| Show TWO OF INIQUITY WE publish in full fall this evening the tha two antl anti mormon ballain bills introduced iro fro tro in the senate by mr christ christiancy who by the by not nat with standing his reported denial of any intention to resign his position as senator has accepted the post of U SM inister to peru his loss will not be felt to any extent in the national legislature as his abilities are ate bot not of a very high order and in his old age he has permitted himself lo 10 become the tool of designing persons who concoct measures inimical to the people of this territory and induce him to assume the paternity of their ill III begotten schemes the main maln object of the senate bill hill is 11 to exclude mormons cormons Mor mons from ab bow boy in brij brial trial of a mormon for practising practicing that part of his religion known as plural parji m marriage a r r 1 a ge it provides a spec special lal ial causero cau cause sefo for r challenge in their case one that has no parallel in the proceedings ce of courts either in this country or the old world la Is there any law or rule of jurisprudence which allows a juror to be ques ha anay 3 3 no he has ever comm committed lil ift ea an olence against the law when a murderer eris is to be tried tri trl edIt odit lt is not nut uncommon to question a juror as to 1118 his views in relation to capital puni punishment for a very simple reason the penalty for murder murden being death it is thought inconsistent to permit one who is opposed to the infliction of capital punishment to sit in judgment on a case involving that punishment but who e ever ter heard of a juror asked in a murder case if he is now or ever has been a mur derei in a larceny case if he is now or ever has been bien a thief in a case of arson if he is now or elbr ever has been a house burner A man who had been convicted df any of these crimes i J m might I 1 he with reason be ha h juror edeh easel case ease and BO so in n regard koono who had been convicted comic coWic ted of tha thi the offence called bigamy but butta tomake thu the juror answer guestion question sas to his ills own acts and reject him as its incompetent if oe he do declines clines to answer iga is a process foreign to our jury system and androne rone fone one that smacks of the spanish i inquisition rather nather than thau amori can jurisprudence but this bill goes still further in the direction sought under at it a juror uror may be challenged as us 0 o d his his bis moral religious reil reli gidus or legal belie foh uti a given question this is ik cat carrying things to a terrible length if this is not a religious teat which the iho constitution provides shall never be required as a j qualification to office it is so near like it that the cannot be detected now let lot it be observed that this thim bill is 1 not designed designe d for the preservation of the public morals hut but as a means towards tha punishment of the members of a religious body hody for the practice of one of the essential tenets ot their faith falth if ahls is not the case ease why does it not require a juror to state whether he is now living or ever has lived iwed in sexual cohabitation without marriage why not challenge a juror on his practice of seduction or oi adultery and to make the whole affair consistent why not disqualify the judge anthe on the bench the prosecuting attorney at the bar and und all other court officials who ta take part in the case at issue if they we ere or have been guilty of nf illicit intercourse with the opposite bex sex this would perhaps be too in some periods of our history here would have left our federal courts bare of onn off officers leers of any kind that tho wb whole ole oie scheme Is designed as an attack upon a religious system ia is patent to nil all who con elder sideri and that its deviser devisers dovi devi sers serb and und pro motors care neither for established rules tules of 0 law nor constitutional provisions is to clear to permit of a moments doubt we donot do not think congress has jar enough in its repudiation of the restricting power of the supreme law lair ol 01 the land to enact such a measure tho the other bill is less likely lo 10 I 1 pass ast ass than the brit first it is too 4 ridiculous di for much sp serious rious consideration the old gentleman who introduced trod it has been imposed upon by persons who have no more respect for age than they have for justice and consistency it makes inference proof conduct of the defendant tending to prow prova thor lse ise an of vy any marriage charged or involved in th the case shall be competent evidence to pro ro marriage of such persons etc the morman eating officials who spend their time in washington weaving nets for cM mormon ormon feet are always too anxious to trap us and generally succeed simply in making themselves ves ridiculous and a nuisance in the noses of respectable honest lawmakers all these bits of special tion tend to confirm tbt the latter day saints sainto in hi the belief that if they were to cohabit with as many women as they II pleased eased without any pretence predence pre tence of marriage become the father fathers sot at hosts of children without acknowledging the pa parentage cast victims of their unrighteous passion to perish and turn the unrecognized offspring adrift 0 0 a well swell the elements of vice gice ice and lind infamy with which the land abounds 0 no o lice tice would be taken laen of their zits acts nets t they e y would not be de barred fr from om I 1 the h e rights of Statehood inon inor nor made t the e objects of sl special ecial laws and peculiar pains and penalties but would pass along with the mass and ancon but because they marry wives rathor all their child children renand and strive to carry out principles which they sincerely receive as divined divine ibey are opposed condemned ma 1 P 11 gaaei aa wel agi aei be banat 1 eti exi 1 A the w whole in machinery a c ri i n e ry w dr jua jud judicial 1 8 legislative and executive power is invoked for their dest deBt destruction ruction aa As god lives there will come a day of reckoning for all this and then le lej hypocrites in church and state who plot against the innocent prepare to receive th fuli full reward |
