Show YES HOLD OUT IS THE WORD it is to communicated be hoped that the nest legal wife summoned before the notorious district court will per emptor ily refuge to answer any and every question affecting her husband and if needs be po to the penitentiary for contempt rather than disclose family secrets into which the filthy dreamers desire so much to peer in the interest of moral turpitude let a test be made of this question and if the local footers looters can stand the total extinction of all the decent time honored law precedents the cormons mormons should not con plain ever since the prophet joseph smith stepped out aiato iato the light of divine revelation it has been pro that this nation should tear its constitution to shreds and itself would goto and is it not fast approaching this crisis that hoary headed cold blooded old senator george F edmunds says the people are the constitution ution of the united states and the written time honored nianna charta which he is totally garding in his anxious endeavors to inflict unheard of hardships on abc cormons mormons Mor mons at the same time be it remembered he has otten timea taken a solemn oath to sustain the constitution in its every element Is not this political colossus guilty of pure and unmixed one by ono the provisions of the constitution are being stranded by the politicians while the saints are doing their utmost to preserve and perpetuate it intact as joseph smith and hi colleagues so often predicted aliey would do again let me admonish legal wives to remain mum and dumb respecting matters purely between themselves and their husbands and as the nem has BO often ad the witnesses summoned before grand juries to positively re fuse to take an oath of secrecy so let me repeat and advise the questions asked and by whom the manner in which they were asked the answers made the personnel of the jurors and in fact everything brought to the notice of the eye ear or nose of the witness is the witnesses and may bo related to tho first newspaper man he meets on emerging from the jury room if he so elicits if the witness were a stenographer he could lane howo every question and answer and give the information to whosoever he liked because the in formation he has obtained and imparted ia hia to do with as he pleases again let roe say to wit nesses let no government impose an oath of secrecy on you the very best in the city say they cannot punish you for refusing to do so further when summoned before inquisitors inqui go with head up bid tho heart remain where it belongs speak up deliberately and bondly and dont manifest the least trepidation or uneasiness while in the of the august body men especially appointed to get yourself and yours into lo these men are but lumps of mud at best and it is well known that the federal juries are often composed in part of the basest and dirtiest men in the community insolent prosecuting officers very often indulge in artful and captious trickery to entrap witnesses into admies ioa tasy would not make if they were not confused by the misleading methods of inquisitors inqui if witnesses will remember to bo deliberate and not hurried in giving answers to misleading and impudent questions they will often avoid painful mortification you must never loso sight of thia noonday fact that the men who ply you with questions respecting your do bestic affairs are as a rule base and unscrupulous men absolute bitter enemies to the community bent on doing the people all the harm in their power henry ward beecher was on trial a few years back it wag noticed that under the searching catechization of judge morris he suddenly lost his memory and for ion tedious hours ho affirmed 1 I dont remember 1 I dont recollect 1 I cant recall the timo forgotten the date tho circumstance alluded to has left me if a renowned and big brained roan like mr buccher had seasons of forgetfulness surely ordinary mortals will be excused for not knowing much when plied with queries b their avowed enemies whose whole and undisguised aim is to rob and imprison your dearest friends the stupidest witness in these perilous times is the one that knows alie most to know nothing is a virtue and a thorough know nothing 13 a friend to the friends of mankind if witnesses answered in monosyllables yes no and not attempt to enter into needless and uncalled for voluntary explanations they would do themselves and their friends valuable service and prevent a good deal of self mortification KNOW no miyo |