Show IS THIS THEIR FREEDOM hat our invaders promise anil the liberals claim not only to be great moral reformers bat champions cham of abo great principles of from the commencement of their career in utah they havo been striving to break from the mormon people t lie prie etly fetters by which they ft ere bound and to male thera free they not desired our moral and chriatian regeneration but that we should become americanized and brought in harmony with alie civilization 0 the age in which we hie to accomplish very worthy objects they first provided ua B etli an organic act that gave the governor the absolute veto power by the exercise of which one man and bo a stranger and not infrequently a deeply prejudiced enemy could the wishes and enactments of a cottmon hut in doing this their great american bearta were inspired with tho very laudable desire to do away with the one man power in utah so dangerous to american and the of american ideal among a people by their with tho parent go eminent they nest taka from the elective officers 0 tho people euch as territorial marshals justices ot the peace and probate judges certain important jurisdiction and beetow it upon alie appointive oili cers ot tho general government always selected frum among themselves this was another effort to ellaro our rights and to make us arco that great om of human rights the right ol 01 trial by jury was tha next worthy object 0 their consideration it took centuries of strife and bloodshed to develop and establish this great of liberty providing as it does that a man charged with crime shall bo indicted and tried by a jury 0 his peers selected from the neighborhood athera ho resides and from among thosa who aro him or his cause this calab custom among free peoples elsewhere was not ree enough lor us in utah BO these great reformers from the central government an providing forth half of the jury should be ariet ted from among their own number from among alln liitt erest enemies of the people antl choso whoso prejudices had boiten developed into rancorous for everything abor inon lait tins ana not as it required a majority to and alio whole to ron viLt and chile ilor mona were present in numbers on the jury to their control of abebe matters gieir desires or the emancipation of tho bondage ridden people of utah were in no benso attained they next importuner importuned ilia of re edon to make all the probate judges of utah appointee appoint ne hy the president instead of elective by the vole ot the people this too flaa readily all in lie interest of free popular and progressive government and in edrict harmony with alie americanizing American izing plans of theao champions of liberty they now havo the entire jury and ran indict whomsoever aliey please it a mans ideas aro not in harmony with their the great principles of american freedon he can easily bo aa a fit subject tor reformation and he deprived of his until lie either his ideas upon toils great subject by a recantation of his faith or to alie freedom of other lands the proper distribution of the officers of the government among the people who bear the burdens thereof is a great democratic principle banded down to us from our revolutionary sires this too they have sought to pervert not through any feeling of but irom a preeminent pre eminent desire so conspicuous in alt their philanthropic movements to promote alie cause of human emancipation among us to this end they havo provided that every postmaster in utah be appointed from among their own number that all the and attaches of the territorial judiciary be ghen to them and that every officer in the gift of the parent government greatly augmented by their efforts be be stoned within the lines of this liberty lot ing fraternity then w e have the example of their laudable effort to dissolve and destroy a church corporation and take its property sanctified by the generous impulses that inspired its bestowal for divine eai and appropriated it to the cause of education yet article one of the constitution plainly bays that congress shall mako no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the tree exercise thereof neither shall private property be taken tor public use without compensation if congress has alie right to destroy one religious sect it has the right to destroy all but one and thereby it can provide for the establishment of that certain religion and prohibit the free exercise 0 any other yet we must be americanized een if the constitution is to bo torn in shreds and the ery foundations of our government uprooted to accomplish com it no selfish or improper devices actuated them in this measure to rob us of our property for e are being robbed in the interest of education in the interest 0 christianity and for the great cause of human freedom the following amendments to the constitution are of no value aa compared with tha laih and holy by which una great liberal party id actuated 2 A nell regulated militia being necessary to the of a free state the right of the people to keep or bear arms shall not bo bui eil anent acting Oo blacks proclamation 4 the right of the people to be secure in their persona houses papers ami against and seizure shall not be violated witness the conduct of US marshals in their search for polygamists in utah 6 in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein tho crime shall have been committed examine our jury system LS 8 excessive bail phill not be required or cratl and unusual punishment be aeo Q cannon was compelled to kivo a forty five thousand dollar bail bond in a case of simple misdemeanor involving in its greatest penalty but six months imprisonment and a fine of three hundred dollars and the local counti by their ruling have held under what is known as the segregation system of puni slung encee for unlawful cohabitation that although a does not occupy the same bed sleep in the same room dwell under the same roof or have sexual intercourse ter course with any of hi wives yet he may be found guilty and given the toll penalty of the for every year mouth week and day embraced within the period of statutory limitation in other words that ho can bo convicted enough times to imprison him for five hundred and forty seven years and to segregate in fineson three hundred and twenty eight thousand ave hundred dollars these are a few of the measures employed by our liberal friends in their ettora to constitutionally moral ize christianize civilize and arceri canice the down trodden priest ridden and benighted people ot utah oh to the record let us flee for vindication and to the great principle 0 american freedom or justification truly as great moral reformers the liberals of utah are an immense euc cesa As they are roost unique in their methods and as chiam eions of human freedom and supporters of constitutions constitution a law they hae no equals in thia laud if indeed throughout the civilized world well may such reformers appeal to the young men 0 utah to eive them their votes and promise in return that they will niale them free and well may young utah reply in the worda 0 the noble patriot to his followers whom the were bagina an unrelenting warfare 0 extermination atey boast they come but to improve e our state to enlarge our thoughts and free us from the yoke of error yes they will give enlightened freedom to our manda who are themselves tho they call u pon us to barter all good we have inherited and proven or tho desperate chance 0 better ley promise no ho our plain answer this the party that we honor is alie peoples choice the laws that we reverence aro our brave fathers legacy ahe we 01 ol low teaches us to live in boada of char all mankind and die with hope ot bliss beyond tho grave tell our liberals this tind tell atheni too wo seek no chane least of all euch change aa they would brini us AN air the i inon on tuesday mornS nR august C ho bembera 0 alio ward inq day school will take a trip up oden canyon all who desire to join them from any other ward are respect ully invited they however must furnish their own conveyances on monday evening the tenta and bodding will axi taken up and at a m tuesday the whole school will up into tho mountains lor three laya |