Show CAN I 1 our van oil informed washington abbington lV correspondent tolls of the distress di simulative or real in which clinton cannon is plunged by the dec deci irion eion of the sn supreme court lie he is appealing to the sympathy of congressmen sometimes with tears coursing each other down his ample lest cst leple lepio benting how harshly the enforcement itself t of the anti polygamy law vt ill be bear upon himself and I 1 his lis fellow lawbreakers law breakers and begging tile clemency of life nation on tile alio promise that they N w ill do to so no more that lie ho to ia more ad over 1 his I is own condition than the condition or of lite his fellow is evident fiaui tile the fact that this judgment of the court di him from holding his hig seat in congress it h i iron into athis this disqualification has always existed because tile the act of placed him in antagonism ui with ill the law anil and acci C a an avowed bigamist have no place in the connul of the nation but luring during his many years of in the contestants contestant te for his boat beat have never LUC cae carded dedin in bringing that bodao a vote upon pen his fitness to hold bold the of fire partly because of his plausible mann manners erit still and his assiduity 1 in in making ft fi lends and partly because the utah question repelled action from tho the imagined m a difficulty 0 of f win aching ing it in addition lie connived to throw the mantlo mantle of over his lai lawlessness lei nesi and as the avei age congressman 13 is eab going in his hia habits babits by tie no means a in mor a ala 19 and generally in attending to the wants wallis of ais is oa it constituents the adulterous apostle his has been undisturbed in lib his intrusion and consideration of his li m case cabe has ha been blen put oil off to a more convenient season but now this gaib of religion I 1 gion is stripped away from fro liia in clu clime and the cholo countley is aro aroused used to the scandal il of extended indulgence of this utah sin and stand shame the many dived churchman ch arsh will lind find the ol of washington too loo hot for his bonife Is t andia and if ho he should pie cut himself next december among the foi foith th coming congress lie is ls pretty car ain to be by an all ovora helming vote volo says t the he philadelphia einice in fit this thia ilgard mt mr george Q cannoa altogether if uio able nad find cul cultura ull uriLl lilo leader MRS to la his ba to serve berve in 10 and ho he has har cal at to ia tho ilia ilease lor for a number of scars enjo mg hit 1110 he howors nor nod and the ibo of u the antion anhilo in 1111 in polygamy lit ka insolent violation uliDa ol of the aws ol 01 tile bed ho finneg budit tho decision 01 tile supreme court lie cast n nol 31 be allowed to retina his sent for lie continues imus from uy day I 1 ID day 10 lo olluis the laws buwa of 01 tile the alit to gratify liia his ambition to servo serve LU congress and enjoy tho the cinelu cla ments of the office we know in advance that he be still ill be re ready day to isbell abandon his betrayed women as lio has had alicade denied them before a con cc ional but what will sill this place him iu in before liia his deluded followers what becomes of his divine illumination 1 what kind afan exercise will thistle this lie of ofilio the keys find powers and myat nea ilea parnal upon this elect people IT ail act commandment man nian dment of the almighty and in obeying it as apostle pratt says the true saint lias has no choice to live religion w we a mo file told afi this people have endured hardships persecution and martyrdom fleeing front from thu the face of their toi lot bentoi men toi and building up homes lu in tho off aidt of ling wilder v utter nesa lifts has tho the former spirit of devotion which them these sacrifices cooled in their bieryta teens bie ayta ts and ilia aio they now flow ready to do di violence to conscience and abjure their religion at the of a few heathen judges feeble C malted and bondy chosa ruling is by popular it iscum is man s law la bi bioust ought into conflict U aith ith god s liw tile the sadly perplexed apoian dele rate gate cannot give himself hini gelf the benefit of a dould doubt ile he knoers ins his religion to bo be true common mot mortals atals use judgment in arri aking mg at a conviction and in so momentous a duty duly as ilia choice of a religion they fidot ficat neigh the evidences of its truth but tins this latter day faith takes hold or of ilia convert by divine illumination and tile manor man or woman at aho vho lie adopts joe smith as his prophet ail otra that his mission was all di me and tint that lie was a prophet sent biorn god thus tho the issue sue is direct bud and there is no doag ing it wo we give tile 21 mormon formon fullom followers era ci credit gas 1 for a degi cc of coni common man sense sene under the teachings tea things of their pi their faculties are held in abeyance find and they swallow evera thin thing the arr impostors tell them without the exercise of judgment is an act of obedience to god but this reynolds decision hill u sit remove tile scales from their e acs as according to the mormon doctrine no nun man must blank bieak the laws of the land for ho he that cap oth ath the laws of god hath bath no do redd need to bleak the ilia laws of the laud yet for n nodily ca fly a of years the ilia leaders of israel have been lining in violation of law and leading calling their follow cis into the carno sin biging as a the knowledge revealed to them fiarn above that the law of Cong congress rests was in violation of ilia constitution now their is turned into utter foolishness find and the tha sa sadly tat y bamboozled bamboozler saint will trill set himself to cogitating upon the value of this divine illumination thus cannon finda Lini himself self on the horns borns of a dilemma if ho cleaves to his many wives the will be his abode instead of the halls balls of congress and if lie ho gives up these surplus surp lii epou cs lie convicts himself of co cowardice ardice and in obeying the laws of man when in conflict with the laws of led god no wonder the holy man should ile bo in ins its mind for this de clion of tho the supreme court is the most damaging blow that has et ct bein been dealt upon the battet day dispensation pensa tion bio alei not have bem been so forward in C cutting persecution |