Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-04-03


there votes the republican ticket YOU
let them vote, and not merely that,
but you provided the other day that
their wives should have the right
to vote, thus giving to every
Mormo.: and wife in Wyoming
two votes, while in Idaho you
deny the right TO vote even to
Mormon men. Let those things be
understood as we 60 along. Let IL be
understood that II is not a question Of
principle anywhere but is in every
instance a question Of expediency
alone for the republican party. Let
il be further understood from forty
eight hours after the republicans be-
gan TO think that they had carried
the presidential election Of 1855 the
whole political world Of the United
States was filled with rumors Of the
new programme 10 be inaugurated
by that party. One feature Of the
programme was the admission Of the
new states to strengthen the party
in the Senate. IL was also reported
and published that there was TO be n
revOlutiOnizing Of the rules Of par
liamentary proceedings; that there
was to be the unseating OF divers
members on the democratic side,
and that the republicans were TO
fortify themselves in this Congress
and pass such bills as they
deemed, from their standpoint,
necessary TO be passed, and if new
Territories were admitted as States,
the republican party, being thus
strengthened in the Senate, il
would be many years before, under
any circumstances, the legislation Of
this Congress could he repealed or
done away with. These are the cir
cumstances that lead ~ to the adj
mission Of the youngest Territories,
certainly the smallest in population,
and not tho best equipped in finan-
cial ability 10 maintain statehood.
"Ifthe Mormons, /" Mr.. Mansur said,
''were black, they would be pro-
tected under the fifteenth amend
ment to the Constitution. But, "he
added impressively, ''they are white
and democrats, and so they are your
victims.n
Quoting Judge Wilson, the speak
er showed that out Of 5000 Mormon
voters IN Idaho, not more than y
per cent were higamists or pOlyga-
mists, and thatOf the tOtal0f IS, 900
MOrmOns in the Territory, bigamists
and pOlygamists were scarcely one
half Of one per cent. AIR. Mansur
next quoted Judge Carlton, of the
Utah Commission; DIR. Miller, the
editor OF the Omaha Herald; Rep
resentative Strubble, Of Iowa; Bay
ard Taylor; Chief Justice Waite aud |
others, to show the thrift, industry,
and general morality Of the Mormon
people. He then proceeded TO ask
the questions, "Why on account Of |
the few men who are engaged in |
the practice Of bigamy or polygamy,
whether the number be one hundred |
and twenty-five, as Mr.. Wilson es,i- |
mates in the whole TerritOryOf Igaho,
or whether it should be greater.
should we insert the penalty Of dis |
reimbursement upon every male |
adult Of that church, merely because |
he is Mormon? And why should !
we refuse him even the poor, pitiful |
right of purging himself by an oath |
in which he shall swear that he |
does not thus believe? For. gentle |
men, please observe that in said |
Section 3, which it is sought to en-
graft into the constitution Of Idaho,
there are quite n number OF provis- |
ions whereby a man is declared TO
have the right Of trial by jury and
shall not suffer the penalty Of dis
franchisement until after his con-
viction, whereas oflenses connected |
with the Mormon Church are taken |
outside of the list Of ordinary Of |
fenses and man cannot purge him |
self by his own oath that he does not |
believe In bigamOus or polygamOus
practices, does not countenance |
them, and does not assist in their |
preparation. When that is done,
he cannot complain il he lie deprived |
Of his privileges If convicted. That |
is the universal law mall the States,
and 1t is correct. l have been at |
the trouble OF collecting the Law |
from all the several States and |
there is not to he found in one ofthe
States Of the Union any different
law than that they must be first
Of crime before you can
degrade man, or deprive him Of
the inestimable rights, the right to
vote, the right to serve on a jury,
the right to hold an Office. In no
State Of the Union can such rights
be taken from him without convic-
lion for crime first being made.
| ask each and every gentleman
on the other side, il you vote 70
strike down these men without
PARTING you go home and the men
in your district ask you how you
could deprive citizens Of Idaho Of
these privileges without a hearing,
what would your answer be when
you know the people universally in
your own State believe in different
doctrine and decreed that 1t should
become a part Of the fundamental
of each and every one
II your States? How, repeat, will
you answer your own people when
hey put that question TO you?'
Mr.. Mansur then referred to the
creation in the city Of Bos-
on Of the Committee Of One Hun
ired." "The committee, he said,
has issued pamphlet reviewing
he last enoyclical letter Of the
Pope and taking the position that
according TO the encyclical no man
an be an obedient and loyal Catho-
ic and at the same time be a lawful
itizen Of the United States. This
,amphlet takes the position that
he relation Of Catholics towards our
government is similar to that OF
iormons who have taken the oath
( the endowment house, and then
declares NO ballot for the man who {
axes his politics from the Vatican
This is remarkable length for such ]
n organization TO go, and it shows
he extent TO which some citizens
re aroused over the attitude Of the
,atholic authorities towards the
ublic schools.v
Mr.. Mansur quoted at length from 1
he pamphlet, one Of the paragraphs ]
eing as follows: I'VE have no hesi- S
stion in affirming that the oath Of c