| Show AN EXPANSIVE RULING ax AN important point in the present an ti mormon crusade seems to have been overlooked by those who are conducting its legal and judicial departments it Is singular that it should have escaped their observation seeing they are so keenly on the alert to secure vantage ground by fair means or foul we deem it our duty in view of all the circumstances to point out to the anti mormon persecutors that the gentlemen who were sentenced on saturday for unlawful cohabitation are according to judge zanes ruling as to what the offense consists of daily guilty of the alleged crime for which they have been placed in durance vile according Ae cordin I 1 to the definition given by the court it t is only necessary for fora a man maa to I 1 hold 0 out uti more than one woman to the world as wives to render him gui gul guilty ity of an infringement gement ement or bre breach eh of the third section of the edmund law these brethren have not denied the relationship they sustain toward their wives and the connection so far as I 1 holding out and acknowledgment is concerned remains unchanged it Is n not ot even necessary that the ladies should live in the same habitation with their husbands to make the cases complete thus the way has been opened to have them daily sundays excepted indict ed tried and convicted thus the they bohld could be fined bawo in one year M and during the same period be sentenced to imprisonment for years and six months judge zane assured the victims of saturday that aney were not nott being persecuted i and as evidence of the lenient henlen t spirit by which he was actuated inflicted upon them the extreme penalty of tue law and informed them they were liable to a si similar tallar judicial prescription res crip tion so soon as tuey emerged prom from prison had the scope of his interpretation pre tation of the edmunds law occurred to him at the moment he might have further exhibited the absence in him of the spirit he might have assured them of the liability under which they labored of a dally daily dose of the same medicine for that remarkable ruling defining cohabitation to be simply holding out oat presents tae the anomaly of a man being IV while h le ll 11 imprisoned an hourly perpetrator of the offense for which he is incarcerated carce caree car rated this is one of the anomalies of anti antl mormon jurisprudence which brings to the surface more absurdities to t the e square inch than is presented anany in any other of its branches branchesi j to the square mile |
