Show ek expressions priss PRESS lONS FROM THE PEOPLE guinty GUILTY OE NOT KOT GUILTY il SALT LAKE CITY april 4 aw editor deseret wems news the scenes that are being daily enacted at the present time furnish ample food for thought and tion as also opportunity for much comment upon that all absorbing topic ople RELATION nela rela TION and if you will allow me space in your columns I 1 will offer afew a few of mine plural marriages are entered into by us not f from irom any choice of our own but because god has commanded us to do so thereas there is no elder in israel who has been mon moli relation of marriage but would naturally tural lv shrink from voluntarily assuming the ilic responsibilities anxieties and cares that a second wife wite c and family would ouid necessarily involve much less the effies etc of providing and caring f for or a third f fourth our or even ean more wives with their families that some sonic few men in israel have assumed to faithfully perform the duties of husband and father to one wife and one family especially should that family be numerous numer eus ens seems to the natural manlike a herculean task f furnishing urnis hino hing full scope for the exe exercise arcise of all his powers both physical and mental but god who made man and placed within him the spirit that he himself created f ully fully comprehends the powers of his physical being as well as his menta mental I 1 endowments a and ad has never uever given a law that is not in perfect harmony liardon and und keeping with his d dual ual being eing on the contrary his laws are given for the purpose of developing to the fullest extent all of ills powers latent though they he be and in proportion aa as they are exhibited and made manifest in accordance with the laws governing the same so is god glorified through man while man roan by fils his obedience la is recognized as wort worthy by to become a partaker of that glory then instead of the moral sense of the community of christendom being shocked at the mormon nion inen men taking more wives wises than one caring for them thein and their children and providing for them as they do they should applaud them as HEROES OF THE HIGHEST TYPE and award them such distinction as their heroism merits but the present crusade by its unlawful and unwarranted interference seems determined to bedeck the brow of those brave men with other laurels than those the they are entitled to wear because of the their simple obedience to divine law for are tricy not putting them to some of the severest tests possible going so far as to deprive them thein of that which is recognized as next to the hl highest h est boon life that god hasu hase has dyen to M man an which is liberty Is not liberty part of life itself separate one from tile the other and life is then reduced to a mere existence a blank to which death is more than preferable but thank god the deprivation of those brave men of their liberty will be only temporary and they will emerge from their confinement ot of six months or even five years not in the least degree the losers but in every sense the gainers by submitting to an unjust incarceration in a prison ison lson rather anan yielding up a principle principle of such vital importance as that of CELESTIAL MARRIAGE involving as it does doer the taking of more than one wife it is against this practice that such unjust prescriptive tyrannical and aud unconstitutional constitutional a laws have been enacted the execution of which has hag been entrusted to the most bitterly partisan U bigoted and unscrupulous men who in their zeal to show how nobly they magnify their office do not even confine contine their acts within tile the limits of an u unjust u law but boldly and defiantly break down all barriers and safeguards that for ages have stood as a bulwark for the screening ol 01 innocent persons accused of crime ne aud and thus have the untried and been exposed to the vile assaults of swarn enemies and their conviction and punishment has been predetermined and spoken of as positively before their trial as if the verdict were already rendered the thi judgment seat has been occupied by one MORE infallible THAN tue THE POPE pore himself ever claimed to be one who would utterly ignore and obliterate if need be the accepted definition bv by nifty fifty ty five nive millions of people of the word wora cohabitation a as fused in reference t to 0 the marriage relation and substitute another meaning th trefor never uever dreamt of by the dead lexicographer nor by the most learned interpreter of words now living but rather than lose an opportunity to sustain an unjust as well as an altogether unprecedented proposition offered by an unscrupulous prosecuting tin attorney that must be sustained in order to procure the conviction of these mormons cormons to which he is committed this august judge would transpose twist and distort an entire lexicon a bible even or a whole code of laws into something else to suit his purpose altering and varying dally daily as the occasion required but what need is thereto there to pursue the subject further farther for shakespeare truly said let hercules himself do what he may the cat will mew and dog will have his day bub but what must be said sald of those who cringe and favor and bow and be beg g at the teet leet feet of these unscrupulous men these petty tyrants these alese short lived persecutors to escape a little imprisonment a little tittle seeming dishonor who would have published to the world their avowed determination to renounce all allegiance alleri ance to faltha faithful ul trusting and loving wives that they voluntarily broke the covenants they made with god to love and cherish and that too forever brever the noble women who from honest conviction and in face a of tin the traditions of ages the customs and usages of society the strong prejudices and even scorn of millions have dared to assume the relation numerically of second third fourth or even tenth wife to one whom they supposed to be a man and andas as they vainly thought a man of god better far to have endured the full fuli f ull uli force of the venom and bitter hate bate of AN UNJUST JUDGE with hard labor added to tiie penalty than to have made such cowardly concessions ces coupled with promises that only a usurper demands I 1 unless there are some palliating pallia ting circumstances cum stances that have not been made apparent to relieve the odium that attaches to such broken vows then guilty was the correct plea piea in more senses that one and guilty 19 should sho u id continue to td be repeated as david avid avld co continually ns reminded himself hims elfand and others of his gross sin that as in his ills case god might 1 perchance extend foreve forgiveness and show mercy when the times of refreshing should come from ills his presence through the wives and children forfeited by the tile recreants i own act never more e could be restored to him NOT GUILTY |