| Show JUDGE SERMON OUR oua readers will peruse with more or less interest the fervid semon sermon of judge boreman which he delivered to the grand jury of the second judicial district on the esth of the present p resent month and the more part of which appears in today to t oday day days NEWS it was quite an effort in its way aud will be considered as one oabe of the cu curiosities of tiie tile literature of jurisprudence the people of this territory ought to rejoice they are well blessed with rell reli religious C lous ious federal officials two methodist judges a governor who can to sunday sund ay schools ich and lecture adults on the th e nible bible with spread eagle ghibu es a and bombast equal to the pious iera iora and there are others who can hold the candle to them inthe in the same noble nobie work but let iet us return to brother boreman and notice briefly some bome L 0 of the things which he says in his sermon the judge complains that the territorial rit orial legislature la Is hostile to the courts courts because at the last session bession of the that body did net appropriate for far his court as he be expected i would we do not see seo the tiley foree forea of the Judges assumption thier anero maybe maybo may be mans many good rea nea mons bous besides special personal per bunal bunai hostility why a legislature does not ampro means as ame individuals outside it would i s i the judge charges that thit a spirit of disloyalty disloyally and ty to the general government ex ests throughout the whole territory itis it is buffi sufficient clont answer to this to say that every well inform informed person r ll 11 0 n on that grand jury could ko havo bavo a v e given hla his honor the lie upon this point af M it had been advisable to dp do ita iti it the judge makes considerable parade over ovet assorting asserting that neither the government nor nuy any federal official is prompted by a spirit of persecution we lyv make inako no charge against the government but we happen to know to the contrary pt tat the judges judge s assertion respecting some of the officials As to their respect for the law jaw does the judge jud igo ige take the public to be fo fool div the judge says saya with mens men religion government has nothing to do that is precisely our bur view and precisely what in substance the constitution jda declares clares ciares the judge complains that the 0 lopal local ocal opal ogal le legislature has hns 7 legislated V pon the occupancy of the p public bublic lands and that the people le here have used timber from the ame same noes does his h Is honor not know that early au and d I 1 isolated j settlers do better to establish W local laws than to live jive without withof law and order oges he think they ought to fo hav have 0 burrowed in the ground like ilke lik ilk mole moie sin stead of using the timber in the mountains for houses houns ank and other buildings next fraudulent land entries are ato treated upon if theril there aie ale are any let J 1 ustice uslice be done donn in the matter mater V I 1 f it 14 be perhaps some of the judged friends will not go scot freet tree free uhe the same may be said sald concerning n several other which his banor mentions the judge refers to illegal voting it will be bad for the liberal party if all instances of this kin kina kind d be prosecuted celestial marriage comes in for por for extensive notice of jabe ahe nature of this hi hia his s honor knows very and his reri rei narks r concerning it are full of falsehoods and misrepresentations tat ions lons we ve haxe have not nov spice to ela dla va tea M more 0 te about this point ho now w further than that we know of ho influential anfor Allor mormon nion who has hns denied that kind pf af maral marai marriage agN the judge says saya ccok of alt ali place on earth barth a court of 14 law w is the place in which no man s k buld make a false faise statement the truth in every easo cass and tind e every ory party co ini ngan to court la is bound to detail the riot nothing hing bing eleo eiso because ibb iab a man IN lff in court he is nota nou not justified justified in swearing to a falsehood and if he is an honest 4 man raan he will not do it ibb this is excellent doctrine trine but y as everybody knows in this country it is a doctrine seldom beldom put ut in p practice we heartily vish wish sh adu courts r ts would always seek t tn elicett truth and toad to minister administer justice the judge complains thai haf there are no free schools in utah the principal reason have e heard beard urged against free schools Is the de j hire sire to keep the taxes at a 10 low figure the judge and his charl chari charitable th frient friends isi lar are at liberty to endow free schools in every county in the territory if they wish the judge thinks it i the mor mons moons really believed the law against polygamy unconstitutional they would eagerly run into court and have it tested would they the judge gets his bread by attending court but it takes the bread ont gut or of the mouths of the people when they go to court Tha tsan important difference the judge elaborates grandillo grand grandiloquently llO ilo upon the government of the united tates states tf chinia this IA all very tery good but in practice not quite arne re the government of this country is theoretically the best inthe in the world but as somo portions of it aro are carried out lri irl in this thie Terri territory torr torf ook far instance st arice allce it is one of the worst in the world the th judge says fays there is an aaring the people of the united states slates no bitterness against the lormon people the judge does doe snot not speak the truth hero here sometimes there Is a greab great deal of bitterness and at other times not so BO much muth this thia is 16 a patent thol tact As t to 6 personal and arld religious 11 liberty 3 in lat america of which the judge boasts muchie much we vie web wel elleve belleve have been beon in countries where there ane arc far nar more pert port onal and religious liberty without licence arid far respect reppe t for the law than there filere are aro in ameril america that is 4 our fur 1 i W opinion and vve ive have haTe lad excellence ence i i f 1 I 1 he dudge judge says the government and the peo pie pip of olt this nation are df determined tern that polygamy shall shail die aud and audit it Js 10 the most knost egregious folly llor he po and their friends to try to prevent jt li it 10 i supreme nonsense for eighty thou thousand sandor sandon jon jor a liun agun dred thousand people to array themselves against forty millions millins 0 of people upon a question like thi this the government la Is in earnest and it Js is well for the people to realize this fact y 1 the judge would have stated the real point of this point better hutter if lie he h government and the people or of this nation uret aret determined edt that hak heavens laws shall shail not nol prevail vail vall in this nation and it is the most moat egregious folly for the al might I 1 9 eity elty or 1 hib hla friends 1 to try to prevent iem 1 it the uhe judge will nind find jac a hard thing to butt against omnie omnipotence 0 telice ve must skip overAl over almost everything else in the Judg judged plis one thing we will notice he says the grand jury must hear no tio witness for the defence he runs this idea into the ground the grand jury yury manhave may have no au authority to run wh othey think would testify in favor of the person accused but nut butchey the y have a right to fend bend for a witness if they think he could throw light upon the subject investigated otherwise in this territory for instance ice all the harn harp arid perjurers per jurers which civilization has brought to the territory ana nna their name biame is legion could be heard by this ahls grandeury gran gnan grand jury djury and their testimony taken and acted upon nor for indictment and not a soul must be heard according to Boreman b pho who might say anything to relict rebut their testimony alid arid so favor navor the accused ignot Is not this the way to crowd the tha th e courts with JJ legation haras and oppress citizens ed ami burden burder the territory with debt and ardd consequent enormous taxes laes laef 7 what gaie saie baue person w auld huld dream ot of buch such a one olle bided sided inquisition As aa a means of eliciting truth and sedur int Ing justice and then upon thio thim possibly perjured testimony twelve ene one mies mien liht In indict dicton the judge beema seeing to take for granted ranted that thi the ahe c chief business bf the gr grand and jury ury la Is simply cimpl to indict and ind therefore he ild t ilmoni that they need only orlis hear hedi one side df br the question that at cf f the 66 the judge ludge used this language summon nor have before yoe yde you any witnesses far the de defence fences fencel aridi arid 1 1 I repeat therefore that the law allows you only to he hear ia witnesses faithe for the prosecution soy NoY boythe the rule ruie of the law that thae has hali been adopted in nearly every estate state and territory in the U 9 is about in lit these words the grand gnand jury ury are alre not bound to hear bear evidence vid e nce nee for the abe defenda defendant it but it duty to weigh all t the evidence submitted to them and whan they have hive reason to believe that other evidence within their reach will explain charge they sho bho should uld order buch such evi evl evidence dende denge tp t be produced and for fon that purpose may require the district Att alt attorney orney to issue process for tho thel wit nases es 1 tho the grandeury gran grand lury djury ought to find an indictment when all thia evidence before them thim dakken taken together is auch us aa I 1 fri in their judgment would if unexplained or marrant warrant a conviction by the trial jury in the san ban francisco chronicle of the we find the same rule of lav lat lay insisted 0 on n substantial lathat we contend is corle corie correct ct now we submit that judge boreman foreman is elther either Ignorant of thu the law or hash bash hns haq a missionary object to accomplish in giving giving to the grand jury the tho foregoing rille tuio here hero are the tho remarks of the chronicle Chro ahro nicra nicia it is a well recognized principle of lay lag that grand juries haye hayw no rig night right lit to nind find an indictment in fir incases incises cas cases i es ii 11 which they belleve believe that a petit jury would not convict suel sueh a course cours q would woula be oppressive and unjust fo accused par tyby putting hm to the tho need less lebs trouble and et expense of a trial and ard 1 11 it would be to the na public 1 0 aby by impo imposing ing upon riou the the useless ex e pue ank ans of a trial th the d G mud grand jury S r t i are the absolute judges in regard to matters of this kind i the rt law bestows bestons upon thom tho tho the exclusive power of passing upon the ques question lion llou la Is there any probability that in calle ene we should find a rrue irue bill balla a petit jury would convict but has til the judge edg for a grand jury at all seeing that his charge ism isa is a very general indictment of nine tenths of the tho community |
