Show TIM THE ig OF ov CHIEF JUSTICE mckimie McKi mif 1 TUB var ruling of chief justice merean mckean I 1 ill irl the matter of the ap applications of john C sandberg and wm horsley for naturalization which appeared in our issue laue of yesterday will vill oe do read tead with corno sorno degree of surprise by tha tho public and by bygone bono bone more eo ea thipa by jurists jurisa ont oat alff of the territory of utah the statement enunciated are so to novel antt suit an d contain con oon calla talla BO so many mary strange ideas that we 4 shall preserve ane ruling aa a a curiosity for our dur children to read it will serve berve the purpose admirably of illustrating bow how ridiculously men wen can speak and act and what absurd positions they can salame when they attempt to follow the lead of prejudice pre judice judica or to perpetrate wrong under the semblance of law chief justice Biel mereau merean kean Keau ia is from new york we believe would he presume to render reader auch such a aa as that we pub lithen yesterday were be lie on the bench in that state every naan ulan who has any acquaintance witla witia courts knows that he would not hie fie ae himself knows fall well that auch such questions as lie he asked of handberg and onsley are never propounded in coutta to men applying for pho tho l he rights not the privilege as lie he would nave have us believe of citizenship willi as great propriety might a judge ask an applicant for naturalization whether vh ether he was wasi a sabbath breaker boesker or whether be he believed it right for men to break breake the Bab sab sabbath aih bath or vv wn ether hether be he ever intended to break the sabba sabbath tb and be cause he declined to answer these 1 qUest questions lons ions satisfaction decide that his application for naturalization mastbe must be rejected certainly if judge mckean is warranted in deciding that because a man belieu believes es in th the e religious doctrines of the tha people pe ople opie w with I 1 th whom he is connected he is therefore not a man of good moral character any other judge would TO be warranted in deciding that ifa if a mans aota acts were in violation of a 4 moral law his application for naturalization aliza tion should be rejected we ve have known men who were strong advocates of the proper observe she the sabbath if a man performed certain acts on ou the abbath sabbath day ha he had in their view violated the sanctity of gods holy day he had bad broken gods moral law he could not in their opinion bo be other than an ad immoral man suppose a sabbath breaking alien should apply to a judge holding these views for the rights of citizenship would he riot according co 0 o Judge Mc keans rendering go be warranted L avd in ju rejecting his application or of bir sir appose suppose a blasphemer blaspheme ra a frequenter of houses bouses of ill fame an adulterer or a man who Is known aa a liar were to apply for naturalization to a judge who lipid bald strict views of morality would he catechise catechism cate chise him as to whether he had ever been guilty of thess thesa immoral believed in practicing them or would ever be guilty in the future of practicing them and if ir he did not thus thud question him and the alien did not ails alls answer ver to the satisfaction of the court would he violate his cown oath by admitting bucha eucha manto monto citizenship in the judges own state new york blasphemy against god contumelious reproaches and bind profane ridicule of christ and the holy berl bert atu res reb whether uttered by words or writing are immoral acts and it has been baid eaid are of fences punishable at common gommon law andja and in thad that state it was determined that to revile the name of the savior and wantonly and maliciously to ridicule his bis character was indictable jp judge ge mckean mackta u as scrupulous in ques a it e d poh pod if these points when they y apply to tb fital himfar fon for naturalization as be he is upon their belief in alchi the reve ot or bbate boale lc prophet or orl is jcob fit fil 86 1 I mich 4 worse fg to believe the boie bole which happens to be a collection if a of writings most of which are from froin tile tb pens ens of polygamous prophets who lived in and were descended from a polygamous i nation lation han ban bitti it is to break the S sabbath blaspheme the name of god commit whoredom vho aho radom and adultery alid and be a liar it may be said there them is no law of congress against these latter crimes and immoralities while there is against polygamy but the bible that book which la is declared tobo to be the great substratum of christian Othi ethl ethics cs on which the common law as declared judicially by the english courts from whence our american courts have taken it is founded founds 4 the bible which is at the foundation odthe whole judicial system of christendom denounces those crimes and pronounces penalties against them thein but how is it with polygamy which is tha law of congress against the practice of or the belief in polygamy ane judge in his zeal outstrips congress he makes the belief in polygamy a crime he would punish a man for that which many mady able men profound thinkers and reason ers declare a man is not accountable for and cannot control namely his belief these applicants tor for aught that transpired in the court may raph rayh have ave been educated in this belief from garly early life one of them we know to nave been trained from early boyhood in the belief that polygamy as practiced by the fhe latter cay day is a divine dinst institution gutlon it was en grafted in his mind probably years before the passage of the act of of 1869 yet because he cannot deny this blona belief bellef I 1 0 to o the satisfaction of the court I 1 though known to be a virtuous industrious truthful and honorable el citizen judge mckean declares him to be an immoral man unfit to be naturalized did we live in spain under the reign of philip the second such decisions might be familiar to us but living jig in the united states in the year of grace 1870 we declare them outrageous and abominable philip sad said Better not reign reig n at all than reign belga over heretics our chief justice seems beems to have adopted that infamous sentiment a little altered to suit the difference in the circumstances better ngit nat naturalize at all or make men citizens than to naturalize or make inake citizens of mormons cormons Mor mons 1 the israelites it is well knon known believe in and practice circumcision it t is a part of their religion they observe it conscientiously but suppose Con congress gress greEs were to pasi pass a law laif as in the case of polygamy ile claring declaring it a penal of nence fence must the jew therefore for C r sake this practice of hb usi irell religion gJon and bo be excluded from the covenant which he firmly believes god made with his forefather abraham must he be though he firmly believes that his eternal sal and acceptance with god depends depend upon complying with the law of cir circumcision cun renounce that law and take upon himself all the consequences which such a departure from what in his mind is gods law Involve involves sZ A legislative body might say such ell cli a jaw law is disgusting it is brutal i ethro p to the spirit of the age it is an act of cruelty to children which endangers life and which we cannot tolerate in a christian nation declare it mayhem and shall punish it with severe penalties the alternative would thus be presented t to 0 the israelites of disobeying the hethe bethe the laws of man and risking rising the penalties of that or on the other hand f disobeying what they as a nation believe belleve to be the law of god and enduring thel the 3 eternal con consequences i ze of such disobedience th this JA is precisely the ji ap pp of the latter day saints respecting with this thia exception that its practice among liem them is not universal as circumcision is among the israelites 11 i 4 5 just suppose that such a law as we speak of were passed by congress and two uncircumcised jewish aliens were to present th em helves selves each accompanied by two witnesses of good repute before a judge and ask to be naturalized the judge knowing them to be men of faith asks the first one oue if it he has been circumcised the alien replies that he has not not satisfied with this the judge pursues hl his indu inquiries ir ies les he asks him if he believes it right andin and in accordance with ehe she laws of god for a man to be circumcised the alfen true to his convictions though biped himself replies that he doean do doeg esh erb eAb believe lieve ilove it to be in accordance with the laws of god for a inan man to be circum cisell cased the ne next x t alien nilen is interrogated q in the same style he also is not fiot ai circumcised but knowing that the other had bad incurred the judges displeasure by answering as he did determines to be reticent and replies that he has not been circumcised but as to the other questions he does not think if its necessary or proper to answer them thereupon the judge decides that th the first satisfied the ithe court count that fi hens no and d the s second ebo i nd failed to satisfy the court he is i a man of good moral character attached to the principles of the constitution of th ane e united states alm and aim leil leiu rell disposed to tho th order nud and happiness of the same the duty of the court a plain these thep e applications for naturalize naturalization aliz allon ailon must ba be rejected these thesa are imaginary casceal cases but in all their particulars they are such cases casas as ds judge ludge molean mckean has decided upon menu meri of israel citizens of the united states lovers of freedom descendants of orthe odthe the patriots of the revolution what think ye of a chief justice of a territory who renders such decisions there are 2 2208 20 11 8 cannon in the forta sorts andon and on the walls around paris in ohio rhio a candidate af for the methodist M ministry InI stry mush must botu not use ube i se tobacco fo bacco I 1 complaint is its made at troy N Y against a 9 ainest 61 female corner coraier loun loungers gers kers 11 there were barrels of coffee drank at the recent soldiers Sol Sold diera lerie reunion at des moines moine S iowa in scotland places of worship of all denomination denominations si have services in a who leor in the gaelic language an iowa iown doctor tord told a 9 man that he hail hall hada di agonis ligonis of 0 the hemus and it scared him so bad that he shot himself dead wm F baker of Wel wei wellesly lesli lesly mass mais has issued tin card cards s of invitation to the linth anniversary of his wedding somebody has discovered that in forty years a snuff taker taken devotes twenty four months to blowing his nose T it too often lappens happens that experience like the thle stern lights of a ship illumes allumes only the path you have traveled A little girl was heard to wish the other day that she was a boy so that she could swear when she dropped her books in the mud 1 new haven Co connla hnIs deeply shocked by the new sign of a secondhand second hand clothier publicly announcing that he be has left off clothing of every description when a saratoga gentleman solicits a lady to join in a mazy waltz he inquires will you demonstrate your agility in a whirl |