Show T if r tho test oath analyzed idaho is considerable speculation 0 late hi regard to alic taking of the odious and mi american test baft by the mormon people bol n few of the to ibave wrong conception of that catli and many lire misinformed aej to its scope and bearing acl us review it a little and to discover if we duay juay who can talco it and who cannot on each saturday after alie daiy of next august and until the day of election the officer of each precinct pie will administer alic oath sigid register those who take it provisions are 1 that the person applying to be registered be a male citizen 2 that lie is over the age ot 21 years 3 that lie lias resided or will have resided in thia territory for four months and in aliis county for days next the day of the en aws election 4 that lie has or felony or bribery 5 clial lie is not now registered or entitled to vote at any other place in this territory all of alie foregoing qualifications ficat ions arc good enough and no man who does nob possess lliam should attempt to register the sixth qualification is 1 I do further ancar that I 1 am not i bigamist or a polygamist to say any man who ia a ht should not take the catli even although lie may not been proven to be a and may not nav be liable to prosecution II 11 a man is not si il is hi I 1 alic law to say so the seventh provision pio vision ia the one which some of the mormon people do not tai fl it reads that I 1 am not u member of any anler organization or which teaches advises counsels or encourages its members devotee or any other person to commit alie crime of bigamy or polygamy or any other crima by law as a DUTY arising or resulting from in such ord r tion or now ibisch ii isCh aliu ever tau glit or the in ut polygamy ns a duty hrisiny froia ancin I 1 eliat has lacu the we inest adge that the church lias annl vrr little on it members for v c assert fear of successful contradiction eliat not one of the adult male members 0 alie mormon church in idaho ari polygamists here then arc nine tenth of the members of said who have never yet it their duty to practice polygamy anil as a matter of fact there are a great many who oven when the practice 0 polygamy adt not prohibited by law could not have entered into alic practice of plural marriage because they were bot considered worthy they were it is true lut not oilier wise qualified aliey never could practice polygamy poly samy simply ns a result of membership it i oue of alie rules of the church that tire children of parents should be baptized when they anre eight years ot uga iy ay being baptized they A large of the church are children now bit a duty resulting or from their membership for to practice polygamy vc think we abo perfectly safe in eliat it never has liceri and could not possibly lie alic duty of each incur lor of chii organization to practice polygamy in other word the practice h not and could not be enjoined on every member as a duty from membership lut carn going so far w to admit clial the practice lias resulted from membership alone does the church now it is alie nuestro nue stio three years ao chief justice morgan i tiled in his coin t here ni paris pa ris that if a mini eliud not headd ahn laught during the past mouth lie could take tho oath ho held and very we that the law was in the present tense advises advices ad vices etc not that the d may have tau glit hie past but docs the to which yon belong guiv teach and advise the practice 0 polygamy if one blocs not bear it etien bow can one bu belongs to an th t leaches it let every annn te alio if ho believes eliat simply be is n member it is his duty to practice polygamy or if lie lienda alio llio doctrine now a kiy ho should n to baku alic lint if lie lini not licnik it aliat fruia saying to and ng the oath bolli coi union sense and alic ruling of the court arc on hh kida jo not buur religious books tencle it c they do lint so aloes the bible ue alic and CAtli olic avach it of these be from voting because their biblo alic iri clicc of ve nut eliy the liob hinc alic sinic rii lit tiie next clause is or practices hint is bigamy or polygamy poy gamy or plural cr as n trinal rite of such we defy anny man 10 ranko out of how in the of sense can an organization practice ata bers mt an organization never we admit that a parl of alia MOT nion organization certain member have practiced polygamy lat because a lew members have broken alic law is it fair to say that alio organization ai a ir bolc breaks it here is a town of two hundred adult males there arc say twenty of that number who arc riven to drink would it be fair would it be just to say therefore blut is lion in town a collection of people who practice drinking no the fact is that nine tenths of alic town do not drink the next provision is that I 1 dj not and will not publicly or privately or in any manner whatever teach advise counsel or cn counge any person to commit the crime of bigamy or polygamy or any other crime by law cither as a religious duty or otherwise have to sav about this is if you now or expect tor go about teaching any person or persons to practice polygamy do not take the balli but if yon dont each it and if it is your present intention not to it what is in alic way saying so and taking the tle next and last clause of the oath we need to note is that I 1 do regard the constitution of the united states and the lans thereof and of this territory as interpreted by the courts as tuc taw of the land the teachings of any other organization or association to the contrary notwithstanding now attlio is it thai disputes this everybody knows that knows anything that whatever the courts eliat is alic su parme law of until lucli decisions nrc by alic courts themselves or repealed the ickis I 1 mr i V L suii decisions to bo any more than the hundreds ot thousands of alie people of the northern states believe the decd scot decision which v war to be constitutional but it wai alic sn arc buo law of the land just lie same until it was changed A man can believe what he pleases in regard to all of these matters is no occasion for a of ancs faith alio supreme court of alio llio united lias reversed luelf more than once on alic legal tender act clone what was supreme law one day turned out to be unconstitutional law alic next day to HC isaic simply to say to every of alic clinich if you arc po don t alc if alie yoi of 3 ilont vote if yon yourself or ollices to krnc picc il don t vote if your conscience don t vote and thereby do violence to yoni conscience but if do not it or il yourself and if you do not licar it hinell by others of your organize lion and your is clear on points ami ou uru u say il h your sol Limi and sacred duly to bulc man of you |