St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-23
They Trail the American Flag
in the Dust Of Salt Lake
City.
Federal Judges Who Sen
fenced Polygamists Hooted
by the Mob.
John Taylor Defies the Gov
eminent to Cut Out the
Mormon Ulcer.
Mrs. Green Swears That Her
Husband Was Murdered
by the Saints

SALT LAKE, Utah. Nov. 22.-The In
vestigation being held to determine
whether alien MOrmons are eligible to
naturalization was resumed before
Judge Anderson this morning. Henry
w. Lawrence. who was Oil the stand
when the court adjourned last evening.
was recalled for croSS-eXanlnatiOn. Mr..
Lawrence stated that he believed the
Mormon people would become loyal if
their leaders did not teach disloyal doc
trines. Extracts from many sermons de-
livered by Brigham Young, He
Der Eimball and other leaders
were then read and showed
cOnclusively that the priesthood
claimed the right to dictate to the peO-
pie in all things temporal as well
as spiritual. and that the people
were to be led and governed by
them. A number of witnesses testi-
fed that in May, 1879, there was big
demonstration in this city in honor of
the release of Daniel Ii. Wells from the
penltentiary, where he had been COM
mitted for contempt of court in refusing
to answer questions regarding the ell
d )wment house ceremonies. At the
polygamv trial they testified that the
procession consisted of many thousand
MOrmons who went up the main street
trailing the
AMERICAN FLAG In THE DUST,
and in passing the federal court house,
they saw Judge Emerson, who commit
ted Wells, standing on the balcony and
yelled and hoOted at him. In the after
noon number OF witnesses testified in
regard to the Mormons half-masting the
flags in this city on July 4, 1885. The
defense called Joseph Follett to refute
the testimony given by Witness Wardell
in regard to the killing of Green for
apostacy in 1862. The witness testified
that he never heard of the affair
before. The prosecution then offered
in evidence a paper served OH mem-
Der of the Mormon church by Bishop
HiSWard, citing him to appear III the
bishops court tonight and be tried for
obtaining judgment i'll the United
States court against other members OF
the church for the failure to perform
contract. This course fully demon
strates the charge made that the church
does dictate and control the temporal
affairs. The attorneys for the prosecu-
ton read many revelations alleged to
have been received from Joseph Smith,
i'm which God commanded certain Nor
mon churches to be built. They also
read from a sermon by John Taylor.
which said if the government attempted
to
CUT OUT THE MORMON ULCER
as has been proposed i'll congress. then
the United States will be cut off from
being nation and its star would set III
a sea of blood. The question OF polyg-
amy was then taken up, and the recent
editorials from the church organ, an
Douncing that it was fixed and unal-
terable law OF God. was offered in evil
dence, and it was shown in this con-
nection that convictions for the viola
tons of the EdmundS law had been
more numerous since January, 1889,
than for any similar period in the his
tory of the territory. The attorneys
for the church denied that polygamous
marriages are now being soltmnized.
but, when questioned, admitted that no
record of such marriages were kept, and
that they had no means of knowing II
they were being solemnized or not.