Show litigation I 1 we have often often observed it written in schoolboy copybooks copy books that evil comm communications corrupt good manners manners and there is is i a fear that C constantly open coutts courts and an increasing number of professed limbs of the law may tempt the uninitiated to waste their tasir time and substance by engaging in law suits or by voluntarily attending their progress this thia conclusion is deemed correct correct from the fact that almost daily an idle crowd around ilia the council house is seen to be on the in increase indrea crea I 1 it is is indisputable that the large in majority fiorit of out our population come here 0 on n pu purpose 0 e t to of serve birve I 1 the lord and walk upright 3 r in I 1 1 sight ig lift and in the sight of their bret brethren it is is I 1 equally greult 1 true that there are some in in ustah who neither geithe r far god nor regard man and many many bhoj appear to q be giving to hit between wind aad water fot they are actually trying tosef to see j much evil they can commit and at the aade same time bep keep their at anding among the saints and I 1 peradventure slip inside the gates of heaven I 1 even event st the risk of a tig tight lit squeeze S such uch p persona e so as seem to forget foret the ancient and true saying ye ca cannot abt serve two masters the one being good and the other evil hence when they have trave travelled llAd in the thep th of evil until the instigator thereof has lured am them into its ito quagmires of until the chastening cha hand of the almighty is is upon pon them they call upon the upright to aej help I 1 them I 1 out clean thern them off stand between them I 1 and their god and place them whre they iii ey would have been had they no sin ain that you may be further I 1 able to avoid such an gnp unpleasant I 1 aass i nt predicament a few suggestions tiona i are offered forvour for your reflection 1 seems to h have ave invested court houses I 1 aud and the he I 1 proceedings therein with a peculiar charm to a i certain class and the lawyers and i possibly now and jad then a judge love to have I 1 i ita s so for vy by this craft they get their living and the I 1 dupes dupe sand and the obstinate foot the bill except when honesty hones tj i is s driven to the wall through lack of evidence or b by bowe booie quirk of law or coi corruption rup I 1 in bathe the co court ur and all this goei on much to 40 the a amusement t and ben benfit benefit fit of those thosa who pocket ket I 1 1 t 41 the fees aim laugh langh at the gullibility and stubbornness born ness of th the liti litigious jious and to keep up the craft it if yeii you will sto stop p and ili listen ten your earnwill ear egr swill sOll be sin stunned I 1 tm ed b by V its professors with the mys ories I 1 i of the I 1 law the dig dignity anity of the law an and d the vast nasf la 1 amount ao 40 found study required to become familiar famili ai wi aa I 1 I 1 I 1 now what whai are area few of the main simple facts I 1 I 1 in the case cae it ia is a fact that law is is oi or should be beti ve either ither more n nor or less than a rule of action founded in i justice notice for the proper regulation ution of ith the hunia mf family amily in their socialist social socia lit intercourse ec c je I 1 and written whitten with the utmost pai U that I 1 I 1 I 1 1 j every one amenable thereto is ahle able iou io to u understand it or there is a radical I 1 defecting defect in tta phraseology se i 0 which should be remedied that i common in law ay as I 1 i if is commo commonly aly understood and practised practiced is a labyrinth of abominations and should be at struck butof existence am atiat the ote constitution and applicable laws of the united states fand the laws passed by the governor and legislative assembly of utah territory are all U the awa of human n ibrie in 1 utah that our laws are ao few and so pla plain a i that you na can become familiar I 1 with and under ander i stand I 1 all which concern your individual conduct whit what the ifor courts and law eases cases not one particle except through the e wickedness I 1 stubbornness and folly of one or both parties to I 1 1 I 1 1 t a suit s crimes ars are committed hince there must be I 1 I 1 an unde understood acknowledged and legal mod mode beof of an atrial trial or mob law would prevail or criminals go 1 unpunished I 1 what whai is a I 1 necessary to constitute thi ibis meal aral 5 mode I 1 A law plainly defining ile gning the I 1 cri 1 1 the court having jurisdiction I 1 an a 61 I 1 W tant st court to cause the criminal and impertinent iq adf pertinent evidence to be produced prodie I 1 edicto edif if to i be found a I 1 and indicating some some plain brief mode of procedure dure with therrial the trial which will abse I 1 ends of justice any lawyers needed in in such oases cases wo no why because they could I 1 I 1 only it t beat bea hinder thinder progress and anda annoy annoy the ears of judge and j alry iry and irritate the w witnesses it nesses for it U is taken for granted that judges are acquainted quain ted with the law in the cage thai both they and the jury have ears with which they ca can n hear k and nd know I 1 how how to ask the witnesses pertinent ques question liono and are capable of understanding the tin iuis were and discriminating between true and false evidence jo say the least in as great I 1 a degree as a lawyer and for forgoing doing this they have the adva advantage rivage of being si simply employed d to Id adjudicate the case while lawyers are hired b by y one or both parties ex expressly fes y for the purpose of darkening knowledge by words without e counsel 1 so long as the ibe tares grow with the wheat a criminal cae will arise occasionally but among saints sainta a civil case should rarely if ever be taken before what is commonly called a legal tribunal how are you to avoid doing so we mi might answer in brief by faithfully keeping I 1 Y your our covenants but as before remarked some professed saints are mainly concerned to see how few covenants they can observe and keep heep along in fair weather veather and a more extended answer is necessary I 1 for thair abe ir benefit in your dealings with your fellows let all par ties have an explicit understanding concerning I 1 I 1 ser services vites prices payments or any important i point toti touching ching the matter in hand and when of so much I 1 conie consequence quence that you cannot afford 1 to risk losing or being swindled or wronged out of what may be your you r actual rights either have written agreements or at least two good wit nesses a to lo the understanding if you will deal extensively ten with those thone who are not tried and proven t when a person will not arbitrate nor listen to jq the counsel of two of hi his brethren nor that of his teacher and you actually cannot afford the loss you have a right to a hearing before his bighom which hi ch should be amicable and aind final when you deal with one chois not even a pro fessel mairit sa irit you must expect to run the risk I 1 j of dispute din dip and of obtaining ju 4 ca i n a law j court for their ideas traditions and ou customs all I 1 jean in th that t direction though navy many of that class laia are very hano honorable rAbLe exemplary and sprig upright ht in in fulfilling ful fal filing civil contracts go 80 for far w moke mere property is i when a 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 i P person would aquipel you xou to go with hima him a mile go 9 0 with him twain but if unforeseen ev Ionta so transpire as asto to render it i almost out of the question or morally wrong for you to avoid appearing I 1 in tho the capacity of a party in a suit buit at law chire hire no lawyer but 4 ut produce your evidence make your statement if you wish and submit the question to the magistrate judge or jury j and let no persons he be found at a trial except the court the parties witnesses and such others as actually have business there it will be well to observe this plain and necessary esary afi counsel and hear bear in mind that we have hare no fellowship for Higi ois lawyers nor for any person who lre prefers fers litigation BRIGHAM YOUNG hebar 0 KIMBALL JED JEDEDIAH M GRANT |