Show THE SUPREME COURT abt rhe learned ex of who compoi etho court of highest raj ho united states iu their re cent decision in cabey took alio grou iid that men might belleve what th ey pleased as cons titi ting religion butth cy must not iut their belief into practice when there h it law against it for time an appeal moaning o f tarm t 14 allocated s their witt honors having abw regard it done violence to the plain baid accepted definitions laid down by tho b tac standard atan dard we have examined several and and every found that religion insole practice and cannot exist it says in B comprehensive cense includes belief britho being and perfections of god in the revelation of to man in inana to obey hii also the cfall moril dutie again is godliness or real piety in potice coristin in of all known duties to god an fn obedience to divine command onca mort consists in tin of alio duties wo awo directly to Godfro iii a of to ilia wiil chami avra encyclopedia Ite ligion in aai is generally un as alio feeling of howarda alio Crea torand ruler oatlie together those acu ot worship and service to that feeling lendi but wo have the declaring ring that religion i not eliph if congress hakea a law against it for alie eliat that body h authorized to restrain greup all acts L cl and aliat kind of religion we have without overt act suppo for example congress to become possessed pos essed of lie idea that baptism hadet tendency toward infringing upon alie rightie of the great public or tended to dislow aloyi or i tho kind under alie ruling of the supreme court it would bo perfectly proper for congress to pass a law prohibiting baptism which have no doubt the former body would as conati were brought before aliis is not eo remote a contingency as pome may imagine hiie hitoi y of tho world is ug eliat when well and wall understood ofa policy are departed from it is difficult to fix apon a stop plug point hanco we revolutions m aro overthrown growing directly ant of a departure from come previously fixed principle the ball ret in motion demonstrating tho fact that it bo moved and there being no longer any practical reason why it should stop the movement was kept ap until those alio instituted the dc were themselves themi elves set aado A line of demarcation once obliterated is apt to remain tio until canoa ey bucs after order upon ft new if not an improved plan the fact that Mormon like other religionists imayo peculiar to themselves docs not render those practices alio less religious in their essence or practice eliom the less sincere peculiarity is not objectionable when viewed in common with the othar things of lifo it is a piece of arro gant assumption for any man or body of men to denounce or oppress neighbors because of engaging in practices not in danco with ho views of entertained el such practices anre conflict the or interests of others alio supreme judy realizing tho dorco of this position then in alio desperate undertaking of making it appe appear ar that polygamy is such infringement citing the atalo ni of tho funeral pyre alie sacrificing of infants and throwing them t crocodile etc as being correlative practicing practising crime under lie plait of religion when m a becomes fo absurdly illogical as to compare the practice of polygamy with that of liniman life it ceasear bo an object of in taking up circumstances an wide ap artas are the poles and placing thain together for alio burpoe of constructing a simile they show as cither po KO ising no faculty for or posio sing itt lat aliey are to wilfully it in civilized cultivation ha reached such an exalted as in alio state thenn in every a deep seated and lionor lion or of bloodshed blood hed aal a feeling topuni idi alie of to the extent of tho lw were tah not alio ca juries would not convict court would not sen tunco and would not execute alie in de tle law and estka lif are anoro alian they il ifould lie wo admit but such etro generally held in check when ny of the ni bority 11 evaded and human life and it ii among those who denounce acl crimes eliat polygamy thrives haa thrived for more thin a A liberal fraction of thoo who do not practice it amther approve of or do not condemn it t lie clement of crime do not exit in it just lie it ia regarded in many placed apart t principle e by alie of nature in order that aliu command of tho al bo fruitful olid multiply be carried out to tho utmost extent and viewing it in an any lightie ligh tit ii nearly the of murder at anything that could pw ihly IM conjured up civilized people in pow etzion ditc ul tira do not boldly and publicly defend murd erdo not go abroad and preach it as a earth purifying doctrine lilt many people fab well endowed mentally cally and is are nine or mote of tho family do openly and honestly advocate poly gamy and court has to res ortto fic bioni and perversions to ansta ui a dead letter law passed against it seventeen years people arc ago is evidence not criminals and their practices arc not crimes tho bible rock upon which forbids w W ab t i I t murder docs ly depend upon tho injunction to agans nar doon alio forbidding of tho lat tor coant only in the emphatic thou alt nouell one is amply provided for tho and otherwise throughput the i cannot the promiscuous commingling com mingling of alie wan alio grand or ono object aimed at by congress and court cho overlook tho great cities lian ed and ed lioumes of and or alio community where promiscuity m sexual commerce is the distinguishing feature oi their ocial life if it wa expected that alio indiala of tho people ro ceiling a touch by maani of enforcement and up holding or lie act of why should the only apo on uio continent where inen manfully accept tho consequences of their extended in and for alio same by legitimating alie gup porting and educating them ue a sailed can it be eliat our national legislative and judicial solom tind divor for the practice of such intercourse only whon tho fe nal csaro remanded rcman ded to and to bastardy it would seem BO binco actions greil louder alian ward aad none of their actions at the sup pre of the levil a cr imo nature and ft burning blit ering liate ful blot upon tho boda politic which is hated by and every nun instincts of doramy leave not been jho of guilty conduct abhor it iff their aidt is regarded as pollution jet arct offu n a large number of whose moral obliquity liaa bri many occasions been blazoned to world in and almo almot t unconcealed infidelity to tha marital tie ahmo to pass an the rectification of the morale af alio people in wl a mah who would i i enter a house of prostitution publicly adamita ho ha not a wife and u woman of but two wires ho i in accordance the terms of that precious law arrested tried convicted and on an appeal of his case to alie tribunal law and right acro supposed to form the keys tonea in the arch of jjustice jj utice it wai decided hat alio congressmen with their concubines did h i t it noy too late to expect nav or on of alie een pronounced upon air Iley nolda for putting hit religions belief into and in alo absence of providential or executive intervention ho will undoubtedly have to submit to jhb punishment enjoined but as gunpowder cannot destroy a political idea so cannot persecution accomplished through of law obliterate truth and justice demagogues and may hawk at and tear them land tho dog of war tug at their fastenings in alie attempt to unleash and join hi tho havoc but truth to earth will rise again and justice banished will return and in alie years to come ho may find eliat justification and redress which for a behind alio vail of fu durity |