The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-09
GAME CHATS,
w,th a washington Reporter, and
p,ddles the Anti Mormon Bills.
interesting Interview With the
Utah Delegate.

Sar under favorable report fr0nl Tue
Judiciary committee of that po9y
awaiting action, has stirred up Tue
Mormons of u tab and elsewhere 70
tbe highest pitch Of excltemenG,
and IT IA predicted in some q asrIers
that should the bill become d Jaw
the truculent saints WIZ ngne
against its enforcemsn ant py iorce Vi
John I' n Game. the Mormon Deles
oste to Congress from Utah, was In,
torU;ewed last night on this and
ofbsr measures now before Con-
0,a for the suppression of polyg~
go in that Territory. He could
saot heIfeve that any of the various
nos D now before Congress will
come to fruition, since respect for
the Constitution is not yet entirely
obsoIete, and manliness and fair
ness have still their place in the
minds of our national law makers"
WThe bills" he said, "were framed
under complete misrepresentation
of the political, religious and social
life of the people of Utah; and if it
we're within the just power of Con-
gress to make such laws, their
enactment would in no sense SIM
Dlify the situation" The Hoar-
Edmunds bill provides that In Utah
the wife may be compelled to tes>
tify against her husband and the
husband against his wife In certain
criminal prosecutions; while in sup
port of the known rule of law forbid
ding such compulsion, the supreme
court declares that to violate this
rule would be to impair the sancti-
ties of home and destroy the best
solace of human existence. Another
provision is that attachments, With
out previous subIGnas, may be is
sued, enforcing the immediate at
tendance of witnesses, giving
thereby opportunities for the inva-
sion of homes, the harsh or even
brutal seizure of innocent citizens
and their detention for indefinite
periods; all in defiance of the highest
rules Of jurisprudence and the
plain words of the Constitution,
which says: "The right of the
people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers and effects against
unreasonable searches and seizures
shall not be violated" Again, the
bill aims to take away the suffrage
OF the women OF Utah, one OF their
most highly valued right, and one
against losing which they earnestly
protest, while the advocates OF the
measure are protesting with ridicu~
lOus inconsistency an intense and
overwhelming desire to f0rcj-
bly, carry the Mormon women
out of their self imposed
bondage. Thee provisions are
unjust and IN American, beside be-
ing violative of law and the Con
stiUution, but they are not moro
striking in these deplorable charac-
teristics than those sections of the
bill which provide for the manage
ment of the Mormon church by
board Of hostile trustees appointed
by tbs President and f)r the Ca
cheating Of the pro ner y OF the
church to the United States for Ger
tain public purposes, By the wa,
l zee from the Republican, that as
ton has besn taken by our govern
ment to prevent the ccnti--
cation of the wealth of
the Catholic propaganda III
Italy. This effort Of the United
States to stop such plumber must
certainly meet with the approval of
all fair-minded people. But to me
It seems very strange that while
American public men and news
papers have united in condemns
ton of the italian effort to despoil
The mother church none seem to
nave observed the similarity exist
Ing between that scheme and the
one originated in our own Senate
to strip tbs dominant church in
Utah. And yet in principle they
are The same.
sis this Hoar -Edmunds bill the
one of which you most complain ?"
mo. Greatly unjust as it is, there
are Others still worse. The CullOm
OH IN the Senate and the Cassidy
Dill IN the House, which measures
are almost Identical. are more cruel.
because, in addition to their
own apparent and immediate evil,
they propose to open the way for
even worse legislation than the
doar'E dmunds bill. The Cassidy
Oul0m proposition is, in plain
WORDS, to give int. political slavery
t6O,0OO American citizens, to place
!ner personal ard property rights
~ II grave jeopardy, and set up IS
tneF Cssk masters the most irrespcn-
siOie ana selfish satraps whom poll
ues could father or impecuniosity
EDUCATE. The bill aboIishes the last
AM SHADOW OF local self govern
I nehS IN Utah, Il supplants the
! o;5 and gives 10 q commits
f fn - q nLteen men and a governor,
20 Ge appointed by thu President
Without nc responsibility to the e1 peopie'
ever every power Of legislation. 1t would
encourage, not more nv th - e mfrs1
ordinary authority which |h II of seTgt to
DeStoW than by the reckless snirit
which would allow Hi02 its Split nal
sage, the Inauguration p0 %
q tyranny more onnress;vo W
and dastardly than GeRa poe's1 TTT
and his vicious sdvissrs IL
dreamed of imposing nnon t6a
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