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Show WHAT DO THE PEOPLE SAY? I bcliovo in a woman's right to love whom she pleases, cease to We as she pleases, ana talto a new husband evory day if she pleases. Xictoria C. Wood-hull. Wood-hull. This IB tho doctrine, only a littlo moro so, that the fair, frail ladies of Halt Lako city who have recently figured figur-ed in our courts, have been contending for. They have, it secni3, found distinguished dis-tinguished and learned defenders in j the practical operation of their right to carry out thoWoodhull programme, and to-day they find themselves com- I plelely mistresses of the situation. The Herald is not conducted by luwyers or judges, and it docs not pro-less pro-less to understand all he nice points in a legal argument; but it would like to i know why and how ft is that the law, j which in meat civilized communities is j interpreted in the interest of order and j good government, is in this Territory, through some legal technicality, brought j to tho aid and assistance ofj the worst classes in society, whose j vilo calling tends to the corruption of j publio morals and the promotion of j disorder, disease and all the vices. Is J it becanpo the Mormons compose the j responsible majority of this commu- I nity, and would protect society against : these dangerous practices and callings, ; or docs the regard of these legal critics crit-ics for a rigid interpretation of the j law influenco their action in overthrow-j ing all the existing tribunals of justice not under their control? We confess we know not but tho facts are patent that to-day whisky and prostitution reign triumphant throughout Salt Lake city, and that through the agency agen-cy of our highest tribunals. In othor cities throughout the laud, gamblers, liquor dealers and prostitutes aro dealt with as summarily as they have been here, aud no complaints are made. Summary justice seems to be tho rule in large cities, and policemen are invested in-vested with powers such as an emergency emer-gency demands. Here every technicality technical-ity of law is ruled in favor of the lawless, law-less, uutil it becomes doubtful whether we have a municipal government at all, owing to the continual encroachment encroach-ment upon its powers by the higher courts. To-day we are practically without laws, or a judiciary capable of enforcing enforc-ing the ordinary police regulations. "What shall be done ? The district judges, who have declared the ordinances ordi-nances aud the magistrate of the corporation cor-poration illegal, have not signilied their willingness to attend to the ordinary police business of the city, and it is doubtful if they would care to be burdened bur-dened with these vexatious matters. Perhaps the people may have somo-thing somo-thing to soy on tho .subject. We are sure to get a little common sense l'rom tho people, and as they are entitled to be heard on this question, a mass mooting of tho citizens might be appropriate ap-propriate at this time. |