Show IO DO 10 til MY lIMul Al tae elvet cle last sat urd ay lit in tile corridor of the county hii was touching r anti and T f acre were aged men fotij cho had tile aie beat days of luicir I 1 ica lit building up lip caplo deaerts find and making lie homes ties for their r peaceable law lave abiding hinc never outraged ont ota raged justice nor nian goo 1 l men arid true were there for we knor them tint and they were now about 0 lo 10 o bo be taken front their familia famil fa milic icil their wives and and bo cast behind prison lara for what As is already anted they were not accused of having trespassed stipon upon the rights of any person the charge upon which the ihly y wro is not 1 crime in fact though otie one in law lair no man inan ran call biec up tip against these iliac men ard and pay that tiler they have been ui ed by them or their tori conduct dueL thor they go for thc jhc salo of their conscience piousness in ili the b belief and practice A rit of a certain principle of their faith not a little wonder and admiration mi ration the lie impartial student of It mormon lormon must discern the ilia calm call eold and lid inflexible nature of those nen men who huffier denurr for iho file rake ora of a conviction if tile the ha lini hai I lian hezs in licar helioff few years ago when the ficat s the decrees of the edmunds law lan made I 1 iley I 1 w would have studied out some 0 I 1 plan by which to effectually ernde cv ulc pro ec cution as well rs persecution tinder under the guise of that law if lust had been con tile the motive for their adherence to the hie principle of pill ril nl muri marriage age if they bad riot not known that this institution was or of al mighty in i clity god they would doubtless have bay taken fid advantage vantage of the rulings or of the courts coulta and have Y repudiated ted their polygamous relation anti and placed their plural wives wives upon lipon the level with outcasts and i trumpets and branded their children with the naino of bastard nit fill this was rs not FO they tile the relationship they sustained austain iv we im I 1 e r it f 3 3 facy were fulfill ij ig divine law they know knew tiler they co not without crushing crus liing a out ill alie knowli knon 1 ilac a which they allow themselves to go back upon their own convictions respecting gods gode jaws more ill than in those i a of nien men they were sent cent to suffer sunar what inen could put upon thrim did they falter or waver no not onel one they oil cn dured for his sake cako willingly willing aj tile tho judgements judge ments of men if they had been loss lc ss honorable honor alc or less sincere how easily they might have escaped punishment and at tho the samo saine time havo gratified int ifield the baser past passions ions lifter after the fashion of the christian world E ever ver since tile the inauguration of tile the crusaders under the edmunds law the ilia lines have been drawn tighter and tighter fighter the courts cot uris and also alfo the world have seen these prosecutions under tinder that law have lave availed little or nothing men patiently endure the sentence cen telice placed upon them and feel in ill no wise under any obligation to render bt stricter obedience to the law at it tile expiration of their sentences sentence 3 than before indeed it would bo be difficult for them to live more closely to the letter iid and spirit of tile law as it reads than many have 1 I ave done except to choly abandon thir thair funi f lieland lic lie sand this they feel they cannot do step by step tile tho rulings ril lill 3 of the courts have mile closer to the inevitable desire to wholly dirupo the ilia family fai nily anti and cast car forth upon a merciless world tile the wives and children of honorable lionor ablo marriage in aringe this thia we to believe is tile the aca conveyed by a recent ruling in the third district to sonic this thia may bo be possible but the cincere fal follower lower of jelus lie who is stevi j I 1 ing to keep ilia his laws law to follow in ill his way and to do the works he did ouch cuch a proposition is ia 0 o monstrous as to ie be treated with the ilia contempt it cle deserves servos j if the edmunds law were pros P utcy according to ilia letter aud and the spirit there would he be less jurors competent to serve there would be more cases forthe for the attorneys to hand bindie leor for the law specifies that tha t men ingell dball be for living with t two wo or more inore women ind and the phrase 9 as nivea liis has simply been interpolated for reasons lica known to who interpret it in ili 4 that way i L clion pon this subject the odan herald touches in this wise aa fir M tiia anti cormona un berthe rulings courts aro are concerned tile the edmunds laira is is j merely n measure of political cal dit dis i while on the other land hand the lie ettre ittre contending against the law from 1110 motives fives of the t io hig liest moral and religious duty duly that loth mor inon sand and their enemies encini cs are sincere efrom froin their respective points of view as it 1 rule rt ile cannot annot a be doub td d lint hut liow vast is the difference between their respective points of vew the klimunda Kl munda law as it lias has ito bi rn en constructed ted by b the courts makes unlawful coli abitu ion an polygamy political icil offe on rices only while in ili the exe execution executor cuton of that lan laii ill alio courts do violence to ilic ilia ino inns exalted ethical and religious icus principles caples s of the cormons mormons Mor Morn mons ions ar or other tho edmunds lar arr is di I 1 erected i against a political icil offense its a execution c futios of rules of U 1 l oin M tile the honest convict ib lo 10 ll 11 i i 30 1 0 r I 1 n 0 I 1 I 1 standpoint stand paint pint iti exe u IF to 0 also int vo voleca ives the perpetration of a high crime against fi the lie laws 0 god and tile immunities of religion 0 iou worship herein we believe lie lies tile basis babis bab is of daht between the contending forces forces in utah today to day and it is impost aile to deny that tile mor mons have lave at on once clithe alic best and ill the worst of ofton abo cont contest cst front from the very nature of the principle involved by both sides they have the best of the controversy because they are arc contending for greater and grander ideas they ilia have tho the worst of tile controversy because tile violent power of their enci enemies nici leaves them no alternative but martyrdom for principle or abject implied ifil plied ty by the sur surrender reader of con convictions to bc immunity from physical find and lines fine |