| Show SECRET ORD ORDERS ERS AND D 7 BOAST ING win vin district attorney ly y anxious to drag into open all the ceremonies cero and lites kites performed in the endo endowment wm b fi t ha house houge us he has made his hit boast that thedac thu the day will come when everything thatis done in n that sanctuary hhall shall i be told 04 in open court we do not think any public official will aid in the cause causi of law or justice by buch such idle 06 asting boasting or in attempting to do anything which does not mot comei come within the linesba lines of his duty auty the di ordinances administered in that thai bots buts hoube house 0 are sacred and secret those oo 00 yno officiate nic fic latu lati in or receive them have hav ejust just as much right to preserve secrecy in relation to them thern as the masons or any other secret order orden have to I 1 keep leip tor the lodge room nione alone the h exercises observe observed d therein the masonic order ia Is but a relic of the sacred and rind secret ceremonial of or the temple lacking the divine spirit which yive vo it life lire and heavenly significance and the devotee of mormonism ia Is equally entitled to the protection of courts when pressed to reveal that portion of his religion which is designed only y forthe for the initiated as any apy mason who might bedi befi beddome ome the victim of 17 an over oved zealtha legal fegal examiner anxious to squeeze out the secrets of the craft we have nothing to say against tila the full performance of official duty an officer who ia is sworn to prosecute criminals is worthy of the severest ceu cen censure suto sute if he hw neglects to proceed against of rna t ezren ba ar jame buc but uc neit nelt herthe interests of society nor the letter or spirit of aati final or local statutes require an officer to assume tho the role roie of a spanish inquisitor or an angry braggart or a bitt bitter er p artiman Art izan the representative of the law may be severely seTe rely nely just rigidly technical and anxiously zealous and nd be stair a gentleman Urte ous if it exacting dignified jf if determined and polite especially to ladi ladies eis Lib I 1 if necessarily cil critical han pan ff ac lous ious I 1 1746 4 church will survive even it every ordina ordinance hb e and d covenant of the endowment H house ousie were published to the world there is nothing evil in them or gr that would reflect discredit dhe Abe upon the initiators or tho inia ted tede but those tei ici ceremonies belong alone to those who receive the rites of any other order I 1 und and those who attempt to wake make them public no matter how much they thoy may come comoto to dissent from thes lews i which originally led them to r receive c the fordin ances can but be the objects of general contempt ras rag fag Fas arethusa are thosa those who having been masons odd old fellows old oid bers of any other similar society soei ety turn round and try to expose the tho secrets which they have vowed to kep hiep sacred several apostates have attempted this ignoble work and have published their professed expositions to the world they have all gone into luto dishon dishonor or or oblivion and their contradictory statements have no more force and effect than a puff of wind we have heard just such before utah hai been afflicted with part izan officials in shoals where are they nobody knows nobody 0 cares they have out of hight sight h and are only remembered bre bro I 1 if at a all nil W with ith de despising but ut that at which ic they to destroy still moves ove forward unaffected e d except to be ben bon emitted by thel their puny elt eiT efforts orts agitation keeping ic it prominently before thib the world lio 0 o it will be jn in the future let lot those who disagree with I 1 oppose it if they so desire but do it in an honorable bonon bonom ble bie way annd arid let those who whose sedat duty y it Is to act u under tholan the tho law the bounds of the law or every af step they tal take beyond will only be a sure surd advance advance towards their own discomfiture and ultimate overthrow the past teems with proofs of this the future will wiil be but history repeated |
