Show GOING BEYOND THE LAW thic THE law cannot touch ahlm but powder and bau ball shall that was the exclamation of ther the who plotted the murder of joseph and hyrum the latter day martyrs for the everlasting gospel it embodies the sentiments of the chief promoters of all alche the Xie as assaults sauls upon the lat ter day saints it would materialize into substantial action action today to day but tor for the fact that locally the mormons cormons Mor mons outnumber their unprincipled enemies and have superior strength physical foree cannot be brought to bear but trickery ind and scheming schem lne take its place the law fairly interpreted and impartially administered will not touch the masses of the mormons Mor mons mono and therefore ulterior measures are resorted to tor for their injury some temporary advantages may seem to accrue to our tees foes thereby but bat as in the case of the sacrifice of the prophet and patriarch the ultimate results will ill prove of incalculable benefit to the cause assailed in framing special legislation against the mormons cormons Mor mons the spirit of the national constitution has had to be violated or the object intended could not be nearly approached and in the execution of those laws which are themselves infractions of the supreme law unheard of constructions have had to be invented and unprecedented practices resorted to in order to accomplish com the desired pur purpose tars abis liss has been patent to all ah keen keea observers during the latest alati crusade the scene in the third district courtroom on monday was a further example oft hiff to exceed the law and override its explicit provisions the questions propounded jy P mr dickson to the jurors on their vow voir dire are you 0 u a member of the mormon church awas was unlawful so were others such as iq du you believe it right according to the law of god that a man may have more than one wife it the same time ilare are you willing to ts an oath eath that you will not hereafter at any tinie time obey that law of the Chu church rth are you in good standing in the church do you accept or reject any of the teachings ox of the church are you witling willing U to take an oath that you will not bof heri hereafter batter under any circumstances preach or teach polygamy or plunie marriage these and many other similar questions que stiens put to the jurors were outside of any law and attorney had no leial legal or morill fi propound them in our oar 0 pil i the proper course for the jurors juror I 1 VV 41 g have been to decline answering irom the first noju no j uror pan caa be le 1 e as to nis r an ruh nor jioras as to his acceptance or refection C tio of a tenet of faith neither can he be required to express his Willia willingness gess or unwillingness to obey a law of 01 god or to uke take any other oath than thai tha provided tor for iq in the new law for voters voter furors and officeholders office holders no juror jurdt can be compelled to answer such questions as these ahse we haac ve copied chrom the examination of jurors which judge zane permitted ted and sustained ad in the third district court on monday they need been answered pro or con the ready and ana willing to t take ake the oath catl i provided lox lor b by V law aw but not net the oath fabricated by mr dick son he had no right either ten make a new oath or to toasa asli a I 1 juror aror whether he was waa willing to subscribe to toe the illegal fabrication and judge zane was waa as much or more in the wrong tu in coun cotin cing and assisting the improper inquisition every juror rejected for his unwillingness to take any other oath than that required by law was unlawfully excluded from the panel and this cannot be successfully introverted controvert ed if there is any affy law requiring or permitting such tests as were put jurors ou OB monday let it be cited and we will admit our error but no ono one knows that there to is no BO such law on oa any fatute sa tute book in this or any other country bet ter than the judge and attorney who rejected jurors on the tests thus imposed the provision excluding jurors for belief that it is right for a man to bays bare more than one wife or to cohabit with more thin one woman in section five of the edmunds act is strictly limited to any prosecution for bigamy pal polygamy tle of or unlawful cohabitation the movement on monday was to exclude mormons cormons Mor mons from Irom jury iury service lor for the term in all cases both civil and texia inal inai and it 16 gives just occasion for many surmises not at aglito the credit of those engaged e in the scheme it is such distortions law that the mormon people justly complain of it is only by those j means that thor their enemies obtain the powers to oppress and wrong them under color afta predence pretence pre tence of law an and it t is just such improper proceedings as we 6 understand der era stand nd iti it that the administration rejects as representing represent in its policy the government Go desires 8 fo see athe laws la Ws enforced cedo not net exceeded nor perverted nor outraged aay turned into engi engines aes ott persecution against say any church oystein or class of citizens the whole judicial ludi luli cial crusade against the mor mons under the edmunds law has been a succession of excesses and the proceedings on monday were so wide a departure from statutory provisions i that thai they cannot be sustained by a soli solitary precedent or a single respectable argument |