Show yfi > UNJUST REFLECTIONS I f Ov UEUXESDAV Dec 3rd tbi ZSEWS puUitlicd a ii > eclal fron f Heaver which conejed a genera Mlcaofn jortloii of Judge Ander 4 sons charge to the grand jury de jeered ou the afternoon of the day IruvJoup AVe nov have the full lest of Ihe particular jassage referred re-ferred to and as a matter Iilbtori cal Interest if for no other purpose present It here 1 ilesiro to especially enjoin uponc you ho duty of Investigating all violations vio-lations of the lanf of the United States xpainstbigamy polypamy unlawful aihabUatlon adultery fornication These are the prevailing crimes I thh c Territory and are commuted by a t large number of Its inhabitant In credible It may seem the commission commis-sion of these crimes is Justl lied upheld and taught by largo number of the people under Jhe pretcnpo of religious sanction and religious duty The open and notorious commission of this clai of V crimes by the po pie of this Territory Jias long been a public scandal and disgrace and the most important of your duties as furors will bo the In ilictinc of any and all persons within V tins district who may be guilty a iolatloP of the laws referred to to the end that these degrading crimes against tho law the sanctity of the home and its marnage relations may Joe l promptly punished and cop V jwsed1 V V The ttaknieut in relation to crime iKing upheld and taught as a religious re-ligious duty by the people to whom lie refers is without warrant As V ve have heretofore shown in our opinion his honor camu as near justifying jus-tifying the two last named of the offenses cnnumernted by him as need be Ills position in that reV re-V IIXCI is notorious The public were i crhaps eatiated if not nauseated Iij thu proceedings V Ivforu Judge Anderson which grew V out of the application of certain aliens for naturalization liosses of 1 thc Liberal party were permitted 1 toiut all kinds oftjucations to 1t ifor t 1 t mounipiicants rrgardiug Uieir belief be-lief in polygamy and unlawful cohabitation co-habitation To counter Vita rate tlilzation represcnUtivcs of the Peoples party questioned iberal ajijjicants regarding their monlily whether they bad committed fornication forni-cation or adultery The reply from I the Liberal side was that 999 cut of every 10UO men had engaged in j I Rich practices but this was 15 no bar to admission to citizenship I The Judge ruled on the point Ilia I lK > itiou being substantially tint a person may liavo committed these acts a number of times and yet not l > o a man of bad moral character UnleB he was in the habit of con durting him elC in that manner his occasional lapses would not stand in the way of his admission to citizeu j ihip on the ground of Immorality V The court seemed to overlook the fact that the oflenes under consider I atiou are rendered criminal under a the EdmundsTucker act rouse jiiently theludividual who commits flon M L uvui uiu scarcely be consistently V classed among those who are well ilExposed to the Constitution and Jaws even If he fhouldnt happen to lie a Mormon V While Jib Htfaor eiliililts Lie anti Mormon bia unjustly charging a given class of the community com-munity with tile justification and cornmtufon of a qteeial class of offenses against the law It may bo well for him to ask himself whether in his Mind zeal in a specific dine V tion iiu has not condoned the orifice of adultery and fornication when committed by another section I i of the comuiinity Even if tho commission of these I V crimes thould in the discretIon IIC the court bo made no har Cur mI miTioii to citizenship it cannot ruiifonuibly with law hold that the V09 out of every 1000 non3or incus according to the admission and calculation of Mr Liberal Jippmin have not been guilty of breaking the tatute which provide pain and penaltIes fur sexual of V fenses Yet toward tile onv thousand V thou-sand less one it is evident that the learned Judge in his charge at Beaver never onco admonltivcly jointed hisjudiclal linger V 01 course wo do not desire to be understood as accepting Mr Iipp mau calculation mathcraitically correct Justice demands that due allowance be made for the liability I of men to judge morality from an individual h standpoint But be that as it may his proportionate estimate serves well a enough as an illustra tion |