Show WHY DONT YOU PROMISE TO OBEY THE LAW WHENEVER the hirsh harshness riess and cruelty with which the fid munds law is on aa forced has been pointed out by the press the cry has been raised by the supporters of that act and the agitators for more antii antl mormon 0 legislation why dont you promise to obe obey y the law to every complaint about strained atral ned aua unprecedented interpretations injustice justi ceto to defend defendants anti packed juries insult leaped upon ribald and abusive attorneys unlawful multiplication ot of penalties vindictive harangues from the bench merciless infliction of the extreme term of imprisonment upon aged persons needless lugs of depend dependant arit families the compelling of legal wives to testify against their husbands the shameful imprisonment of women for unwillingness to crim criminate nate the fathe fathers ra of their children childred and other proceedings that have disgraced the taa judicial crusade against the mormons cormons Mor mons the response has been invariably why dont you promise to obey the law aw because this promise has not been the mormon people have been denounced officially and through the public prints A is as rebels against the government de fiant viol grosof the law nullifier 9 jai fanatics necked traitors and generally incorrigible attempts have been beed made to increase the penalty for merely associating in a fr fendly way with a plural wife from six months to five years imprisonment for the pu purpose r p ose of forcing forcin imor mormon M I 1 OLL defendants in t s to make inake the ge desired s ired andinor and snow that men who flave not broken any law and who are free from the relationships which forbid making the promise come forward when required q il ed and agree to observe the law and and refrain irom from helping others to break it the very creatures who made t the 6 country ring with anathemas ana the themas against lath t men who could not honorably make the promise ginise are white with excitement an and gr fiendish in their curses against those alio abo are ablerto able to go do what the law requires equi res and those inconsistent agitators pretend to be scandalized at what they term the jack of 4 mormon I 1 consistency it if the promise to ebey the law which was demanded domand eq by the courts was the great desideratum the one thing needful need lul why should not the disposition now manifested by monogamous Mor cormons mormons mons to make it tie oe a subject ot of great congratulation 1 among those who required I 1 ic of polygamists instead of r rejoicing e over this manlie station of loyalty as they professed to regard it when it was not complied with they are in a perfect ferment ot of disappointment and disgust alter crying out why dont you promise to obey obay the laws until it was like the could continual nuAl ringing of a chestnut bell they are as mad as aa hornets because a large number of mormon citizens are ready to make that promise and no language la Is too viole violent fit and und undignified gulfred to express their auger anger because we the request is complied with it is true the promise does riot not come from the plura plara IMor mormon mou 11 and does not have the effect desired by the plotting and promise d demanding emandia eman diF anti mormons cormons ll 11 the mormon I 1 with more wives than one could not honorably make the promise demanded by the courts but the mormon with but one wife or no wife at all providing behas no present intention of entering into plural marriage or advising or helping others to do so c can 1 L 11 make the promise required by t the h e law as a condition condit fon to voting both honorably and consistently why then the denunciation of the former for not making a promise which they could not give and still worse orse denunciation of the latter for promising something which they can agree to the answer is the taking of bf the test oath though a much simpler and lew leas comprehensive matter than making the promise required in ia court affects the main object in view of the anti mor imor mon schemers while ake promise did not lot except as it could be used against the mormons cormons Mor mons by way of and prejudicing the public everi ever mormon who subscribes to the oath counts one against the rule of an unprincipled minor minority lol clique of political black lega gambling to pluck a territory every mormon vote is a nail in their political coffin the sound ot of its ra rapping p is a death knell to their hopes it goodbye to their scheme for plunder no wonder that they are unhappy it is not surprising that they are raving and inconsistent it has often been said that the abandonment of polygamy by the mor imar mons mono aou would id be the worst misfortune that could happen to their nothing would be so disastrous to the adventurers and their scribes the F and L Ls the ambitious wire dollers pullers and their pious and toadies and tools than the abolition of the theory and practice which they pretend to be unious anxious to suppress everybody who understands the situation knows that the local plotters care nothing whatever for polygamy except as a popular cry in their interest I 1 what they want and all they are after is Vos possession session of the territory its offices and its treasury This Is now demonstrated to all who have not seen it before and who will take the trouble i to th look at the fact the rage of those rascals at the spectacle of cormons lor mons agreeing agree lne to obey the laws law of the united states and ca especially ally those against and polygamous association should be ba sufficient to show every sane person what they want and where toey they stand morality rom 11 op monogamy social order mth bauh they care nothing for anything of the kind they are a lew few and an they want to overn coerce ani aai tax tho the many taix they are despised b by the majority so that they cannot hopoi to their ends by fair means aux and they have resorted to foul they have haft crawled and lied led and then lea leaped d to grasp their coveted prize A z e and have fallen short and gansl landed ed in the mud and now they wallow and wall wail and curse the very thing that they asked for let the press and the legislators ot of the country look at this the pro lessed object was to force the mor mons to agree coabey to obey the laws now that the majority who are able to do this in ia the manner provided by law are responding respond UK to the demand those thos who demanded it accuse the mot imor mons mono of monstrous di depravity lor for complying with the requisition con gross gress provides a condition as a cation for voters and the people lor for whom it was made accept that condition if they had bad refused it they the would have been denounced bouncel as rebels and dis loys ink in ingrates grates rates for spurning the offer of political litreal salvation and now that they submit their compliance is proclaimed is as moral rottenness ahl what is tt tle a conclusion that all reasonable people must come to in witnessing 1 the rabid contortions and h beanna earing the profane maledictions male dictions of the disappointed crusaders must mast it riot not be that the antl anti mormon clique are a set of hypocritical and dishonest dis bonest intriguers intrigue rs seeking to build themselves up on the downfall of a peaceful people to be enslaved enns by the macht machinations natto Ns of those political desperadoes the defeated place hunters hav a great deal to say about the effect upon the country of this mormon acceptance of the test oath for voters we are quite willing to abide that result but in what light do they appear who attar after rousing the nation to demand that condition now ask the country to cond condemn mn the people tor for complying with it we are content to let t the a public w when hen fully informed deci decide d e who are the depraved pr aved and id disloyal the 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