| Show fancy alimony illegal A great many good people assume that itis it Is right light for brigham to pay nancy fancy alimony for tha the support of the wife who is traveling about the country lecturing about him in spite of all tile itie th e reasoning to the contrary we fall fail to pee fee how a court can legally divorce a woman from a man mau to 0 o hooi hona she was wab never married if in our own state for instance a woman were to go through the marrI marriage ageL ceremony with a man who already had a wafe tho proceeding could have no possible possie e effect except to send the man to the tha penitentiary for bigamy a y the second leife wife so to speak a T eak eau would not be a wife in trie eyes of the law nor ngn could she obtain tain alimony by suing for a dl vorce ann eliza hais has no becu liar equity on her side for when she joined Brig brigham bams hams family she know that he already had a dozen and a half of wives the kind bind of law they are using in utah would not be regarded aa as sound anywhere else and we do nob not believe in twisting an unnatural meaning out of a law in order to fit some particular case the polygamists in utah should bo be paril punished shed as they des dei deserve erve but there should not be one kind of law for them thein and an ot other herfor for the rest of th the nation it will not tend bend to settle the thia monnon question the last decision merely allows a woman to practise extortion the criminal practice of poly polygamy gauny gainy can be broken up by congress not by the courts why there has never been aby any adequate legislation is one of those things til the people cannot understand the president is bup Pup supposed posed to be well posted on ou this subject now and we presume that in his message he will 19 suggest gest some common sense bense plan I 1 ua by which a national disgrace may be blotted out oakland cat cai cat AW 3 |
