Show BATES BEATS HIMSELF WE have taken occasion to state that george 0 bates nates now living in den v ver er 1 I is 8 in ono one of the advanced stages of lunacy we have advised some of his friend friends 8 to take tithe care of hims but bat he is evidently still a at large he shows hows bows how esy eaby it would be bb to exterminate term binate and eradicate polygamy J according to his plan he bays says through the inter ocean the ed munds munda bill so BO called as reported to the senate in 1878 by the hon HOD isaac P of michigan in addition to its ita present denni denul denunciation of polygamy had certain provisions which he lie thinks were just the thing we will give a few of them although wo we believe tuey they are ate his own fabrications fabrication si just fon for the fan of the thing ii ill ngi 1 l that all persons who are now living in or practicing polygamy in any of the territories of the united states or who shall hereafter do soy boy BO shail be disqualified from being plaintiff ej or jurors in any court apart of bald baid territories this means that the victims of this thib provision could be pa plundered anderea and defrauded with impunity and that if any of them should be cagni zant of a crime erime the operations of the laws inva of the land should be clogged by their inability ina lna blAty to testify 12 2 from holding any office of any name nature or kind hind co corporate apora le municipal towns township til lil ps county territorial rit nit orial or federal in said bald territory so bo that a polygamist poleg a mist could not become an officer in the mormon churches banks insurance companies railroad or indeed could not hold any office in utah how is that for insanity people who have nothing to do with mormonism would be practically de barred from doing business with lats 3 fr from om voting at any election in said territory either corporate municipal nic ni cipal pal township tow lip county or federal s tio sio that thal t lata ista would have had bad if the not act had passed no rights except to live eat drink an and d die and all banks insurance companies churches schools railroads ads jr mining companies could have had in that board no man or woman living in polygamy number three incorporates too much liberty the right to live eat drink and die especially the latter should be eliminated the kind of pro pru provender i vonden and aud liquid should also be specified the right to sleep however has been beer judiciously omis omitted give us something stronger aud and less gen generous croue fa 4 that in order to prove the crime of polygamy against any one charged therewith common report hearsay and the tho admission of either party should bo be nac rac received elved as aa evidence ovi evl dence in all trials against them number four will not do very well either it has too much of a double action reactionary tendency wo happen to know it might play the boomerang on george chaar number five is lengthy and opens the door to villainy by providing that any polygamist can be ba restored to lost privileges including we pre same the right to sleep sneeze and breit breathe be by kicking hid hla wives and children into the street according to the pune pure and holy manner mauner so BO valent throughout the country the concluding paragraph is rather raey racy fehere we here present the bulk ol of it ione one thing more let congress do and tho the end of polygamy has come let net jhb territory of utah bo be divided into five judicial districts let each fudge ludge thereof who must live in his district have a salary of per par month or per year jet the U 8 marshal have four deputies one for each cach district with salaries ol of the mille bame bum bam and the U B S district attorney attorn oy and his hla four deput deputies less leas one for euch each district have each esch the sani saul gammo earno 3 bial hsai salaries aries arles then le toniy lettOn tonly lymen men who ar are pure epure honest and cata oata capable oie ble be nominated by the president and appointed to fill all these offices men mea who will fearie fearlessly baly saly enforce these united states laws and in two years there will not be a thOua bind ista iata in all utah we imagine we can behold the immaculate george C rising up en massa masse and with one united voice and tears streaming down hia nabal nasal proclaiming hla hia Is own purity honesty and capability yot ho he would doubtless doubt lesa lega be willing to pl place a ce it against a pal pai paltry try a month for the bake babe of hia hta country |