| Show I 1 I 1 I 1 S ei PI D of the eighth le n r is hi re OF TOll I 1 gover nor west first message I 1 IT IS LIK original bold and I 1 11 I 1 fit style compilation OF THE baits 4 Is proposed in a joint resolution sath hammond and hall to do the work other notes lit tortal correspondence of tirs 6 TA N D arda salt haiie jan 10 1888 k tito governor bas ilis message messa gp and at this hour both houses of the legislature have a gain i caught their breath and are respiring promptly at p in today to day both branA esQ the legislative assembly r e t respective halls after the some business of I 1 minor importance they took a formal decess preparatory to their meeting in joint session at 3 p in at tho leour appointed for the conjoint pon joint session I 1 tho members of the council filed I 1 MO representative hall and took feats within the bar by this time every toot of available space beyond the line of the mcm bers desks was by an ager assemblage of visitors a tow ladies being present the president of jhb council called the conjoint session to order and afi ter tha formality of opening was over the sergeant at arms announced ilis excellency the governor the mem the announcement alq continued standing until the gov arnor was seat eZi A brief pause e n sued when the president ident of the conn cil introduced his excellency to the assembly governor west then P to deliver his message as fal IS I 1 THE MESSAGE I 1 TERRITORY OF J SALT LAKE aty jan 0 18 8 Cen demen of the ifor the first time I 1 meet the chosen representatives of the people assem bled in council as law makers we hold within our hands the quiet the bace athe prosperity and it ap of t 0 adred shousan d people upon yo and myself jointly rests tile weight obligation the arave ree making wise and bene eson ci clil baij this community UNITY OT ACTION it requires our united action to accomplish com anything iny thing one without the other can do nothing never in the ast have those charged with our aties had like power and opportunity to give peace to this territory and do its people I 1 1 As we stand upon the r e before entering u ur 1 cuties the assurance given that urged by a deep solicitude for the welfare of the territory and its people considering sion the public weal to the uttermost will I 1 endeavor to secure the U n it 1 necessary for the enactment of w h laws REVIEW OF THE PAST to address ourselves intelligently to our task ith the bop 0 of successfully desired results a review of our past is essential that we may carefully itofe its errors and remedy the evils resulting and avoid them ki the future it is known that lormon people in the states of ohio missouri and illinois were in conflict with their neighbors ig that great loss of pre aty till bards bips much on I 1 eying r the final abandonment of their homes in the aas t and the mak ing of new settlements have resulted in it little while after the establishment of a territorial govern anent u federal army is on the march against tile PeO lIle marshaled in hostile array to it before the ai troops again there is an abandonment of homes entailing upon helpless women and children the hardships and suffering incident thereto with afie development of the caun ary and th of lines of comes an of non population the territory and its people are now brought into elm contact with the brebt of tile country by tile improved facilities of transportation and again we are confronted with the irrepressible con flicht entrusted as other territory Terri tor ies by Organic with power ove all rightful subjects of legislation con sistena with the con utiOn of tit 0 United States and the revisions of the organic act the con gross in matters purely lo calhas anen compelled to interfere annulling laws giving needful legislation and placing in other hands the nam ag of certain territorial officers the enforcement of laws by federal charged therewith has inre burred for thein the jacl i and on a majority of vr to people they g to be governed immediately by god himself through his priest bood the people hse ymeldo their substance to lefeat tile execution of the laws many of tile most aromi nent and leading citizens from the ranks of the majority have buffered fine and imprisonment for their open violation others have fled and tire in hiding to avoid their penalties pe naltie while the picture above but a dim outline a pencil tracing without coloring the dullest image na con must appreciate its grotesque grot esqui 5 no wl its sorrow and turn with relief irom ilia contemplation of the bitterness the otrice the defiance of law the power the dis gracei of alight the gloom and mis cry of the prison the lose and dd st ruction df prop erty tate toil espos expos yv s nd hardship he sufferina of 11 I 1 t helpless women and innocent child the violence bloodshed arid death it it portrays THE these many voices of tile 1 ast ro with anguish ask u 9 why of all peoples in our land of nearly every nationality of no rell a d all ref loons with beliefs illon cr tiel ds as various and numerous almost as tile different natures of titan should this r I 1 tand singular arid alone in its bastory bi story can any one doubt who mith unprejudiced the question that the causo is fountin file racy established and maintained her in the education of the people to believe that god has chosen till aie to take po cerion of this earth anti to dominate and control all other people th a t through ilis priesthood gol ov erns them immediately riot alone ili faith and morals but in all tile affairs and relations of life arid that tile counsel of the priesthood is tile sa preme voice of god and n ill be e without question ri that perfect and coin pleto unity has and does exist among the morrion an abao ute one cs without d division or dissent tito unity in the nafe which comes from and fair discussion of public eions securing bv il lerit conviction of the mind and of tile right is desirable and commendable absolutism tile unity is obtained by ro cognizing izing he supremacy of one man or set of men by attributing to him or them a anoa led ge arid power not granted to others derived from superhuman nd supreme source and there fore riot 0 o be questioned but must be obeyed is the establishment of complete abao luti in those holding power arid tho most abject and servile slavery on those submitting it stifles enterprise prevents progress is death to p ity unites sill people not con A ith it ili antagonism to it intelli ent free metr will not object but fh eer fully submit I 1 b bugli their ideas eriv I 1 not prevail in communities of chic i they are not members SO iong as they know that they have had sit equal 11 ance avith their neighbors ill asserting themselves but when this is denied them and they ate conscious regardless of the and worth of their views that they have no voice but are buried beneath a power alien to and unrecognized by the government under which the y live it Is not surprising that they should rebel against the tyranny which paralyzes para lizes manhood anade freedom THE MINORITY the contest which minority havo waged and now urge has not been upon the principle that minor tie should control but doni should be established and prevail bere as elsewhere in our land that no one man or yet of men asserting and claiming absolute power as of di line right shall regulate and control thal state and all the Lf fairs of the citizen moral religious social polita cal commercial and financial that each citizens it in if i r 1 5 and ellb s I 1 a 0 1 j upon merit and capacity rOLY GAuT ITS acceptance to the of god through ills priesthood and the unity it enforces brought t ills people to accept sustain and uphold my whether practicing it or not less of the of th 1 christian world slid in ile fi an e 0 01 tile law of the land you know bet ter than 1 can tell tile evila fol lowin g I 1 n its train this revelation enforced upon the peo T id accepted as law by the priesthood a of without I les lion by them atten t 1 on of the whole country ita rac tice received universal condemnation provoking tle enactment of federal laws against it and their enforcement by officials of federal appointment I 1 POLITICS IN THE CHURCH xo church organization can obtain and hold political power in this coun try it is contrary to the spirit and genius of our free government I 1 would riot have you or tile people 0 ithe territory misunderstand ine I 1 am anxious to serve the well and do them good and them I 1 have no religious controversy that the church can by the sublimity and beauty of its teachings and the moral and religious conduct of its in e m bers subdue and dominate the w orld it is not here and now iny province to question when it or any other church encroaches u n the state it its the duty of every alvr ellna ta resist the encroachment with all power necessary to overcome it ELEMENT the legislation of the last congress m ado the holding of politic al power by tire contrell con troll il element hero tie pendent upon ift renu ablation ot polygamy you and the people whom you represent babet under solemn abjured it pledging your selves against counseling or advising or aiding and abetting others in the practice of it thus have you and the people impressed the seal of condom nation of the evils amanat tho church government of tile past following upon the heels of t hits un 4 jer a call of their territorial committee the representatives of the mormon people assembled ili convention adopts ed a constitution for a st a t e G over n merit proclaiming the divorce an I 1 church arid state tito mormon people publicly at the polls ratified tire action re presents tive ng their approval of the announcement sundering tile ties be church and state and the dethronement thron ement of the supremacy of the former over the latter brave wise words cheso are and the keeping 0 their promise to the hope will bring much happiness to people I 1 cannot however flatter thann with the hope or encourage them to believe that upon the strength of these avo the territory ought to or will be clothed with and admitted into ohp union of stated it is no easy task try they never so hard for a people to ignore teachings for years they have been want to accept and free th from to which they baab been willing subjects this is not rendered easier that both have partaker partaken par taken of 6 religious ell fracter ar acter the question ia not one of words a id promises but strikes deeper benefito ought riot ani will not accrue from declarations alone tile expressed determination of this people must have been ii become a fact complis hel ere they can hope to ed joy the fruits to result from their promised action realization OV THE PROMISE upon us devolves the initiative of realizing to the country tile promises made tile obligations taken to pu ut our ry into line an 1 I ary sitf our sister mies and T cry it r thereby so curin to our people thel benefits and blessi allo W be derived from our new to accomplish it must cut loose from old traditions and methods inaugurate new methods and a wise and legislation I 1 I 1 to this you anti the people you cepro sent are by oaths most solemn to this am committed by shigeto conviction and official duty theril is ito vice that doth so cover a mart will as to be found false and 11 let the priest of the c lurch when be the council of state dolt his priestly robes of power resigning nin gall divine authority or claita t give to ilia voicu arid coun 0 nl y lie potency and authority it dese r es by rea S i Is in I 1 and wisdom Let their blin edi allce upon the ill 01 alvino authority P the bonepart on ingrid lid ity upon tile other to obey let tile in eastres proposed for oil r considerate 2 11 hav ing no purpose but the 1 ri of t to state and the good cond I 1 its deop 1 e emanating from the free in ep Q adent thought of the individual or originating from full land fair with co or citizen neither seeking tile counsel of or lecog tr izing tile an dhority of ours e lion after free fair arid full discussion arid consideration let the right alone triumph oil ili inerio THE SITUATION our farat duty to meet the rd ire I 1 11 ants of ilia i tuition to fulfill the pledges of the people 13 to clean our statutes of all laws repugnant to federal legislation including our organic act I 1 recommend the repeal of all such laws for the territory its law is supreme and of binding force bocan not add to or subtract from it there legislation upon like subject is to make conflict and intro duco confusion and should not be done except where congressional leg if lation content platea or I 1 d 0 3 tit at e ma yan dolight to do something of the latter character claw lishing and continuing tire atall corn iniss iii in which congress bontem plates in consonance avith IN view s and pu reposes tile by t tey legislature of proper registration and election laws which upon ap provid by it aion nork the diss ili cioll of the comm arid endl it life I 1 recommends the passage euchlas suc hlas legislation of the last congress which provides for tile zOlon of ater rit orial militia as provided ip letlon 27 of an act to amend an act entitled an act to amend section of tile revised statutes of the unit cd states in reference to bigamy lind for other approved march 21 2 1 b 0 it call your attenni on and r e quest your action EXECUTIVE pat pa t ath of the system prevailing hav 2 for its object the absorption by tile dominant element of till power alas led to a constant encroachment upon the prerogative of the executive and no anani 0 ty has been lost to cur 1 all his to such an extent has this c that laws coltrara coLt to and in conflict t w ith the organic act have been enacted resulting in the cloud ing of title to officers and making them the s abject of contest in the courts legis laticia lati cin 9 I I agi la not alv but unwise destroying harmony anti en g en dering strife in all cases where th 0 o call reasonably be the subject of dispute by reason of tile conflict of legislative enactment with the organic act tile legislation on to be repealed and none of a like kind attempted in the future EDMUNDS TUCKER BILL YOU are familiar with the bill that id oli y such a strong vote the representatives of the last congress which if it had bacomo law won id have deprived dip rived the people of tho privilege of electing moot of their 0 the bill which did become law makes probate judges appointive by the president ident you are not agnor silt of tile fact that already in file new congress bills are pending which if enacted into law will provide ap of certain other officers and will reg ulato the time and m odo of tile election of officers in salt lako city different from that now fixed by our laws before the ic facts is ihnot well to and consider as representative senta tive of the people what you ought to do AX 1 I am neither a prophet nor the pon jofs prophet yet an the light of the 1 pen i anti past of CM gress iny warn you that uness tita promis es of this people to tho col lutry are kept in good faith abidi ke av and methods established here that prevail over our common country the necessary legislation to break and destroy the PT vents t e desired consummation wil sooner or later be given A recommendation me to advise and recommend A bold and radical bourse though not an and un vise introduce aal pass bilis identical with those now pending before ess th fo the proposed acus lion of that body emphasize your cla mation of EI vo assurance of your desire and purposed to put tire territory into line the balance of the country such lead wise action upon I 1 your part would attract tha attention of the country alid secure its co in an dation slid approval ITO more farik I 1 ing evidence could be of your 1 of the bf tha past it wound bai the of tile demolition of the middle wall of partition heretofore and pow existing this liberal would carry the territory further upon its way to statehood 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