The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-05
ON NATURALIZATION
The Famous Decision of Judge
Anderson.
mo MORMONS NEED APPLY
A General Review Of the Points Made During
The Investigation and the
Decision.
To the Editor Of THE HERALD.

cision that no Mormon need apply Tor nat
uralizaJion, because God commanded the
people in Nauvoo, through their prophet
Joseph Smith, to build house in which tc
entertain strangers ;Eand further, because
d. H. Wells, in May, 1879, being asked tc
reveal in open court some Of the Endow-
ment house ceremonies, refused to do sc
and was subjected to Imprisonment in the
penitentiary; and because the people met
this great leader in procession after his
term OF Imprisonment had expired, and
escorted him home from the penitentiary,
thus showing their respect for a man who
chose Imprisonment rather than break his
sacred covenants; and further, because
Orson HYDE, one of the twelve apostles,
expressed his firm belief in a pamphlet
written by one of his fellow apostles, Orson
Pratt, entitled 1.-THE Kingdom of God;'
and further, because Brigham Young said
the United States government perpetrated
a dastardly and cruel enactment in 1916,
when it demanded of the Mormon people
all of their able-bodied men to march two
thousand miles away, as United States
soldiers, leaving their old men, their
women and children utterly unprotected
and unprovided for in an Indian country
and, for this, because Jedediah M Grant
held up to execration such apostates as
Andrew Cahoon. Wardell, H. w. Law
renee, ct al; and further, because, says
Judge Anderson, on July 4, 1885, the stars
and stripes were placed at half mast on
some of the principal buildings in Salt
Lake city. The Mormons said they did
this as an emblem OF mourning. Judge
Anderson, who is the keeper of these Nor
mon consciences, says they did it because
they we're traitors of the United States
government.
And, further, because John Taylor, one
of the presidents of the Mormon church,
who, being under an Indictment for unlaw-
full Capitalization, hid from the officers of
the law, and died while in hiding, and yet
his honor implies that the Mormons did
not rise up and cut their president off from
the church because he had been indicted
for an alleged violation of, to him, an ex
post facto law, for President Taylor, like
hundreds of others who were indicted, and
many of them imprisoned, had married
their wives prior to the law of 1862 pro-
hibiting plural marriage.
Great guns and little fishes When had
a religious body the right or even the de-
sire to rise up against their leader because
of persecution to that leader, or what they
understood to be persecution, and repu
date him or turn against him!
And further, the Mormons teach, his
honor says, that this kingdom to which
the Mormon people say they belong, will
overthrow the United States and all other
governments. The judge cannot show one
word so taught by any of the Mormon peo-
pie. And so this statement of his is utterly
without foundation in fact
And, further, that pc ygamy is a COM
mand of God unto these Mormons, and that
the teachings, objects and aims of the Nor
mon people are antagonistic to the United
States government.
For all these and diverse reasons the
learned Judge denies citizenship to sundry
men whom he names as follows: Fred w.
Miller, Henry Jowen, John Berg, Charles
S. Clissold, Nils Anderson, Carl 2. Larson,
Thomas NJ Mumford, John Garbett, Arthur
Townsend and John Moore. Now, these
men could become legal voters if natura-
hzed, and it is presumed that the judge only
refuses them naturalization because he sur
misses they are going to vote with the PEG
pies party. Now, when this case of Moore
was brought before his honor, the learned
Judge said he would exclude all testimony,
only that which bore upon the matter of
the fitness for naturalization and good
moral character of the said applicant,
Moore. The records of the proceedings
will show how the learned Judge did not
keephis word.
These men who presented themselves
for naturalization probably never knew
personally Brigham Young or J. NJ. Grant
or Orson Hyde or Orson Pratt, and never
heard any utterances from any of those
men quoted by his honor, and without even
asking any of the applicants for citizenship
if they did or did not endorse them, they
are one and all denied citizenship, without
even a chance of pleading guilty or not
guilty. The witnesses of these applicants,
so far as examined, proved that the APP
plicants were of good moral character
while in one case, a man whom the Lib
erals presented stood confessed an adul
terer before the court; yet this same Ito the
COURT lovely character was passed and ad-
mitted, and the learned judge stated in
open court that if this individual had only
o been guilty Of the crime once it did not
stamp him as an immoral man, and then
passed and admitted the adulterer without
even asking him if he were white and beau
tiful ali but the one sin.
Judge Anderson will yet learn that he
has put himself to fOisting up and assist
ing a set of disappointed carpet-baggers to
get hold of and waste the hard earnings of
the builders and founders of this beautiful
city of the Rocky mountains.
The Mormon people are unpopular,
Baskin was once unpopular. He once ap-
peared before the House of Congress as
contestant as the delegate from Utah, and
because Hon. George Q. Cannon had
small majority of fifteen or twenty thou
sand votes in his favor over and above
Honorable Mr. Baskin, the House of
Congress, contrary to the present policy
of President Harrison, admitted Mr..
Cannon and left Mr.. B. to return home at
his leisure and at his own expense, or to
secure donations from his brethren of the
F. o. H IS of the United States, Utah de-
partment, as best he could. And for this
and other sore disappointments, Baskin has
sworn TO never forgive the MormOns.
Ex-United States prosecutor for Utah,
Mr.. w. H. Dickson, is in the same boat.
He it was who instituted the segregation
or numerous count, of one, two, three, or
four against parties charged with ViOlat-
ing the Edmunds law in Utah territory.
The United States supreme court, ''Wash-
ington branch decided that this ruling of
Mr.. Dickson was bad law, thereby turn
ing out of prison some illustrious Nor
mons whom MIR. Dickson had intended to
maintain in prison for the balance of their
natural lives. Although the United States
supreme court is credited with this rebuke
to Mr.. Dickson, and whether he accuses
that august body or not OF being bought by
Mormon gold, as rumor says he does, one
thing is certain-ex-Attorney William H.
Dickson has never forgiven the Mormon
people for what the supreme court did in
this case nor for taking off his political
head and making him private citizen with
very limited power before decent court,
and for causing him to write ex- before
his name, albeit it was great blessing to
the Mormon people, yet they had no hand
in his taking off, no more than they did in
the deep elimination of his'' taking on.
Although they had no hand in his political
death, yet he thinks they have received the
beneht of his dying
AS for Lippman and Hurd, the rest of
the quartette they are new beginners, and
by the time they have fought, bled and died
for their country as often as the Right