose integrity awl wisdom abide tile lie liberty lind and well being of over of 0 people approved it and gave to it their official sanction if the congress and the nation can afford abe the disgrace borsuch an all action tile the 21 mormon formon people can bear brief infliction 0 its bans it Is in not reasonable reason ablo to presume that such nn an outrage upon liberty bouhl in this lay day of the world enjoy ought but it n very brief existence arid and the mormons are arc destined in the end riot not only to be oil tile winning side hut but to enjoy tins oua gains gaina by the hie procedure tile lull fall text of the incas tire lire wo we published republished on oil tile of if dec and not now givs give anything more than alio essence of its provi biona section one declares the testimony of it legal vl wife ife competent in raises cases of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation lint but forbids such testimony when it pertains to confidential communications from her lius banti during married ef life e this is ia a decided improvement upon ilni now in operation in the utah courts our fanatical chief justice having in fit several cases not only permitted but compelled tile legal ackal fifo to testify against her husband section two provides for file at betit of witnesses before having refused to obey it ft sumi or IT ollier wisa committed offe offense wie nae it a proceeding which line bag been in practice somo borne time limo in utah ulal without law but which was waa never nener before permitted in any civilized country section three provides provid ca for or tile recording 0 of r marriage aringe ceremonies I a practice ia to 0 h ie li xione none can call have tile slightest elight cst objection section roar four validates existing moth bellr oda of obtaining testimony ony of marriage arriago in section five annuals the net act of tile the utah legislature which extended tile auf tuf frago to women this brings us to the lie first really ron con provision pio vision of the bill clieo alio no men of utah have the elective franchise for or over fifteen years and the mean neet odthe of alio action deprives tit them em of 0 that humano humana privilege Is exposed in tho alint bhoge aiho so loudly and vehemently demadet their enfranchise ineal anent are now till ones hobt active in remanding the women buck back to their former aimer condition tile aut act wm iiii ha belled ostensibly by a desiro desire to aliber liberate the mormon women from bondage but lit in reality by till an idiotic belief that they boull treacherously tun iun their people and join tato libel liberal al ranks nu ilis they did riot not join the liberal ranks ranka and so BO their rescuers iera propose now to free them from rom boni bor lasu iLlige hy by bobbing lobbing them 0 ot what la Is in aery t very r tenae sense a vested right it 11 right bich they leave lave exercised from bic time it was eon con till now in a manner highly civit able to themselves and to tile territory section seven beven tales talea from probate courts jurisdiction in cases of divorce it it is a provision having no special lot ini li ortance one avay way br another section pro provides viles tor for thu the punish ment of incest anti and is ia commendable in every respect section nine nukes makes it adultery aud a crime for married persons of either cither tex hex mohave to have with an all unmarried person of the opposite sex the only objection to this thia is ia that tho pen alty ally is not double the sinio amount specified and that the provision JOEB borg riot not include promiscuous intercourse of every sort bort whether between marr marrical icil or unmarried persons persona or both the original edmunds billias so eo but the loyal lob lobbyist loby Baskin had it reconstructed anti and for reasons which it would ix ile very em bar for that person to explain ux plain section teti ten is i a devoted to tile cation of tin an old ahat waa in early eary eiry ly times adopted adopt el frym from a similar law which it that timo time prevailed in the lantern states Stait ci and was ic io pealed by tin ilia utah in m isufi is 6 section eleven contains the mot MOA mo t vicious in ill tho the the ono one including tile tho oath yet to follow the tha said nl provision makes every man imin I ft feloni felon attlio ho hm has at any ani line married plural wives ones anti anil hia 1113 not dinha IV ed cd tho the war inar tiago viage relation Ny whether hother he ha has cohabited with thein as aa lea or not and not withstanding that throng gli 11 the tea statute of limitations thu the Of ferise of polygamy Poly garay under lma lua has in Us lis case long bince aluce expired clience a man may lie be arraigned on oil sus BUS clelon ol 01 0 ily gomy and fint it it call be proy ento eato the satisfaction el ettlin taft court that he has one once li been mart aed to wo two or more women then living livraga imil ani lio lie Is unable to ma I 1 chow that the relation has been formally on nally abrogated lie stands a convict before the law so in case of 0 an arraignment for or nil all alleged second of frise nse the prose proe outing cating attorney produces prod acea in fix evidence tile ilia record of former conviction lie he upon this rests lna ills caie cage arid and in the absence of a divorce document loi unbent the defendant goes up without urther further ceremony under I a full sentence sn tenc section ci tion twelve forbids illegitimate 0 oil lf spring inheriting their fat tiers estate 1 thus making mailing the innocent arid kiil ing child suffer I 1 for or the actions of 0 the parent section fc t lion thirteen provides lea for the con ti nuance ol of the edmun la law of 0 1882 1832 section I 1 fourteen burteen disso dissolves hes the corpo ration of tho the mormon church thia sa is 6 something om ething which upon sufficient ren 80 sona tile tho government has perfect right todo the question involved then is is simply tt whether hether they aliey have hava had or indeed uny tiny reason for such arbitrary fiction action the pretense la Is that of olag 1 tiny while lit in fait fact the provi nion blon could 1011 1 not CUM polygamy ol gamy in fit any manner pos poa bible so much of the act of lion ns its might te be construed on to provide for tho practice pra tico of 0 polygamy barny wait fm formally lornia lly annulled by h tho the BO called law of 1802 benco only conclusion is 19 that tile the mea measure sure la Is a direct direct blow at the ar mormon omo n c hurch independent of its doi doctrine trine and Is therefore flagrantly un constitutional section fifteen dissolves dis diss olyes the cerp perpetual at emigration rund fund company it and rid III makes likes it unlawful for the legislature of utah to recognize any organization 0 n or pass any law to assiat or encourage e tile the bringing of 0 persons into tho the territory tile the intent of this provision pro talon is much more contemptible thin than the provision la Is damaging daro agins to the emigration company the purpose of 0 the corporation was ft as benevolent anil it Is quite possible that its work may bo accomplished just as perfectly without legal as aa with it section sixteen provides i for the carrying out jut of sections fourteen and fifteen under existing lavi lav a pertaining to ordinary corporations section bertlon seventeen pertains per taina to appeals and is highly desirable throughout section eighteen rigl iteen limits tile amount of 0 property lielie bield by religious societies to over anti an I 1 above tho the buildings erected elected for worship and the oi of wi etc the amount 0 1 rial real pro PO perty perly in fit nn all incorporated city is 13 limi lanute toll 1 to ten tell acres arid and is to bo be held through gli trustees appointed by llie the county courts should tho the bill become a law the county aunt courts as will be secil tire ore to lie bo appoint ces cei of 0 the president irence it may be easily lit Ini erred from what ft aliat liat class of pir per swa sons tho the said eiml trustees will bo be chosen sections nineteen and twenty ar anro L un all important anil and in fit no 10 rockton twenty outs wel go BO ballel legion an organization that lias has had no existence for or fifteen years section twenty 1 ft enty two refers to another matter that has been obsolete for near ali twenty enty five years section beithon twenty three provides provided at a do ery cry for the first or lai fill wife its section our provit lea lor for re districting the territory tor the only objection that can i in le be raised to this men mea sure ua falls upon tile men mio will most likely lio lie called upon apon to ijo do tile the service section twenty twi nty five flo provides provi Jes tor for the continuance crittl nuance of that use useless lesi anil idiotic called tile utah Coln coninis section twenty six bix franchises disfranchises dis e ev very ery orl non who will not formally fori nally disavow ilis avow 1114 I 1 ic eli ligion gion Tho work Is ia dono done by means of an all purgatory ory oath abick apparent ly Is ii more devilish than it it depressed in terms its ita real purpose pur poBe the possible interpretations are blinded cil just enough to make it a most se BO duclion briare that eliat would buu betray mal many I 1 y a conscientious latter day saint into sub scribing it to bo be then arraigned lor for pur jury jur should lit he eer after acknowledge himself himell a Nori mormon tion wo we liall leave our readers tu to determine tile correctness of this conclusion tor for themselves hero here it ic the provision provi Atin ion in in brief fury every male per son over 21 car a of age on 0 o i liall subscribe b V an all auth that lie he will ull riot not directly reilly ili or til sit dire etty aid abet counsel counse or advise adust ana an person to commit ilia crime camo ot of folgaro pol poly garo garri or 01 unlawful colial section twenty seven beell and twenty el coslit lit its aa now amended and tanty nimit nan practically teim tin neur every boffl ellico ice in ill the ter tint that of delegate to Con congles Cony gres ivr ovir to tile president anti governor cert critor vernor tu to bo be davidt d up I 1 Miltn CS its of tile loyel loi arid tile raa ai coni t om ill ii v ill boll bob ut serenely as the progresses SIA ami now i to con conchite chide very cry bristly what ant it mil ill bo be tile historiC ld aspect which tile lc henie ull present when it I 1 lias as beer fully consummated antho ile lienert art of a tint that has achie Cd an all enviable inai glory amont nations through her triumph i over bigotry anil and political poly nl op p prex Bion citizens titi zens against whom riot not a single di dispart spara ging charge tan call be anita ineil ined save ane that they differ in fit rel rc lious giotis op of from the alance of mankind manki nil tire are because of that belief dives divested td in ill the name lumo of oe tile of all tile 11 1 gilts 1 its of self government even to the llie 9 of a constable lem iiii them tin in tile thu 0 mw tie contemptible boon tit of FI let tin their voil 9 brets rei s nal delegate under a proviso t that hat t they hey NN will kit deny their TL ihn is is is I 1 aliu lie 81 situation tua tion |
