| Show coul 0 TUG THE if thero there is to day in n the territory of utah a monogamist who ilia conditions of the law lias has a fixed Intent intention lon to marry again having already ono one living and wife such a person boron we do not cot hesitate to say could conk riot hot conscientiously subscribe to tit alio 0 test tent oath tn in the edmunds edmunda tucker bill unless by some means that purpose pui pose abial have been dislodged from his lie mind between t w biow and day it if ill there ere sue ara any who purpose to aid or ad advise visa others to commit this crims they too will n have to experience a change of pur poso before they can take the said bald oath it there are re any intending to commit the iha crime crima of adultery of 0 incest or tor for ni cation or who intend to assist or to counsel others to commit crimes crime a they also would be swearing falsely ii 11 they subscribed to the oath for in so joing bloing tiny they promise under the express conditions of the law not to do any of these things and tile the terms of that in according to tile the interpretation of ali those se who created tile bill and afterwards the utah commission whose circular appears in another they y mean precisely what they sity any and not a jit more than la is clearly expressed they do not mean that a man shall not vote or hold office and remain a member of tile tha mormon church Ps as a certain judicial I 1 crank down at beaver liar hall undertaken to construe them because they do 10 lo not say may so go either in letter or impei cation aaion they do not mean that a lotar vater not hold or advocate privately or publicly as an abstract doctrine tiny any op opinion lalon or theory lie he pleases to the law does not and cannot relate to loin films in any respect it Is 18 Cert certain aill unpopular practices and the upholding up holdim of those practices which it proscribes suppose for illustration wo we tako take another of tile legislative monstrosities that lint have come into existence within kh ehg a present decade thero there to IB a uw for or instance ini tanco tance against the manufacture or site of oleomargarine without the pay mint of a revenue this thia law was waa not enacted because oleomargarine win not it ft legitimate product bl but ut simply for the he gratification of a class of voters who wore were interested in tile the maintenance of it a profitable butter market preci precisely iely as tills this last anti mornan bill wits was passed for tile the benefit of it a class of 0 clamoring adventurers in utah now suppose the oleomargarine bill provided that some capitalist of orange county NY kyfor for instance should not make or sell oleomargarine nor should ho under tinder penalty of liw law assist or advise any other person to manufacture tile alio said bald product how many of the judges of now mew york state would on the strength of such buch a kawun let mertalo take to restrain him from declaring it asilis aa his opinion that oleomargarine wn was wholesome and economical and that the law prohibiting its sale was wait impolitic unjust unconstitutional or anything an thing else he be might please to call it or from persuading or empo employing yin every politician demagogue preacher and newspaper paper antho in th country to do likewise 7 wo vo have a judicial idiot litre here in utah I 1 titling on the bench of the second district that would without doubt so con etine such a lay law and woul ildo do go BO in the sincerity offilus of his soul iche if he lias any but wo we should not feel eel safe in making any other exception and now returning to the local issue no ni mormon by virtue of his membership simply la Is necessarily a practical Is he an ad visor with respect to polygamy or any other practice sanctioned by tho the church 1 no more la Is he ait aill alder aider or abettor of those who do practice polygamy according to webster to abet is to incite encourage iu ili sti ti gate or aid one to commit a criminal act the tha sympathy one might feel orex or exercise in a friends londs fr behall behalf after tho the act is committed could not under any reasonable atonable re construction bo be regarded as aiding or abetting in its commission such an interest might rightfully be re calved as aa valid circumstantial proof cor of it testimony that associates a person with the crime before or during its ita commission in which case ht be would of course be aiding and abetting ja in tho the crime the purpose of tile tho oath under the most comprehensive construction Is obviously to discourage any instigation sti or encouragement to commit the iho crimes crimea in the edmunds tucker bill and not as certain fanatics would wish to renolie all utah into a gigantic bets uett tive iva bureau for tile the cb chasing asing down donnot of co habs 11 |
