Show editorials WHY HY DONT investigate r tire dire tre THE superficial manner in III which influential journals look upon and treat the they seem to think one af pf of great pu public bile importance is shown show n in n the comments of the press on the recent decision of the united states supreme court in the miles case nine newspapers out of ten that try to explain the matter and to moralize upon it iff either misstate mis state the facts blunder as to the ruling err as to its bearing and effects or draw inferences that are entirely unwarranted lohe by uhe the tle decision cislon elsion here is a statement of the case by a leading eastern journal miles iles lles married a beautiful young miss spencer neer promising har that she should ahls be his only wife subsequently against her P protests 0 te he married a fe M iss owens the last lai wife twIN having havin been a witness of the first marr marriage lag miles was waa arrested and his trial took place under 4 a naw new code then recently recently Y ado au opted in iii utah which which was so construed cons tr u sled aled as to exclude mormons cormons from the jury in this case we aeed need not explain to qun oun out read t ers era how terribly the thie facts are here muddled and misstated so as to make thet the statement entirely incorrect and here hero is the conclusion by the same paper drawn from the coures courts Cour tIff decision the other important point decided uy the supreme court yesterday ia 19 that a second wife cannot be made to testify a against c adust her husband in iii regard to his marriage with his first wife or vice versa As wives will wil willivery lVery ivery very veny seldom consent to testify aa against dinst their husbands husband sunder under any circumstances this decision Is not of much muel ico fco consequence nse quence every opinion like this ls is la 13 a step towards breaking don down mormonism but the progress made is so go slow that we do not wonder that good people in the east get discouraged 11 the intelligent editor is as much aisea at sea in regard to the effect of the decision as to the facts in the case but he is not any worse than another leading writer on a boston paper who says I 1 the decision just rendered by the supreme court under which a con bigamist is released because the evidence of neither of his wivel could dould be lawfully received against him makes it as the court concedes scarcely possible to convict for polygamy in ulah under existing laws A new law of evidence making certain facts like a second brood of children for example prima facie faele evidence of unlawful relations is the rat thing needed brie one instructor instructor of the people tells them that a mans second wife cannot testify against him the other says neither of his wives can do so they are both wrong and therefore their sage advice as to the proper r course to be pursued being lerold baad upon error is worthless and out of place place the editor just referred to commenting menti ilg tig upon the exclusion of mormon jurors says this is very important since it removes one of the chief obstacles to the conviction of mormons cormons for polygamy ly the pre presence ence enee of mormons cormons their uniform refusal to tb convict no matter how strong the evidence may be again he lie is very gery much mistaken mormon juries have been accused by newspaper men of refusing to convict but the records of the courts here prove beyond cavil that the charge is untrue the only man that has served out a sentence under a charge of polygamy was convicted by a mormon jury mormons Mor Wor mons have been convicted of various of fences i and gentiles acquitted by mormon juries as the records show the repetition of these stale slanders is dishonorable in ju those who furnish information to the public we do not complain because editors and other persons s suit posed to tobe be acquainted with public pune questions do not inform themselves on the subject of mormonism if they prefer to remain in in ignorance about it or to be misled by designing pg knaves that is their affair but we have the right to ask that they cease from disseminating falsehoods about the morans mormons cormons Mor mons and stirring up popular and congressional an animosity against us all based upon misconceptions as to our true character and principles and upon the false statements of unscrupulous enemies and we ask them to reflect a little litlie ittle itlie upon the injustice of the measures they seek to inaugurate in the triai trial ofa mormon for polygamy in the first place all the tile officers of the courts heie hele hei e are oppose to the accused person erson and nd influenced by a it strong cesire desire fo for r this against him with the bitterness which influences opponents on blended religious and political principles next the jury la is to bo be packed against him no one is to be permitted to serve on it unless lie ho ia is opposed to the accused in the same way as the judge and the ibe court officials in the very of things here such jurors will be anti and mormons Mor IMor mons yf prejudiced against the defendant then the evidence is not to be necessarily direct the existence of a number of chil chii dreu drea reputed to belong to the accused is to be taken as evidence that the their 1 ir mother is married to him the samo same no with another family how much chance for justice would be left ro nor for r him presumptive evidence to be taken as proof a jury picked and packed against him all the paraphernalia pher nalia naiia of the court on the same side and tb the e judge wait walt waiting ng eagerly to pronounce sentence this in in an american federal court this in the republic of the united states and what are all these departures from the regular proceedings roce edings of law jaw to be established established for simply to procure the breaking up of family associations entered into on conviction of their rightfulness which do no actual injury ury to any one but which are dista distaste henu hefu fu to certa certain meddling persons and i to divers pretended puritans affected bv by their own distorted imagination what good would bo be the result of such a course A few men some of them just as likely as not innocent of the charge preferred for no mormon would be safe rare sent to the pon pen penitentiary leavin leaving g the fa millies es for and unprotected will it convince the mor mons that they are in the wron wrong and tend to break up their system no na never it will not in the very verv nature of things it will natu naturally ralty confirm them in their views and stir up every power within them to resist such unrighteous n and unjustifiable proceedings and to help e each ench other in a struggle for strong and lawful defence the whole plan with the theories on which it is based that is being devis devised against the dior mormons Mor Aror mons is wrong in principle and shameful in its conception it is in violation of all known rules of law and e equity alty ani and just and thoughtful minds m inu ing should be able to perceive its iniquity and needlessness at the same time those who think the tiie mormon question of any real importance to them or the country should endea eudea least to understand it before forming conclusions or making suggestions gest ions for there til ere is no topic of the times on which people of general information are more deplorably ignorant than this subject on which t they hey all imagine t they hey can give competent detent advice the quotation quotations we have ave made are samples out of many that might be cited ia i i THE BETTER WAY A snort SHORT time ayo ago 0 fifty sets seus of harness barness mado made by indian boys at the carlisle school workshops were accepted by the war department for use in in the united states army this is a much better employment for indians than begging loafing stealing and ma it is evidence that the natives of the land can be turned to habits of industry and made useful if not ornamental to society it would be greatly to the credit of the government if the policy of training and improving impi oving the red men were followed in instead stead of the policy of extermination large numbers of ot the indians by fair and honest treatment by kindness and firmness by patient pa tiene tlene e and christian charity cal car te I 1 into subjection to law ani ani habits of usefulness surely tb th s would be better for the naton nalon leaving out of consi con derad m n the question 0 righteousness mercy and justice than the polica of force of might over right of disregard to the he claims of the nu origines aborigines to the soil and of utter and d shon or we hope the new method the mormon way with the indians indian 9 will become general PEN PICTURE OF pennsylvania PREACHERS are no anti antl mormons in in the world who are so bitter and violent in their opposition iona lona i i lie the professed ministers of the go e ej I 1 like their prototypes who were cerulli I 1 I 1 real cause of the popular outer I 1 ler loi against the pr and he the Sav hav savior havior lorand and his apostles they have been at tro t 40 bottom of ev every ery cry movement designed to destroy the believers ars n m the religious system known as II 11 normon mormonism any estimate we might place upon ulon them would naturally hIly bily le open to the charge that we do not regard them in a favorable ight here however ho wever never is a ign of ol many of them given by one of their number rev uriel graves a pem pew pennsylvania clergyman of distinction and energy who ought to know hereof whereof he be speaks ile he says concerning the people of that state they are duped and betrayed by long faced pretenders who seek only to get their thein b ein eln bread and living by their p preaching r while they care na not for the flock beyond the question of the prospective fleece we would not be understood to make the above remark in any wholesale manner for there thre are many who like ourselves once still are serving their people in that narrow sense of which wo we have already spoken but who nevertheless are doing their work honestly yet ignorantly but having said this much explanatory we wish to assert that by far the larger number nu aber through ignorance or downright villainy are serving their flocks irrespective of the good or 1 ill lii they may do them so they only get the milk and enjoy the shelter to prove this our bold assertion ser tion wo we challenge the reader reade r to nind find us six popular ministers I 1 in pennsylvania who dare preach the whole truth of god to their respective congregations just aa as christ commanded them to and not at once on co bring on the sorest troubles in ha their charges and among their supporters and that there may be no mistake I 1 will ask them to take the words of christ in his sermon on the mount and giving them their true and legitimate interpretation speak out boldly the word 0 of f the lord such preaching would transform or empty ninety per cent of all the pulpits of this land in less ess than six months the pennsylvania divines may be fairly taken as average samples of the fraternity elsewhere if these are the kind of preachers who occupy the pulpits of the orth orthodox adox churches what wonder is it that public pu bc worship is so poorly attended and that there is a general complaint of a rapid decline in religion and who should be surprised at this kind of christian clergymen advocating vo cating the policy of E ettling the 19 mormon problem by military force POPULAR BELIEF fallacious tim THE san francisco bulletin has a long leade runder the heading beading 1 of A representative man reviewing the article by our delegate in the north american review several quotations are given and it is admitted that some telling points are made and that the statements uttered uttered certainly conflict with the popular belief the fact is that the popular belief is often entirely erroneous in the case of the dior mormons Mor Alor mons it is based on rumor and the misrepresentations of their bitter enemies the old adage about giving a dog a bad name may be with propriety applied to them it has not been the fashion to accord them a hearing through the public prints but to accept as true all the absurd and horrible stories that have been made out of whole cloth by designing persons or that have been woven with the slightest thread of truth in an entire warp and nearly a complete woof of falsehood the bulletin seems rather doubtful over the statement of hon geo Q cannon that the mormons cormons Mor mons be sides viewing the old and new kew testaments as the word of god and looking for salvation to christ the redeemer as the savior of the world also hold that chastity in man is a virtue which should be maintained as rigidly as laywoman in la woman and as an onset offset to this cites as facts that dele delegate gate cannon at home has been defiant in in defense of poly gamy and that rit lit cit it is well known in congress and out of it that he be was a polygamist having just as many wives as he chose to maintain in defiance of the law here is one point on which the popular belief la Is lust just as much at fault as it was in relation to the early saints and indeed in regard to the prophets and people of god in every age of the world it was the popular belief and the popular voice that condemned the men mem who came with the burden of the word of the lord that nailed christ to the cross and proclaimed the primitive christians a little sect everywhere spoken against it is popularly supposed that if a man marries and lives with more wives than one he must be a depraved person sensuality is so wide spread that the average individual can conceive of no other prompting than animalism as an inducement to plural marriage P people eov eod e naturally judge others by theme themselves 1 es and yet the truth is that those ohp chuen en ter into this family system are as a rule people who govern their appetites and passions and are under un aar apr er special al religious obligations as to C chastity as t I 1 ty they consider that 0 o n ter course outside of the marriage relation is a deadly sin they must be guided by principle rather than feeling or they could not possibly practice plural marriage in any degree of peace and perpetuity families organized under its form could nob not exist or rather continue if led by a spirit of licentiousness if either men or women enter into info it for lustful purposes they do not and cannot remain in nit it unless influenced by religious motives and objects it would be impossible for them to maintain their relations the doctrine of celestial marriage is not understood by the world neither are the people who believe in and practise it the grossest and most indecent inventions of bestial minds concerning it are accepted by the public as facts and the prejudice thus aroused shuts the ears and eyes and hearts of the people against any investigation of the truth those who either lie about abou it or of that which they do not understand are heard those who know the truth and are willing to testify cv to it are despised and unheard or if it I 1 listened is ten ed to at all are treated wi with th distrust and disdain people are not only in error as to the principles involved in this thia matter but are ignorant of the law relating batig to it here are the bullett bulletin n and other papers talking every n now OW and again about men living with wives in defiance of law when the situation is that there Is no law in utah against a man living with any number of wives the objector will smile and point to the ladof law of congress gre sa ag against ainest foly poly p oly gamy well read it now yow say what provision there is in it against living with wives the of is in the ceremony the crime is to contract a marriage it Is iea lea a law framed specially and entirely against a 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