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Show THE LEGAL IS THE RIGHT WAY. It was the proper way in the police muddle to bring a test case and have an interpretation of the conflicting statutes and ordinances and settle the matter in a way that would be conclusive. This is supposed to be a civilized community, and as such subject to tho laws. If laws are defective tho way to do is to enforce them until they can be in a legal way repealed or amended. Unless such a suit had been resorted to the matter would have come nagging back with monotonous criminations crimi-nations and re-criminations to tho end of the term I of the present Council. I Apropos on a scale not much loftier than one of Councilman Fernstrom's dissertations, the head I of the Mormon church launched his coarse in-I in-I vectives at lawyers as a class and incidentally at I the profession of the law in the Tabernacle last f Saturday. As the emanation of a seer, prophet and revelalor, it was unique at least. It revealed I a narrowness and malice most contemptible, an ignorance most appalling and profound an ignorance ignor-ance of the history of the .government of the United States, its Constitution, how it was framed and how the first rough frame was given giv-en character, harmony and potency by the lawyers law-yers and judges who have been called upon to interpret its bearings and scope, and to adjust differences under it, and how, because of it, the United States in one hundred and fourteen years has advanced from nothing to the fore-front of the nations of the earth. B It was, however, but natural for the President SK of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to break out as he did. He has never been i B held as famous ior his discretion. The star he v was born under made this impossible. He grew S up with the idea from the first that the president of the Mormon kingdom, earthly as well as spir-M spir-M itual, must bo infallible, that such president has B a right to do as ho may please, whether follow- ing a revelation or a whim, and sincere fanatic IB that he is, he believes that right has descended ( upon him, and that no mere man-made laws Iff ought in the least to interfere with the exercise Is of tho heaven-descended prerogative. Hence when !S he stumbles upon an exact science like the law, m, which supplies the rules of action to govern so ft ciety, he is not only amazed but incensed. HH But we hope the young men who heard him i will consider that he spoko in general terms, that 11 there are exceptions to all general rules and will keep in mind that no study, save that of mathematics mathe-matics and the abstract sciences, will so steady and expand the brain of a young man as a conscientious con-scientious study of tho law and its application to human governments; that no other study, save, perhaps, that of the engineer, so prepares a man for the carrying on ot society and the control of great industries; that while sometimes the wires gets crossed on revelations, a knowledge of law is of every day use no matter what occupation a man may select or whatever industry he may pursue. Of course there are shyster lawyers, but so there are shyster doctors, merchants and even those who hold out that they have consecrated their lives to the service of the Master, every day find men in their ranks that were the Master to come, he would declare that he had never yet received an introduction to them. Such men are in all walks of life, but they are no argument against any science or any honorable calling. |