The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-29

seeks refuge behind the phrase "alien,
oath bound serfs" in seeking to justify
striking the right to vote from American
free men, most of them born on this soil,
bound by the most solemn obligations to
uphold the laws, most of them never even
charged with any crime whatever, and de-
voted far more than he himself is to the
principles and genius of American institu-
| lions. We can tell this BLACKBOARD who
calls the young men of Utah 'salien, oath
bound serfs'' that this is their country /;
few of them ever know any other; and
they hope to remain in the land of their
birth to vindicate themselves against his
foul charges of treason and disloyalty
| Once before, the Liberal candidate tried
TO disfrauchise them. When Congress
passed the law DISTINGUISHING all actual
poiyzamists and all those who would not
take the oath that they had not violated the
law In the past and would not in the future
violate the law, nor counsel, aid, encourage,
or abet others in doing so, small ring Of
Liberal patriots ''got together" Mormons
VINO had not violated the law and expected
TO abide by it, began taking the oath as a
matter of course. Then the Tribune went
wild, declaring that Mormon doctrine
would not permit Mormons to take the
oath. That paper If always posing as an
interpreter of Mormon doctrine and is for
ever telling the Mormons what they believe
and what they don't believe. 1t said:
Inc oath stated in plain English requires
them to say that they reject the Mormon
dogma; that they are, in effect, apostates.-
Tribune, February 26 1887
Inc Netcs must be prepared to see the Nor
mons excluded from III, polls either by tn cir
own action in refusing to take the oath or by
the action ofthe registration officers in refusn !,
to permit them to take is.-T,i5une March 2,
! 1857
Inc point is, can Mormon5 swear that they
Will not aid abet teach, or counsel violation
OF the law? but IL is q test, and d rei-
glous test-and is both intended to have III
ooes rare this effect namely, to exclude Nor
mons from the suffrage and from holding ONCE
Mormonlsm does not limit OF its mem
oers taking this oath.-7r~5uae, March 3, 1887
Everyone could see that every law abid-
ing member of the Mormon chucch not
only could take the oath without stultify-
ing himself, but that it was his plain duty
to do SO.
Accordingly, the Liberal conspirators
lad their heads together and framed an
other oath that they hoped the Mormons
would not take, aud attempted to force
their new oath upon the Utah commission
Here is the oath framed by the advice of
Mr.. GOODWIN to take the place of the Ed
MUNDs oath:
That will not hereafter at any time within
any or the territories OF the United States, in
obedience to any alleged revelati) IN counsel
ADVICE, or command from any source whatso-
ever, or under any circumstances, enter into
polygamy or take more wives than one.
And here is his advice to registrars:
The Tribune advised the registrars that they
had a perfect right to substitute the oath pre-
pared by the committee for the oath prepared
by the commission Tribune, Nay II, 1871
But this was little too much for even
the Utah commission to swallow, and to
the Infinite rage and disgust of Mr.. Coop
WIN, the proper oath was reinstated. Thus
failed the first effort of Mr. GooDw1N to
degrade his opponents. Following this Mr..
GOODWIN expressed his sentiments very
clearlyin the following extract:
| ~ give suCH d pcOple lJle MOrInCnSI the
right to use the only defense on which free
people can depend-the ballot; to give such a
people the right to participate in the election OF
political affairs. and the making and unmaking
OF laws is something that no civilized people
on the earth except our own would for one me
ment consider. We congratulate the Idaho
convention on the perfect justice they have
wrought. Tribune, July25 1885,
We wonder what decent Liberals think
of such a candidate. They must either
repudiate Mr.. GOODWIN or their former
denunciations of the scheme to disfranchist
the Mormons. We shall now see whether
they are men or not: whether they owr
their consciences or whether they are 81
far under the dictation of the chief priest
GOODWIN, as to smother their resentmen
and vote for him.
But we know, what Young Utah will do
they will vote for JOHN L. GAME.