Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-21

tools, and whose statements on their
face were false.
Seldom, in any country, under
color OF judicial authority, has q
more diabolical plot ever been con-
summated than that which resulted
in tins same Anderson decision But
is it not sthe decree OF a court, -
aud does not, therefore, an air Of
sinctity hallow II? So was the
Died Scott decision ''the decree Of
a c0urt'' and held as a hal
lowed authority, though today
il brings the blush of shsme
to the cheek Of 4 true American to
be reminded that the highest court
Of his country once fixed upon it
jurisprudence 4 law which said
that human beings, made in the
Image Of God, were 10 more than
cattle, If the skin upon them hap
peued to be black, while that upon
the man who claimed TO own them
happened 70 be white.
The judicial decree which says
that the .'MUrmOns" are disloyal to
the government, constitution or In
situations Of the United States, is as
Infamous a perversion Of truth as the
Died Scott decision was Of that law
Of u tuTe which make all men free
and equal. 1t is well to remember
that 4 million lives were lost before
the wrong Of the bred Scott decree.
and the system Of which it was the
ep!tome, was expiated; and that the
man who WIS charged with treason
because lie denounced it when il
was rendered, is now held to have
belonged to the highest order Of
patriots.
Returning again TO the confession:
= plot 81 which religious bigotry
ami political ambition were leading
clements, and perjury the means Of
fruiti0r, eliminated in the Amber
son decision, which, in turn helped
to make possible the stealing Of this
city 10y the Liberals, - and led TO
the test oath decision by the Su-
preme Court Of the United States.
Go hack three years. How came
the E@munds-Tucker bill to pas?
Read the proceedings before CON-
mittees Of the House and Senate,
and yOa will Peruse the first edition
Of tie Anderson investigation.
Substantially The same author con-
spiraions produced the villainous
fiction that led Congressman to vote
a they did and Judge Anderson to
decide as he did.
Go hack six years. What led to
the scene Of blood and massacre pre-
scented 10y the remote village of
Cane Greek, Tennessee? The IN
habi.ants bad been Infatuated by the
circulation among them Of the same
sort ofliterature which inspired Con-
sressmen TO vote, with q whoop and
q howl, for the bill to disincorpo.ate
and desVoil the 'Normon'' Church.
The ignorant yeomanry of the
district in which Cane
Greek lies, had been led by that
literature, to believe the ''AIormon''
Elders laboring there were miscre-
ants who cheated justice every time
they breaLhed, and, acting upon this
conviction, proceeded to slay them
and some %: theiT converts.
The slsyers were deceived, hut
they knew they hRd no right to
no as ,ssy did; congressman were
deceived, Lut they could not have
been iEuorant Of The fundamental
PRINCIPLES their votes were violating:
.hc Supreme Court OF the United
States has been deceived, but no
mount Of false testimony would
Justify it in Ignoring the Coustitu-
lion.
Thus IL divided, between the con-
-uiraLoTs Of Utah whose inccssant
streams Of falsehoOd have so long
flooded the nation, and the latter's
courts and law-makers, the respon-
iuili.y for the disEupting process,
ROW rapidly in progress down deep
,moHg the foundation stoncs Of our
national structure, hut the opera
ions Of which would, it has beer
hoped, be confined 70 the "AIor-
none Church.