Show THE BELLE HARRIS OASE CASE THE sacramento anion a I 1 curnal which no one will accuse of favor to anything 94 mormon 1 I has haa an editorial with the above heading which we copy below almost entire belle harris lived in seyler betler county in the egypt of utah she was brought before the grand luny lury tury rury of the second utah district and asked are you a married woman and if so BO when and by whom were you yon married she bhe r replied that this wab was a privileged question and declined ed to answer with her babe at her breast and leaving another child behind her she was brought several hundred miles to salt lake luske and confined for her contumacy in the penitentiary of course the purpose of the question which led her into contempt of court was to ascertain who claimed to be her er husband in order erder to aid the indictment of a man for having married a plural wife the mormon organ at salt lake lauds the courage and fearlessness of belle harris and declares that she Is ia a strength of chalao er who Is ia defending a principle that her right as a witness is as ae sacred a aa s any rights recognized in Court courty 3 that she Js Is a martyr to a personal right and in defense of a vital principle of freedom the question oil was not diorec e ed 4 to her of any gilm grim but bat to her social relation t ti another she not being charged with any offense tenee of had blid bild claimed that her har bar answer would crimi criminate nate nafe her the way would have been clear to hr huz personal freedom but she does not appear to have taken this ground As a devotee of her church she could not nott dmit that living in polygamy la a crime and so she goeb koes to prison aa a religious martyr the natural sympathies willbe will be shocked at the imprisonment in n such a dismal and unwholesome place as aa the utah penitentiary of ef a woman with a few weeks old infant in har her arms the law cann cannot ot it is true make distinctions when contumacious conduct in contempt of its processes la Is to be punished but it does doeg not appear that we the grand jury wa was under the necessity of relying wholly upon thib this comans womans testimony or in proceeding to the extent of reporting her for con tempt burely surely polygamy la Is r hk enough in utah mormonism is ia full of the corruption to enable a ury to search it out with oui out fishing for a man they d clare ciare Is unknown to them why was it necessary to plunge belle harris hunis into praton prison and refuse her ball bail la ja order to ascertain who Is lathe the father of hen hec several child roi the woman haa hab exhibited courage in a bad cause that nevertheless ex cites lescot coupled with mith pity we W fear our gentile friends in I 1 utan utah ata lack discretion oie dle in thein their eal in the same werk weck in which bella barris harris waa sent to prison a gentile doctor of bait sait lake openly married a young glei girl though he hd had a wife wile jiving a few rew miles ia a the country af after aften ter ten much trouble the wife mau aged to procure from thu authorities a warrant for his arrest for bigamy but there was E huch huoh bungling work that he was allowed to escape after afier the service ot at the warrant vey very i naturally the cormons mormons ons charge this thib was because he be is a gentile had ho he been a mormon he would have been before the officers would have taken any chance of lis lits 1118 ils escaping 1 and the impartial mind finkst akst admit that there is force in the sneer of ahk th cormons mormons Mor mons the two cases do not speak well for the federal officers of utah our officers must show by their conduct that crim nala naia are ane not treated tri aled be cause they are cormons mormons Mor mons or tha rigor bf i relaxed b because the accused la Is a gentile the record umon union expresses the i views of a large number bumber of non cormona Mor mona on this subject it is I 1 not a case of prosecution but of persecution and the carrington orr ort affair of which nave lave appeared in this paper shows conclusively clu ciu that thai those who make so eo much ado about if mormon polygamy are rank and arrant hypocrites t ee for they have not a word to say about this fl flagrant pase ease se of gentile bigamy and aud make no effort to urge the capture and punishment of ott oft the a criminal if he had made any pre tenta of belne beine a mormon the i of fleeks would have been vehement ly jy censured censure d a full of the scoundrel eco undrel would have been published by the gentile papers and the country would have been scoured for his re arrest talo anti antl polygamy outcry is a humbug and the belle harris imprisonment a lawless jawless outrage |