The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-01

| Good graciousl Has Mr.. AND ERsoN for
gotten who he is or where he belongs! AS
an expounder of law in our midst. doesn't
heknow that our statutes encourage COM
/ promises by recognizing them, and that the
general drift of our laws is in the direc-
ton of discouraging pettifosging and
and gaoul. slness among the lower class Of
the legal profession. And does he con-
slider that it is so very wrong, when two
or more men have submitted their dispute
to church Tor any other) tribunal, that
those who sit in Judgment should insist
upon it that the disputants give some sort
of respect to the decision. We don't
think he will if he will just take the
| trouble to think little himself. And why
} should he hold communication to be
such a dreadful thing, when the proceeding
has no other effect than to sever good,
: loyal people from bad and altogether dis
loyal organization!
The judge then gravely parades the fol
lowing correspondence before wondering
world, in support of his latest-named posi-
ton:
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, November &c, 1899.
Brother Otto Van Ostrum:
You are hereby notified to attend bishops
J court to be held in the sixteenth ward school
house. Salt Lake city, on Friday evening, No
vember y, 1884, at O'Clock, to answer the fol.
lowing charge which has been preferred against
you:
SALT LAKE CITY, O3t so, 1880
To Bishop f. Kessler:
DEAR BRoTHER-I hereby prefer charge
} against Otto Van Ostrum, a member of tie
Sixteenth ward, for unchrIStianllKe Conduct IN
enforcing contract To exchange property be-
tween US through the United States coinuiis-
sioner'S court, before my wife had agreed to the
transaction and before 1 fully understood the
nature OF the contract, through N, limited
knowledge OF the English language. And also
, for my being about to sell portion of my prop
erty by marshalS sale 10 satisfy damage which
he has never sustained as neither him nor
were In the least injured by the failure of the
exchange. The time of the sale having been
q lvertised for November 10. I would respect
fully ask that hearing may be had before you
in this case as early as possible. ----.-----
(Signed) G. L. JENSEN.
Do not fail to appear with your testimony pre-
pared for investigation of the above charge.
By order of Bishop +. KeSSler and council
GEORGE Il. EMERY, ward clerk.
n. BIZ you do not appear or send a justin
heard and actel upon whether you are present
or not. G.. R. E.
This is arrogation of the functions OF the
state with vengeance! 1t appears that a
foreigner, whose knowledge of our Ian
guage was limited and very imperfect, had
been imposed upon through such inability
to understand our language and idiom, his
ignorance having been taken advantage of
by the other party in court of
law. THE HERALD does not give an
opinion regarding the merits of this
case one way or another, it simply states
the ground of the complainant. He, the
complainant thereupOn seeks such redress
as his faith justifes, it being only to the
extent of determining whether or not
under the church rules he shall be COM
PEELED to continue to recognize his alleged
wronger as a br tler in the faith. 1t
would certainly take wonderful faculty
to enable even the most gifted iurist in
the land to weave the fabric of an offense
out of this-but perhaps Judge ANDERSON
is even such man. For the sake of the
bench and the high opinion of it we have
all along entertained, we hope not.
Here is another cap sheaf which his
honor works in:
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 81, 1887
We. the bishop and council of the Fourth
WarO, alJer que ueHDeratlOn render the follow
ing judgment IN the case of Joseph Sowdan VS..
Charles Williams The interest now due,
amounting to Sl7S, is to be paid on the 18th day
OF april, 1877: 800 of the principal and s42 so
Interest on $3.50 for six months at 10 per cent.
per annum) TO he paid on the 9th day of July.
1887: the remaining $3.50 pr ncipal and S22 80
Interest on S45J for six months at 10 PEI cent.
per annum) to be paid on the oath day of Jan
uary, 1888.
Harrison Sperry, bishop; Thomas Corless and
Charles knight, counselors; w. +. smith,
cle.k.
He then arrives at this sage conclusion:
II think there can be no question but that
the church claims and exercises the right
to control its members in temporal as well
as spiritual affairs.''
Of course there can be no question When
men voluntarily agree to leave their dis
putes to a church court, and said court,
pursuant to said submission, renders de-
cision, what conclusion more plain than
that the church controls its members IN all
things, big and little! If two men get tied
i up in horse trade, or the boot in a cow
traffic, agree to leave the matter to two or
three disinterested parties, and these latter
should decide it and expect the parties to
be bound by it. unquestionably treason
against the government has been commit
ted, some deadly affront to our civilization
has taken place, something that is subver-
sive of the best interests of the largest
number of people has been permitted to take
place within the territory. Oh, folly
At this juncture we have neither the
time nor the space to give attent on to all
of Judge ANDERsoN's most lame and impo-
tent conclusions. The foregoing are fair
samples of the whole. In no place thrQug !
out his remarkable manifesto does he rise
to level with the importance of the occa-
sion; it is mainly ''damnable iteration" of
of trio of sore headed, gangrened law
yers who think infinitely more of them
selves than they do of their God. their
country or humanity. They are so tied up
! i'll the meshes of the demon Hate that any
thing which does not partake of their Ill
cerous and poisonous emulation is some
thing to be opposed and despised, and the
most that can be said in their favor is that
they occasionally find district Judge weak
and ignorant enough to do as they
want him to. We had hoped for better
things from Judge ANDERSON. because,
while being a most agreeable person
socially, he is also Democrat; but he is
foundering in the wrong pool now.
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THE OUTLOOK for Dom PEDRO, the retiring
emperor, is not so gloomy as it might be.
| He has n private fortune apgrepatinc about