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Show HIE CONTEMPT OUTRAGE We will undertake to say that Judge Emerson regrcti more deeply than any othor person iu Utah bis ill consider con-sider tut action on Saturday, committing commit-ting G .mural Wells to ibe penitentiary for alleged contempt, It was an exhibition of judicial brutality that bii honor's better nature revolts ftgiin-jt, und he knows too much of the law lo even hone thai his unwarranted unwar-ranted exercise of power and authority author-ity Gin bj oujUiued or justified. No one who reBpecti the law will com-plaiu com-plaiu against a court's employment of riorjua measures for maintaining its au-.lK.rily and dignity, though as to this latter we claim that such a thiutr ia almost unknown in the federal courts of Utah. They scarcely assume a decent degree of Bell-reaped. But everybody who pretends an ordinary regard for law aud justice, must denounce tbis conduct ot Judga Emersun as disgrcolul and cowardly on Ibe put of hia honor, and reflecting reflect-ing upou the power that keeps him on the bench. Constructively Gen. Wells was i i contempt. tie bad refused Ho answer a queB tion propounded to him in tho course of tbe trial of a case in which he was a witness, duly aub-pusnaed aub-pusnaed and sworn. As tho matter stolid on Saturday eveuiug perhaps u ) i,t Jer course was open lor his honor, to pursue than tbe iutliction of pLiuishmeut upon the contumacious contuma-cious witness. Whereio tbe ocurt erred was in ul owing tbe witness to be put iu contempt; and having once blundered it could not retract without with-out bringing itself into contempt, Tne questions required to be answered were not only not pertinent, but wore grossly impertinent, and should never have been permitted; nor would they had bis honor a anion rejptjoifor tbe rules o( law and evidence as he baa dread of ibe anti-Mormon lash. It is a clear case of tbe surrender ol manhood and justice in obedience to the implied threats of the radical element of Utah society. Judga E ueron knows this, and ho already realizes that he will be the greatest sutler or from bis baae yielding to that class and sentimeut that he has always al-ways been so free in private to con domn. District Attorney VauZile wauted (ieu. Wells to describe the peculiar d.css aud regalia worn in tbe Eodow meut House. Nothing waa to be gained by the qaeitionB. If pereona who were applicants for marriaje, and who had gone there for that purpose, wora a dress difleraut in style from others, there might have been some point in .pressing the queries or answers; but wheu the witness stated that special clothing and regalia were not worn by parties who were married in the Eudowmeut House; that tho dress waa the same whether tho uitrruge eermiouy was performed there or those wearing it were there for religious re-ligious ceremonies entirely ditlerent from marriage, whatever pertinency there might have been in tbe original question disappeared, and the court ehouli bftve so held, instead of doiDg violence lo what it knew to baths law fur the sake ot gratifying the CLiricsIty of tin impudent district attorney, at-torney, or to gain the plaudits Oi that peculiar!) vicious class Out delights in tho denial ol anything like right or justice to the Mormon peopie. It it none ot the buiinees of Judge Emerson Emer-son or Auorucy VaoZile how the clothes worn iu the Eadonment House are fashioned; and wheu they undertake lo use the power unfortunately unfor-tunately pldcfd ia uuwortby bands, to pry into the matter, wheu they bjll-dez', bjll-dez', t;.ri?ateu and even punish people peo-ple lor a t i'usl to satisfy their uu-lawk.1 uu-lawk.1 ii.qjisitiveuess, they simply brius thtfitiselves into contempt with decent people, aud maVeof tbe court an engine of oppression instead of an iuii:tiiitou of juitico. Judge Kajer-Boa Kajer-Boa hw certainly been guilty of a grave aud inexcusable blunder, as be rjouil svou 8ie; for tbe authority that hjlds him iu bis position can hardly euiixiu tuch au abuaa of power, even t icui;j the viciiui is a Mormon. As to the ciiduct of Lieu. Wtlla in re!usxg to answer the impudent queri-s propounded by the bLw-hardj attort-ey and allowtd by the cringing j judge, every boneat and fair minded peraon, of whatever religious faith or sooial claei, will applaud hiim for it. His stand was ; manly and commendable, aa the j course of the persecutors was the re-, re-, verso. The masses, to-day, will testify t an appreciation of General Wells' in itegrity and manhood by a grand (demonstration that will also be a 'severe and just criticism on tbe per-j I son who presides in the Third district court. |