Show AN INFAMOUS DECISION WF WE hope all our readers will take notice of judge Ander sens decision a synopsis of which we publish today in relation to seven applicants for citizenship at beaver he persists in the manifest error into which befell be fell when assist assisting lag in the third judicial district we punctured the decision he then rendered and showed its hollowness lack of logic and departure from th tb truthie truth hWe we dont propose togo over the old ground again today aud and wo we only have a few words to say against his bis uj unjust u u 8 t un american and untruthful utterances in the second district court he refuses the privileges of citizenship to seven aliens ou on the sille ground that they are morcom Mor mom I 1 thus he be imposes a religious ted which is not only unusual but contrary to the constitution which he As taken an oath to uphold the th grounds set forth for his dissent from the decisions on this matter ut af the F first arat and third district courts are either elther speculative or entirely false ll 11 IF certain events should occur the members of the bK mormon ormon church MIGHT be told to practice polygamy these conditions do not jiow now exist they may nevar exist and if they should it does not follow that his theory would be realized and because of these its and buts and maybes maibes he debars meu men of good moral character from the privileges ef naturalization he admits that each applicant is cia a man of good moral character and that there is nothing against either of them except that lie he is a mormon 11 but judge A anderson says the mormon church has courts of its own that in many instances override the decrees of the courts of the united states we brand this statement as a judicial falsehood and the very hight bight of childish absurdity but suppose it was true what has att W to fo do with these seven men chapply wh apply for naturalization do they claim or attempt to override any decree of a court ald and he gayb their members on taking their endowments take an oath to avenge the blood of the prophets joseph and hy rum smith against this government Gover Dment 11 every member of the church who has taken his endowments knows that this adso is a positive falsehood no T 0 such oath bath is taken no vath oath of any kind is taken in those ceremonies and the testimony before judge anderson when this matter was tested was directly against such a conclusion but if this were the actual fact what has that to do with these seven applicants must they be denied dented the equal protection of the he laws because of some peculiar rite performed upon others and ad because he says polygamists have been defended in the courts and honored on their return from the penitentiary these seven men iwho who had nothing to do with these acts which of themselves are not criminal must be denied citizenship Bec because ailse polygamists have given great trouble to the government must not be naturalized judge andersons logic is ia as faulty as his bis facts this decision is to be classed clasped with his bis former ruling and both are simply infamous it is s gratifying gratify ing to know that judges whose knowledge of law and experience peri ence on the bench give weight to their opi opinions anions do not agree with uin tho mingled nonsense and bigotry of th this Is recent elevation to a posit position lon for which he was never qualified fled |