Show THE G GOVERNORS ADDRESS ADDRE SS TO THE legislature 1 ay iy another part of this paper we give in fuli full the message of gave governor anor ell H ivl ivi murray urray to the legislative assembly it Is a chib chie carefully fully prepared document and cau contains kalns some good suggestions but it is disfigured with several errors and some positive untruths un truths that it ha has 8 leen been watten written more for outside effect than for practical ca adoption must be evident to every one ope acquainted with the situation in utah and the ques questions tiong which are treated upon in the message the governor commences with tile the recommendation that the legislature write a code of laws in harmony with i th the e requirements of constitutional I 1 I 1 law a W an and says 1 I d do on not ot believe a L legislature eg slata should write doubtful sentences t ces in statutes s atutes or permit laws that may be misunderstood to remain equivocal the present assembly is not required or expected to write a code of laws I 1 but only to add to th the tho 0 existing code such statutes as ar are necessary to the welfare of the territory the remarks that are attached to the recommendation convey th the eldea idea that doubtful and equivocal sentences are common to our statutes and that laws are upon our statute books that are not in harmony with constitutional law if this is what he be indans he lip should have stated so 0 in so fo many words pointing out these equivocal and doubtful sentences ices and not have been content with mere insinuation in doubtful and equivocal language thus departing in practice from that which he advances in theory we deny that there are arc any such laws in the statute books of utah and iche ithe if he had bad pointed out any equivocal ori orl or doubtful sentences therein we would have been pleased to endorse a measure lookin looking to a chan chane change chanc c oi of phraseology ahra ecology the governor next presumes that orz organic anie anic differences exist between utah uta and the parent government this an all error as exist exis are not organic they have been created and fostered by persons like himself who have misrepresented ad facts procured legislation and tired llred extreme measures that are entirely uncalled cal cai ledfor for were it not for such guch individuals and their schemes chemes and agitations utah and the general government would llave had no dispute but each would have moved along alona g in its own sphere in perfect harmony i the governor says it has been charged beffre the country and congress that an ecclesiastical power established b by territorial sta statutes and held by many as sovereign would not noti permit a legislature to pass certain laws intended to be effective an and lin in harmony with national law it is also pretty well weli known that he made the charge ardd arid that luha ltha not been sustained ye we bay say that it cannot be sustained because it is untrue there is no ecclesiastical power here iles established by territorial statutes all the tha churches that exist in utah were organized and are independent of any territorial oy or other statute and the statement that any tiny such religious authority prevents or br compels the legislature in any way Is ig a mere asser asger assertion tion that cannot be proven and is made with the purpose of bolstering bolsterle up tip the false salse falsehood falsehoods hoo s put forth from the gle same source but ip in a different shape for the purpose oi of affecting public opinion un unfavorable favora le to the majority of the people e le of U utah h it has also anoil another ler ier object tharris Tha havis fris to provoke the legislature to conform to his views in their legislation lest it may be inferred if they do not that they have been I 1 prevented by an ecclesiastical authority in our opinion if such authority were a fact instead of one of his fictions it would be preferable to the dictation and compulsion u st 0 u of the one man power which re he has exercised and seeks to exercise he gle remarks the men wha see in it the e government or in those who differ with t th them an enemy are unwise here again he ilo is insinuating and etui eul eui voc neither the tile people of utah nor thel r iu tile legislature look upon tile the government as their enemy etuy elny and tile the only reason why whdeh E 11 it murray is looked upon as their tenly Is because he has omeril openly y placed himself in that position lie lle has done all that lay in his power towards the destruction of the body he is addressing lie has urged the abolition of the legislative assembly lie he has pleaded I 1 lor for the disfranchisement of every citizen of utah and the establishment of an auti antl oppressive government subversive of natural and constitutional rights Is lie he not an enemy to th the people and the Legislature yet lie lle says the greatest good to the greatest number is the tile true rule of action how does docs this theory comport ort with his own rule of action actions ile he is s seeking to place the vast majority of the tile theople people here under the heels of a hos hostile I 1 c and numerically insignificant minority ile he is glib with good theories but utterly inconsistent with them in 14 nis llis his deeds coming down to business he recommends the repeal of all statutes which conflict with section 7 of the organic act and states that the supreme court of the territory has decided this question and presents the fact that there are not now and have not been for years any de cie jure territorial oell cars cers we delly deily that there are any statutes which conflict with the organic act and we ask for the dec dee decision 1 slon sion of the supreme court establishing the nonsense which lie he utters why ald aid lie not cite the ruling or quote from the decision and vly does lie he rethe fact that the tile supreme courton court of the united states in the en englebrecht lebrecht case andallo and also aiso the case of the attorney general of utah reported in 18 wallace decided to the very reverse of his position on this matter if it were true that the supreme court of the territory had implied that we have had no de rie jure territorial officers ohl oni cers the ruling of the higher court would set aside the implication of the lower court Is it not pitiful to see sec the executive of the territory condescend to this miserable pettifogging to make a point for public effect ile he further asks ask the repeal of the law incorporating the kerpet terpet nal emigration fund compa company llyl on the ground that it places the whole system of immigration under the control of church authority this is another absurdity and the request is made to sustain his false statements made to the secretary of the interior in which he cited laws that have no existence but have been for years expunged ung dirom from our statute book the F idea dea kat lat that the incorporation of one emi company prevents prevents the organization of another is too ridiculous to talk about and we should have though too absurd even for governor murray the ura paragraph M ph on church incorporation ra ti on Is s of 0 the trie same character and contains a falsehood as foolish as it Is vile forthe act he refers conveys coneys v I 1 its ts own refutation of his untruth it distinctly states that the authority of the church thus incorporated for the purpose of transacting its own business legally extends only to such things as relate to fellowship according to church covenants I 1 and hud its rights are arc such stich as it has in common with all civil and religious communities it does not vest ecclesiastical courts with v it it the authority held by the civil co courns counts arts and abd we vve would like him to show av what hal hat authority civil courts have to interfere with matters of op fellowship and church covenants and we would like to knova knoN further P it it is true that congress ress has disapproved of this law of incorporation incorporate loll loil what value it is whether on the thy statute book or in any other place Go governor mur ray as well as we do that con gress merely disapproved of so much of that law as countenanced bigamy or polygamy and we will defy him to point out wherein the act does this in any shape or form forin he lils liis has 1119 stated an other ot her untruth with the same unworthy motive that inspired the other falsehoods to which we have drawn attention we have not space today to day to comment upon all the points in the message nor do we think it needful needa ul to do so but will vu touch upon lipon one or two more the subject of polygamy occupies considerable space and the powers of congress in regard to the territory is lengthily argued supposing his arguments to be sound av which aich we do not admit for sor judge black from whom he quotes actually refutes the very things he brings forward to support his position what does it amount to why that congress has hias the right and has exercised the power to pass laws directly for this territory on the subject of polygamy gamy and polygamy toly yet he wants the assem assembly ly to do that which congress has already performed wh why should the lesser body tamper with that which jhb higher body has acted upon of what icatar greater validity would anti polygamy laws be upon the utah statute book than on those of the united states and what virtue would there be in any laws passed by the assembly which were not in inexact exact accordance with the laws of the united states that already exist in the exercise of the power that governor murray claims for conz cong congress bress gress that body has taken this matter out of the hands of the local legislature and it would be presumption in the lesser body to a attempt to take it out of such august an and d powerful fulli hands ands one remark made by the governor on this subject is isas as foolish as uncalled for addressing men who had lust taken an oath that they are arc not biga mists or polygamists liewald be sald said 1 I beg to say ay to you you cannot break lawlessly aver the because it con cod fones nnnie spit you to limits inconveniently narrow comment is unnecessary on the general subject of marriage lie wants a statute defining ita it a civil contract perhaps lie he is not aware that the cannon common law makes it so and ani that the provisions r of common law areef are extended tensed over this territory but he says should Individuals denominations or associations desire to impose any other and additional requirements or solemnities upon such civil contracts they should be regarded degar ded as religious obligations only and not to be enforced or annulled by process of civil law that is the position taken by the lat ter day saints in rev regard ga rd to their marriages ria es whether mono monogamous amous or plural ta lese iese ibarria marriages es are arc religious and they do not ask the the sanction of the civil law nor regard its annulment thereof as of 01 any ame value whatever we are arc pleased to agree with the governor on one point though perhaps cewill he will not ad mire this application of his principle we agree with him also in the suggestion SU in regard to some amendment amendment to tiie tile registration law so that when a blunder is made like tut that of the com missioners ners in regard to the coming municipal election it may not work hardship to unregistered i t red voters who are eligible to ta the franchise there are arc some soine other things of minor importance that the governor suggests on good grounds but his remarks on the subject of education should have been addressed to congress instead of the utah legislature while his reflections upon our public schools are entirely improper because they are false without doubt sectarian tenets are arc not taught in the public schools school sand and the schoolhouses are all built upon public property and are vested in trustees tees selected elected by the people and not in the church it is a matter of re regret ret rot that governor murray has allowed himself to become the tool of a clique which Is bitterly hostile to the great majority of the citizens of the territory of which he is the executive it places him in an I 1 improper m attitude towards the people and makes him the official or of statements that are unworthy any honorable man with such a genial disposition and so fair a record as a 3 soldier sol soi aler aier he ought to have held himself aloof from the influences which have degraded him to their level but he has made himself the enemy of the territory the slanderer of its citizens and the instrument of vile men for the overthrow of constitutional government in utah and his message which we publish today to day establishes him without remedy in that most unenviable position |