Show more about the law editor CLIPPER blackstone I 1 ln a his artele artcle in your last issue seems to be restive at having his exposition on abe the I 1 e 11 marriage question criticized criticised if ho gar ea not bear a little friendly criticism whoa he appears in print I 1 feel fee very sorry for him in his last article he says saya 1 I was somewhat amused in r reading the arti article ale by enquirer but before clo singha shows his chagrin at the word enquirer by stating ho he 11 thinks it Is an I 1 incorrect non do de plume and he further says 11 it should have been and goes off 0 with adash a dash as it if he thinks that la Is the tha proper way to conduct an argument when he found that he h was on the losing side of the game and found himself unable to reply why not acknowledge it gracefully or allo allow witto li to pass quietly by but creditor mr editor compare the language oad of frank when he states the statute in athis this point has frequently been even own cousins have been known to go out of their own county to avoid ex Blaek Black stones reply is 1 11 I 1 haye have looked the law up a nd I 1 find it a grave and serious matter coupling those two statements together what bashe has he explained in regard to franks query about cousins going out of their own county to avoid exposure has hai he said that cousins may marry without being liable to prosecution or it if they do marry that they are liable 11 on conviction thereof 11 to the severe penalty of 11 not less than three years and not more than fifteen years in ia the penitentiary I 1 think not he certainly quoted the fourth section of the edmunds tucker law and says that I 1 must be an awfully dull dall person because he be seems to think that I 1 did not understand him to mean something tor for he be says my article needed no comments mr editor more than was given that shows he did not lite lise to have his article and it any one dares to have the temerity to so criticise criticism critic ise any of 0 his articles he accuses them of trying to boost their own intelligence above that of all the other correspondents of the CLIPPER it any person does not understand his language when it appears in print when that language is ambiguous when it does not say a certain thing may or may not be ba done which he did not or when a section ot of a statute is not f fully ally understood by everybody is he always to be called awfully awfully av fully dull by such a wiseacre but I 1 will kindly ask him blackstone it if he remembers that a few months after the marriage law was passed by the last territorial legislature of utah in 1888 that the question was asked of the editor of the des oret new to explain the meaning of the degrees of consanguinity the th referred to received a 8 respectful answer through the columns of that paper and was not called awfully dull for haying having asked such a alstion 11 blackstone can f ind find said question and answer by referring to a back number of the tha CLIP CLIPPER FEa dated february 1893 11 blackstone ought to know that everybody every hody does not have a law library tor for reference neither Is everyone as well versed in the law as himself black atone and be ought also to know that all do not have the advantage ab ati vantage of reading or of understanding the laws when they are made mad e I 1 it f they are presented to them for peru perusal sil as soule some are ara unable to read though lachese la these days 0 enlightenment of 01 this the tha nineteenth century we hope there are few such then there are many like the correspondent referred to above who tor for information ask questions it seems frank asked through the CLIPPER fur for a such a ch inform apiou so BO that first cousins might not ignorantly run the risk of being punished 0 o severely it if they married and so that they need not run ran out of their own county to avoid exposure it if they marry are such persons to be called awfully ally dull when they ask questions tor for it seems they need to do so sometimes but mr editor I 1 think blackstone ought to thank his bin lucky lacky star that he is ia sowell so well educated andio and so well geraed in the law that when he writes arl for publication that they are so perfect that he thinks there need be no comment made upon them lie he ou ought 1 ht to remember that we are arc all morta mortal I and liable to make mistakes none are exempt Ilowe Howe veer I 1 wish ish him well and through the CLIPPER CLipp snI I 1 would like to shake bake hands bands with him and be ba friendly february 1893 N Q B R |