Show THE KEW OATH n aw another sums U up t the the taking of the oath prescribed in the edmunda tucker act is still a fruitful fruit hil theme among other thinka ft a gentleman gem leluan jocularly re marked a it tew few evenings evenin gd since binca that a party y was about to be form formed A in utah saya says he we auti anti oath men are goin to secede from both the dominant parties here nud luse fuse on the oath question what do you think ol 01 thai that grover will have to jump into his boots aud and be up an anduray and uway for the utah will soon be atte attempting epting to steal bu his thunder I 1 tell you we are going to have lots of tun fun over this thing yet but in conversation gitil with a prom ident anti auti mormon this morning a new phase 0 of the oath question was presented said the gentleman ra 1 erred jetted to there ie is I 1 think a principle in the mormon church that a man cannot believe what he does not practice tei tet all not in polygamy are unbelievers in it it ai as abjure for a man to eay say he b alieves the tenets of the Alor mormon nion church and yet neglect neglects either to join that church or to help it but rather use hi his 15 means against it as fur for a man that bae has j dined the church to reil me the tile principle of having plural wives wives and yet say he believes it he fie may believe it right for othera others to have them but nut not himself in the ni mutter litter of taking the oath prescribed in the new bill there will be no difficulty as n adu man taking that oath bindi binds himself not to infringe the law nor to aid or abet others now if others in that church should steal murder nr or break any law that does not bold hold all the communicants of that church equally responsible because th they thy y did not preach against it why wh it would be equally absurd to bold hold ail all the members of any society religious or lecul secular lr responsible f for what one or more of the mew b ers did there is another thing continued the gentleman above quoted congress congre has now passed a law prohibiting the practices the mor along have inveighed against for the past put thir thirty y deare gentiles as its well as mormons must now observe the seventh commandment or lofe lose their right of citizenship there i a 4 vast principle involved in this question and nod the bottom of it hae has dot not been rea reached thed and the speaker baker took a bis his cigar w while h ile the reporter hastened to capture more items |