Show RESPECT AGAINST conscience editor deseret news in reading the recantation statement made in the third district court the other quy day by J H rumel sen when he made a covenant to obey the law as construed by the court I 1 could not help being struck with th the peculiar part art s that conscience was in made le to play in u the these promise cases without referring to the other instances of exquisite conscientiousness I 1 will foy fot a moment consider this one hare is ap an extract from mr Rumel lf statement to I 1 say that I 1 am guilty of this charge would be doing violence to my conscience Leverth nevertheless eless the grand jurors have indicted me mentor ifor the crime of unlawful cohabit cohabitation giov and as their findings are entitled to ies I 1 shall plead cuilty which seema ta be rather paradoxical 11 q VIA A paradox is a deeming absurdity yet true in point of fact it looks to me to be as ridiculous in fact as in appearance pe arance which can be shown beyond question reasoning from what he himself has laid down 1 he could not plead guilty to the charge without doing violence to his bis conscience 2 he does plead guilty and thus according to his bis own assertion vio violated labed his cou coo science 3 8 the reason y why by lie he id did so plead and thus violate his big conscience was because of the respect he entertained for the findings of the grand jury the conclusion is inevitable that he be places the respect he be has for the findings andings of the jury as superior to his bis conscience he does this thia la ia a most practical way by electing to govern his conduct by the aforesaid respect for the action of he hb jury in place of a allowing conscience the moral guide of mortals to direct him Is not this kicking conscience out of doors and ana placing acing the findings of the crusading g inquisitors inqui on an exalted plane with a vengeance it looks to me as if conscience had bad as little to do with such affairs as consistency I 1 observed a few days ago that you yon wisely remarked that you bad a little it je if anything furt further herto to say about prom romis leers ra 11 scein seeing that the e position osilio was cl clearly arly defined e e and e each h could uld t take e his bis 0 own a roa road I 1 do not think li however 0 ever that this should apply to in ray little comment upon a public matter involving what appears to me to be a peculiar freak of conscience RICARDO SALT LAKE CITY dec 2nd and 1886 |