Show i NOT A SUCCESS f i f The satisfaction which the courts derive de-rive in sending to the Penitentiary such and men as Cannon Musser Watson Pratt is no satisfaction at all for these 1 men refuse to believe they have done wrong and imprisonment cannot make t t them assume the attitude of having t been guilty of misconduct If the 1 f prison had enough of terror in it to induce 4 in-duce these men to declare they had HI done wrong the courts might feel that they were making progress in imposing imprisonment but as the matter is the courts must feel nonplussed and chagrined cha-grined at their inability to do anything that will strike terror to the hearts of the sincere Mormons Intelligent thinking people will ask themselves in ° the light of what is occurring here nowadays now-adays if it would not be better to let the Utah Question bring its own solution 2 so-lution and whether the solution would not come sooner if the matter were left j to itself than by attempting to force it No one is silly enough to believe that a term in the penitentiary will shake the faith of any honest polygamist in the r divinity of the plural wife system no one believes that the honest husband of c two wives will be anything else when he comes out of prison Many thoughtful wise persons have never had faith in prisons as corrective agents for the j polygamous practices of the Mormons and the late trials with the cheerful conduct of the defendants have tended I h to confirm the belief that whatever is wrong in the belief and practices of the j I L Mormon people will be quickest and I best righted by the people themselves through the operation of social influences + influ-ences and laws which are ever more I certain in their effects than statutory I enactments When the Government fi puts few more of these men into the f A 11 penitentiary and discovers that no bodys belief in celestial marriage is I shaken thereby perhaps it will ask itself J it-self it it is not guilty of making mistake i mis-take > |