| Show js A Con j tn in all well organized and properly constituted governments z ants there is an i or of conferred anali 1 1 1 1 ii 0 1 i which the presiding genius of the nation be he known as a monarch or president dentis is the acknowledged represents tivo tito in a founded on the principle of liberty to chich the e cent t it ion policy is i inimical c t he a u bority rily of baz five j I 1 1 is 3 ae lessa 3 4 ep and ant bia diction less arbitrary than in ia one ODB bcd oft OA those of 0 or sovereign ab nibs ti the nation in which we MO bare alo honor to cwm claim citizen citizenship bil ope opens us a broader brealer geld rold enterprise exercises ks lesa control over ts private derot devotions ions of its citizens and secures to them a greater t ex acte antion 1 I ot ot than that of any ocher aslant estadt at tb the present age in u 40 bathing in gs tb is mac MOT c apparent tb than an in in the eights rig ht of f suffrage cage and religious ioui io ui liberty the former applies to all its male citizens and the latter to citizens nd res residents identa of every eury color that there should bo be proper restrictions so placed as to prevent he be abuse ot of those privileges is s a necessity founded on en justice witti without ont such restrictions liberty would degenerate into unbridled bridled uti possession posses anif of as guaranteed by our laws would encourage the illiberal and inin ded in a course of a aggressions it at variance with the design of their noblest adro advocates cates destroy or tarnish the influence e of virtue by the preponderance of vice and lead to results the luevery lb every very opposite oft of boe intended by the iho honor able ble wise and pure minded founders founder of 0 our m man an elevating institutions S enforce these restrictions upon the erring erring is one of the chief duties of our j judiciary and one in which the r right i minded will ever step forward to aid and nd it is no argument against our in that in the exercise of this restrictive power the pretended 0 or r ass sum turned d prerogatives of those who from a wrong conception of the extent of their privileges are frequently assailed ailed and overthrown individuals or even eren an entire people may assume premises ab ol fely untenable and in the itic ampt ta to follow a pursuit based on such pro pre vilies rams perpetrate rafe errors it in may ay become tb the e duty of officials to summarily pun iab 6 wa kalhe economy of 0 our o ur government a very wise rise provision on was made for the uninterrupted enjoyment of religious rights but it was wag not riat contemplated conkein plated that any ear to eo lost to a of shame ne as to 0 o desire to inaugurate and practice tico under tinder the gafred name of religion a system of things subversive ot cottec t christian moral ity under which chec the constitution grant giant io lal the right to religious freedom was formed had such a state of things been contemplated alie venerable body venom posterity will ever honor at as the authors author a of that glorious instrument would we can have no doubt have bare inserted a prohibitory ro hibi tory shou I 1 lor for ever have bare barred their introduction into american krue rican society ety though gifted with wilh a prescience that seems ever to be moro more or le less is the accompaniment pani ment of 0 bi fa ably and minds minds the de fathers of our country even the hie most moat remote idea that so debasing a custom as that of polygamy indigenous only t to 0 bar barhaw would ff prevail revida il in ia a land peopled by the descendants of the puritan fathers much liess thit it would 6 obtain so firm a baldas bold as to become the higher highe r law of of the inhabitant of an entire te territory seeking admission into the I 1 federal union as a P sov so ar c ga T S state t at c I 1 there is bo however wever nothing within lie letter or spirit of th the 0 CO constitution in inhabiting hib the passage or throwing doll doubt ton on the a I 1 adiv condemnatory andem Y of bf and d making ma king punishable by fine and I 1 f nn ra practice of polygamy it is t F et e t U t lt it i is s the duty ar t iii salo L Legisla e guslaur gis laur turoa 02 to govern in accordance 0 with the laws of the abe united state con and in force and there can be no doubt on the minds mind of thes C who study ludy the nature of our constitution edit ution tion but that polygamy in at varl vari wl the coast constitutions and laws of the I 1 unbind states tho attempt to legalize galiya le polygamy ua tin tier the pie pica a of religion is a not notion on too uvin absurd ril to meet with favor from any other than haa the biad the ill info med the leab ransly di posca d or the seekers or of favor favo ath term religious Liberty 1 doe snot con concerto verto tho anre minded and right thinking ing the most distant idea of a license to practise immorality and it would be as reasonable to legalize galo le the be doctrine or of human bythe wity way a doctrine of atah atad too foo as we showed in a firmer editorial or atty 10 ther crime under the same plea all that Is needed to make the perpetration perpetrate rati on of such crimes rin an wt et of religious duty linding bindi tig on tile the art frt nu biAls of religious the 1 to imo a revelation authorizing them po suc tuch haplea a pica and gates of f 1101 immorality would be open to io tho the moslem it ia eia big alty toce to 0 o CE en force his hia cheed with the tLe sword to the bik oik Ae Horca in of borsting sting ebil children drin alite as ft an to 6 ba al eity to the and the ibe bat att steu iStrol fAI suttee in n i honor 0 tb th 0 t rahan I 1 n lc deity to ho of afie abe chinese chines and the I 1 of their chaildin murder alint buddhist alb bat yc as a ir tics bics all these cougil er 1111 be tolerated cindea aft pie plea ifal loveil ej to lo in the C cleof aso of utah the plea pica is unfounded unfound ej I 1 in bigla fi logical in ebar acter atrocious in design unjust in in principle pi incillo unconstitutional in efrece i lawless in len lendener deney an and d can never be but with willi a 1 disfavor by the american Aroc people equal equalled led only by their virgust for the and daunning ning policy ii ia behalf of r faich it is urged ui bcd |
