Show vea ver nob nou A MITY lord macaulay in his hla review of iro Afo moores ores oreb lifo of byron speaks with withering sarcasm of the periodical attacks of morality to which the british people were subject in that day by way of illustrating the rage into which they lashed themselves theme elves over the gallantries gallan tries of the wayward bard he depicts how at the tho very moment they were persecuting byron for his illicit loves and peccadilloes the foremost fore most moat men of england including lord nelson were notorious rakes and libertines compared to whom byron was a yary vary saint of virtue what was truo true of england at that day is equally true of our own country at this day we too have our periodical attacks of morality and as a they occur in england they occur here once in about seven years they are not visited upon individuals bo be cause there is a peculiar goch sect and a peculiar institution which furnishes a standing centre around which our surcharged virtue habitually habitually relieves Its itself like ilke therol the tho volcanoes with explosive eruptions this peculiar sect is the mormon and this thia peculiar institution is polygamy for the last twenty years utah has been subjected to attacks from these periodical outbursts of national morality it Is now summering suffering from one which is for the instruments by ahiah it is assailed assault ti although washington itself is a notorious sink of licentiousness ae degradation gradation and sin and although scandal the nia ria name me of every third senator und mid congressman with the moat most abandoned practices and lives sent out from thia this modern sodom into a remote territory we find the thu late Go governor vernor shaffer ana and and ana and kindred spirits to reform religious fanatics who believe in the plurality wife basten By sten n it ia Is conceded that in all other respects these people are moral law abiding and industrious dust rious they are the only people who have conquered the greatest evils that have afflic afflicted bed teI civilized society all along the dead ages aw bul t w which aich yet def der defy y all other attempts at st streford reform no houses of prostitution no women fit it the town were permitted to abide in until the advent of the washington reformers polygamy did not do this because this system is practiced by comparatively few in utah etab the rotor reform M was wrought by a religious system system under which adultery ia Is counted the highest of human of Tense no gambling houses bouses were known in utah until the advert advent of tiie the political lehl icil mercenaries who now prate and shout over the tir terrible nible institution of polygamy the tle spectacle presented by the spasm of of national virtue which now shrieks its indignation dig nation through the beautiful pinks of morality ili iii who are kicking up such a dust in salt lake is one on of the most ridiculous exhibitions of our time herald how IT is at early dawn viewed from any of the eminences on th the north side tide our slumbering city presents a very picture of quietude and peace and as a the sun begins to 10 peep over me lne eastern mountains gladdening the scene with genial gental light one of singular beauty tho the variety of color presented by the green foliage mixed with the yellow bear sear leaf showing the near up p pro ach of winter and the generally rem re doo m if not stately dwellings nestling in the fruitful orchards tend to heighten hei hel ahten the effect aad and charm the senses then eone cowe eon con e the curling smoke and the of the hum and bustle of the day huch much a scene cannot fail to be prolific flo of reflection in the minds of the thoughtful who produced those effects intro in the great wilderness of the rocky mountain region the effects are good therefore the source must be good also A bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit here is a community industrious energetic and peaceful whose v works loudly proclaim their true character why then should it be so boight glit eilt to sow BOW discord among them nd cestr y v a system BO 60 fruitful of desira bie bix and beneficence beneficente i e suits Is there reason la in seeking suet buot a consummation Is here v or philosophy in it ato who la is there but buta u 11 ll il answer n no yet there are those who seek peek the cestr c e tion of the source from wl wh some of i ie to best effects visible before the world today to day have flowed in what condition was the people of othis othas this territory found by those whose every effort la Is now being directed so as ais to militate against their peace and interests they were irethe io the enjoyment of peace order and prosperity what then shall be said of those pervert ors ora of common austice u stice should they succeed in accomplishing pil shing g their desires in bri bringing g anarchy archy chaos and probably blood bloodshed h ngin e here even besl best friends would braud brand them as unworthy the name of men such a drifting of matters as is now in process canant continue very long it is a long road that has hai no turning A crisis of some kind must boon soon come in the very nature of things and it ia Is nor for the latter batter day saints to maintain that calmness of demeanor and attitude which has characterized them under the most moat trying try tny ing and provoking circumstances for they may rest assured that the ultimate develop ment 0 eventa events will result in their final triumph by not being the aggressors we maintain the right on our side SHOULD bmw Baw bawart jlius iLits the alta alia Oal oai ornia iomia says bays A traveler through utah says the efforts of the officials to bring to account the heads of tho the mormon church for polygamy and lascivious cohabitation are meeting with favor from the tho Gentil gentilam Gen ss and there is great approbation in washington at the pertinacity with which the charges are brought agal agai against ns the leading offenders he says bays how however ever that the washington folks should d beware how they encourage prosecutions under the territorial laws since the district of columbia bas baa been made a territory or there may be some vigilant official who will nind find that there is a field for prosecution on some of the charges in washington city the current prosecution of mormons cormons Mor mons meeta meets with favor from adulterous gentiles 11 but no other that we know As to the great approbation in washington over we the present crusade we dont know about that but the Washington people are able to speak their mind upon the subject and if they were as well informed upon it as we are as honest men they would view the proceedings ot of the ring here with great disapprobation as all honorable men will by and by of course if adultery that ia is not ad is punished by a straining of law in etab adultery that is adultery ought by no means to go unpunished by honest intent of the law in washington D C but if such were to be the case it is doubtful if congress would ever bo be able to muster a quorum to do business and then what would become of the nation AN absurd Pos POSITION wioN judge mckean has placed himself in a very absurd and consequently unenviable position with regard p rd to ome some of the cases pending bafo before re nim dim him in alluding to the tho charge nal nat president young he said it was not really the people of the U S in of utah vs brigham young but would be better named the united states vs theocracy in taking this thia position he assumes that polygamy exists in utah if a man is a polygamist he mus must have bave more wives than thau on ene one e in the hawkins case the judge jage I 1 I 1 asserted that a man could have but 0 one n 0 wife in fact the matter stands thus the judge assumes that a theocracy exists that there are bre men who have more wives than one tries fines and imprisons ons a manas manns man as in the hawkins case for committing adultery with his wives andin order to so former position which has been published to the world by saying that a man can have but one wife at a time these are facts taets and we wish the public to note them ANOTHER DODGE OP THE rino KINO every move made by bv the antt anti mormon ring in this place only reveals how utterly contemptible temp tible they are and to what mean petty paltry shifts they will stoop to show their spite to the people and government of utah territory another little trick in their game was brought to light in the third district court this morning it is too contemptible to notice but as the new move was treated with derision by the members of the bar present we mention it here just for the purpose of exposing it generally to the contempt oon con tempt it BO so weft well merits some months ago the city council passed an ordinance by which public braymen were restricted to a certain locality for lor their stand for the violation of this ordinance a man named heilbroner Heilbr Heil hell bruner brunar uner a drayman was arrested taken before justice clinton and fined five dollars although several months have passed since the fine was waa assessed it has never been paid and now this man hillbruner neli Hell bruner who by the way as stated in court by his legal adviser is a gentile anticipating probably that an art attachment to compel the payment of this fine may be issued at some time commences a counter action the first step stop in which was taken this morning by a brilliant luin inary of the bar who gave notice before his honor chief justice mckean of a motion to stay proceedings in the case the ground being forsooth that jeter clinton the justice before whom the case wais wads was tried ia Is incompetent under the amendment to the constitution of the united states to discharge tha duties of any office he having been an officer in the mormon rebellion of 1867 11 the learned gentleman w who b 0 made this startling in g an announcement n oun eem cem on t has BO so far as we have been able to judge by a pretty close attendance atten stten dance danCO at rt court lon lor the past three or four weeks had a very small share of business but a case of such immense magnitude as this will no doubt be worth worthy a of f his transcendent and he will likely ne 1 y make a tremendous splurge oyen oyer it IL 1 mal irk i s I 1 1 UTAH and her institutions are the great topics of the day every saturday beems seems pretty well satisfied with the situation though not sure that conviction will follow in the noted causes under judicial consideration yet it is evidently pretty well satisfied that courts in utah nowadays now a days are organized with a special view to conviction at all hazards in a certain elass class of cases every saturday sa saya vs the jury has been temporarily released from duty and the trial jury la Is eow row engaged with its work we have no right to assert that it will convict the persons named on the bills which have bod boe been 11 presented r e by the proper authority but t there 6 r e la is ample assurance that law Is in a serious grapple with polygamy and will wield against it every available resource we have heretofore expressed the opinion that the passage of the cullom force bill was not 01 t needful to the purification of utah and to the further opinion that the plural wife system would find it expedient to retire from sight at a comparatively early day very likely law of every sort federal and territorial common and uncommon relevant and irrelevant perverted and wili wl be brought to bear in the cases in q les ies estion and if the thing can be doue doun it will be done ap at least that Is the universal belief hereabout as well as elsewhere As to the purification of utah the infamous cullom bill was never intended nor fitted to purify any place or people it was itself the essence of impurity impurity both in its leep inception and progress and it is creditable to congress that such an aa atrocious bill wm was not suffered to become law for it was itself of mo most kt adulterous paternity like many other papera jeeny jEery satur day thinks that the congressional act dack euck used a few yearb yeara ago will yet be fallen baek back upon of course the persons on trial will wh 1 plead that the women with whom they have cohabited as alleged in the tho indictments are their wives and we presume thy thi prosecution ro se cution may way ultimately be comp compelled elleh to call in the aid or of the act I 1 to prevent and punish polygamy passed by congress in 1862 that paper speaks thus of judge mc me keana cemarka upon setting betting aside some men summoned to act aa as jurors this ruling is a lamp by the light of which the subsequent course of the court Is rendered clear the chief justice arraigns nathe the plural wife system at the bar of or modern civilization and pronounces it a crime against common law and good morals aa as to which the shield of religious belief is inadmissible his words are not less an edict of emancipation than a sentence of judicial condemnation it rather premature for a ludle judge to give a sentence of judicial condemnation nat ionly before a case has been tried As to the idea of an edict of emancipation I 1 11 we should like every saturday to tall tell teil us who is to be emancipated we have heard rumors of this emancipation several times before but for the life of us xia we cant discover who it is that wishes to be emancipated or what anyone any one desires to be emancipated from every saturday inight might detail names and circumstances and enlighten the public upon this matter As to arraigning the plural wife system at the bar of modern civilization the plural system will appear to remarkable advantage so arral arraigned gried for we know well welt enough that it to s infinitely superior to what we have seen spen of the developments of modern civil civilization and we have llave seen much it is an insult to tho plural wife system to compare it with I 1 modern civilization comparison comparisons are odious frequently but in this Inta instance nce uce they are peculiarly and expressly BO so indeed there can be no comparison between th two systems common law is held hold to have NO tio application where statute law is established only BO so far as statute it law w provides BO so we ha have havo ve nothing to say aay upon that point As to judge mckean pronouncing noun clug cing the plural system a crime against good morals that is nothing more than his opinion by no means weans a weighty one and not a bit biter b iter berthan than any ftuer mans opinion wo we have ir aown far better and more nipral men than judge mckean is who have hove held an e exactly opposite opinion to what ho he professes to hold I 1 why wry NOT the omaha herald asks why did not the virtuous mckean when in congress do something to reform the I 1 morals of his own state in the course of his we ilfe voltaire in conver conversation salon with greary the musician aw while hii hil 6 speaking of fame bild brid eald eaid ob pd ovo ove a hundred years of immortality fon for a good digestion fany time 1 ma 1 n I 1 od f arf ary it 1 l X ivri tari tf ri td fril |