| Show A SPECIMEN ANTI antl BILL wn WE publish today to day the text of a bill introduced by mr E A wall in the council of the idaho legislature it Is not likely to become a law the legislators ef the territory north of us ua have not yet reached to tho point of making laws lawa specially against a religious society mr wall may think he will gain gaia some notoriety ri ety and fethe aPPIa applause use uEe of the rell gloub and political fanatics by his transparent assault upon citizens of southern idaho but he ha will find that his expectations will not be realized A little transitory applause may be the result of his hia effort efforts but that will be all there will be no lasting effect to his benefit or the injury ol of the mormon Mor population of idaho the measures desired by the anti mormon all legislators are supposed to be in the interests of morality their projectors project org orn p posa oba as moral reformer reformers ra ti they ey wish to be thought though t strictly virtuous and models of exemplary life in most instances their private charac teria teris of the worst usually they are libertines and debauchees debau chees and while they protest loudly against plural marriage their secret klasons are shameful and abominable it will be observed by the reflecting that none of these anthor ant mor mon measures really strike at licentiousness they are leveled at plural marriage not at unbridled lust or either male maie or female prostitution rosti in mr walls bill that kind of vice which is common in the world and is not unknown at boise during darlng the sessions of the legislature is carefully guarded under its provisions mr wall johnny nell neil and other pretended champions of morality can cau freely indulge in those thom peccadilloes which frequent rumors credit or debit them with and no ill results will follow from the law we do not accuse them of anything of the kinos kinds kind kino neither will we repeat what has haa come to our ears concerning such buch men but bui we point out this striking feature of their bill which Is common to all that kind of special legislation does not this bill demonstrate our point that is ia that the moral position these paragons assume is but pretence predence pre tence aye the verlest sham and tb toe too 6 grossest hypocrisy mr wails walls bill like others of its hind kind la is directed against Bom som something ething regulated by religious rites coven covenants anbe anfe rea lestric res lions and conscientious convictions but the vilest sots sets by which men and women degrade themselves below the level of the brutes are carefully left butof out of the provis provisions lons ions of the bill and those who indulge in them may go scot boot rree while a man who take 3 more than one wite wife to his heart he n rt and home under sacred conditions tio lio na and agreements and in the highest purity of motive pos poE possible sIble in the tha marriage rel rei relation atlon Is to bo be made subject to the pains and penalties of 11 special p e ca 1 enactments against his religion li 9 lo 10 the husband of a plural wife and any person who has been at any time a party to a plural marriage or belongs to r church in which the doctrine of plural marriage is taught or permitted is to be disfranchised franchised dis while the whoremonger the adulterer the pimp the ee ducer seducer the lascivious deceiver of confiding wo man the me corrupt and leprous grov ellor eller in the foulest puddles of social depravity is left by this 1111 unpunished and the peer of E A wall wail and J B nell and the rest of the conspirators against the bent best citizens that idaho can boast if the author of this bifi bill for the protection of lechery and me toe punishment of bible marriage had lived in the days of the early christians they would bave have exclaimed against him in the words worda of the apostle to the bantiles uan Gan tiles god shall smite thee thou whited WALL but bat we have no ill wishes to utter and no exclamations to make ve lve alvo his little bill bili thib notice and leave it agreeing with the sentiment expressed in the following notice of the we find in the boise democrat of cf jan 0 CO O 13 18 a bill to disfranchise the citizens of bear lake laka and oneida counties was Introduce introduced zi to inflate johnnie neil neli and gratify a little spite on the part of his two or three followers and Is of 0 no consequence whatever but sut the secretary took loofe it to bacon and had it printed forthwith |
