Show I rYE r-YE alluded yesterday to the hopeless task of attempting to reconcile the practice I prac-tice of polygamy as a religious act with j the duties of a good citizen Our lawmakers law-makers are so careful in legislating upon j questions likely to conflict with religious belief that we do not remember that in t this country there has ever before arisen I I j j such an issue Every citizen should consider con-sider that if Ms act is in violation of law it is reasonably to be presumed that his j I practice is in the wrong The difficulty 1 Mr A B Taylor found lay in the i 1 fact that the defence of polygamy produced no willing martyrs The truth has never failed to find men i willing to bear fine imprisonment or death in its vindication Some good men I I have thought their lives too valuable to others to fall quiet victims to persecution but others again have thought truth best established by the sacrifice of themselves Polygamy has produced no martyrs except ex-cept it be those mistaken women who have gone to prison to protect cowardly men they did not go for truths sake but for fellows unworthy to touch the hem of their garments I |