Show I an PExnosE LIBEBITEU m THE readers of the NEWS would 1I toe pleased to learn that on the order or-der ofJudgo Anderson CWPen of this F S r roc Esq editorinchief IJ journal was released from the penli j tentiary law night I The cause of his Imprisonment t wa7 ffial when on the witness stand on Friday last in the Investigation Investi-gation resulting from the application applica-tion of John Moore for naturallza tlon he declined to answer a question ques-tion addressed to him by tho Liberal Lib-eral political attorneys for the prosecution pro-secution The Interrogatory was How many wives have you 1 On I the refusal of the witness to reply the Court was appealed to by tho j IHIcal prosecutors and his honor ruled that the question was proper sow just where the propriety of tho Interrogatory apr ars is not quite clear The incident reminds one of the story of a schoolmaster who had puzzled a novice with art th j metical problems which he could not 1 answer The puzzled person said f j he could formulate ono that the1 l donlmie couldnt toJvc anu forth r wltli presented this If a cfi tOts t-Ots four ebiUIng what would be the price of a cart load of turnips The utter absence of relevancy In tho problem was too much for the skill of the schoolmaster So Just what connection there Is between I the domestic affairs of Mr Pcnroso and the application of John Moore for citizenship has not yet been ex hibltcd If any exists it is scarcely discernible to the naked eye The hypothesis of tho Interrogatory on the part df the political prosecutors must be AS a logical inference that I the particular dimensions of Mr tenross family would establish the fitness or otherwise of John Moore to Ioe l clothed with the dignity citizenship of the Itvpublic We suspect however that thus Liberal nntiMormon prosecution s I f prosecu-tion simply seized a favorable op portunity to place one whom they esteemed to be an opponent at a disadvantage They therefore In titled that he be imprisoned fcr contempt con-tempt t Their malignancy was gratified and for a technical of fento the victim of their spite a gentleman of standing and ability In the community was consigned to a prison in which felons convicted of every conceivable crime arc confined con-fined We do not attach any special I blame to Judge Anderson for what Is esteemed even by many of the political opponents of Mr Ptnroseto bo an outrageous Indignity The error of the Court was In allowing the question as proper For the splenetic trio who were tho cause of It however there Is no excuse Had their demand been carried out the object of their venom would still have been languishing In prison but the court could not Induced Ito I-to perpetrate such an unmitigated infcrnalism llie unm rciful Dickson 1w1ted that the witness be Imprisoned till such time as he should answer tbe wolfish Baskln with his character iFUc combination of snarl snap and whine contended that If necessary the case could be ad journed for a year or so until lie should answer as to his domestic relations This was followed by theme the-me too of the antiMormou cy clone P L William whose bitterness bitter-ness to a people who never harmed him approaches close to tho border of lunacy with perhaps an occa atonal step over the boundary We are pleated to know that many fairminded Liberals have been < li gustcd with the S recent doings In court of tome of the bosses of their party They are against the attempts to override the rIghts of the Mormons to belief free speech and freedom of the press Attempts to curtail the latter by cflorts to In duce the courts to imprison editors of public Journals among convicted criminals In a penitentiary cannot be regarded with favor by any class citizens who have the lightest regard re-gard for honor and the commonest kind of common decency t Incase It might be Imagined that the chief editor Is defending him self In these columns we take oc caMon to staUj that this article is penned by another hand than his c 1 and In his absence from this office |