Show A stream OF TRUTH IN ix this issue we present an article from the boston commonwealth it is a pure stream streams of truth bursting from and flowing over a parched wilderness of intolerance we confidently commend it to the perusal of the intelligent and honest everywhere besides tho the formidable array array urray of f fact act and reason condensed iota lota a small compas compassi by the afi writer ter the production shows him to beanadett bean be an adept at literary composition comp tiOu his hid style evin evincing cing clug vigor polished by purity anu ant and finish notwithstanding the paucity of C evidence vide n c e tending to show anat there are many honorable men who in their souls condemn the inhuman crusade ot of which the latter day saints are being made the victims yet we believe they exist in greater number titan tuan appears on the surface it snows a high order of manhood to stand up in gold bold defense of a handful ot of people against whom an overwhelming majority hurl their forces buu but they are 10 be foun found dand and the progress of events will undoubtedly develop this tact arhe the real initials of the writers r ame rame which is known to us are attached to 10 the article and although I 1 he is nov now noy personally unknown to lne tue oppressed people gnose cause he so ably defends in kneir hear hearts ts they will leel feel to mess bless him film IV V diether his influence in enunciating the trutas lie he expresses will result in easing from their throats the grip of bigotry and oppression or not their benti sentiment ment will be beane one of rate fui ful kindness toward him whatever r may be the result his will is it is to be hoped that the paper we present today to tu day dav will not be the las last t effort in the same line mat that will be made in the cause of j justice ustice freedom and humanity by his clear ii nead ad and did A E L G 11 know some of the more disgraceful details of the cru crusade ade saints he would doubtless bo be even more exercised iu in relation to the question ques iloa than he is he ile should know that tile the courts have been organized into ma cachides machir chides nea iea for lor the perse persecution edLi lon ton of 1 mormons cormons Mor mons no juror is qualified unless he admits un on examination that he is in sympathy with the prosecution arrest means conviction alleged plural p lural wives of defendants wilo in accordance with an unalterable law of womans comans lature decline deci lueto to testify against their t he ir nus aus bands are mercilessly thrust into a loathsome prison sonin in home bome instances accompanied by their infants for months at a t time I 1 me no mitigating circumstances cum stances in the case of an accused mormon are taken into consideration unless he like an abject coward publicly agrees at the demand of the court to renounce his hid religious faith and cast his wives and children adrift not liot only is the extreme penalty of the lav law las inflicted iu ia almost every instance but bul butone bulone oue bue of the judges C S zane has several times publicly expressed his astonishment tuat the lne punishment for uI unlawful lawful cohabitation is I 1 s only s six i x months imprisonment and a ud a fl nine fine ne of three bundred dollars men who are convicted are thrust into a prison which is isa a disgrace to this and una would be to any otner other nation in tae tac language lau lan guage of judge orlando arlando W rowers powers of of the first district court of utah as reported to us ayup by a person erson who heard him make the remark the ithe utah penitentiary Penitent larv is a disgrace to civilization and is noi nol nod not a fit place in which to keep animals to say nothing of human hutnan beings if these are not tho exact words used by the gentleman they at least embrace ills his idea it should be remembered too that in nearly every case ease prosecuted there is no charge of polygamy namy ramy rhe rii the exceptions are very few and farbe far between while the country at large I 1 ignorantly nor not antly applaud the crusade they are laboring borins la under the hallucination that it is conducted for the purpose of ot suppressing or stopping the increase of polygamous marriages tais is an egregious error its operations would break up unions that were formed even before any law existed upon the subject of polygamy poly amy were it directed against PC persons esons contracting tr acting plural marriages subsequent to tho the passage of the edmunds act some color of consistency might be claimed for those en engaged aged in it not only this but there is Gs behind the entire movement a purpose with an unmixed political base in time however the whole question will be understood and as predicted by 11 A 1 0 G 11 history will do justic justice to both sides but in the meantime tyranny and hypocrisy are apparently triumphant over liberty and truth |