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Show AMNESTY. The Alta-Ctilijornia expresses itself j aa being "decidedly in favor of the I amneBly lor pBt violations ol the anti-polygamy law, demanded by Mr. Cannon." " Tn a fairly considerate editorial artiole on the subject, the journal 6nye: "The punishment of those, who committed polygamous marriage at any time within the laat sixteen years would deprive thousands i of women and children o.f their homes, their namej, and any position in society aa l.iwful relatives of those ' who havo been kind husbands and i fathers to them. Between the paB- sago of the anti-polygamy statute, in 1SG2, aud the announcement in Utah that Iho etntute had been declared constitutional by the Supreme court ! of the United States there is no day1 that com Id be fixed logically for an nmncs'y. Either all past often bcb must be i vtrlo)ked, or ft large part ol tho ir.eu, iuc.uuiug the haders in ils bnamctis, must be- exposed to imprisonment, impri-sonment, tho vomeu bo driven from their homes, and the children declared de-clared bastards. The whole territory ' would bo thus thrown into confusion, and a great opportunity given for malice and blackmail." All men who reason and whose object ia not blackmail and plunder, mat arrive at tho conclusions exposed ex-posed above-. A vigorous enforcement enforce-ment of the Uw us to past oOenaes could result in no good, and would: uect'ssaiily occasion great harm. No benefit to society could come from sending the husband of two wives to prison, turning the women out to die or do worse, and setting his children upon tho world with no one to provide pro-vide for or control them. It there wore but a single cse of this kind it might bo deemed necessary in executing ex-ecuting the law, to enforce it vigor ously because of the effect tbo example exam-ple would have in deterring otherB from committing the oflenee; but where a community is to be dealt with aud hundreds must be convicted aud punished if one is, the result would be the opposite lo the ono de-Bired. de-Bired. A strict enforcement of the law as to the past would be worse in any and every respect than the abolishment of thestatuto. We have no apprenension that any vigorous measures will be adopted to what has been done. Such cannot be the policy of the government, for it must know that the other course would result in cruel injustice to hundreds e'f honest, industrious aud progressive- citizens, and materially check the rapid advance that Utah is ' Jinking iu tho development M it- re- j sources flud its general prosperity. Jo ! the event of the failure of the amnesty bill lo become law, the administration wculd baidly sanction, much lees Order, tho institution of prosecutions by tha wholesale. What thr people ;ivo to tear is thai ctlicers seut here will ent.'r upon a crus-ido for tho purpose ol pultiug money into their own pockets, by a system of persecution perse-cution and blackmail, such as bad' before been practiced by federal Ollicials :n this terr'.t ry. It is sometimes some-times difficult to bring about the removal re-moval from otlico of such meo, not-!- withstanding the fact that the ad ministration mny cot approve of their course. Tbera is where the danger li-?t, rather than in any authorized rudupj'i in 3 Mormon people. |