Show PECULIAR COURT proceedings D tiiu proceedings in progress in the third district court present a curious spectacle it is doubtful doubty ul if they ever had a parallel in the history of jurisprudence A question of a str strictly e aly local character is supposed to be on trial it is tile the validity of a special school tax levied in the seventh school district of this city elty it IL will be seen that the question que tion and locality are both quite limited but a perusal of the proceedings c ce in court give them a remarkable scope A mass of evidence is being admitted that has no relation whatever to the question supposed to be on trial indeed the proceedings in the case show plainly bilat its title is a ini misnomer anomer file the mormon church is 1 s brought to the bar of the court and there placed on trial fill in this respect the case is not dissimilar to tiie tile situ tion as defined by tile the late james jaines B mckean ail an anti antl lormon mormon jormon missionary judge of the most fanatical lana type when the late president brigham young was before him hlin upon a trumped up cuarte judge jud jude c mckean frankly stated on oil mat that occasion the case at bar is not the people etc vs Br brigham ighani youn 1 its other and ana more proper title being tiie the tile people etc vs ali theocracy co Z cracy 11 ahe the 1 I lie lle case now na v proceeding in tue district court is nol not a trial ol 01 7 the validity of a special school tax levied in the tile seventh school district of this city but a trial of the mormon llor ino luo church and for tills this purpose the tongs tong s of the tile prosecution are thrust out in every direction and every scrap of evidence that is supposed to be damaging is seized with avidity and utilized la the utmost license being granted by the court in its admissions great extremes are arc resorted to including the stumm Stuff stuffing in of little children for tile tiie occasion but one oile at least of these little chaps went back on the pro gramme to which he had evidently been trained and denied in court what lie he had admitted to the prosecution behind the scenes the present status of affairs affords only a narrow field neld lor for this proposed expose of the mormon church this tills poverty of immediate matter being exhibited by tile the tact that not only is i s the territorial scope of evidene evidence rendered boundless except by the geographical lines of utah but the industrious prosecutors must burrow barrow into the musty dusty pages of the past for materials to f further ur its ends the purpose oi of this license by the court in allo win wing the trial of a purely local cause to go lar beyond its legitimate bounds is unmistakable the accumulation camu lation of every scrap of testimony that can be raked in irom from any quarter and construed twisted and discolored so as to increase popular antipathy abroad toward the mormon church is intended to form a bulwark behind which tile the crushing crashing process can be conducted an objective point of the i ant antt antl 1 mormon crusaders is to manufacture a popular excuse for overriding the constitution equity justice and the rights of mail moan in tile the effort to obliterate a lav law abl aul abiding diug ding community modern times has not furnished a more mure striking fidelity to the doctrine of hate and misrepresentation than has been exhibited especially of late by the anti antl mornion mormon I 1 crusaders from whose faces the mask of hypocrisy will be torn in due time |