| Show I 1 THE ILLIBERAL liberality OF CHRISTIA NOYS BILL AxOM ANOMALOUS ALOus asit 03 ns as 03 it may seem there ia Is a great deal of both liberality and illiberality in senator Chriatian cys bill lo 10 alre regulate elections and the suffrage jn in utah buti but nut in unfortunately nanc ly for the publio public good the illiberality I 1 is in la 9 opposition 0 to a cons constitutional right a healthful wholesome institution and a deserving people m hile ahe the liberality is nearly akin to license if indeed there is any auy essential difference baw between een them hence we talk of the illiberal liberality of the bill the bill ia Is liberal to all kinds of real criminals except they are under sentence or it does not maiter matter what crime erime chime crime fhy they have committed they whey they may have perpetrated every crime brime named in id the decalogue and many others they may have have committed every sort of crime crime malum maium in se as well as every sort of crime abt hibi 1 2 tum tam st I 1 ilif they are not un oer conviction or sentence und and even if they pay no taxes and have not the misfortune to belong to the better sex ex 11 they are at lit liberty 10 lo vote and to hold office in ini istah they may have been common jailbirds jail birds they may have escaped the tho well deserved extreme penalty of the law they may be well known seducers of tho innocent a cent at they may be notorious cor of the mar ringe estate J thesy may be confessed thieves they i may be reckless perjurers per jurers they may be bo uri bri unprincipled principled and unmitigated scoundrels but no matter senator tSe christiancy is extremely liberal to them aud and his bill allows them to vote or hold office without let or hin bin hindrance dianco diance on any of these serio serious us ac accounts counte this thia is his liberality it is 19 extreme it embraces all good bad and no matner matter hovi how bad they pro weeo welco weco mato meLto the suffrage und and eligible to hol hoi hoid hold office doffice thay the y are amply good enough iu in senator opinion to vote or to hold office in utah this certainly is exceedingly liberal if isi is liberal taz faz confines of 11 license cense conse s on tl lether li nd the bill a extremely illiberal to one els eis of citizens while it is so blindly in favor of nil all allf sorts corts of real criminals eirls it Is invidiously an ani ad pro prescriptive scrip tive towards ah excellent body ot of citizens who can not nol norbe be charged with actual 1 crime essential crime but 0 ois with a actions af f a religious nature natu re which of mankind consider honorable which armijo where of fences except as t they hey may be made so by statute and which have been unconstitutionally so made by congress this is the narrow illiberality of the bill and I 1 any citizen who Is thus made subject to toils its prohibition and penalties may escape ty by an a aeb act ct of baseness bareness and perfidy from which the soul of every honorable man would recoil with in dig nation natio n and scorn if a man will basely desert the wives of his bosom arid arld sear them with the brand of impurity if he be will cast his prattling children to the tender mercies of the woolda cold charity yea if he willais wiil will discard his wives as wives though still cohabiting with them as mis tresses if he i despicable enough to do these things thinks he ike may be eligible and welcome under chris biancy ti ancya s bill to the suffrage and to official station tation fc in utah iche can bring himself to desce descend wid fid tb the these so stupendous depths of infamy he be honorable enough for senator Christ christiancy fancy lancy and that gentleman of such astonishing illiberal liberality will clasp him to his bosom as hs a good dood and honorable american citizen good enough and arid honorable enough to be bw heartily welcomed to pass in iii his vote at the polls and to elect his like to civil office in utah I 1 to dis dip disburse burse the taxes thereof although lie lib may have never contributed to those taxes so much as the value of a single red cent pent in fil all his worth worthless legs life thi Is senator Christian cys illiberal liberality it is immense in its way it is perfectly stupendous |
