Show CAINES ARGUMENT mr speaker the declaration of assistant attorney of alio united staffs that it would be nn act to put every ndell mormon to lie deword is bearing fruit alic of alie clique bent en our clial a mormon is in liis a dangerous criminal is bearing natural fruit alip continued legislation which is being driven through congress and which with unerring certainty ia hedging in and trampling down the eal of liberty to mormon Is blaring fruit aller its kind this bill which renders it possible lu enlarge llie power of mormon liatti fi and to swell their number will bear the same fruit the unlawful cohabitation M dalton was i this way received an impetus by tho acquittal acquit al of liis aEsa sein shuro du you expect aliis license by law and this immunity from punishment by courts wall end A mormon boy in private brawl with a deputy marshalen mar lulad daylight rud on a crowded ircel in salt lake city struck alic deputy a blow with his int for this on anso lie twice lined and then ent to alic acne tertiary tent iary by the united states judge A mormon is killed in cold blood by a deputy marshal and alio llio assassin is acquitted at tho instance of the united statch this kind of history mads well doe it not and it will improve vastly nac in conclusion mr speaker I 1 will tay that no community ever daiil bit tant was at thy eaic time industrious and thrifty and yet immoral dishonest and disloyal men there may be bad 0 o a degree that will not bear mention who arc also industrious but corn and nations never history records no such example ahr industry and thrift of my constituents is admitted by their bitterest and most enemies they dire not deny it do 21 handful of cormons mormons in alic hocky mountains set at dechano nil that alie experience lias revealed arc they in ho worlds history the solitary instance of thrift and immorality of industry and licentiousness of probity and possessed of material wealth and yet of property rights nothing could bo isioro absurd tells us mr speaker that where there is thrift and in austry in a community side by sida with it trill bo found morality and loyalty tho ad of lie industry of alio people of intili destroys the whole cabo of their enemies industry and immorality have ever loen and will forever remain ablo iii communities chit even were aliis rot true aliat can you do by legislation tharo is no gainsaying gain saying alic fact that industry could nol exist where property rights are rol duly by law tin industry of L tali therefore im ap the existence of ample protection for rights it ha bc en tinted by one of thoc now in washington in the interest property in salt lake is owned by acu il taking in word iia true aliat docs in elbow that the very cu in in utah of so many intensely antagonize to alie mormon p opec lie existence nf laws cring property rights absolutely aliat moro can you do you cannot legislate the industrious the history of ill times contradict lucli a possibility you cannot legislate hoopla nor can you legislate legit late them happy all eliat you ann cnn do is to throw around industrial indu trial communities those which while preserving them from interference still MC that alic rights of in property are i acm cd that alic people arc destroying exactions nor to alie fury anil bigotry of nian with power and base enough to use it for the injury of their follow for alie limitation of alie libertin liber tit and for the annulling of rights no sound governmental doicy dare go beyond thic no statesman dare attempt to do more lie lias any inspect for his reputation or regard for those which hattory in utah aliat have wo found A laople choso whoso industrial arc a rival in modern timet if ever rivaled arbitrarily and with an utter disregard of teaching and practical working this people lias been to be immoral with a full knowledge that avery attempt at alic introduction of morality by means of legislation is against all good reason men seem determined to aliis people moral you are to make eliat which is alleged to be inherently dishonest good that which is hopelessly bad pure that which is reeking with fialli boblo baj all by ic altion il tion in other voids you aro legislate egi slate the bows sows car into the si purze i mr speaker it cannot bo doit you begin on a basis bit aam the bierc to anre opposed to reabon aid 0 o history if the mormon nrc what tho popular belief them to be alicy will destroy selves more inora rapidly lhnn ann cnn bo by tu you darc rest the knect of immor al practiced ticey it certain euli decay aliat even HH beet and fairest tc germs arc nt wol burely atad ing and will bring alic whole apo that decay that ruin which A beneficent lia determined cleall ho alio fatum all eliat is not upon ad by the eternal of morality if fall it will fall of its own weight I 1 contend mr speaker and I 1 make the contention with all that instead of promoting alic true of utah all this special kaid claes losi linx boen nf detriment you found my honest for reputation in bus i noes marls is almost you have founie them instead of following the of reason and experience by throwing about ani those which would enable to continue their work of enriching this great nation instead of it ia proposed to hamper them gilill hy alie violent I 1 tell you if we want our own people and the nations of the world or baart of and our right to govern ifa would hac ilicin love the principle of fr cidoni we prof we kuust begin by manifesting locc and om love fur free and liberal principles ourselves only by t arts moans can ti c inspire in othar oth cr and abiding feitli in our and in our loyalty my constituents have indignities insults and ostracism for acara almost uncomplainingly tacy have been despoiled of charac ter by paid assassins anil beast 1 man eliat are eilent alio roh women and al 31 eliat alone gives kalua to ii fe and my people hryc in vain for justice they have been misruled mis ruled by inn a government eliat did toj unfriendly lilen who have ahr ir in very way but ihal which give garb of honor to enmity and my leave alicy liate been and tty wicked and design laavy been to position of open and adov pd losiff anac to alic and attempts leave failed yet of defiance and treason have ban entered against them alii li to be false and till then came no redress for one by one their rights and give a commet ity i its belter its port leave been wrested arbi from baill iny people have appealed alij raised Q position only by means alic constitution lias provided A whole nation words of blat ant men prevail is arrayed again them determined upon destruction truc tion and this determination it gradually crystallizing in alio act of coogins Coo gits and yet lie appeal f my people is to constitutional means and to these alaric this is the disloyal people of utah I 1 tell you mr speaker I 1 ell you in the united in the worlie there i no people more loyal to the eternal truths of liberty as expressed in the coi of thin alii n my constituent and will come time a time the mists now befog alie american people and id tars alien alic refuge of lies erected by charlatans diate been swept ciway here will come such a time when my bordi will stand forth marked clear and bold and untarnished as their truth gentlemen I 1 ask you to pause for your own cakes you ann cnn not aiford to take a 5 determined ter mined upon by such untrustworthy testimony I 1 am cicro moro than a pleader I 1 speak for myself and I 1 pledge my word and my character eliat alic statements upon this legislation is bacod are foundation in fact you can not to pursue a policy which is determined upon the destruction of a people only fault is at worst eliat they the happiness of themselves and their fellows by methods are dif Trent from your own time the great corrector of all evil will light wrong it be and tho fiat eternal ling already decreed eliat the last vestige odmor monism ahall be swept away by the peaceful progress of events if it be nol hat alu cli cod in iain wisdom survive na the fittest you who have freed from bond riRe alio agro elave you who loag liberty the of our country bequeath bliem fair and unsullied to your children let me plead with yon let me beseech you not to con iny people te such slavery loud |