Show ma GEORGE Q CANNON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER wednesday anne 5 THE oft sted statement concerning the difficulty of administering the ohe laws in utah is i imply limply one of the common pieces of political stock in trade except when such difficulty is created by the federal judiciary themselves every real criminal has his rights much more has the peaceful industrious law abiding citizen his among the rights of a criminal are that he shall be tried by a jury of his peers as a citizen not lot of hia hla avowed nor even understood enemies also that his bis trial shall be conducted according to constitutional law and that if convicted it shall be for a manifest infraction of constitutional law have the present and have many past federal judicial officers in utah invariably respected those rights not by any means oa the contrary some of the judges have prem edita edly deliberately purposely carefully and persistently aly violated and often utterly ignored them yea yes have done much more have sedulously endeavored to have honorable and generally believed innocent citizens convicted on charges made sometimes by perjurers per jurers of infamous crimes balked in the consummation of these schemes the cry has arisen that it is impossible to administer the laws jn in utah without stringent special legisla legislation by congress and the bills cut and dried for congress to operate upon in this connection are almost invariably so cruel and tyrannical as to be subversive of the ruling principles of ameri can republicanism and destructive of the liberties of the people of the united states now all this kind of low disgraceful pettifogging business is mere more tricks trick trickery ury kry ery and cannot be sustained with credit by any body we have invariably beet our faces against it and warned the judicial perpetrators of its true nature and that the time would come when it would be repudiated by all honorable men and women a warning which bome some of them ought to respect henceforth As to tho the statement that the he laws cannot be enforced in utah it is false utterly false as applied to the bulk of the community who are naturally and religiously the moat law abiding people in the union we should very much like to see the first good wholesome constitutional jaw the legal and proper administration and enforcement forcemeat of which has met with the alist breeze of opposition from we tile overwhelming majority of our bona nide fide citizens in our opinion sueh buch an instance can not be produced if it can ean we shall like to know arnow something about it we can tell one thing many of the federal administrators of the law so appointed do not wa it to but refuse to act according to the true spirit and intent of their appointment and will do nothing if they cannot arrest try convict and sentence gen geu tence whom they please and by just what course of procedure they please law or no law the kernel of the utah judicial nut there are many more good things that ean can be said upon this and cognate subjects which time and circumstances may elicit but this may suffice for today to day A proposition la Is under discussion to construct a narrow guage railroad from virginia or reno beno to salt lake via austin mr wm S watson 1 consulting engineer eug ineer of saki saku san fratich francisco eco tells the rekee rebee river jet iet thau that the distance to be traversed liy loy the railroad is miles passing through tigh storey lyon churchill lauder llauder and toodie counties that the road can be ba built for a mile mlle mildor or a total of four millions milt lonn ionN and that it will shorten the R rais rois lauce lanee from the tha nevada initial point to ogden in leas thau than miles od ord the oP BK the reveille says if i the of the road have the cap capital itil they can depend upon the hearty operation cooperation co pf af the austin portion of lander bander county but that the amount that would bes beb be gub sub scriben scribed by the citizens of austin who constitute nine tenths of the inhabitants of that county would not be of any perceptible benefit to the projectors of t the he road that the only way of pro curing material local assistance would be by the counties through which the road would pass pledging their credit by the issuing of bonds a method that wa would id meet with many obstacles that the white whito pine people expect a connecting branch with the central pacific and therefore would not be apt to lend their credit to another enter prize that the E ureka eureka people expect to be connected with the C P at pallis ader adea and would probably object to the lastic issuing of equity bonds for another road and nd their opposition would paralyze any favorable action on the part of the inhabitants of lander landor county that the county of churchill through which a good portion of bf tiie the road would pass amounts to nothing financially that it would be best beat for the projectors of this narrow guage road to ascertain the probability or certainty of the construction of the eureka and hamilton roads that by uniting with them substantial assistance might be secured niso albo from lander bauden county abut but that if those roads are likely to D be built it will be useless for mr watson to depend upon any aid from either elther lander or white pine it mey may be thab that a railroad mania is about tu to commence ih lil the great basin babin a spee spec species lesot lebot of folly to which countenance should not pot be gi on at the same time all the railway communication and intercommunication which the growing development of the regi region on do de manda should be encouraged both materially and by good words 0 of f commendation men dation atlon As this proposed road tor for its through busi busl business nees would have to compete with the central pacific although that would be b a one sixth longer it is plain that the main maln support of the proposed line would b bg its local business and the cau counties u ties through which it would pass if they are called upon for aid should seriously consider the all important question 1 will it pa before involving thenis themselves elves in heavy liabilities to help to build the road thaw THAT petition as it ought appears to be auspiciously regarded at washington the term loy loyal loyala alP as commonly need by the anti mormon ring in utah is 18 generally understood to be merely a bit of political cant as the term pious is when used by hypocritical religious professors and consequently is rather a warning sign than a recommendatory qualification the washington star speaks thus of the petition some weeks ago a petition was pr presented ea to congi ess pur purporting to come fron from four hundred of the loyal women of utah territory protesting against the admission of utah into in to the union at the present time and it was stated in the pi preamble pie amble cambie to the petition that a large majority of the signers have havo been residents of utah and members of the mormon church for many years and numbers of them have had bad a personal and arid very bitter experience of the practical workings of polygamy opposite the names of the signers appeared the figures showing the number of years they had lived in the territory of utah with other data calculated to impress the idea that the signers were particularly well weli au authenticated th on derao persons no the petition as printed here has hus got back to utah and nd we find the salt salo lake filled with cards and ind am am davi a of denial deolal of having haying si signed any such petition and also an aua analysis yla Yia of the signatures golla going to show tha thai that myny many of it them were wera jooe those of children from eight sight to fourteen years of age and th that atthe the figures representing tha tua tIbey they had been that number of years yearb in the territory ar or church covers covers the e entire age odthe of the individual on the whole this petition will have bave to be counted along with jude mckeand Mc Keans decisions overturned by the bui bup supreme ireme preme court ua a not exactly legitimate warfare again against at the mormons cormons Mor mons the star expresses the idea that utah should not come into the union except under the limited marriage policy an idea that we consider has no legitimate bearing upon ubon the question but the following observation manifests manifest a just conception idt of lot tho the attitude and animus of certain parties opposing admission we suspect that some of tho the zent zen gent jf at if IF 1 US 1 tiles out there who oppose its admission with or without polygamy ae swe in fenced by some interest as was shown to be the case in the late legal squabbles there in which Judge mckean figured the fact Is iff that motive would be strong enough iu in americans or those professing to be operating upon republican P principled piea plea to impo impei ahem them to oppose the investiture of au american community with the common right of self government when republic republicans aus advocate the iron rule of despotism they lay isy themselves peculiarly open to sus aus picton and nobody believes in the honesty of their professions professional be they what they may yes alah flah inte the backbone of the entire opposition movement in the territory this is evident for to candid and sensible persons persona it la Is plainly manifest that the advocacy of such known characters is a damage and a misfortune to any good cause and their connection with any worthy in movement is a discredit to it carrying a tendency to deter honorable pera permona yonei from identifying themselves with or elding aiding such cause or movement however there is not much probability of such inconsistent characters being connected with any good cause or worthy movement and they never are except when aney co consider nalder that such cause or movement will wilt prove to thum them an omnibus on which to carry safely their own pet schemes THE washington correspondent of the new york heroic in indulges in a really pathetic plaint upon the prospect ot congress adjourning without doing anything to solve the mormon problem for 20 years this controversy has continued this problem has waited vainly for a solution and congress has once more met and sat and not gone and done the solution what can the matter bt be the cormons mormons Mor mons have defied the whole christian world and the progress of civilization days stays the correspondent and today to day are as boldly as ever yea yes defenders defendo defend ora ors rasit bit elt in the U S senate chamber and in the goulla of representatives enjoying the fullest recognition and a nd peerage all the efforts of congress and its pious supporters of the anti mormon bue hue are ever persistently and mysteriously nullified the senate committees action has amounted to worse than nothing and in the youself Hou self seif possible matters are still worse everybody nearly is in the interest of stati or overawed over awed by that interest very singular it is that any bo body dy in congress I should be found Ovo advocating eating cating the rights of brigham young to establish polygamy or anything else among his bis people the utah federal officials are mere figure heads for the mor jonsto laugh at j at the time when the simplest action would have carried thedac the day against the mormons cormons Mor mons instead of things being as now the sending back to the loyal men of utah a withering reproach well we are sorry very sorry for the correspondent aud and also for those loyal men of utah the latter are not usually termed men they are better known by a more emphatic though less elegant designation never mind Congress will sit again next winter and atmo almo mormonism Mormon amoni iBm willbe will b alive then |