Show t I 1 interviewed iq I 1 B ba a lexor Re I 1 ter of the commercial 1 advertiser 1 u i il r abe rh e maea of the mormon people t will dio dia in their belief mr ir james II if allart shenew alic yew york agent rl of the utah emigrant society slid and an cider of the mormon church said this morning tile mormon question isa is a complex one om anil and the the more it is agitated the more diall cult becomes the OIL situation the present action of ilo courts in utah is simply persecution all kinds ot of means have been becu devised duri du riol ng the last fifty cars I 1 to 0 solve the pr problem ob lem of what is called this is ii only another phase of it lawless mobs lim hat 0 made attacks on us luring during the last lait la it fifty years persecuting our people until they find them themselves selve s located in tile the mountains strong their prophets and elders ciders have been murdered in ili a barbarous manners manner and no one during all of these years has been punished for killin killing a mormon cider during the greate greatest bt opposition polygamy was not a factor in tile the on the arrival of the people in ili the mountains then belonging 1 to tile the mexican bican republic public ic they it unfurled cifu tried the stars and stripes and pledged C themselves is as friends friend of the government A poly brigham young was appointed governor by pre president aident fillmore in ili IS 1818 18 from 1847 to the people grew in number until they reached a total of souls its representatives were acknowledged for several terms as representatives of the territory tit in congress the polygamy law was passed in 1862 but remained a dead letter on tb tup statute book until three years time ago when the edmunds amendment wa was passed there ire are no prosecutions for polygamy but they are for as the judges call it unlawful relations between min man and woman the pu punishment 1 I is a fine of and six six months in prison the utah courts have so ruled that by dividing the time lime since tile the passage of the edmunds act into a numb of of fences 7 air or into years months weeks 0 or r days clays for the so called of fences it makes the imprisonment for far life and the fines run up to an enormous amount this is unjust in the first place marriage Is a part olour religion and is acknowledged by the utah judiciary the relation loti holds ili ibur skir estimation for eternity it is acknowledged by the best of law lawyers ers that tile the edmunda act irta nil ally annuls the first amendment to the constitution which prohibits con gross from passing illy any acts interfering aith w i li the free exercise of religion wo we believe that tins this has been revealed to its from god and we cannot olley this law we cannot abandon our tives and children is as demanded by the llie courts without violating 0 our contracts with cur aives and our coci coc ants nants aith with our god fisl iop clawson is stif suffering fering in ili jail rather that than be bitted by iiii bis whis and children aal be despised klespis ed and ostracised ostracized by our people sir beecher said a few days ago that it if the lie bible was true ism was ri right lit we believe in ili the b ible the die old prophets were poly polygamists but not the ii bole pf af israel monogamy was not heard of it until gitil or 4 OU years after christ it lifts has been imposed on oil tile whole of europe by pagan 0 rome cisar guarded the virtue of liis his wife but compromised himself with other women go so nith illi this country today to day there ire arc abandoned women iu in this country who earn their living by their shame their average life is five years so lie die acry v cry year ail and 11 go 0 to nn an untimely y braio rase the rite people here ilo 10 not know mormonism for if they did they ii not attack it so blindly only oaly eight per cent of the mormons cormons have more more than h an one wife that is to 10 s say ny in 1 I all our counie country ly or only about 1000 men we aill ill contest this matter in the united states coults coin ts as soon ns as we can call bo be heard rite persons who are now suffering in jail have been denied an appeal I 1 to the united states courts a as in ili the case of angus ti 8 31 1 I cannon tile the brother of our former fonber representative george Q cannon Ca linon it if we n c get no redress in the united slates conits we will submit our case to the almighty who will do us justice the talk of force and arms is absurd we ire arc noncom non com batanus ba tants our business is to preach the gospel build temples tenial c 9 gather the saints and save ave s the alic living I 1 moo 0 ind and dead the mormon people generally regard this is as a religious crusade urged upon claress cn congress aress by reli religious ious bigots I 1 con congress ress to 10 gratify rati their religious constituents lias has done blat it is ashamed of it was an all assumption of this kind that lighted li 0 lit the fires of smithfield field and drove dr olle the puritans from fingland en lin oland gland and tile the huguenots Huguen liu from france lri it Ws was its such an assumption flint harried it llie vaudois of the alps and persecuted the scotch covenanter on oil the mauu bains when they ined to worship god I 1 11 according c to their mr chamberlin i a liber lili cral al of E england n made a speech in ill glasgon clarmo tile the other oilier day jn ili the course of it his is remarks lie said if a lilau has a ri right lit to thin think k 0 out u t his religious 0 fai faith lit for himself find and hold it ho he oll ought a bi not t lj be bribed or persecuted in ili order to roi it alit and tile the state over steps its proper field of duty duly an and d on oil religious equi equality tills it and 1 I d religious freedom in ili doin doing 0 so O our lien persecution pel cocu lias has conic from the dewor democratic alic party bit bill t if its Plind ples were carried out it would insure lili liberty erty to all citizens iti zens of this republic consequently tile the mormon 0 ll 11 people 0 le although they ill cannot il mo tel apy cy I 1 etc otc te believe e iu in uio tho jeffero onlin principle pic there ale it c afew n won who 1110 will leas lalic 0 their families but tile buass of the mormon people nill ill lie die ill in their belief it will injure us personally soll but as a sect it will male us its VOWN Y adaer ther |