| Show editorials editorials peculiarities THAT PREVAIL IK UTAH tuis territory is a very peculiar place ahad abd inhabited by a very peculiar pecullar people things are done dono in a very peculiar manner they are done very differently here to what they are in other parts of the union but bub the most peculiar of all peculiar pecullar things C s are done in the courts not only the press but even tho administration is 13 staggered at some of the peculiar things doile dorie done here in j judicial u matters as for instance imprisoning prison ing a man for refusing to pay alimony to a woman whom the courts say thelah the law does not decoo recognize C as his wife which must mean that any woman can obtain alimony from any man if it lle lie she ile will only set the sleuthhounds sleuth hounds of the law at him it is usually considered that the business of the courts is to administer the laws impartially according to the true spirit and intent thereof it is further admitted that the best and most impartial judges are those who do not enter largely into the tho passionate politics of th the 0 day a and iad lad who wilo especially do no not lend themselves to petty part izan prejudices j or to the local prejudices in their districts but in utah things are done very differently there have been judges here who have exhibited exhibited the bitterest party prejudices who apparently have sold themselves body and soul to party and local prejudices and ties all their deci deel decisions or nearly all till have taken color from these prejudices and i ail ari animosities lmos imos ties insomuch that it has been considered a rate and noteworthy circumstance when a ruling of theirs has not been so manifestly tinged but some tome of the most peculiar things judicial done here arise uribe out of the extended jurisdiction which some of tho the courts have assumed some of them have not merely assumed to administer the law but to make the law thus adding the legislative ista isla tive to the judicial capacity two branches of the government which the constitution and the law have kept distinctly separate and independent pen pan dent borne some of those judges have assumed that to be law which is not law and those officers to be off omm meers officers of the law who are not officers of the law in the special cases thus virtually making law for themselves to 41 minister administer making tile the law they could make it to wase please themselves which was a very convenient arrangement for thom them excepting for the existence of the supreme court of tile the united states stales which being beyond the influence of these petty prejudices could not nott see things in the same light as the tho prejudiced judges in utah and ana therefore could not understand der stand the propriety of mixing the judicial and legislative functions in tile the persons of the incumbents of the utah bench among these judicial peculiarities arising out of this assumed extensive jurisdiction are the persons matters and things which these prejudiced judges assume to be on trial before them E elsewhere Ise lse where it ia Is understood that the business of df th the e courts is to try persons legally an and A regularly charged with crime erime crime erime according to the established methods which the law has prescribed proscribed but things are done differently here in utah A late chief j justice ustice was possessed ked with the mania anabe declared it from front the bench that the case before him was really the gobern ment of the united states versus theocracy ile ho absurdly thought he be had to try not a per hou bou hon ton or persons charged with cr erime crime ime 1 but a system of religion and this lie lic made his mission at every favorable opportunity while on the bench dench an associate justice de mared dared to a grandeury gran grand jury djury that the peo I 1 11 lo 10 of orthis this territory were on trial tile the i Govern government merit of the united united states was giving them one more trial and ault further the associate justice by some somo occult psychological process got it into his sapient that it was his mission to threaten the jury and the people with some kind of indefinite terri terni ble legislation which concra congress would accomplish touching utah unless the jury acted in such and such a way A judge must feel as wise as an owl to talk in that way to a jury we wc have also seen that an as so clate elate justice has his bis bu business em to put the mormon church on trial or in other to try the question whether a member of that church is fit for a juryman but the most wonderful thing in this connection is the act that a judge who had the uncommon sense to use the time of the court in considering such a question had also the common sense to render a sensible decision upon IL it one of the most peculiar peculiar atles of these prejudiced jud judges gesis is the satanic glee with which they make a prejudiced ruling whish h they hold bold to be non and judging by their intense seif self satisfaction over such rulings gs one can imagine them laughing in their sleeves arid and chuckling to themselves we should like to see the superior court reverse that ruling 0 bhatia thatis Th atla atia one of the things thing sia sla in which our power powe r is stronger than their legal wisdom mIll we have many times suggested that these peculiarities were all wrong buc it has seemed to be of little avail for the tho authors of I 1 them have been as blind as bats they cannot see many things as they should be seen been and as they really y exist and consequently they have run their own wilful course until they have run imn against a superior court snag the checking force of which they were bound to tong acknowledge although such ilas has been the absolute blind blindness nass of their pre minds that they have obstinately maintained that the they y are altogether right and land the su superior pei pel court is altogether wrong |
