Show dyer to harrison it is is certainly to be hoped that the communicate on oalif of marshal arshal DYER to president will receive the latt eils careful consideration as therein lie he will find man y poin pointers it ers relative to the importance ot of the position arid and the kind of man mail needed to fill it A mere inere enumeration of the powers conf ered and duties to be dise discharged barged justify mr ir DYERS sta statement when he says the marshal of utah is clothed with powers and charged with duties that call for the exercise ot of tile the highest administrative discretion the principles by which mcdyer claims to have been actuated in the discharge of his duty after putting C in a claims claim for a reasonable zeal in the execution of the laws are kindness and mercy for those prosecuted for what he be terras terms these utah crimes meaning of course polygamy and unlawful cohabitation 1 I 1 have believed and still insist says the marshal that mercy and kindness in the enforcement of these laws are in their proper place beneficent and fruitful of good in their effect humane re regard ard for the fanaticism of many to my certain knowledge has advanced the cause of reform in ill harsh measures though strictly ae legal al would have had the opposite effect 1 I believe in punishing the offense kofl ense he says furth further cr but not in bounding the offender and I 1 believe a firm regular consistent enforcement of the laws without vindictiveness or malice will if faithfully continued secure final submission from this people I 1 have endeavored to impress upon the mornion mormon people my desire desir that submission to the laws was the end in ill view and not persecution of them as a sect or blasc c as this policy I 1 have advocated as the proper one to be purLl pursued cd and I 1 wish to give my testimony now as I 1 retire from ollice office to my firm belief in its wis domand inand i justice asti had jt ik abton for W a g abid iuorio creditable ble united states had bad these principles guided the administration of the law in this territory from the commencement let it bt be remembered tl that la it the C enactments n act ments of congress known as the E edmunds law lavy and the edmunds rucker act were regard regarded edby by the people of this territory terri territory tor y as infamous they invaded the sanctity sancti y of many home circles by disrupting the relationship lation ship of husband and wife which were contracted in good faith and let the world say ay what it may to tile the cott contrary with purity of motive but if the law lavy itself was even to tile the verge of cruelty the of it when it first came into operation under the ZANE IRELAND regime was dia oo lical and those jien aien anti and the territory and tile united states stales owe it to lo the influence of the reli religious 0 ious leaders of the mormon mention people that the lam laiti cruelty of the ancon scio usable wretches was not lint met by something more vigorous than eva of tile law the file peace that nils nas been preserved under the tr y iiii circumstances through which tile thi people of utah luve live passed during the laba five years is a better mony to lo tile the law abiding qualities of the mornion mormon leaders anil people than that of marshal DYER when he says llo however wever wrong and mis laken tile the people may be and it d in my opinion chiy aret ley art ar a law abiding people except ordy only at ab to such as affect alt act their pv peculiar culiar religious convictions tuu ut tile the tho the course pin bied by marshal dym is y the le ie ul als s sine I 1 lie he tt e u las been al eu P n 0 i slie d to bu u the r not hounded sauce the ih adopt im of 0 that couri i liate buve auve been ti iii eva avaious ious of the I 1 he aw ii and very lauy h hive adv vo themselves t we alie ficeri ers it annj it J mimy mot moie e have I 1 voided givin 0 the chui coui cobit it the 0 it if proving hem B n bilty guilty by ain 0 guilty it is ia because beci use of the c e thus bowing boing to the he y of tb the law us as leuch us its to tho D and his aids aida that lit ht can dow rt about niue nitie aou s fur or albe grow iu ut ui of ro re ivious belief and pi rf 1 l the this people no N tuch buch rauls u ill t bese would ever have bave licen g quoted had bad tile policy of slid and IRELAND but must most li liely elj the patience ut of the CL would woula havo been exha exhausted used nod and other and niora more fleri itt iu trun truit blea bles provoked if president wise he will give hoed to tile the of DYER if he wishes to nee mee the law iu this territory triumphant he wi 1 not men ter it who will fel feal calef u on oil to crea a 0 a ro artyn api of te geror teror aar tie ti e would brou prou pa him t to om move ove on a line equally removed bvm 6 the two opposite extremes aheras 1 era |