| Show editorials s g MORMON pa MARRIAGE NOT A MOCKERY THE chicago herad herald says there are men and women who make as great a mockery of the marriage relation as a the toe mormons cormons do and who are protected in it by the law though they are perjurers per jurers and de barchers bau chers the berald TeraM here tells telis the truth but not the whole truth it might haye have said there were thousands of people who make a jal far greater mockery of the marliave mar marriage relation than the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons do and adf yet receive the tho protection of the law and find ready champions in its administrators in fact it might have ald truthfully aid that with tho the 11 mor mons marriage is not a mockery at all but a most serious and holy and important sacrament involving obligations and covenants which are not limited to this life but extend into the boundless future it is unreasonable to suppose that other people I 1 believing as they do universally that t the he marriage contract becomes null and void with death would regard it with the game degree of sanctity as the latter day saints who expect the relationship of husband hustana and wire wile to continue hereafter and the marriage ceremony when properly solemnized to bl binding upon them throughout all the eternities to come so f tar ar from regarding marriage as a mockery the latter day saints do not look upon jt as a mere civil contract that can pe toe properly ratified by any justice of the peace or other civil officer but as a holy ordin ordinance ince to be performed only by me men n divinely com corn and w within th the walls of a sacred temple dedicated to the most high where the contracting parties take upon themselves covenants of chastity and fidelity to one another upon the strict observance of which their future hops of salvation depends the latter day saints are giving to the world solemn and undeniable proof ot of the fact tact that marriage is not a mockery with them by submitting to nines fines and imprisonment rather than prove untrue to their wives or repudiate their sacred marriage covenants if it ware were said of the very large and highly respectable class in this tins na tion who indulge in I 1 consecutive poly gamsby marrying and divorcing one wife after another that they make a mockery of marriage i ill would be quite true but this remark cannot be truthfully hf ully made about the latter day saints ONE OF THE FEW IT Is not every journalist lourn alist in the esst east that makes the mormons cormons Mor mons a standing subject abject for unreasoning attacks 1 in n order to pander to the popular taste one of the f fraternity who drives a vigorous quill in a letter to a friend in this city expresses the following kindly an and consistent sentiments it does seem to me that the government t is gakias making a great mistake I 1 in n this matter if persecution is to be the order of the dav we hai had better take down the sign theat that we are dealing in the article ca called lied died justice the law declares all manner of 01 fornication etc to be unlawful cohabitation but those who engage in it by the wholesale and who throw a lasso over the neck of every poor mormon are like those who are standing up to their chins in mud trying to fa lasso aso a cake of soap floating off in the distance every time I 1 touch the question with a pen many subscribers in the east cast become greatly affronted but I 1 cannot keep still without feeling that I 1 am arn committing a wrong upon the many ly heart of man 1 0 A PECULIAR manifestation OF EMOTION oiin readers are familiar with the soul stirring plea pica delivered ayt by F A brown of ogden on the occa occasion ilon of his trial for unlawful cohabitation in the first district court a few days dayi I 1 ago at the conclusion of his eloquent statement which was made under oath and in the capacity of a witness judge PW powers said that most of the averments aver ments of the def defendant end would be thrown out as evidence but his honor promised to consider them in passing sentence after the case was given to the jury they retired and after an absence of twelve 3 minutes returned with a verdict of guilty as chari charl charged d in the indictment ment t accompanied i ed with a recommendation men en dation of the prisoner to the mercy of the court in accordance with mith the judicial decree as to time of passing judgment F A brown appeared in court at 10 this thia morning moroni brown convict convicted edl edi of a similar offense was present also for the same purpose the sentiments of the latter althou although h not heretofore publicly expressed elaborately were understood to tad be similar to those of the former we have not full details of what took place but it appears that the kace vace brethren must haye hare made remarks in court this morning as our informant says the judae judge manifested a good d deal deai balof of feeling while passing sentence and listening to address we presume gume sume the feeling referred to Is one of sympathetic aphetic emotion but the action 0 of t the judge is strangely at variance variances with so commendable and humana human a sentiment ment had there been any genuine I 1 ne sympathy in his soul soui he had had bad ii a clear opportunity of displaying it jn n his bis action wh which ch C was unnecessarily cruel and heartless the judgment in each case was imprisonment in the penitentiary for six month months sand and a fine of three hundred dollars the full penalty of the jaw law the subtle cruelty cruelly of this sentence in ln the case of F ABro abrown A brown wu is exhibited by beveral several plain facts in la the first pace place br the court raised the hopes hopeb of the accused to the point of expectation that the sentence would be mild in consequence of certain intimated considerations side rations connected with athe he case but these hopes were elevated alpar parent patently ly for fon the purpose of dashing them to the ground another element that makes the position of the judge anomalous not to say inexcusable is that even it if he were influenced by the anop anti antt mor mon senti sentiment meathe menthe be could easily and properly have screened himself behind the action of the jury who although packed on the principle 0 of being in sympathy with the prosecution I 1 ikani manifested jess inhumanity than he ha has bas 8 done as they recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the court elsoner they heythum thus assumed the responsibility for any judicial mildness that might have been manifested toward an individual who has shown himself every inch an upright courageous and honorable man but the new daniel come to judgment ignored not only the inferential promise from his own 0 lips but the wish of the I 1 lury jury ury ary who found the verdict Manifest manifested eda a gool good deal of feeling perhaps so but actions speak with more vigor than words we do not contend that the judge acted without compunctions for such a position would be to assume that he is more than hunnan human but his fault lay in pursuing what is apparently deemed by him to bethe be the path ath of policy in place of hein bein being heing guided gy by his better nature and judgment if he has desired in the outset of his career here to diff diffen differ er f from rom row and scorch his associate judges for a special purpose and then go to work and show unmistakably that the variance was not occasioned by Mormon Mor leaning or sympathy be might have found some other method of makin making the manifestation than to victim victimize lz e an honest man but for the implied promise and the ie commendation to mercy the matter would not have presented r such a glaring aspect we have learned since writing the foregoing that beford receiving the judgment of the court moroni brown made maae made a strong vigorous and able statement one having the genuine ring to it IS IT A liaw ilaw OF THE LAND PE wn have heretofore shown the baseless character of ot the position assumed by some ome S people the effect that the saints are living in violation of some of the revelations given through joseph smith in declining to abrogate the doctrine of plural mair marriage lage as a tenet of their faith falth i we refer to what is enjoined in id the book of doctrine and covenants regarding it being 0 unnecessary in keeping the law of G god od to come in conflict with a constitutional law of the land and und the principle of human freedom it has been shown by the news that constitutionality as conveyed in the standard work of the tho th church named could only be constitutionality titu tita tiona lity and not by mere designation this point was further elucidated y yesterday esterday by the article from the pen of missionary 71 who introduced the instance of we tue I 1 two decisions of the supreme court of the united states sta i tes in relation to a law of the state stale of virginia the questions involved were albut the decisions were antipodal the one declared the law unconstitutional and invalid the older olner that it was valid and constitutional According to some utah anti antl mora imor mon theorists the supreme court having decided upon tile the subject a certainty and finality that should no not t be gainsaid gain said have been reached and the people eople p must therefore both observe and ignore the law a literal impossibility that the edmunds law I 1 is 8 unconstitutional is so plain that it ought not to be necessary t to 0 ar argue gue the point all that is needful I 1 1 t to 0 pro prove e the fact is to compare its provisions with those of the constitution the decision of the supreme court to the contrary does not alter the fact of the conflict between it and the bulwark ot of the peoples liberties which is the them supreme law of the land but fiut speaking of the law of the land can the edmunds act be so designated according to the rulings of the utah courts it cannot be properly so entitled I 1 the courts in their decisions have declared tae the edmunds law to have been aimed solely at mormon polygamy that the legislative will of which it is the ane expression was to suppress polygamy that but tor for the existence of the plural mairia marriage of the mons would never have passed such a law etc in thus declaring th eEdmunds law to be lad aimed solely at mormon polygamy and not abse aUse at sexual rual ruai cual crimes generally the utah couns courts have though no doubt unconsciously destroyed destro led its character as a siaw glaw law slaw of the land th the phrase ilaw law flaw 0 of the land siani 1111 1 fles flet a lawan law in which idich all persons a are 1 re interested ter te rested one which applies to td gover governs or provides lisbet alike but the edmunds edmunda law as interpreted and executed by the courts in utah Is not such a law as this it Is too notorious to require comment here that this law Is JA belll applied only to a C ertain certain class of pers perg persons ons numerically while otherl persons not of that class guilty of the most fla fia flagrant rant violations of its provisions are by b Y judicial decrees allowed to 0 o 0 scot scot acot I 1 free on the ground that the legislative will ill did not intend it to apply pl to them ba on the one hand the men who because of their obedience to wha they regard hegard aa a a law of heaven have been made madd to er under an unjust and hud tyrannical al enactment olour of our natio national nal nai legislature have cause to feel indig 1 nant because of the partiality parti alit allt sho she shown wn in administering it and at seeing libertines anin annn whoremongers walk the streets out but of all danger from it but on the other hand they may recognize in this state of affairs the wisdom of god ID in providing more completely for their finai final indication ro mEli meys melitina TING A R THE rule ruie or ruin clique witha with whose hose presence this city is afflicted ar still fomenting A an agitation forthe for the purpose of 01 producing a bloody culmination th they y h have ave been the indirect means mearis by their foul and slanderous misrepresentations of bf the blood of innocence being shed ad at a distance from irbin fromherz I 1 de here re northey now they p propose to mate their murderous murde work by seek beek seeking se ehi ing to bring about a vi violent rupture in this city they are courting the aid with this purpose in view of the organization known as the grand army ot the republic they have set their hearts upon stealing the territory and ard for the attainment of bf that purpose according to their own state sta sla temen mem as voiced by their organ they would inot not scruple at wholesale murder we do not apprehend that a violent outbreak will occur it it should however the consi couri conspiring fiends flen fien fis who seek it will not only have hav hat e the credit of inciting but also of inaugurating it therefore the response res responsibility ability of w what hat might follow such an incalculable disaster would have to be met by the the instigators in jin the event of their survival EXILES LETTER mor Mon MORMONS slows IN EUROPE NOT SOT DAUNTED daun DAnN teb TED BYTHE persecutions heared HEAPED THE CHURCH nere HERE tail tall FAILURE RE OF THE OPPONENTS OF ZION XION lemies ENEMIES Z OF MORMONISM HARD TO PLEASE METHODS ador ADOPTED ted teb FOR SPREAD SPREADING J THE TRUTH TIM THE NEW MINISTRY A NEW prom PROMENADE ENADE AL inventions exhibition LONDON june as 25 editor Deseret Je seret berot wel vel neuss New the dep deb departure arture from these shores on the th e dinst of bli bui latter day saints the third company of 61 this season shows that the troubles in utah donot disturb the minds of the mormons cormons Mor mons in the old oid world it need not be supposed that they are unacquainted with the proceedings of the courts the underhand doings s of ho thy officers and the Imprison imprisonment nien nieu t of honorable god fear liar ing and reputable citizens on account of their religion ion IOD for F though the english newspapers are almost silent 0 on R this matter and lind american news is seldom se 1 seen in british journals the millennial star keeps the saints posted on UTAH AFFAIRS and the elders on missions converse upon these topics and make their friends trends here familiar with the dalnas s at home so while the general public know kno W in ittle little or nothing of what lab passing in I 1 the members odthe of the church hav have e a pretty good understanding itan dint of current events and 0 are highly indignant at the persecutions which have been conducted under un der color of law yetas betas yet as the eini emigration gration te testifies stifle s no thin thing that has bee been a don done e ha has S hau bad any effect upon their faith in the latter lauer day gospel e except x capt to intensify it the poor who ar are e unable to obtain obtains means to gather with their friends in the mountains are just as eager eaker to go as als th they ae were before the thy latest raid had broken brown out li fact there never was a time when 4 t the h e S spirit I 1 of gathering asherin 11 burned more ardently in theeo theto the bosoms 0 of f the saints in thu the tho british isles and if there was money at thedr their disposal to pay their passage aca carcell car cely a family would be left t ta d linger I 1 1 nger in I 1 oid old 0 id babylon the thie promoters of the crusade against the church will certainly miss their mark they will not prevent the spread of mormonism 11 hinder tha of its converts break break up the compact and perfect organization which holds liolis it together lower its ita vitality ity or cause it it to relinquish i single principle or doctrine those who prey the will gain a little mile no notoriety torley and pocket considerable sid erable money but their fame will be only for a brief season and th their ein eln 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