Show DO NOT MEAN TO SURRENDER DEWY the sacramento record union ion is is very incredulous in regard to the statements of commissioner ramsey that ho be and his compeers com peers will have no difficulty in administering adminis terin the new law in utah it is nevertheless a fact that all the opposition the commission has met with thus far in this territory has emanated from tho the liberal league and this because that miserable ring could neither manipulate cajole nor bulldoze tho the commission into ing with them or assisting them in in their dirty work against the better clasa of citizens the record union un ion says the mor aror mone mons are a very tenacious people as they have repeatedly proved they do not it says intend to surrender their favorite institution because it has been made the instrument of their disfranchisement rement this is true tho the mormons cormons Mor mons do not intend to give up any of their religious institutions for they are all favorites with them and if every latter day saint in utah were dis franchised it would neither alter their principles nor their purpose and determination to honor god in the exercise of the religion they verily believe to bo be true and to have emanated from him but there arc are several statements which we confess wo we are arc surprised to sec see the record union make concerning the majority of the people of utah they are not only uttered in bad taste but they are aljo alio un called for and palpably false the writer says editorially editorially if any amount of false swearing can relieve them from the penalties of the law they mill will assuredly escape this way if perjury docs does not answer they will havo have recourse to other acen agencies cies now the record union is cither either beside itself or r else it has perpetrated a willful and malicious falsehood for it is not unless it has some new and very green hands band at the bellows so ignorant of tho the history of this people but it knows that they have suffered red every in indignity that co could u id bo be put upon them rather than give up or deny any one principle of their religion the liscord union knows that in their early history the cormons mormons Mor mons have sacrificed friends and homes p that they were hunted and driven from froin city to city from one county to another that they were driven from state to state that many of them were cruelly and barbarously murdered in cold blood and many thousands of them were finally expelled from their peaceful residences into a howling wilderness wilder nesa in winter time because they would not deny or give up their religion ion thero there is no necessity for the cormons mormons Mor mons to perjure themselves they have nothing to deny unless it be the wretched falsehoods of the black hearted scoundrels tho hiro hire linga hugs who are doing loing their worst to crush out of existence an inoffensive law abiding industrious people and to rob them oath of the fruits of their low long years of toil they will be disappointed for long years after these traducers traduce rs have been rotting beneath the sod and their names arc are remembered only to bo be execrated the mormons cormons Mor mons will live and continue to flourish as lox long as there is a bow in the clouds or seed time and harvest succeed each other fined to grand jurors but petit jurors will bo be dealt with in like manner the game same writer thinks this indicates a rigid enforcement of the edmunds law and d that indictments will be found against many citizens mho who believe in and practice plural marriage the tile constitutionality says he lie of preventing a man serving on a it jury became because of if his belief will I imagine be tested by carrying the cases up to the supreme court at washington this is prophetic of a long struggle in the courts and another harvest barvest for the attorneys the constitutionality of these and other highhanded high handed proceeding proceedings by men in invested vesteS with ft a little b brief rief authority in this territory will be tested and the latter day saints will contend inch by inch for every political privilege with which american citizenship lias bus invested them they will appeal their cause in the event of ono one court to another until their political fate ig is decided in the highest tribunal in tholand abo land many of the law firms in the capital and other towns in utah arc are engaged for the contest on one side or the other and although it may be lengthy and costly the mor mons feel that they owe it to themselves their posterity and to all justine just mento rito resent opp oppression revion at every t turn ii and never give up until the dernier has bus been reach reache dand justice has been awarded or denied them in the court of last appeal be the results of the present con test whatever they may the mormon 01 people havo have learned to possess their souls in patience for they have bave an abiding faith in the truth of ortho the principles they have accepted as the rules of their limesand lives live sand and are cure sure they trill will ultimately triumph |