| Show THE ON QUESTION AGAIN we are more than ever convinced that judge mckean who occupies the place of one whose business it is to administer law according to its true intent is as confirmed a bigot as any mormon he desires to persecute that he is utterly wanting in sagacity or knowledge of law that his purpose is to complicate difficulties where none need to exist and that he ought to be driven ignominiously from the bench hia hio whole course as judge since the prosecution of the leading cormons mormons began has been that of a narrow minded zealot as ignorant of law as he is reckless of the consequences of his extrajudicial acts he started out not to investigate but to convict all his utterances and his whole conduct have shown the animus of the man from first to last he exhibits the worst qualities of a tena fena fanatic tic and it is almost safe to say from his bis doings that he is a religions bigot of some sort and is better fitted to pe perform rford the part of a wandering dervish than to sit in judgment where the liberty of one of an opposing creed is at stake what is it that this man and his confederates propose to do we have shown that they are arraigning men under a law which has no applicability in the cues at bar that they are giving a construction st to an act which it will not bear it appears that the council for the prisoners took the same ground that the onion union did in advance of the inapplicability of the territorial law under which they are held the judge intimates that thau it does not make any difference what the meaning or intention of the sita fita statute tute was at the time it was passed i his object is to procure a conviction by i a perversion of the statute which as a sworn judge he is obliged to interpret according to its true intent and not to gratify his religious prejudices and personal malice we are informed that i the federal officials are acting wholly without authority or advice ad vice from wash ington they are indulging in the pasi time of small men dressed in a little I 1 brief authority in order to feed vanity anity 7 exhibit power and make a noise I 1 the consequence of the course of these blind zealous zealots or designing mischief j makers are bound to be evil thousands of children innocent as any on the earth will be made bastardi bastarda bas tarda and I 1 j deprived of their patrimony by the iiii illi timed action of the federal officials and what good will be attained why j the mormon polygamists will be thrown into prison that will be full fall compensation for all the trouble taken A lit tle tie sweet revenge will be grateful that iball is all nil the confederates in this thia affair do not take into consideration that polygamy was dying out and in the tha course of rapid extinction and that too toe forced process to which they have resorted will give I 1 it a new lease of life aa well as involve other consequences there was an opportunity to show themselves and they could not realest the temptation to make an unseemly exhibition we have it on good authority that some 0 of f these conspirators at saie sale lake admit that they are ree resorting orting to foul means and chuckle over the effects they are going to produce this thid la id not the spirit that should actuate men invested with the power of dispensing impartial justice according to the real meaning of the laws if there were a statute of the united states under which these polygamous cormons mormons could be punished we should say under the circumstances that it was not wisely enacted A judge adjudge is not to be held responsible to the bar of public opinion for acts done under the authority of law but the utah judge has had felt no such pressure his course is not sanctioned by popular sentiment among tb I 1 people of salt lake who have no sympathy with the peculiar institution i of the cormons mormons Mor mons the conspirators are striking a blow at progress by repelling c capital s 1 ital itai and population and continuing p polygamy 0 instead of abating it sacramento a union another poor girl has died in virginia from the use of tobacco at the age ago of she bhe was an orphan |
