| Show rhe vrr THE POLAND BILL IN UTAH As the poland bill so called is awarded the credit of having worked a judicial revolution in utah letus let iet us examine the same by the fruit it has produced it was a child of great promise at its birth ite its sponsors promising promise ng that it should bring peace to a distracted people ke stores restores rights to the oppressed and in the polite vern vernacular acu aeu ia r of the ring 12 humble the proud mormon theocracy and the th 0 great boast of its frie frit friends ads Is i that it has hns opened the hall or of justice so that every lavery man may demand and re without delay sueh are some only of the prom I 1 les ies es made on behalf of this bill that was to bring order out of chaos but what are the facts the third judicial court all the omm off meers leers of which are appointed by united states authority and are acting under this famous bill has tried th ee cases since the first monday in october an attorney of thea the ourt dourt informs me that there are on the docket about cases and if the past is any guide for the future any one can fairly calculate when the other cases can be d dipia I PO ed or of but it is not likely to be iu im this day and generation if as aa the ring asserts the fa latter day saints are all guilty of some crime and it enumerates mur murder er polygamy and perjury as I 1 a taught in hi tile the church and th therefore fore nore calling loudest I 1 for or punishment when will the day arrive when the accused can appear in court and show to the world their innocence ol of these infamous charges the old cannot rea bonab y x t elect lect apece to live long enough bus roust go down to their thel r grave charged with crime without having had bad an opportunity to vendit cate cate themselves while the young may live long eno enough tig 11 to stand at the bar of justice in 11 their old age to answer the charges made in hi their youth Is it right in any government to treat its citizens t thus h u S Is it just that those thoe accused c 11 sed of crime shall lie in prison rason without the right of trial must tiley they linger in prison phi on while civil cases basea drag themselves scowl through the courts or mutt must mus t civil cases involving thou thousands nandi handi and millions million bof of dollars remain untried and for ever Is this picture to be admired does this thia bill accomplish all thi thin la Is it the great panaca panacea that cures all tile lile ills of utah would it not have been betler to bear the ills we had bad than fly to those we know not ot oi it 11 is the right t or of the people to indict when a crime has bas been com corn mitte ted dand and it is equally the right odthe of the C citizen to an early trial but if the poland bill is to govern it would appear that the only right that can be exercised is that to indict indeed it is admitted by some or jhb legal fraternity that the j jury ury system under the poland bill will neier never answer for a murder or capital case as the nam names in the box will be exhausted long before a I 1 ury can be obtained this thia would prevent atri a thi tri albut at the same time it would insure the party charged the opportunity of lying in prison for an time but this in the polite english of the ring ringa is good enough for the d d mor bor mons monr I but another view of this case Is that during months and peril perli perhaps Caps years delay all prisoners are to be be maintained at the public expense which will pile up such a bill as no community can stand again it is well known in ring circles that the laws law is radically defective and it is the anten tion to move congress at its next rles elsion ee sIon slon for an amendment for it is understood perfectly well that tha the next or the democratic congress will not lend itself to radical legislation it is also well known to the legal wing of the ning ring that for the reasons herein stated and others that are not now prudena prude tie tle to mention no conviction can ever be had ifor or those crimes crimea for far which tho the ring has the most abhorrence I 1 have had the legal situation fully explained to me by an attorney niad nad slad aad he bays ays the game of persecuting the cormons mormons Morn norn lons ions is blocked bloe bloo ked and no tant taut criminal trials can take place until the law is amended this famous law might be truthfully termed A law to indict and imprison a whole community and to deny the right of trial laws les ies infamous than this have cost monarchs their crowns an and d this people must either quietly submit to this outrage and wrong and even praise this abortion called a law or they are at once charged with disloyalty but they whom the gods would to e stroy btroy they first make mad so it is with the authors or of this iniquity they are buried out or of sight by uy the tumbling ruins of their own babel for this bill ia iss as asi dead Judi eally eaily as an its author judge is 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