| Show WHAT THE COURTS DEMAND UP 11 MORMONS IT has been told to the country perhaps a thousand times that all the mormon people and their leaders who have been pursued by the minions ot of the law had bad to do to secure immunity was to make a promise to obey the laws in future this wee lalee hood his has been refuted so completely plemely that every body ot of ordinary sense in these parts understands its untruthfulness ful ness but it is still uttered and repeated for effect abroad it is intended to deceive the press at a distance and prejudice the popular mind still more against agui the mor mons 11 it is now vamped up anew to do duty against the late president taylor laylor and offset the cei certain tain fact that he be was hunted and hounded by spotters and informers although it was well known tie ne had bad not violated any law of the united states eitner either recent or remote it becomes necessary therefore to throw light once again upon the decap tive five statement and show what a wilful lie it is our relation of the facts need not be taken alone they are matters of record they are beyond dispute what mormon defendants have been required to do in order to free themselves from the penalties imposed is to promise promis eto to obey the law as construed by the courts that is quite a different thing to an agreement to obey we the laws as enacted by congress at first sight the requirement may appear to be perfectly consistent but its meaning Is brought oat every fair and impartial mind will pronounce it not only inconsistent bo bale infamous the law as construed oy by the courts is an indefinite and an settled thing it has been construed to in a 0 dozen different ways to suit as many MADY cases la in the raids that haw been made to break up mormon ir families and desolate Mor mormon moli homes the ruling of one day as to ibe meaning of the term unlawful conati tation has been reversed the next nea and that has given place to a third and different ruling which io ig turn jurn has had to make way for for another and so soan awas as the current construction failed to apply I 1 ly as desired by bv the in in a fresh case there has been competent and settled j judicial decision an this point the only one given iven by the supreme court of v 41 united united states was aft erwa drawn so the matter has been len the kaleidoscopic variations A aw in a utah in which all the maery maert and h have ye IJ eeb med ed against defendants accused of 01 t of fence tence be Q ter term has had bad a settled i in criminal law for ceu centuries that has been set aside by ake birts arts in utah every student ut of law iwa WS that thai it is understood to imply more than were mere association r even than tha n living under the same of f it means that intimate relation ucb ch should shoud only exist between per X FOB us of et opposite sexes who are mar luar jw 1 to each cacti other but in utah many 01 M been sent seat to 10 a prison idson when no evidence of A such inti anti alcy could id be adduced and even wilen jobu keen ee proved pro ed that it had ceased with iab the passage of the act of con COB apsa constituting it a crime arinie anat WV law provides agaibi A a certain known ance the courts have made it apply that is and never was J to of fence ence VIB order therefore to understand t Is meant by obey kig g the la aa Ls as strund by the courts wi have to stis the hobt recent of the arts ts with such fragments of former WS as ale aie net ell entirely set abide agthe the latest guess from froin these it inquired cf a man who has more than one wite wile that he shall Tepu repudiate diate but the legal leal wife in home boule way ilot ined ned by any law or any court that 4 iball not dot associate with a plural me e ia a any ny mauner auner whatever that he be inot be witti her in public or io in he shall not treat he her with tei much courte courtey courtesy y as he be would a uger that he shall not fell ills hia and her sick oi or dying dy inn child in IS presence re sence it if she is dangerously ill belf f he must not visit tier her no mat cy jiow rigidly be abstains from the acy which has bag always been un rasto od as essential to that which is w a to criminal jurisprudence as abita he is guilty of that of hoseas ise as cobs construed trued by the courts it if associated in the most harmless diviner 0 cuer with the woman who has bate him children under a marriage abd which all the parties to it couder conder sacred and binding upon them tor ever lo in other words worda he be must a act ct like a brute and forfeit the character of it if be agrees to obey the law as construed by bv the courts I 1 this further farther should be explained ii order to punish a mormon br bc y d anything provided by law in cases against the same gain de it has been assumed lor for the iffe doe of one prosecution that a etain in woman was the legal wife and jau n that was decided against adaist him I 1 i for the purpose of the next iros tion ion another woman was the legal wit e i so ao as to convict him again aud and was wao done in the case of hon holl lorenzo orenzo snow and the prisoner sentenced to three full penalties of nae fine md and imprisonment the segregation 93 set aside by the supreme court ot of i the jae united states but bui not until the delen daut had served out a considerable portion of the illegal imprison imprisonment ment in addition tu to the tall full term lerm prescribed bribed bylaw to make the bearing of this clear it is 1 necessary to explain that as con rarned by the courty courts ahe leeral toe trine of presumptions has haa been cut 1 waed tor for the purposes of the 11 cohabitation with the lesal legal I 1 vinhas been presumed 1 although lui ini d evidence w was a s offered to d dirose the presumption this was leaded so as to make a tuan ruan guilt y 14 with more than one woman aho vho as a matter of 01 fact proven beyond doubt lived only vita one woman man but ane not the leyal legal wife be binse intimate relations with the latter by mutual consent fer sev drw nil years thus presumption has wen been made to 10 stand above facts and in direct opposition lound to un dented ted evidence in order to convict the the courts have tans presumed to LIE and they require men to obey not the law lavy but gieir false and unprecedented con NUt notions ions of the law the trouble is that officials appointed by the government instead of en to administer the laws im partially come here in a missionary missionary 1 I to convert mormons cormons Mor mons by coercion e judges who at home or in other CUM than those relating to the mormon mon question are fair ubia 0 as tinned consistent and regardful regard regardful fuT of precedent and abd equity become angry vindictive abusive and rabid with my tty in dealing with men who we become in involved in the ave responsibilities of plural ral marriage arriage tt with wives and children dependent upon them for support stand and affection let it be under that a case of polygamy is a very we thing in court the vengeance of reverted law is inflicted indicted upon cami exerted that have dwelt in peace and union W w years when people talk about abolishing polygamy 1 do not stop to think what that mat the arrest of polygamy be wd 1094 present limits is one thing and crushing out of families aud and homes aft A have long existed with all the eu and interests and relation lph naturally connected therewith is me ther and totally different thing it altae former that the country wants it tatt lathe the latter that the courts and their oscars here have been engaged in the moD men of utah who MA ermille entire voting depula it an it nave taken an oath to obey the W of the united states they could 1080 they are not rei to the absurd and anden in mt constructions of the courts y have no ties to sever like these I 1 blud bind their friends but bien who have in times timeo past formed that seem so acute fasl it ij to isfort veople people who tho are arc at at ili all 1 i I i a d and aind upun upon whom they they have not the ret 1 placed in an r i il post I 1 tion lion and no matter mailer how wili willing many I 1 of cf them thein might be to obey tae ih law to io t future 11 oneie ale aie not many maby ahu could ring bring their down to ro make promises to obey the c ow ol of the courts for beides beades be ides being contradictor dicton and clearly in excess I 1 of the they abey are arc vicious aud and impossible to Fe respect the then that nil uie the men who have been hounded bounded and hunted by the spotters erB and ami spieth working lor for blood i woney Boney have to lu in order to relieve themselves from trouble is I 1 to promise to obey the laws is faise false both oth in letter and in spirit aud and they who urt are deceived deet ived thereby are not wise |
