Show THE BELIEF TEST in a communication from salt lake city published in fridays DAILY Hs Hnit itALD iLD mention was made of a new departure by the enemies enemies of the people of utah by which to del deprive irive them of another morse morsel of oi the small remnant of constitutional rights and privilege left to them thet n we mean the insolent interrogatories addressed to the persona persons selected for the grand jury of the third district court now in se session assion at salt lake city this is the latest L outrage on the tile prerogatives of american rican citizens and wo greatly fear that as it is not the least leas t to which the latter day saints have bean subjected atthe handa hands of their usurping adversaries it will not be the last either it seems that the laurels federal executive of utah territory in stretching the anti mor idon mon let legislation gisia tion beyond all its most odious intent and far beyond the faintest semblance of law right or justice have aroused jealousy on tho the part of the judiciary at least a branch of it the edmunds bill to which the people of utah patiently submit aub mit though not recognizing it as constitutional provides with regard to jurors in this territory in any prosecution for bigamy polygamy or unlawful cohabitation under any ny united ts tates it shall bu be cause of challenge to any person drawn or summoned aa a a juryman or tale sinan that he lie believes it is right for a man to have more than one living and ed difo at the same time or to live in the practice tue of colia cohabiting biting with more than one woman and this question shall be tra tried by the court mark this does not refer to iho tho t grand or petit juries when they are bein being r ledat the beginning Z of a term of court it explicitly has a bearing only in the case oan of a prosecution for bigamy polygamy etc to stretch this excluding clause in itself a bold reversal of the maxim that a man nian shall be tried by liis his peers is an assumption tiona a usurpation which has its equals only in days gone by when a Jeff jeffreys ireys was judge and a star chamber the court room where justice blindfolded and gagged was prostituted prostitutes in the unhallowed service of despotism there is no law no justice no equity no reason in such an arbi arary exclusion there is nothing in it but an ih ill disguised evil intent a sinister object to accomplish what even the tile malignant designers A and supporters of the edmunds bill k trunk back from attempting to wrest the jury right from the mor mons to take from four fifths of the american citizens ofa of a territory over which the St stare arsand and stripes float even tho the one half representation they had been allowed hitherto the ultimate object of this measure we will leave to the ingenuity of tho the people of utah to divine of the people who but too well remember when it was said of them the law cannot reach them we F will content ourselves to detail the modus operandi m in the third district court adopted by mr P T van zile the deseret reports tho the proceedings as follows tho tile prosecuting attorney Atto iney asked joseph IV sum whether lio lie bell behaved behoved oved it to bo be right for a man to have Ilav moro emore than one wife tho the answer being that lie believed the revelation received by joseph smith on tho the subject of polygamy to bo be from god he lie was challenged and excused I AV campbell was similarly anterro k v gated and find answered that ho lie had not made up his ilia mind on the subject question do you yon believe in the revelation of pol polygamy ganly as gi gnon en by bv joseph in ake the book of karine doctrine and covenants mawer answer I havo have ae never v e r seen acen a any n y such ruch revelation on polygamy zamy have lave read real the book through but never liever saw sueh revelation elation I have havo loen been taught that we an all believe and practice any an portion of the doctrine of mormon i rin isn I hao have never nover wen seen purporting to be a n on the ilie t of poly poli gallY iny have never read the tl revelation rev elation and am ani positive that it is not in tho tile book mr van zile ailon asked biln would believe it if be lie showed linn him tho the reve ind and then sent a messenger to ins his residence for a copy colly of the book of doctrine and covenants mr van then asked him if lie tho unlit it for a man to live in polygamy and the would bo be juror anaw answered ered acs yes if he ile thought it right and justified himself quo que suppose lie belongs to the tile mormon church do you think it right for him to live in polygamy ana ans I do if lie believes in in it mr campbell was challenged and excused C IV was excused on oil similar grounds william naylor wai wa asked by bv mr van zile if lie believed it right for a ran van to to havo have more m re than ono one wire at a tune lie ile answered III I did believe polygamy imy right up to I believe all who entered into it since broke tho tile law I believe in the revelation of joseph smith but dont bellevo it against the tho laws I never saw any am one mairy marry into polygamy mr naylor was a retained on the panel pierrepont said in answer to the belief in n polygamy question est ion I believe in ili the B book V of doe doctrine trine and covenants I believe tile doctrine of polygamy a truo true principle arres spec tive of any religious doctrine I believe it right for men to enter into polygamy pol tn I bellevo it is right for a man to liv e with more thin than one wife he lie was challenged challe need and excused rdward edward in answer to questions on polygamy said lie believed it right for a man to have and liyo live with more than one wife ho also was challenged and excused |