| Show OATH AND RIGHTS BIGHTS ability and willingness of at I a large number of Mor to td subscribe to the eat st path inythe in the supplementary edmunds act continue con tince to agitate A our friend ir lends sf th sin a most exasperating 1 afas manner tha it does nat no trena trench upon any mans belief or er the expression of that belief is an aggravation of their feelings and a blow to their designs from waal wilier 6 they cannot recover they take tak eilas it as a personal grievance having higle far reaching calculations catch lations and uttered meuy many all based on the theory that the oath meant more than it sai said dind and was in the nature oi of a religious test which would exclude every mormon from the polls the discovery Ha covery of fundamental blunder affects them like con casion of we the 1 biaga kaid scatters there plans as I 1 if 1 smitten by bv a cyclone minority control the goal of their hopes th tb I 1 patriotic otic and american M ciple for which they leagued league daud aud bied and 9 labor labored d dod dodges e off into the dim 6 ana Vin uncertain bertain dis distance t ance andenno e sam and bogus demo brats hava bave to exclaim thuu Thou wert po near sad and art rt po so far ar I 1 I 1 I 1 referring to our demoA demonstration of 01 tap ohp ri rights ats of voters anc Uthe lack of lawful authority in any one nub to challenge lenge a cita citizen en at the ibus alls or refuse hh A blatt hill on account pt his member membership la la A religious organization e a organ an of lb unable to produce uee auy any argame argument h pronounces loyalea it aug 11 andas gailS it for I 1 wrong hea herad 7 1 e edness ess alsay a and 6 wilful p babit it inarea ap pp attempt to 11 P vA hesp sek pug it at says Tho has baw 0 o ip audacity to say th tb tha armons iia may after taking ahe 0 oath advocate poly polygamy samy and defend fe d it A agat that the 1 oath defero tp to overt acts only to be sure a mormon way may do this but the expense of what should b bp his honor because because he has s sworn i orn hf h will adt do rt A tys it A vy 4 R bya by a string of e thata amply seq howaad how mad t the b writers teris a tap ae result and nd how deficient focient he is of any renson to support lusi I 1 W we maintain maia tain chat hat the test teat 0 oata li X refers aiom 01 wy only to bovert overt c apse A hat 14 ve V e out by its language b its trainers explained ed that atals was its t sole iole purpose and bee because quee the supreme co court arv of the united sods that legislation can no 0 f t er aa that and re wi y can lead can see tor jar hi 4 at ha 0 oath kor or affirmation do re hp alwn belief and does n 5 ant ta P Mide tenso and advocacy y if whatever it may be N r it relate W membership or religions tl I 1 absence 66 01 anijo ant guca test Is IB what bluges i es thep the umes of f the blid blidsoe prey u aalt clips win wings gs of the screaming beaming I 1 league ague vulture and it As is this in their eyes defect that they wisa to supply by unlawful at at the polls oll Is 4 4 to the design of the te framers fra ers and supporters u 0 1 of the oath or ordination Orri affirmation nation W do better than cite the sub joil d the congressional record 5 of february during the debate in tee on the passage of the bil r mr ingals in reply to abec thoas s to the tee oath spoke as follows str alb rn ingalls galls mr mi president cheth the ih of my y nature are such that as oneda the conferees upon this bill I 1 wag waft led to act with the greatest deliberation re i every particular in which I 1 L thaties that tha tits terms might in any trench upon the liberty ot conscience apace and the absolute and un re rean fid atae d frap freedom edom of personal belief mr edmunds in an ds or opinion mr In ingalls gallt yes as the senator from vermont suggests tsi or br of abka y pinion i b because claiming for myself the wi widest eat liberty to question to douba or to believe as is reason and d my impulses direct I 1 f should be the last to refuse that same right to any other er person or any other sect no matter ter where it might be or WOM wn at its claims might beador consideration either by Cong ressor by contrast frith With the abe tenets or doctrines of any other tation understand that the provi provision of ef the constitution which the senator from missouri considers to lie be in some way or other infringed by the terms of th this isbill bill is that wh which ch is found ln in pe he following langu language aget but bat no religious test shall ever le required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the united states it is unnecessary tor lor we me to say t that hat I 1 have as respect for the sincere convictions of a mormon kormon as I 1 have for those of an ah Episco episcopalian a catholic a 8 congregationalist a ilip baptist aist 01 or a methodist all religious bello bellei honestly entertained is respectable it may be erroneous my judgment may disapprove and condemn it but aul any religious fulth faith to is entitled to respect if honestly entertained it is not the mormon religion with which wp we are dealing in this measure but the practice of polygamy which id ia one due of 01 the doctrines ol of a portion ot of that ch church h and if I 1 supposed or believed or r if 1 could be made to perceive now t jt there was anywhere in uie the text of VMS mhz bill latent even cotic conc I 1 aled ailed any purpose or intent to inter interfere feie with the religious belief beliet of even the humblest member of the mormon church any attempt to fliter interfere fere with opinions en pertained upon religious questions I 1 would disavow it r L would retrace so far as I 1 might my concurrence with the conference report but I 1 do not so understand it I 1 it is not noamy my belief that by any of the provisions of the path oath which the these people are required to tak they are arb in a any ny manner manner compelled to abandon th their 1 I r religious opinions concer concerning aini any doctrine on which individuals divi duals rn in the christian world disagree and I 1 should be glad if the senator from missouri with whom I 1 sympathize in ganv oi of the views he has UN expressed would point out to the ab seriate wherein the oath abat hat is prescribed I 1 inthis bin bill imposes any rell religious klous test which would be obnoxious or inimical to the provi blon ot of the constitution to which 1 Y have referred sir test oaths are not so uncommon as the senator from missouri would have L us suppose As the senator from vermont V has said no man can enter on the discharge of the h high gb duties daue lie performs here without taking a test oath an oath that attests the fealty of him who takes to lt it the constitution and the laws of his country no man can be admitted to citizenship having been a foreigner unless be takes a test oath and by that tes test oath renounces the allegiance that has hitherto controlled him and declares kres that he will thereafter b ar himsel as a faithful and loyal citizen of this republic public bear true and loyal allegiance to the constitution and the ibe ia laws ws of the cou country of which he is hereafter to fo bg be a citizen therefore I 1 do not think the report bithe of abe conference committee is open to the objections which the senator tram iron missouri Miss Ourt has offered and it if in guy any line aliat or syllable it imposes an aej religious test aps As as a preliminary ary qualification for exercising political rigans for voting for servant ser serving vint aon upon juries or for discharging the t e dutie sf auy any civil office I 1 am opposed to it the mad m d thrower of the will now perhaps perta ps t turn arn 1 loose 0 ose ou on we lae senator from kansas and aad when he be haa his share shae sha e of liberal Li berl age abuse supreme court may bej bei daubed with the same kind of mire for ruling that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into aiato the neld field ot of opinion and to restrain the prof profession emion or propagation ot of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a danger joua fallacy w hab at once destroys deti troys all religious liberty alt it is time enough for the r B purposes of civil cail gove government ramen foe 0 ic r Hs officers to interfere re when principles oreal break out WOW into overt acts against peace and good order them theae sentences the court rooted quoted irom the language of the patriot jeffer jhon bon and made them its own athis endorsement in these two sentences cei i Is ts found th the true distinction between what properly belongs to thed the church hurch and what to toe the state 11 the court cour it further ruled that I 1 t was deprived orrall logs lat native i ve power over more mere opinion but ewas left free to reach actions which were in violation of social duties or subversive of good order i inthe in the cases against m t the utah commissioners ners the court rt referring to the ninth section of 91 the edmunds edmund s law JAW de aided that 6 the prohibition against excluding any person from the polls for the reason assigned must be construed co 6 trued with the additional injunction nor shall they refuse toco to count put A any ay such vote son on account of the opinion of the person casting it on th subject of 0 bigamy or polygamy to apply to the action of f the board in ia canvassing the returns of elections made to them by the off legra holding such elections or if it includes more it is tobe taken a as 0 the announcement of a general principle to govern ail offices officers concerned in the registration of voters or the conduct pf af elections the references establish the truth of our position beyond rational dispute what we had fiatt the audacity to say gay ls Is chathas what wh athas has been announced by ta tute bythe declaration of the in fatute cmok eaf of the framers of the he law and by debi decisions of odthe the supreme court of the united states all of which authorities have had the audacity to dier from the abusive mouthpiece of the defeated utah league it is not tram tha that tany lany mormon who has bakon the new test oath has sworn lie ne W win I 1 II 11 not advocate and defend polygamy ll 11 there is no such promise made or required in the oath no anch pledge may be demanded of a citizen opinion ii I i free aud and speech is ire free it is only the 41 liberty shouters who are libery liberty haters baters that attempt to suppress opinion M and would muzzle tree speech A voter who says he will not break the law nor aid or advise others to do sai so does necessarily no BO violence to his honor nor does he felt feit his right to think or tb say what he be thinks or to convince by argument the minds of others that he Is right in his bis convictions his agreement relates only to actions which violate law that is all there is of it and those who intend to try and force something into it that does not belong to it will only expose their own folly and evil designs and render themselves liable to prosecution if they put their purpose into overt sets acts against peace and good order i in regard to the powers power judges of el election we in maintain what wait we have proven roven that they are not to challenge gut but to determine challenges and nothing in g has been advanced to this B but ut it is the duty of those officers to prevent obstructions at the polls by unlawful challenges which would interfere with the iree free exercise of the elective franchise an unlawful challenge is one that does not relate to a disqualification specified in the law A challenge is as to opinion or the exar expression s at thereof ereo i or as to mem membership er 4 in a religious or other organization I 1 is an unlawful c challenge dilenge because t does not an and cannot make either of those things criminal the league organs argument that r registration 4 fe officer cero may act outside of the lip lines es of the law I 1 in ii order to I 1 A satisfy themselves about the qualifications of an applicant t is related refuted by it own citation of the supreme courts decision viz i r III if they ha have fenot not thi the right to exact an oath different from that the form of which chichis chis riven in the territorial act they must otherwise satisfy themselves tuat persons of offering foring to register ire are tree free from the dis qualifications actions defined in the act of congress Co agress 11 no other disqualification can cam be urged or pretended or enquired about by a registration officer than those de defined in the act of congress 2 I 1 if this was the law before the passage of the supplementary edmunds act when no form of oath was provided by congress how bow much more significant ait it is now when the only oath that can be legally presented to in an applicant for registration is g given ive a in at that at A act t I 1 th us it will be seen that our position po is impregnable on both que questions the test oath relates to actions not opinions or tire the expression thereof and no ho qualifications can be required of f a voter other than those defined in the law all extraneous oaths and questions Ny whether hether relating to opinion intent or connection with ll 11 th a creed or an organization are unla unlawful awful and to be treated with the bontem contempt pt they deserve and if any man is refused registration or the righetto right to vote at tile the polls because of his refusal to subscribe to unlawful lawful oaths or answer unlawful interrogations he be has his remedy in a suit for damages against the officer who is responsible for his bis reec rejection tion and that official may be also prose prosecuted buted tor foi felony citizens of utan utah learn your rights and then met maintain etain them tile the villains who have bare potte plotted to destroy stroy your liberties have play plarea their game ano and lost now in their rage they are hatching further mischief and intend to try by liberal trickery to effect that which they failed to secure by legislation the ia law w is on your side 1 keep on the side of the law and take care thatus that no threats and no pretense ox ol authority that is unlawful deprives you of that precious right the free and fall exercise of the elective franchise |
