| Show 1 cI r 4 Declaring that the public officers were following the edict of the ecclesiastical ec ec- ec high co council and by bywords bywords words and acts were urging others to do so and and glorifying those who upon conviction In the courts declared declared de- de their purpose to live up to their privileges as so construed Governor Ell Eli H. H Murray continued his r report port to the secretary ot of the Interior and the president of the United States In October lie He then cited Instances ot of this action In the speech ot of John T T. Caine delegate to congress delivered ered before the Logan conference a afe afe fe previous and an extract from his paper the Salt Lake aId ald on October 11 1885 when George Romney was sentenced to the penitentiary the Herald sayIng saying say say- Ing There is sorrow when a map man manlike like George orge Romney goes s-oes to the penitentiary but when one does s-o s his friends and acquaintances feel like taking oft off their their- hats to him for they feel teel that a brave and honest honest man Is suffering because ot of his bravery and honesty which will will nOt permit him to do otherwise The iThe tact fact that the territorial of- of of whom I speak every legislature les-Is- les lature ot of the past and the atonal delegate and then too the legislature and delegate paid out ot of the treasury ot of the United States all vindictively joining and lending leading In a conspiracy to defeat the execution execution ex- ex ot of the laws ot of the United States presents travesty upon the government without parallel But it Is said continued the governor s these have committed no crime and therefore should not be questioned Is this true And It if it be true would It if not be well wellIn wellin In justice to repeal some laws and enact others by which privileges which should be esteemed may be forfeited to such conspirators against the the ot of the law lawand lawand and order and the civilization ot of the world The man who conspires with another another an- an other and sends him out Into the street to commit murder upon a passerby and covers his coconspirators tors from danger at the hands of their victim with n a rifle from his place of concealment Is a guilty man The man who holds a woman while another ravishes her Is alike guilty guilt This being true it follows fallows that a monogamist Mormon Is not deserving ot of as much consideration as a polygamist am 1st for the reason that where two men claim to believe belleve be- be lieve that polygamy is divinely appointed appointed ap- ap pointed the one who follows that belief In a conscientious practice Is the more honest of the two If you OU punish the more honest one you should at least disfranchise the theother theother other who belongs and gives matErial material matE mate- rial aid and support and defense to an organization banded to do doan doan an unlawful thing The application of this principle Is found embodied In the Idaho statutes the validity ot of which has been sustained by Chief Justice Hayes With this enactment the monster was throttled and with it the growth and political power of Mormonism Is ended In that te ri- ri tory National supremacy cannot be upheld In Utah as long as political political cal power Is vested In those who are engaged In nullifying Ing the statutes of congress and for so doIng doing do- do Ing are paid out of the treasury In Washington I protest for myself and for all good people that such application ot of public funds be no longer made This territory Is divided Into three judicial districts presided over respectively by the chief justice justice jus- jus tice and the associate justices ot of the supreme court There should be four districts or perhaps not more mOle districts but certainly tour four judges and the United States attorney should be allowed three good assistants assistants as- as and a clerk for the reason that the law ot of congress of 1874 Imposes imposes Im- Im poses upOn that officer the prosecution prosecution prose prose- cution ot of ait territorial cases In addition addition ad- ad to the United States cases Besides the duties which pertain to like officers In the states and other territories he stands In the relation ot of the attorney general and prosecuting prosecuting prose prose- officer ot of the several districts districts dis- dis In territorial prosecutions A Amore Amore more vigorous prosecution of polygamy polygamy poly poly- gamy and unlawful cohabitation cases which the situation requires would call for still stin further help and more courts Governor Murray then cites that since January I 1 1884 there have been begun In the Third district court civil cases 72 Indictments having been found of which 65 were for tor pOlygamy and unlawful cohabitation while 86 Indictments were for tor of tenses offenses against territorial laws of Utah for various offenses I 4 4 |
