Show i ALL HAPPY iI 1 It is presumed that this will be a 1 joyous day for Chief Justice Zane DistIl Dis-tIl i trict Attorney Dickson Marshal Ireland 1 Ire-land and the minor and less brilliant luminaries by whom they are surrounded 1 sur-rounded This presumption is based upon the circumstance that today i they will enjoy thE fulness of the pleasure for which they have labored so I long and with such determination If they are not happy it is because the getting S I get-ting of what they want does not conduce I to their happiness Today His ji j Honor will have the exquisite ti pleasure of passing sentence upon r three men who have been pronounced 1 f guilty of violating the Edmunds act which declares it unlawful to cohabit 1 f j t with more than one woman Dickson I f 1 will enjoy the delight of having these men sentenced to imprisonment and the t payment of heavy fines and Ireland I l will have the luxury of enforcing the L fi judgment of the court How this trio jJ tF will chuckle can only be understood by jl I those who have watched the course of I the court and its officers and noted i I their efforts and manner in prosecuting r the accused to conviction I But full of happiness as will be the j i souls of those selfrighteous officials we A f question if they will be anything like as J i happy as the three men against whom their enmity ant vindictiveness have r manifested themselves If we know I Messrs Cannon Musser and Watson j while they may deplore the physical Q cruelty which confines them in a vile i den enforces upon them the companionship com-panionship of lawless and depraved wretches and puts them upon the i coarse fare of the prison in their hearts 1 there will dwell greater peace joy and contentment then will be known A 1 i to Zane Dickson and Ireland The t defendants do not go to the Penitentiary M Peniten-tiary feeling that they are convicts and t no power no degree of persecution or i oppression can make them feel that they are criminals unless they have t I lived lives ot fraud with themselves and 1 ii their wives and childrenwhich not t even Zane will dare accuse them of doing Ii r do-ing they will refuse to believe they are I guilty of wrongdoing and the prison j il f cannot be made to disgrace them in their own eyes jnd in those of their friends and associates tl ZI They accept imprisonment not I I as punishment for something they j d > 1 have done but as persecution for having done what they persist believing 1 J believ-ing was right There is no humiliation l i I I cfo 1 C will begin m the confinement which today but on the contrary their imprisonment im-prisonment is held by them to creditable credit-able to their faithfulness in religious belief be-lief and practice We are stating the case as it is in fact and not as it may appear to the world Under the circumstances and considering consider-ing the frame of mind in which each of the men named finds himself it is only reasonable to imagine the threewho will go to the penitentiary are the happier They are certainly the more cheerful and theirs is the joy of contentment and sincerity while that of the Judge and his officers is not |