Show MAKING JIflE ARGUMENTS I I S r I i I > fr G aU f Youngs iloqnent AdOre iolheConrt INDISPUTABLE PROOF OF MORMON MOR-MON LOYALTY Tic Slanders Against Them Ills protcU in Court DICKSON MAKES HIS USUAL SPEECH I Aud Demands jThal Mormons bc Excluded From ClliieusMii o t rr r Humlr or J le bT Y1rTbnrnm JrTlnru JsI Tim irocecdiure before Jug Anderson ichll probably como t a close this evenIng a the argument nre non In progress I Atjtlie session held on Saturday evenIng JOSii sownrS tJOSliuL J sm j < va < called by Mr Dicksou am testified Tint paper ideutif ing 1 document was made out by the Bishops court of the Fourth Ward ILls Judgment lu a milt with Charles William VJL WAHI d called Jay the defense Ht testhtlel1 was in Salt Lake from September ISof t 1S56 then went toSt LouIs w as back here 1 Cr ago fur ahort time I was ouc 1 a number of the Church joined Il in 1S44 and let it in about 1S54 I was gcnerall known that I did uot consider myself my-self under any obligations to the Church I sent a letter to President Young notifying him of ins posi lon I went east With a number of witnesses whiie I was here after I left the Church I found no difference differ-ence In treatment by members of the Church they treated me just as well after as for I received mi endowments took uo oath or oblige Uon toavcugcthe blood oftheProph etsou uationdid not hear of any such obligation I am not now a member of the Church To Mr Dlckson apostatize from the Church because 1 change my views with regard t religion I believed flue leaders bad Jio author ty I disapproved of their assump tions of authority from omp heard nothing eaid about avenging the blood of the Prophets that I cat remember I know there was no obligation I that poi nt lam cleat ou tint point When my right arm was anointed it was not that I should be strong to avenge the blood of the Prophets when required re-quired I When I left here in lit l-it was known that I was going t stay away Lo Grind Young said he had but ole more witness who was not her but they would close early oa Monday Lrl Dlckson objected to permitting any more witnesses the defense and wanted them t close their case ese at this session cOc The Courtsald that unless counsel closed case the Court vtauU close the c edjourumtnl was ordered till Monday at 9 am After this announcement wss made there was A discussion as t who should open and close the case < opn ant ee both sides i wanting that privilege l J Mr Mosle aid tho defcn had liid the burden of proof t show that Mr Moore was eligible of citizenship Judge Ante n said the burden bur-den of proof was I with the bleTito other side to how he was not eligi The court aid he did J ol care to hear more than two oa each side Dlckson said lie thought three and i hal hours for each side would do I The court ruled with llaskluand I Dickson in allowing the close He thought seven and a half hours wa oo much but would endeavor to listen without getting tired LeGrand Young said he no ihmbt thought that was too long The court replied that his dew was that ru hour for tech speaker was enough This closed the proceedings of Saturday Sat-urday e cuing and Dickson offered a certified copy of an order bj JUDE cntnLEnttiGu mate April 4 1S59 wherein 11 aJ oumed court becanni he could not enforce the luvt owing to the opposition of the people The wns also a communication to Judge Cradlcbaugh wherein the I reasoiLgivea by witucsscss for nonAttendance non-Attendance at court was stated cur slr Lo Grind Youngobjectcd t the I documents a immaterial and haying hay-ing no bearing on the application of 1 Moore The communication was not received ceived in evidence but the order of court wa This order says that men high in authority in the Mormon Mor-mon Church and civil officers in fact Urn whole commumt were opposed to tho enforcement of thin laws I also Bays the grind jur disjoined with the community and ixrmlttted Mormon murderers and thieves Logo unpunished Judge Anderson asked what thin communication wa ° and i was given him to read MrMoyle offered the proceedings of the celebration of Independence Day Jb71 in Tabernacle showing show-ing the loyalty of the Mormon ple The opening prayer was ofer by Apostle Orson Pratt asking ask-ing for the establishment of the principles I of the Constitution of the United fC not only within I I the irc cnt confines of the nation but over the whole continent orth and South America REUlE SII was called by H W Young and testified tes-tified I remember the procession with I H Well thin firemen had nu American Hag which was carried tied upright near the contra of the lClol To Dickson I am in the employ of the city and was at that lie LeGraiid Young announced that the defense rested and at 9 SO W31 ir DICKSOX ban hits < argument He opened py aing that if there was any doubt as t whether applicant for naturalzatlon nould give thin fullest allegiance to the government tint doubt should b resolved against the applicant He should b attached t this social structure of the people which lies deeper and beyond the Constitution itself No foreigner should be admitted if he acknowledges acknowl-edges an allegiance to any Church i far a lnscon cicnceis concerned higher than that of the government govern-ment Every sincere Mormon is in an attitude of hostility to tlie government gov-ernment The teachings of the 2hurch leaders from the first b been e Intended to place thin people > in antagonism t the government govern-ment The aim of the Priesthood IfS becn t wield absolutcobedience temporal and spiritual matters The members are required t enter Into covenants that bind them to ibej the leaders in all tin and to rellnqu5 their free agency 3ickson began his quotations by reading from remarks by Heber t Kimball In lilT in reference t sending an army tii destroy the Mormons also from President Young in the same year in refer LUCC t the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrurn Smith and therequisi ion for the OIonnon > Battalion Mckson said the army was coming dinsitnl the officers not to make war on the people The President of the Church said thin civil on ems Mold not take their offices and the government sent an army t enforce the laws There might have been some excuse for the people then but berewas no excuse in 1677 when thus present head of the 5 hsurch Isfayeti for the destruction of the roernmcnt Dickton then rend from the statement b Preside Woodruff publfruci Ih our di ls patches today regarding the pros entproceeduigs thereon before Judgo At In continuing his speech DIckto referred to sermons bv Orson Hyde and others In which he claimed the government was arraed RS the enemy of the I Mormon people > > Hhin the part six or seven pple l I sen ycr th e government liad been making earnest effort enforce its law but there was nothing to indicate that the sentiment of the people toward the government had gerleut changed Sum lS7tJ tIters was a procession cession in honor of a man who refused fused to answer certain question in court and treasonable banner were carried InlSSo thonatlona flag was half m vied over public t buildings l > y Mormons nntl no word of censure had CUe from tin Mormon iwople The oftlcia organ of the Church has tnducti 1 every man who has hail the couragi and 1 am ashamed Uat there ar but fewto eland up in court am promise t obey thin law while they have held up as exemplary those who have refused Id glad such submission sub-mission The altitude of the people now i the effect of the teachings Qf the pat and is iu antagonism tithe ti-the laws The head of Uio Church amid the heads of the Pebbles party had unIted In rahiug funds pry Uio e who had violated the Ian There was no leader who had advised ad-vised submission t the govern fluent They say they uphold the C r K ConEtilulIon but they uphold It its h Interpreted by them and ia It thej claim a gtnwnty uf religious fr dom 0m domWe We might expect Uiat in their secret rites thee would 0 Something Some-thing antaroQllc to the govern tent and we think we have found it In the testimony of Bond Silver Wardcll Chimer Lawrence and others Mr Lawrence is a man of unflinching Integrity and truthfulness truthful-ness and we have but t look at liii expenencewhen he Had this courage to come out ut the Church Hi business was ruined his old friend and acquaintances turned their locks on him not daring t bccci with him Tills i what he had 10 face and his punishment was be cau c ho stood by his friends when they opposed the exercise of tern poral power by the Church Heray thcHndowmcutoalh wastaXcn Rill uplifted hand to avenge the blow of the Prophets Joseph and Hrun W rS n4e Smith and to teach it to their chill dren I say noono who is sincere in tills I not antagonistic to tin government Their witnesses have sworn that iu the Endowment Hou e the government win not mentioned or referred to t doe Henry W Lawrence There was no need for them to mention the government When they wen asked what did occur they declined testate Dr Itichorda SId then was anointing of the arm t bt strong to avenge the blood of the Prophets when required I This means that they I are to obey the counsels of the Priesthood Will the court say that anyone who take i covenant of that kind i lit for citizenship We say UIt3 member of an organization that require of any of its members army such an oath should IH excluded from citicn hii > that he should have no voice in the government govern-ment Xo man who gives aid to organization is entitled to become be-come a citizen This Is I not perccu liou They may believe what they please but when I they ask for a I voice In the government that gov erment should exclude them frm he ballot box nUt that is not persecution per-secution Will anyone deny that absolute temporal power irs claimed There Ins beeil a chaiitjc rle Circumstance but I of sentiments aji jilt not a change sentments ac h I imposts George Q Cannon who prose rte tiodbeaud Harrison hat the I right hand of the head of the Mormon Mor-mon Churl and if the conditions i condi-tions were tin1 same hue I vrbuld act is he did then The policy of the I ChuM has not cluinredi George IiI I Q In lieS declared that it was lib I iI privilege to dictate to the people in I cmporal thing Itn Iiam Young declared that Ills office of Governor was controlled by liii Priesthood lie declared that the Church wosestil khing the Kingdom of dod W coil rol all thing temporal and Fpiit I ual he also dear tlulit was the duty of tlc leaders to direct in I cmpor1 and spiritual affairs tint they were the Kingdom of God on earth Such was the teaching of I George Q Cannon down lo Deem tier 1651 and probably l later lie fore then he hat never heard of a I disposition to question the control of tie Church in temporal matter and he deprecated it Joseph F Smith in Augut 155 cUo claimed em poral control for the Church wad iadc it apply to political affair af-fair Tho cliim was juntas brand br-and strong liVe years ago as I was forty cjrs Wilford Woodruff years ago WlfoN WoOlrfl also made the came claim lie is ah Ide regarded as being dlUncly chosen I and speaks in tIes name of Almighty Al-mighty God J If the Mormons I nre not hyi > ocrites they will obey I His word and the history of I the people shows test they have o Jple This is the covenant they nvc entered into Their itnesies hay they heard no such covenant In tLuiIonmcnt Houe But an Apostle has declared that the ce mint i taken The Doctrine and Covenants shows that control in temporal matters mat-ters i a doctrine for the revelations go Into detail Mr Baskln was mistaken mis-taken when herald Unas not In the Into edition of thin Doctrine and Covenants Never was there greater blasphemy Ulan whcn Jowl Smith gave Uiat as a revelatIon The people peo-ple who would believe that God said such things are just hu people i to b prie triddcn la 11je C KUnball told the people to do a the Priesthood said whether it was right or wrong Think of a man favored of God to receive revelations teaching such lungs a are in the Doctrine and Covenants in thu reelation on celestial marriage regarding time forgiveness of sins and cursing Think of Wilford WooJrulT being able to cur and God approving i and fav ins that a people under that bond are free That is hmectsy j I cannot b tre The Doctrine and Covenants has directions as to what thc members of time Church should do iu temporal aflairs Can anyone any-one doubt that Uiey believe the lead of the Church i the representative represen-tative of God tid if he has this power tint men whose consciences are bund by this superstition have surrendered their free agency Polygamy I is behcvedln by all the Mormons For 30 years the government gov-ernment has been trying to destroy it and r no nearernow than when nnt hey started Is it persecution to say that such pervona should be excluded ex-cluded from citizenship The government gov-ernment says test it will give them protection but will not admit tem to citizenshIp I cannot see how a member of that Church can renscienUously ask to becomes cit zen Neither can I tee that a man who believes polygamy Is right can take an oath of allegiance t the government that Is trying to overthrew over-threw it I I lewd that polyg my was right I would have my right hand cut off before I would wear to obey the laws of a govern ger ment that Is trying to overthrow vhat I believe to be right think no sincere Mormon takes such an oath without a mental reservation lhat who believes T think no man lee in polygamy has a right to the franchise fran-chise for such a social I order Is op l osed to the monogamic order ou which the government i based We ont dL lr to persecute We desire 10 uphold the arms of the government govern-ment In crushing polygamy and to r f h weaken tho power of the Church It Is not persecution to say that I i JCUUOI these people will have the protecUon of the ws but F long a they aid b they the Church by membership hall not be admitted to citizenshIp In regard to blood atonement we say that the testimony conceals tie sY real facts of the < Its claimed that murder and adultery can IKS murer toned for only by dealh but that Is to bolnfllcted by thelaw of the land f Tieydo not call attention to hIt that adulterers shall b destroyed I say that the Idea that the Church has no auUiority to punish the crime of adultery ae ordlng to the law of God Is not correct that I i not sIncere In the lecture on blood atonement C W Penrose says that the Urn will come when the law of GotJtha be enforced against adulterers In tho same lecture peakng of the laws against polygamy lie saj those laws are unconstitutional and hot binding on the people That shows they believe the Constitution gives them the right todo anything in obedience tnny reton which they claim to 0 from God hey say the nation is persecuting the Saints In opposing thu practice of polygamy and tout U I why Wilton Woodruff prayed for the destruction of the government As to the penalty for apotasy the witnesses caythierels I ootiuhogbutex < munimlolhutDrham YoUni said tint rUler than apostate zhculd flourish hero ho Would 11 sheath his knife and conquer or die Surely there la no court that will admit to citizenship members of ai organization such a tho history of this Chiirch show I t b JEGRAM voin said that the facts were all that tin court slioulj listen to Inference of cur should ltnl any character should not be taken as evidence especially when the mat Interestedthu applicant iu this case has taken no pit in any of the I transactions testified to Mr Young read the law on naturalization and then proceeded with his argument = orWll hL TIme discretion of the court in Uiiv matters Is I merely a legal discretion I Is not cajtiouii When a maim makes the requisite showing am tn EUoirs the proper conduct it to tim duty of the court to admit him An objection to him must b oil legal grounds Mr Moore hus grounds rorc l applied ap-plied for cItizenship He lush shown proper residence good moral character and attachment t thu Constitution He Is a qualified ap pllcant and wedcmanl that he be allowed to hose the oath and tnt the court give judgment for him cur jlo The objectors said they objected to him because he had taken at oath against the goternlner They W t bropoed to Slmvr I ihb and e came here to answer them We have answered them We have shown auwer that no such oath has been Liken Mr Young reviewed tie testimony of the witnesses for the objectors I had been claimed that men had been murdered be tbii Danitcs They referred to the killing by hit officers of Ihe law of thin notorious desperado Ike Potter This case did not suit them 1 so they dropped it and got Wardens story about the killing of a man named Green This i tho ommly time In this Territory Unit a man ha lou named a having been blood alonedi We challenged them to tlio Issue and after 40 years of Ilk we have this one cote They stand or fill by this record They came to prove the infamy of the Church by this their champion case Hut where lias it gone to fever have I heard ucha statement os His Wardell made ho wcut ou t Fay that Hick noon confusseut i Such a ttorj is to nUN BUI Hitkman was a murderer and lived too long but ho never was fool enough t confess n Wardcll says Xo mal who ever knew him would believe tuch a talcncnU I there Was no other evidence hits would L eufll dent to stamp Wardella ftory a like For forty years there ho been a cry of liiod Jtoncmcnt and mioT the btt legal talent of the I Territory comes forward situ this case at ft to say that the Mormon I are a bloody people Wardcll i the kind of win they have brought her to Ire their case and time I witnesses have swept away even a letstbiiitl oftles > tniUi of hUilor The witness Cahoou says that there wasiiooalha atuit tcger I ineut but Inferred etc I i time truth that we want considered i In I this case not Inferences Cahoon says there was nothing of nn unlawful I un-lawful nature Iu the London mcilL McGufilesaidhc I had taught that I lirlgham Young was God lie was Jun such an Idiot as toelt so Hut I if he had taught it In public he i would not have remained In the I Church as long a ho did I do not belIeve lie ever taught it nt all I any more than he heard tint the Endowment oath never existed As for Gilmor he is an apostate with all 1 that tho et term Implies I man vrho quarrel with his neigh turs n man who cannot b believed under oath as the witnesses her ray But they ay II W Lawrence Is respectable Hh early life was in I the Church He pent 21 or 2 pnt years In the Church and was In the I Hudowmcnt Hous HP does not say he apostatized because thieve was anything wrong there or because hu was opposes to Jlormonism Hi says he let because liii friends took issue with Brlgham Young In regard lo the control of temporal aflairf He says the only reason was bccau1 hu did not believe that Brigham Young < should control I private affairs He says that hU custom alrel oil after ho F left the Church and he was socially ostracised That i the secret of his venom to the people I was because cause he was denied the privileges he had had for Xo man oppressed op-pressed him but Uiose who had patronized him easui to do so He says he stood by hits friends but ho forgot that I thie people I wlmo fund pat ro romiizeil hll woul do the same hung and when they did ho became venomous But with all this lie doC not intimate that there Is any Uilnp unlawful in the IZndowment On the witness stand he contradicted con-tradicted their witnesses They did not dare to ask him If there wis any oath against the government and i was only brought out on crosscxnminaUou Then he said there was a covenant for time avenging of tie blood of the Prophets but that the covcrnmcnt was not referred to His is an em Plate denial that there Is i any oath avenging the blood of the Proph cU on thus nation The other tide say that the government gov-ernment was meant That I the first time that the government ha been charged wit being responsible for the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith and I say the char Ii i false The government govern-ment Is not and was not responsible The deed was done by base assassins who should have been punished and tho government never instigated or committed the leer crime or approved of It Henry W Lawrence nn npostate says that the LWenc Rplt My government was not even intended and so docs every honest man It I ha been found that there is nothing disloyal iu all the endowment ceremonies cere-monies Then the objectors fly t the ser mousthat have lon > preached and select Isolated passages But these Ire not doctrine they are not accepted ac-cepted by the Church In the sense in which the oljectors interpret I that when the Prophets them say f eta Joseph = Ilyruin Smith were killed alien or 16 mel women nud children were cast In a dark hole and boded when scores of similar crimes were committed Uio State of Illinois should have punished the murderers The objectors objec-tors here dare not deny that these committed in cold murder were commito n cld blood And there is no record of one of the murderers being brought justice Then O men women and children were driven from their homes into the wilderness Has that outrage ever been punished But what did those people do They came to foreign soil hoisted the Stars and Stripes and took possession posses-sion In tie name of the United States In So7 word came tint 25000 soldiers were on the way t drive them again Dont you hunk the people were excited yu > you I leople think the murder of faUiersmolh rrs brothers sisters and children came before their eyes again Would you I expect moderate expressions from a people in this situation But the expressions were against the mobs and would who had despoiled woul deepoll them not alt the government gov-ernment In 1S55 the people here l were living liv-ing on roots The Church did exercise a temporal power then in one instance and by It saved the people from destruction It divided di-vided the food 1tIIt hue eastern Journal the was not a word of sympathy for u It was understood I there lhat hundred of men women and children were ting of fctarva ton and one journal stated In It columns Uiat there w at least 1 solution oi Uio Mormon question for they were starving deaUi ladm lt that it rankled in my breast in those times On this came an army which we understood was t annihilate us After the tympalhy shown t Mor mon Missouri and Illinois alter the lympatfy shown in rejoicing that wo were starving wo were Informed In-formed of the additional tymjxith of an army coming to destroy us I It any wonder that wild cpr slons were made expressions that iJ today we would not make and would not approve under different circun ttance 1 I challenge tins other side t compare flue history of any State or Territory wiUi our a to a law abiding people even with the coil tary exception of n law against a doctrine of our religion Our witticism emphatically state there f nothing in l tie Endowmcu that I repugnant to Uio gov eminent that there f not ing bearing in any way upol tie government As to obed I < t the Priesthood testified toby to-by IeGuml Wardell Bond and Gilmor who also testified that polygamy poly-gamy was enjoined by covenant Mr Lawrence as well a other denied this a far as the Endowments Endow-ments are concerned Mr Law renco said that was the trend of the teachings outside The witnesses that and Smith say Joseph Hjrum Smih are Included nmoug tins Prophets I i also In evidence that the cern many i the Fame for the dead n tin living shoeing that It l has no refer once to time individual acUciii and when Mr Dlckson could gctjnothlng to full him he would end by a question Which he wanted to Im preen bn the court aa meaning that the witness was hot lelHrj the truth that question w Are you a Mormon J But the Mormons told the mth and when it came to maier lhat stern sacredly relllou they declined to answer because the alleged oath was shown to IKS a myth loU otiirstute l flew to old sermons such a I huve feRd to I w 111 mention auoUier witness who said there was nothing that wn Incompatible with citizenship in the Endowments that there was no covenant t obey time Priesthood hat there was no covenant to avenge the blood of the Pruphtt t hat tiiiro oven no itfercnce to thin gocrmenl by Inference or otherwise other-wise and that man is E L T Harrison Har-rison He Is as intelligent and as respected as Is Mr Lawrence lrU rt he declares Uiat Uiere i nothing in thin Endowment that contrary to good citizenship i Ian I feo does nln KeWcy ako a man of ntelllgcnce and reliability There is nothing In the Endowment thais is in any way opposed to good cii zenship That 1 tie declaration of Mr Harrison and other reputable men It has been urged that a i prayer to aven o the blood of the Prophets I nntasonistic to the government ernment I > ut lid answer to this Is hint not an intelligent man understood that he was to take any part In Itthl there was anything objectIonable In It Again I refer to the reason for Mr jTtrrince IcaVlb the Church that It had no connection wIUi the Endowment Hou but it was b eauwofhls attachment for certain fluids hi u question about temporal affaIrs Tim teUmouy of the wit ucsscs for thin applicant lias shown that these references to the govern moment never had any existence in act and our witnesses I are corrobor ateul by all the reputable witnesses for the objector In regard to tlj eu5nUon of Mr Vardell it shocked the community and Uicre was great excitement Inn In-n I suppose the alter m icvs brought Wardell in good f ilUi and thought he would tellthe truth 1 can undcrLind Wardcll on no other ground than that hu I more a fool than a knave He nameil some whom he aid en present at the horrible ceue I ndmil thnt I never heard fn shocking story before Wardclls ow u sonnot Mormon was eiit for mil ho contradicted Hall his fathers letUnion Then comes Uardell wife daughter and nuoUier ran who also slate that tin story Is talc Wardell says Green lived nt Fanningtoii We brought wlintw and i > osl that tlie only man namcd Green who lived at Farmington he I stIll aliveIn thin northern jart of the Tcrritorv Joseph Follctt raid by Wardell lobe lo-be an c cv > ilness to the horrible deed i brought and swears thai no mel a thing ever occurred Theft The-ft hole was a trumied up story with not a word of truth to base it on And Hint is the coin with al the noise lhat hanlifcn made about the Mormons There is not a thread on which to han any of the horrible hor-rible stories about Mormon They are alike baseless nnd untrue In regard to the Intolerance of Mormon the objectors have ought ribbing the dregs of the apostates who arc the most 1liter of ill toward those r 11 0n were their former associate Her the Mormons Mor-mons are on trial on tie teslmiun of their sworn enemies What was the story of Christ Himself as told by His enemies I was that Hen wincblbber a glutton and was a wlnebllbr gluton ld I was left t His friend In tho four Gospels I to tell the true story of Ills life I say that the testimony liroughthcrcagalnst theMormons is unworthy of conslderallon In a court Justice The history of the Mormonshas not been one of peace and comfort I has been one of In jusUc and persecution and is it any nrondur hint some of them liavu spoken bitter words In regard t the alleged trailing of the a I say that there never was me purposely dragged In the dust There may have been ole lhat MrArthur PralL dropped but even who says hu would have seen It had It been trailed declares he saw no such thing The testimony of It Is only from sworn enemies Thu court speaks of the demonstration it Mr Wells release This is the only place on the continent where a man ra consigned < a felons cell contempt of court The people rose c up amid manifested their distaste dis-taste of such a thing Court Is there any other place to confine them in LcGrand Young It i thin business i busi-ness of Ihe government to treat ill is it docs people in other parts of lei republic I It should have provided pro-vided a place here as itdocsel nl where I It has the means and certainly cer-tainly ha had the opportunity I hiss no right to discriminate agaInst us I say tint Utah is thin only place where the United Stales when a WIll i committed for contempt consigns lof tcx lgl Iiini to a felons cell Anti thu peo pie In the case of Daniel H Wells manifested their disapproval of I And was that treason I sty I was not They hind a right to do so The people had a right t express themselves just as the English n te Enlih people peo-ple did when they otrcwed the p of Defoe wit flowers to and from the pillory until the executive had t pardon him Was there any treason in tint Xot a breath They were expressing their distaste oftlie act of a public officer ju t as they had a perfect right to At this point court took recess till the afternoon te nron Tills afternoon Mr Young con tinned his argument Ho said a Unue hi numut le s < thorough Investigation would show that the charge against the Mor uons that they hat a government within 1 government was entirely faljc I may b Uiat in times past there have been expressions that were loose but not aproved of That no treason was thought of I plain In the fact I that there was no effort t baN the expressions made The I term treason had been applied t I the utterances of Mormons when 110 such thought had entered their mind The halfmaeting of the fag had been called an insult There was no such intent The Hag at half mast 1 a sign of mourning mourn-ing and that t all there rub ru-b raid of It Its being placed at half mast may b regarded as inopportune b ie nopprune I cause it indicated 1 J mourning mourn-ing at the curs decisions It was Inopportune inappropriate ac iontnt I was no treason Xo intelligent in-telligent man can say that nn iudi ton of mourning I treason The flog lIongs 10 every citizen and using it as a symbol of mourn ing of grief of sorrow i not trea son Court Was Uicre a cause fji mourning Mr Young I suppose some of tie people thought there was but that was not treason There was no aspect pect ot treason nnd it cannot b distorted tore to that I may liaVe been disrespect to lharcourt and should not have been done But It was not and could not b treason Why in Boston when the Fugitive fame Acts were in for the people of hue north claimed that hmey were unconstitutional Money was raised for their repeal Under that law In the Burns case the government govern-ment captured a slave In Boston and tent him back The people of Boston half mailed all of Uie flags on the public buildings That was no treason Court Da you think that was to Indicate sorrow or a an insult to the government Mr Young I would gay I was an Indication of sorrow The people peo-ple there did not want to Insult p jovernmcnt and thy were not treasonable Court There can b nets hut r not punishable but arc treasonable treason-able ableMr Young The Trainers of the ouslilulloudellncdtrcasonanditill becomes thrirdcscendauts change the definition As I have said the demonstration when Mr Well was relensctl was not treason or rea ohaUe Mr Dicknon has urged that the raising of money t defend men In court was treason That fc > a new doctrIne to me I always that have understood tlt men umterlo to 1 fir trial 1 rght hat they have a right to test the legalIty of any law I maintain he right as 1 citizen to test the con rgbt a clten stltutlocaHt of any Uw and that sUuUotl Gen every man be he Mormon or tie has a right to a fair trial and to a ropcrdefenscand ILls not ton to empoy means to contest legally In courts The history of any CIMS I ills nation show a that before thu war I here was much of thIs aod even hoSurrcmo Court of the United II fctatca t Und to bs rearranged before certain acts could b dtehred eon I tllutional And I say Uiat time ultoul ltus before the national tribunal i not be denominate Ibcreou by any genUcman I Kiy further that the religious belief of this applicant can b lOt lO-t L of his right lo citizenship Wc h1 tllht have not yet como Judging in the domain of conscience fur we rl Lord not do It cunstituUonall Macaulay says that if such lcul iiings ni this was not persecutIon here could be no religious pcrsecu lion Mr Young then read from Lord Macailavs essay in which he maya that to punish a man because s rom tat doctrine heliokb11 i b eved ho will commit an offense is I w1 persecutIon and foolish and wicked Jo argue tint because a man is a itholcand that he Is bound to murder heretical sovereign and murer then heusen bl Qn that aioiimptlon And counsel In this Is pcrsecultfn Ulc ti moo have used thud CIt nrgu roe unts Hint were used against the Catholics in England with only the change that it Nor disfranchlcd now ions to be dlfrnehl mOI Instead bi Catholics But the Brt IsIs nation forever silenced the argument argu-ment there > and in ju llce I should here In this bo fcrerrer silenced hr thi case tic applicant hsso Khowii him Of1 elf eligible for citizenship i lu erery sense and It is his right to HI be admitted I Ii urged that ho belongs to a sect that has aught a doctrine which Is iu omiatlble wiUi the laws of the nation It is urged that the Mor ions must obey the Priesthood amid they cay that every Mormon 1mm good standing must go into wlygamy Vhett is Uio fact The great majorityof the Mormon peo ile nlneteenlwenUelh have not gone Into I and are therefore not 1mm good standing The argument Is go refutation when eomjaretl sown rfutton mland to tho facts JD What you please of Mormon ftntions and the revelations they have lut frmi their actions you can IIml no fairer lher nclols record In any part of time Union Judge us by our act not bv the enemIes ollllols I and expressions of avowed lto > S I T111UIA said that his connection with he case hind been Irregular owing lo his ncccsKiry absence and he had 1 otcxiiccled to make an argument here were some points however which had not been fully developed I and to eotl he would refer Ihls proceeding was indeed n strange 1 in olin Wu have isuseei along aie the history of thi Territory to a hllI timumn when men fpeak of 1 certain eoplo as becomlnic more liberal anti lesi jieculiaraml exclusive than ley lad been In other words they are growing more like other hiSs over this eople Congress hl gone round time and time again on the MIg < UOI of counsel for the other side Congress hat had this matter before Uicni for the tame purpose pr eought t b elfeeted her and in refused every InstanceCongresi has nfu to lake the slep that the court is now akL tke 1 to take Tie strongest wit H W Law ness on time other side Lw nl rence said the people were growing better nnd uieu were saying thin Mrmon quesllon was about solved XowonthecveofaBreatpo tlcal batlle ou limo eve of a most niwrtsnt election when It was clammed that the Mormons were In the minority It i now asked of time court that the Mormons b isfraiichised There i no founda tiomi for ucl nn outrage Go back 10 thin attitude of men In ISM and lle If jou will yet the fact today starts you in tie face that the very of working lings complained are cUlbiue out and the cause if ever Uicre was ammy for proceedingpassed away thi ptinpL 11 a generation ago The man who says that for the past 13 ycrwe orhil name that period every man has not had the fullest liberty so far astlicMomionsareconcenicdthat ha some reason for staling a man ha rme Ctn sttn Isehood I i mid that In August 0 or 300 youtig Mormons voted the adverse side I now huts court isaskeJ t o disfranchise those Mormons and all 1 others When I first entered time courtroom court-room as a spectator in this case Gil mor rm was ou the stand and he was inr thif If lie fnltl trlmt hu pub nl I new his life would b in danger Did your honor believe him Did anybody believe him I think not here was falsehood on his face and ho is unworthy of belief Henry 5 Lawrence was not afraid Iud he lund worked In tie Endowment house Mr Lawrence was even anxious an-xious to make explanation and i thus gave vent to his prejudices 1 f the rumors that have In brought in here a evidence were thrown out Uiere would L a vast Iffereuco in the record Tie half mosting i cited n n disloyal act and the whole Mormon people are to be held responsible yet it ar did not occur in any town throughout through-out lire whole Territory except on few places lin W Lake and the act i one that eel the people here condemn That trailing of tie Ilag < has also been shown to b I Invention in-vention What purpose could there b lul I was either the purest accident al or I never happened at 1 Mormon applicants luc been naturalized for years and recently they have been asked to specially agree to obey certain laws Xow It hums bee discovered that by objectIng object-Ing t their application in a court of justice Mormons can 0 pr naturalized vented from becoming nalrlzet Just what logic there is I in time posl 1 ton I leave for the prevent Mr Lawrence told how he was cglected by those who had before atronlzcd What wculd b done with any leading Liberal if he were to join thu Peoples party I lie would not only be ostracised he would 0 hung in effigy Reference h been made t the efensefund Was the raising I nlaw fur Why at that tIme there was 1 movement organized and on foot t send I Mormons t thepcnl enllary oa segregated offenses for extended terms I f 11 had not been tested anJ if the court haul not set I aside Mormons would now b serving life sentences iu violation of law Who was Uicn upholding and defending the Constitution WI it the otllcers of tie gov rnmenl who were enforcing that which the supreme tribunal said was unconstitutional Xo It was the people whom It was now sought to deprive of the rights of cItizenship Was there treason In thus The supreme court mn no by upholdIng uphold-Ing them and setting aside the unconstitutional I un-constitutional measure I a m has no right to test tho law he is robbed of aprecious right i time citizen The people subscribed to test the law as they had 1 perfect right toand the malntalnet the Constitution by having a con structlou put on the law Thcpeopl even have the right to agitate for hue repeal of tie law yet where they have done to their 1t have been deemed treasonable There Is but one way for the clt zen to exercise his right in tie courts and that is t test each Indi dual c But to lake 1 man and charge him with l the fancied offciif of others when ho applies Tar naturalization b most absurd To take an innocent man ono who never heard of these things and judge him by them H i to perpctrat great injustice I must bo true that there are Mormons In Utal who are loyal t the government who would bare their iosomnu as readily at any others In defense of their country and yet your honor in Z la thu Jiem out Will Uiu court take the responsibility i I for so much ofperse > cuuon of wrung of outage as Is i meant by this proceeding I hoist that we will have no necessity to find fault wIUi the court for a decision de-cision in this case r N 1USK1N read from the naturalization laws and said that he regarded In the I cose of an applicant for naturallu ton all doubts should b resolved against him Every one who leaves the MormonChurch should show by five years residence Uiat ho Is in good faith tlat before he i admite to citizenship I say no Mormon Is entitled t citizenship This Mormons Mor-mons do not dispute that they believe to hove in lob gam and that as It is revealed t t they cannot renounce re-nounce I Baskln wan engaged in addressing the Court whel the Fears went to press |