| Show THEY ane ARE responsible tim salt lake tribune of this morning gives I 1 ives the details of an un alle alie alleged I 1 ed case of gross sexual criminal criminality ityl said to have occurred in nTo tooele thoele oele the paper named in connection with the hc disgusting narrative states that the perpetrator of the deed had bad a standing in the church and the authorities of that religious body in the locality indicated lu investigated vesti abed the matter mattei being beina satisfied of the guilt of the person charged with the offense he was excommunicated the fact of this action having been published in the NEWS at tile the time this step on the part of the church was based on the laws it inculcates for the tue maintenance of its own purity parity the latter day saints as a body abhor all violations of chastity and those who are guilty of such infringements upon good morals morais are not tolerated within the th pale of the church when their guilt is made clear with them plural marriage after tile the form that prevailed among the patriarchs is a holy relationship tion ship and a part of their religion ligion ic notwithstanding I 1 the claim that the mere inere fact of such an institution shocks the tile popular moral susceptibilities of th the bage hage age but bat it is not now held that this shocking effect affect is on account of any part of the sexual relationship except the inere mere fact of the marital tie in connection with the rec ree recounting bunting of the filthy tooele thoele story the tribune makes these inc incidental incidents identa I 1 remarks in this connection it may be well to state the reason why no sexual crime except polygamy unlawful cohabitation and rape is an offense against the law in utah some seven or 01 eight I 1 lit years ago lewd and lascivious cohabitation was an offense under territorial law about that time a polygamist in the second district livin living openly with two women as his wives was sent to the penitentiary for a term of years under the lewd hawd and lascivious cohabitation t statute whereupon the church howled loud and long at judge boreman and the mormon from one end of zion to the other thundered borth their maledictions male dictions at the next session of the biah legislature the territorial rit orial statute against 11 sexual crime except rape was repealed by the apostles and bishops who composed the body kody of lawmakers law makers as a church measure I 1 many suany of our readers will doubtless recollect the case to which the foregoing refers it was that of alonzo colt coit colton n of beaver who having more morel thano thino than one wife was indicted by y the grand jury under tile the territorial statute for the punishment of lascivious cohabitation he was tried before associate justice jacob S evicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for live ulve years which term be he duly served everybody knew at the time and knows still that judge borremans bore Borc Bo remans mans action was a judicial outrage that fact is made apparent even by the extract which we insert from the tribune polygamy as practiced in this territory is not lewd and lascivious cohabitation this cannot bs be trutha truthfully ully ally denied by any person familiar with the social life of of the saints all forms of lewdness and lasciviousness either within or outside of the marriage relation 11 are conda condemned ned by them and are not tolerated by the laws of the church had mr colton been guilty of lewdness and licentiousness he would in all probability have been expelled from the community of saints and in that case he would not have been an jobje 0 of pursuit by any officials of anti mormon bias as that class make no special pretentious to being offended at mere sexual sins the prosecution was brought simply because of coltons collons Col tons baving having two wives another case of the same kind occurred that of thomas paw hawkins kins under der the regime of the late judge james B mckean the lat tatters remarks to the accused in passing sentence upon him were almost as popularly familiar as holding out of more than one woman to the world 1 of later date 1 I am sorry for you thomas hawkins very sorry 11 the judicial judilla jud iciak bigot exhibiting the thep profundity rotundity of his grief by sending his hig victim illegally to prison itis it is inelegantly stated by the anti mormon organ that the church howled on account of these judicial cial clai outrages and perversions the same paper howled then in favor of them but would scarcely enter into an elaborate defense of them nov now they were condemned by every consistent non noti mormon as we have reason for knowing A brother in law of kofl I 1 alonzo coltons collons Col tons came up from frota beaver and circulated a petition sto to the governor to have him released on the ground that he was illegally imprisoned a fact which must be universally admitted lie applied to certain gentiles and ex cormons mormons I 1 for their names we know who they are they admitted that coltons collons Col tons conviction and imprisonment was a judicial outrage and dud a violation of or law the statute under which he was convicted and sentenced having no relation lati iati onto to hi his case but they said sald they ther were afraid that if they affixed their signatures to the petition eie fie tribune would assail assali them in formulating the absurd construction upon the edmunds law that thal to prove unlawful ua cohabitation under it there is no necessity for sexual commerce to be bc shown the theory was entirely based upon the suppo supposed ed intention of congress indeed as we have formerly shown there is nothing in the law itself upon which to found such an inference if it the same base be used in reference to the tile now extinct territorial statute against lascivious cohabitation and aud kindred sexual offenses how plain does the intention of the local legislature appear and equally clear ivere were the departures from its purpose in the two cases cited the action of the legislative assembly in repealing the measure was necessary in order to protect people who were innocent of any violation of it from being pursued under it by a corrupt and bigoted judiciary who refused to recognize the object of the law mak ers there are no people on earth who are more opposed to sexual sins than the latter day saints and a prejudiced judiciary judici judic larv arv the salt lake triune and its rabid alders and abettors abet tors in bitter and arid unscrupulous antii Ib mormon lormon I 1 method sare res responsible for the absence of local pun atory laws upon the subject their constant and never changing course has bar been to let the whoremonger the adulterer and seducer go free and turn the laws intended for characters of that class against mor alor mons whose marital ie relations lations are made the subject of united states laws |
