Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-11-25

| y. w. fenrOSe says tnat me time
viii come when the law of God shall
be enforced against adulterers. In
the same lecture, speaking Of the
laws against pOlygamy, be says
those laws are unconstitutional and
hot binding on the people. That
shows they believe the Constitution
gives them the right todo anything
in obedience TO any revelation which
they claim to be from God. They
say the nation is prosecuting the
Saints In opposing the practice Of
polygamy, and that is why MILFORD
Woodruff prayed for the destruction
Of the government.
AS 10 the penalty for apostasy, the
witnesses say there is nothing but ex-
communication;hut Bingham Young
said that rather than apOstates
should flourish here he would I'M
sheath his knife and conquer or die.
Surely there Is no court that will
admit to citizenship members Of an
organization such as the history Of
this Church shows IL 30 be.
LIE GRAND YOUNG
said that the facts were all that the
court should listen to. Inference Of
any character should not be taken as
evidence, especially when the man
interested, the applicant in this case,
has taken no part in any of the
transactions testified to. Mr.. Young
read the law on naturalization, and
then proceeded with his argument.
The discretion Of the court in these
matters is merely legal discretion;
IL Is not captiOus. When 4 man
makes the requisite showing, and
shows the proper conduct, 1t IS
the duty of the court to admit him.
An objection to him must be on
legal grounds. Mr.. Moore he's APP
piled for citizenship. He has
shown proper residence, good moral
character and attachment TO the
Constitution. He is n qualified ap-
plicant, and we demand that he be
allowed to taSe the oath and that
the court give judgment for him.
The directors said they objected
10 him because he had taken an
oath against tie government. They
proposed to show This, and we came
here 10 answer them. We have
answered them. We have shown
that no such oath has been taken.
Mr.. Young reviewed the testimony
of the witnesses for the directors. 1t
had been claimed that men had
been murdered nv the Danites.
They referred 10 the killing, 10y the
officers Of the law, Of the notorious
desperate, Ike Potter. This case
did not suit them, so they dropped
it, and got Wardell's story about
the killing Of a man named Green.
This Is the only time in
this Territory that q man has been
named as having been blood atoned.
We challenged them to the issue,
and after 40 years Of talk we have
this one case. They stand or fall
by this record. They came to prove
the infamy OF the Church by this
their champion case. But where
has It gone TO. Never have | heard
such a statement rs this wardell
made; he went on 10 say that Hick.
man confessed it. Such n story is
too absurd. Bill Hickman was a
murderer, and lived too long, but he
never was fool enough TO confess as
Wardell SAYS. No man who ever
knew him would believe such
statement II there was no
other evidence this would be sufli-
cient to stamp Wardell's story as
false. For forty years there has
been 4 cry OF blood atOuement, and
now the best legal talent Of the
Territory comes forward with this
case at last, TO say that the NIormOns
are bloody people. Wardell is the
kind Of witness they have brought
here to prove their case-and the
witnesses have swept away even 2
possibility Of the truth Of his story,
The witness CahOOn says that
there was no'Oath against the govern
ment, but he inferred, etc. II is the
truth that we want considered in
this case, not differences. CahOOn
says there was nothing Of an UNI
lawful nature ia the Endowment.
McGuflie said he had taught that
Brigham Young was God. He was
iu-t such an idiot ne TO Do so. But
If lee had taught it in public, he
would not have remained in the
Church as long as he did. | do
not believe he ever taught it ut all,
any more than he heard that the
Endowment oath never existed.
As for Gilmor, he Is an apOstate
with all that the term irlplies-a
man who guarrels with his neigh
Tors, a man who cannot be believed
under oath, o. the witnesses here
say.
But they say II. w. Lawrence is
respectable. His early life was in
the Church. He spent q or -
wears in the Church, and was in the
Endowment HOUSE. He does not
saw he ap0statized because there was
anything wrong there, OF because
he was opposed to "Mormonism."
He saws he left because his friends
took issue with Brigham Young
in regard to the control of temporal
Affairs. He says the only reason
was because he did not believe that
Brigham Young should control
private affairs. He says that
his custom fell of after he
left the Church, and he was socially
ostracised. That is the secret Of his
venom to the people. II was be-
cause he was denied the privileges
he had had before. No man OPP
pressed him; but those who had
patrOnized him ceased TO do so. He
saws he stood by his friends; but he
forgot that the people who had pat
ronized him would do the same
thing. and when they did he became
venomous. But with all this he
docs not intimate that there is any
thing unlawful in the Endowment.
On the witness stand he con-
tradicted their witnesses. They
did not dare 10 ask him
ifthere was any oath against the
government, and it was only
brought out on cross-eXaminatiOn.
Then he said there was covenant
for the avenging Of the blood of the
Prophets, but that the government
was not referred 10. His is an en-
phatic denial that there is any oath
ofavenging the blood Of the Proph-
cts on this nation.
The other side say that the gov
eminent was meant. That is the
first time that the government has
been charged with being responsible
for the murder Of Joseph and
Hyrum Smith, and l say the
charge is false. The govern
ment Is not and was not
responsible. The deed was done by
base assassins who should have been
punished, and the government
never instigated or committed the
crime, or approved Of it. Henry w.
Lawrence, an apostate, says that the
government was not even intended;
and so does every honest man. 1t
has been found that there is nothing.
iisloyal in all the endowment cere-
monies.
Then the directors fly TO the ser
mons that have been preached, and
select isolated passages. But these