| Show DO NOT BE MUDDLED ED OH U thic THE between aiding and upholding li ad between 1 4 od advis t inga a person to break a law and declaring that the law is wrong ought to be clearly ue understood der stood by the people of utah when aheu who aim to despoil the territory endeavor to confound these tertia ter toa and are assisted in W their nefa 1 work of deception by federal officials it Is the of the press to expose the cheat and make the to the public the th masses are not agwayo jully jolly informed as to the mean meaning g of words or the signification of AL fegal i provisions and ana scoundrels and pettifoggers pettifog gers often take advantage of taia lack of information to aid orabee or abet anyone th in the breaking bf the law or of the new act which is supplementary thereto Nom something ethIng more than asso associating elating with or agreeing to the views and practices of offenders is brer sol necessary A man may consi consider polygamy morally and religiously right and iha a pa ove of the course R ol 01 those who marry plural wives and lle live witt with them although the Is law P provides dds penalties against those practices tout but 11 he be does met assist by his bis acts in the breaking of the law he be docs not aid or abet its inflection nib action belonging to the same church as po lyga mists belong to is hi not polygamy associating with men who live with more wives than one is not unlawful ul cohabitation nor is a similarity of views as to the rightful bess uess of these doings aiding or abetting the violation of law and supporting a church some of the adherents of which practice plural marriage as a part of their religious belief cannot be construed into aiding and abetting those who break the tha law by any feat of judicial word twisting that will bear the test of law or of common sense when a voter a I 1 uror or an official elect swears that he will not aid or abet others in breaking tile the laws lawn he does not net thereby i decad decant any article of his bis laith faith or agree to give up any principle of ef his religion or withdraw from froin fellowship in any church neither boeshe does he agree not to uphold any doctrine or genetin tenet in theory or to ab attain from declaring that the law is wrong and that some of the acts it makes criminal are in themselves morally right the oath does not interfere with anh his convictions nor his bis constitutional liberties among which is freedom of speech and of the press the language of the law in respect to this portion ot the oath is thayne will not directly or indirectly aid or or abet counsel or advise any aay other ciperson to commit those crimes what crimes rimes the 11 crimes in said act are adultery fornication incest polygamy and uh unlawful cohabitation the promise in regard to these is that he ne will not commit them nor aid or advise any other person to commit them in order to break this promise amise lie he must either commit one of these crimes himself oi or help or counsel some other individual todo to do so if one who hid had taken the oath should be called in tn question for not having observed his bis agreement it would have to be shown that he had broken tile law since taking the oath or that he had bad aided or advised some other person who with the alleged of fence would have to be design designates atea to actually commit one of the crin ies named in the law in fact he must by some overt act bring himself within afie penalties of the law or it cannot be legally declared that he has violated his oath ayery ayery man has the constitutional right to pronounce mhd laws of 1882 and 1887 or any other laws wrong in principle and subversive of personal liberty he has also the same right to do declare clare publicly a and act p privately i i V a t e 1 y his views as to t the h e r rightfulness right I 1 g h t f falness n 1 n e s s of practices ices that a law condemns slavery Slaver is now prohibited bylaw by law it is condemned by legislative and by public sentiment and the controversy tro versy as aa to its practice has haa been settled bythe by the of war yet any man who still believes wright it right may declare his condic convictions t ia B s and contend that the law is 19 wrong but he must not net hold a human being in slavery ho horacd raid or abet co counsel tinsel or advise another person to do so for the act abt is declared dred by law to be aa crime and every one who commits it may be pual dished and also those who aid or assist in the criminal act but anyone has the right to defend or uphold slavery as a proper practice so long as ne he does not break the law or help or endorse others to break it is s prohibited prohibit rd by law and no onemus one most i commit that lovence offence or help others to do so but every man and nd itoman may freely denounce the afie laws laws and regulations asto as to customs duties and excise aad and to advocate the entire overthrow of the revenue reva R system but he must not co commit 0 wit an overt act in ilk viol violation gion of the law against smuggling or assist others in that violation so in regard to other ether made criminal by legislative enactment i I 1 it if a man believes polygamy to be alight he may say so just as publicly as lie be pleases and may give his reasons for his belief he may advocate it from a r religions social physiological orally or any other standpoint and when he be maks makes oath that he will not break the law himself nor aid or advise any other person to break it lie he does not forfeit eis bis right to his opinion or to the free eap exp expression there thereof Qt and so long us as he does not break the law nor I 1 help or counsel another pe person to break it he may preach what he be pleases as theory and doctrine as right ar r wrong as divine mineor or human as law lawful II 11 I 1 or unlawful opinions are not bound by statutes the public or private declaration of beliefs cannot be assailed by law overt acts which violate law can alone be reached by the grasp oje 01 the Is law W it is impotent to touch alere mere faith or the advocacy screed ofa creed 1 let noone BO one be deterred from taking the oath who is not an actual violator of the edmunds act of 1882 or 1887 1881 and who does not latend intend to break the law or help or advise another person to break it our readers will observe list hat ere are other offenses named one ode practice courts here make a ke so prominent pro in ia their zeal about fhe the oath they do not tass fuss and flounder about those real iridies against the home and against society nor manifest any anxiety lost lest sowe some notoriously impure juror should incontinently make the pertinent romise promise not do wrong any more in their the their ir eagerness ss to keep out is almany many mormons cormons Mor mons as possible from the jury box bok because of their possible bellu belief in the rightfulness of plural marriage they overl overlook the fact that to be consistent they ought to p make ake some show of interest in the exclusion of i re sorters to lo vile houses and pec sons addicted to the bract practices ices which ich the law condemns equally with polygamy adders and aad settlers settlors sett abc lors of those thoe tho e I 1 ea clinics limes ought not to take the oath ani and the future may develop tome bome things which will malce mace the law even more obnoxious to the li Ls than they acknowledge at present mormon voters you are at perfect liberty under the law to believe what seems right to you tu to advocate it by tongue and pen in public and in private to declare the law wrong in principle and do everything legal to prove rove it invalid and the oath it provides T es will not hot in f ranft fringe upon your liberties in these respects 8 do not be confounded by the go sophistry of knaves nor be muddled in mind by the vagaries of official fools act on your own a agency ney with an un ot of thelah the ta w and its meaning and secure and exercise your franchise according to cons conscience elduce tor for the maintenance of tile the democratic principle of the local rule of the local majority s |
