Show I 1 UNLAWFUL VL cohabitation 4 1 I A spicy and interesting article on that subject under that 0 great reat insult to genuine clIt lille justice known as tho law polygamy is desi designated anabell as mi lawful cohabitation if tile constitution of the united states Is worth yorlli anything it is worth exi exactly littly as buol to a aklo mormon is as to a methodist ill it protecting him or her in the matter of reli religions ions belief and tenets of faith under the constitution of the united states no person has a right to inquire into or find fault with or to disturb any professor of religion in the full exercise of his or her rights os as such religionist li ligi onist the same being the ibe right ot of worshipping wor shipping a god according to tile the dictates of coli conscience Science in ili oue eue sense of the word every form of reli religion gionis is sacred and commendable no matter nha CIli peculiarities liari ties yet certain forms of religion 0 are arc objectionable because they are not lot plea to our religion resulting fram ed education u cation thus tile the howling dervish dervis hor or the whooping 0 methodist adin teem alike in ili their failure c to understand that thai almighty god is not hot deaf or that it is not necessary to climb to tile top lop of a telephone pole and howl through uli 0 a firemans foremans fi remans trumpet that religion viii which ieli teaches the infliction of pain upon auy any human being old or young is to our mind find and belief nothing but a i cry base counterfeit of the genuine article F for or the love of god out all fear it means that none of t us 9 sli should ouli fear as to the future of ourselves 1 I durin during 0 our sojourn here on oil earth we vie ha hae c visited about every kind of church known to civilized people rave have joined in ili the exercises bodily and mentally peculiar to the episcopal church have been moved esith w etli the methodists bai haic e bumped around wit with lithe the baptists have prated with mith the presby fresh te tc ians united the Unitarian sL spirited with spiritual ests and kneeled with mith the negroes negroes 0 in ili their worshipful woi nil adoration oration of almighty god we have moved 0 a mong among 0 the cormons mormons Mor mons finding wi as much of genuine religion in ili the territory of utah as we have ever found in refined refilled cities of the cast hut but a certain portion of are poleg a mists exactly as a t large 0 portion of the tell religious bolls element clement outside of tile hie mormon church are arc tile lord did well to put a commandment in ili the lie bible ag against fornication in so localities it were vell hell that that commandment lie ile printed in gold letters on oil tile the ot outside I 1 t cover of the lite book except that it might 0 deter many persons from reading in mit it this is one of tile the oldest I 1 laws a ii s in the t country lou our itry in fact it is older than several laws lavis made since A new law was made delaria de declaring larin polygamy tc be unlawful cohabitation the constitution denies class clas s le legislation and what we have here is a sample thereof is not one day in ili the beir ear that there are not at least one nl hundred thousand cases of unlawful cohabitation placed upon the invisible records in the united states slates cast and north of tile the utah line then why single v out that thal class that comes under ali alic e edmunds law basy anti i inore ignore nore the other cases occur nim under previous laws section one of tile the statute of the U S referred to as the edmunds law defines poly polygamy arny is as a crime suction section three of that act defines the offence offense of cohabitation cecill declaring ill 0 that matrimonial cohabitation Vs is meant M e ant in ili other vi words that pol polygamy giuly n consists conn colin of plural marri marriage a ge m or bading more than one wife ife therefore whoever has more thin llian one woman in this country isa po 13 gamiot and is living 0 in violation io lation of law therefore lie should be pun pull islieb mau why go out t to 0 utah to arrest a man for breil breaking dinc a a law when senators sena sella con congressmen 1 l judges editors gamblers deacons blacksmiths far farmers meri doctors and others are violating that law every day under the shadow of the washington monument slid and within telephone ligne distance of the goddess of liberty perhaps it is to 0 main gain mile mileage rip 0 nud and set bet the judicial machine where it can suck stick and suck stick hlll until tit its belly is full of profit let us its 0 go 6 oc step farther the law dev declares deplares lares that a man mail shall have but one wife in ili this country that being united to the second woman lit in warn marriage ire while the first is ahing is not mair lago that jt it ja is something 0 else therefore liow how can call a man mail be le legally leally ally arrested and punished for ili in a second w wife ife N when bell thu the law ref refuses to recognize recognise any other than the first person thus united I 1 a 13 it wife so it is that tile the n edmunds bill virtually says that a mau man can be arrested for unlawful cohabitation thib peculiar manner of exercises is 0 going on oil lit in many instances in utah that those who ella engage me therein are members of the mormon church that the law must all and I 1 shall bu applied in ili all allot of its vier vigor or to those who are arc violators of that thai which proclaims ins polygamy poly 1 my unlawful cohabitation under the diio in anthill this a man can call 11 have ave but one wife but under the custom and lite practice lie may have anywhere front froni one to one hundred lie may iday unlawfully cohabit willi all but otic one in doing so lie violates the law aud and chich man mail alone lias has proclaimed against A very singular cond condition conditto itlo rl of nt alf fairet showing to ahat muddles those who tilio make laws a s I 1 have lave brought el thil thing lp in this we recall call to a fully bright book of wr pages 9 1 lately I 1 issued in suit salt like ci city t 31 11 I 1 as 9 reported ported rl by john anine in inc tile the title of the book is 2 unlawful fid cohabitation the edmunds Is liw unlawful co ili ii by chief Jut justice tiLe cha y 14 zone Sta iii af u tile llie T territory of utah in the trial 0 of f angus II 11 cannon esop in the llie third district coin I 1 snit salt inice latip city april 27 28 29 ms 1885 i the puce price of this work vork is thirty cents for hicle sum it nil bi br bent by mail ili iii re response to bettens addressee to q the court reporter jolt john 11 irvine I 1 ca I 1 I 1 J it is the roost most interesting rending reading we have struck for many a month it gives a f full till depoi t of tile the trial the que questions scions asked and answered etc the charme charge 1 preferred was unlawful cohabitation with mith more than one woman and was made under the third section ot of the statute in it question which rends reads as follows that it if any male person in ili it i territory or other place over which the united states stales lias has exclusive jurisdiction hereafter cohabits with ith more than ono one woman lie he shall lie 16 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor anti and on oil conviction thereof shall be punished by a file ot of not more than or by imprisonment for not hot more alinn six months or by both said punishment in the discretion of the court under this law the number of men dien la in tile united sf slates outside of the territory of who can be arrested ond and punished by a III line no an and I 1 imprisonment is at least tail fold 1 greater lhnn I 1 19 tit tha a entire population of eliat territory under that law ciery male person guilty of this ftfe nic against a congressional c enactment can call ile be punished shed it will bo be a mood good iden for some mormon to como east bring suit against persons in ili this pait of the world haic haa them brought into court and tried here is a for an a it immense aul milso amount of fun aud and opportunity for ill an immense ganc a gang of L united states marshals to met get in their and am make millions of dollars worth of 0 fees in fact there is millions in it united isles J democrat |