| Show prosecution SHOULD sop sod J i tha conviction n of EI awkins at saw salt lake for illicit chhabi cohabitation fat ion loh with women other than th an his lils first wife means thet tha conviction of the fhe whole poleg polygamous amous set bet of lof mormons cormons from brigham young down to the lowest in auth author oiw uty ty who Is able to keep mor more ethan ethah one oman woman no doubt such auch I 1 ia the object odthe of the lirose prosecution cution by the government officials the end of the affair ia is not however with the we decision of a couran atah therasa will go to the supreme court of the united slates plates tates for abnal bet het lement ik J the reports have rion rien been vrr ort reci the prosecution of the mor nona dona for polygamy for that ia Is what it is la undertaken not under a sta ats statute ata tute of the united states but a law of utah sig signed ed by brigham young himself in 1851 1951 and which was not deigned de vi e gued guesto to acovera case like that which the le polygamous elders of the mormon church chuich present how they can be heia held amenable mable mabie under a statute of their own not intended to be applicable in cases of plural marriage has haa not been ox pla pia I 1 ined the intention of the act must CI be 0 known to know its mean meaning frig trig if there is any other law by which these sultans of the american Ame rican ritAn desert can be punished uni shed it would seem beem that the united cited states courts ought to resort to hat as sure to bring conviction and punishment the arraignment under a law that was clearl clearly not hot ln intended ended to strike at polygamy is a virtual admission that there is nothing better in law to which the authorities can go gor the proposition is not disputed that thai the th territorial law waar not intended to forbid or punier polygamy amy and how it can be used in buch such cases as that of brigham young has not been elucidated except t that thai at the prosecution is only attempted as bs an annoyance or to provoke hostilities t 1 es k knowing well tb that atthe the weaker and the th a despised d e will be the sufferers ers erb in iff the end As we have said in informer former articles wa WO have no fio bym sym sympathy pathy oathy with the peculiar pecullar institutions of the cormons mormons Mor muns mons nor much respect t for theli their pretended faith but laws are laws and should be executed according to their real intent and mean log and if there therb is no better law than the one under which the mormons cormona are held and under which one has been found guilty I 1 it is time to make one arid and cease tease what will certainly baregard be bd regard 1 ed ea as aj a it persecution which always is to the growth of the sect persecuted we very wry much fear feir that this raid on the in sit bit of the mor mpr naona raona is dictated more by popular hate bate than springing from an tin honest desire to rid the territory of afan institution that has not the sanction of the civilized world I 1 AH ecila ste ate beb bes beet removed by legitimate means eans without tx taking k lug ing co counsel linsel of passion or prejudice if meina means do not ex t 0 to o P destroy poly polygamy y in utah let tho the I 1 tin medria means vo provided provide from om head hoad and in inn ina ii a way ay that shall be beyond dis dia legitimate that the he t punished may way have no excuse to cry persecution sacramento union no tin the W washington a 3 star scar kofoet oct SO has haa the following r respecting e spec ting that utah tin tift mine miner 1 samples of so called tin ores bres recel received W d at the Geue Gene ralland gace from utah ter have ha e subjected fo foa toa a chemical analysis also to a crucible assay but in neither case could tho the least trace of tin be detected 2 hows this thle we should like to hear bear what our expert tin miners have to say bay to toil toll it 1 he star gives rives no names but gives toe utah tin ores a bad name namo on general principles based on a specific analysis and assay it is bad for any institution to have no tin but it is absolutely ruinous for a tin mine to show none llone ALI ALL aim ABB TALKING or OF utan UTAH in deed and in truth the papers are full of it and they ought to co eo ider themselves under man many great groat eat oat obligations to the Mor moner monEO fon for furn furnishing aing Wing the occasions for so much interesting matter our columns are an far too limited to give our readers a quarter of a fair representation of the good bad ana and id idl different things which are being said about utah so bo we must be excused for foz any y apparent pa e pt lack of attention to any of our con J 1 l W 1 anoum ABOUT appeal arreal the philadelphia age has the following one result of the recent trials in utah territory will probably be an appeal to the supreme court of the tha united states and anda A decision there upon the jurisdiction of the federal government over the subject of marriage in the states it certainly has bas no such jurisdiction and it has never before exercised any in an organized territory with a legislative body competent to make jaws on local subjects to which the omaha fierar answers the federal cou con court ri in uta utah fixes its own jurisdiction W without regard to lawor law or precedent ahr there 8 is no appeal from d pinions pi 11 athis this refers to cri ninal cases and the pheob ob ning ring appears to be to make ail all fM ormon cases cues criminal if possible 1 11 1 1 liftIN ning XING AND sat NAT NATIONAL fONAL gonan lecat decat decay wendell phillips talks thus to the bibulous bostonians Ift if there bore statesman shiland law and morality and christianity enough to cure the Ar drinking inking habits babits of our great cities the publio republic re is just as much fated to go down dowd as the roman republic w wab was and your children will livi to see the a soldier 0 m horseback or the aristocracy fortified in wealth who will take possession of the government every great feat city in the united states is ruled to dabby day soy toy a mob applause and thero there a mayor from the city of boston to san francisco lue due west who was not elected by the grog shops orbis of his own city not abne one wendell ls mistaken laone iaone in one instance we have just this minute shaken hands with a mayor who was not elected by the gro grog krog x shops of his own city salt palt lake is a te term tern in 1 city BO so far as the imported judiciary ivill will let it bo be so and we will say bar that not one mayor bayor of all the mayors who ever were word electea elec elected teJ of and by this city was was eieg giec elec ted by the grog shops of his owis own city I 1 wendell will like liko to io hear that no nor comparison an omaha paper sest shakespeare Shak speare milton byron these are the monarchs ol 01 of english englith verse and kave have crowned england with her rarest and ripest literary glory to compare a system like the mormon to either of them even by way of illustration is an insult to the aug august and eternal memory of either we seldom compare mormonism Mormont sm with anything simply because there is nothing really comparable with it but of the trio named wo may way remark that byron was a notorious and confessed libertine who gloried wiiiiam wiiliam in his shame the divine wllliam william inspire In spite of all his merits morits was a very smutty gentleman gentilman and glor gior glorious lous ious john milton mllton Mil mii toni tont wrote an able argument in defence of the dimind character of polygamy NOT wot flat frac FrAT terina TEBiNa the boese beese river Bev neu reveille Ke has a very poor pooi opinion of that sentence judging by the following in pronouncing b his Is sentence this judge took occasion to inflict on the prisoner a homily which for hypocrisy and venom stir surpasses passes anything of the kind rind we ever read it commences thus thomas hawkins I 1 am sorry for you very sorry |
