I AT LIBERTY Mr William Fotheringham who has been paying the penalty of the law for unlawful cohabitation is again at liberty 4 Mr Fotheringham has been m the Penitentiary Peni-tentiary two months and a half he having hav-ing had the benefit of what is known as the Copper Act which takes off so > many days in each month for good behavior be-havior The Herald this morning in commenting upon Mr Potheringhams I case asks Does anybody imagine that he is less a Mormon or that he is less devoted to his religion than he was the day before the court pronounced the sentence committing i him to the Penitentiary Does any one think that had the imprisonment been five iOT ten times as long and the punishment + twice as severe as it has been made Mr Fotheringhnms faith would have been Hhuken or that Jio would have denied any part of his religion To these two questions generally it maybe may-be answered no But had they been changed and had it been asked Does any one suppose that Mr Fotheringham will cease to violate the law against unlawful un-lawful cohabitation and be less notorious I sin his violation than t heretofore 1 could i the general answer No have as readily given Mr Fotheringham was not imprisoned i im-prisoned because of any beliefs he may t have entertained but because he violated a law of the United States It is true i Ii that it may be said that Mr Fothering I ham only did what he believed he had aright a-right aye a Constitutional right to do I but the Constitution does not give to Mr i Fotheringham or any other man or set of 1 men the power to say what is and what S is not Constitutional That power is t lodged in the Supreme Court and cannot I can-not be delegated j Tiio Herald begs the real question j which is What are the probabilities S t tliat Mr Fotheringham will obey lor di l robcY the law in future That is the imp im-p rumt question Mr Fotheringham H f i may and most probably does think that I j he has suffered for righteousness sake lint will hechoose to so suffer again It is of mans actions nokof his thoughts uthaf the law takes cognizance i Mr Fotheringham has felt the power of the law once hut is he liable to so conduct himself as to i feel it again It is a trite saying that a 1 burnt child dreads the fire and his dread is just as great no matter how he was burnt If a burnt child dreads the fire the chances are that he will avoid the I fire in future he will not think of the cause for which he was burned but will only remember the pain Was the joy of suffering for righteousness sake such as to make Mr Fotheringham wish to endure en-dure it until the end of time Was it sorrow or joy that he felt upon his release re-lease The News of last night said concerning con-cerning his release It is unnecessary perhaps to state more now than that life m the Penitentiary is devoid of a solitary redeeming feature beyond be-yond the fact of the prisoner being conscious con-scious of suffering for the sake of principle as in the case of the brethren This is not quite so cheerful and defiant as the tone of the Herald and so it maybe may-be of interest to know what comment was made by the News as regards Mr Fotheringhams release Tl4 sentence just preceding the one above noted is in these words His joy at his release is beyond expression It is a joy then to be released from suffering for the sake of principle There is more in the sentence of the New than at first sight appears and men will not be over anxious to suffer suf-fer a second time even for the sake of principle when their joy at their release from a first suffering for the sake of principle prin-ciple Hi is beyond expression