| Show ie K i i IS LOOK roOI AT T Hi f It It Is l rather amusing to hO rend read the tue com corn comments ments of ot New el York and California pa pent er on the Eans bill and the tho Veto yeto eto that killed It Some Sonic of ot them reeni eem to tobe toLe tobe be Le awfully antully shocked at the Immorality of ot that measure In flint call for tor Federal l Interference In the moral interests of ot the nation The reason for Cor broad over these thele rhapsodies Is the entire nb ab genre of 01 any statutory provisions In either of nt those tho e States for Cor tho the punish punishment punIshment h ment of tho thu offenses the prosecution for which w the I bill sought ought to 10 bring under tinder reasonable 1 regulations regulation Neither New York nor California has hns any 1189 law 1111 against the tho crimes referred to In the bill If that measure had become a n law the Utah statutes would still till I have provided the tho same samo pe ns fiB those now standing In our statutes against polygamy adultery unlawful cohabitation and those crimes tint that t nt are aro I generally recognized as grossly Im tin Immoral moral Tho The maximum penalty In Utah against n aln t bigamy or polygamy hint Is marriage by ti b a Q man mall or ot vonian who his hal n a living and wife or hin hus husband band Is five years imprisonment nail and anc H IL J fine of ot five live hundred dollars For add adul tery ter three years Imprisonment For un tin unlawful unlaWful lawful cohabitation pix fix months and a n fine line of three hundred dollars The Evans Kon bill did not nol change O these penalties In any particular i The bill proposed that In cases of ot prosecution for tor adultery the complaint should 1 be made only by the tho wife or i husband of ot the defendant det or by tho the fa ta father tather ther mother mothr or near fleer retails relative e of ot the In Jurod Jurd This l I is now law In several States Slates of the Union No o outcry out h Is raised against It there Ih re lOut Dut tha mere proposal to adopt It here brought forth u howl from the tho pr m and ew York California Nevada Ar Arkansas r kansas kanias New Mexico North Carolina and Tennessee Tenn a where there Is no penal penalty Y ty t 0 for tor that crime are arc terribly shocked t tat at this Ihla proposed modification not In Inthe inthe 1 the Utah law or lt Its severe penalty but hut butIn butIn hutin In the manner manlier of ot commencing tion f r In the following States the penalty H f for tor that crime ranges from ten dol dollar lau hors to one oM hundred dollars on conlo conI convictIon i tIon namely I New Nell Jersey I Missouri Virginia West Wl t Virginia i Texas and Wyoming What occasion I fo t Or r fits nt of ot virtue has hu either of ot these H SUIt utah with her penalty I 1 of three yuan Imprisonment lor or this i offense oUen et And there are arc others which 1 I I L have h o ns as little cause for holding up tip i H their hands hand or pointing the linger against Utah Ulah I The bill 1111 proposal J that for tor the offense i of or unlawful 1 cohabitation prosecution prose ullon must commence on the lie complaint of tho Iho ho I 1 legal S I or ar r the plural Nurl wife the party di dl directly reedy Injured 1 a 1 State In lii the Union han hall ha any al provision at all against that offense Why then should their Journals thy lly II Into a 1 tantrum over tho the j J pr rioM in th the Utah L Legislature gl In both boti tJi ho instances here named It Ii was was male mafle and R Intended I ie simply to stop Iop the tho r I nef u of ot the common In Informer former ferrit r d Paul Pry and II ir tho the continued C agitation which I Is deprecated 11 by liy y tho tile best people here bere hereof bereI of oC nil all H II parties A persuasions Th Tb real cause o of ot the convulsions Into tutu which u n number of at our orlen BrIel haVe haNC talen I is i tho the wilful ml mis of df t the tho bill 1 by Salt Lake papers anti and am dispatches from this point P They called thu th measure IOU a polygamy hill hili They rimey do so I stilt Tho The papers po rl that Ih kS comment on It speak of It ittie no tie mi all to polygamy as aH that tho the should Bh not bo ho b enforced ex ox except edit by some conic oril member of ot the family ns RII fixing the tho law 1011 sO ao that here I should bo be no lion for tot on of ot tho the wife All Alt this Is utterly untrue no iio change either In Inthe the time penalties or In the manner of at for polygamy Will oUr distant ant contemporaries please let that Tact foot penetrate their cranium nn cease copying tho the false taille hoods published hero here Odd sent over the tho wire for their deception And will vili tho the In Now York and California nail other States where there lucre Id Is 10 o law against t the tho two mentioned Inthe In Inthe Inthe the bill Just think over the tha situation and 1 cease censo tram from belaboring Utah until they cleanse their own platters rind tIme the beam out of oC 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