| Show A MORE EXTENDED STRETCH ciller chiev byj stice STICH ZA zane E having announced the latest judicial monstrosity associate justice orlando W po powers aers judge of the first district arises and says I 1 second the motion it appears that the last named official must have made a discovery since his bis advent to utah ile he appeared to start out with the spark of a disposition to administer the law in a spirit approaching fairness this scintilla of judicial conservatism was soon extinguished in the breast of the pew jew judge the discovery we refer to is that the more pronouncedly antl anti mormon his course the greater the plaudits pl audits he would receive from the opponents of the saints who are numerically tremendous inthe in the spirit of this discovery his hla honor does not propose to be outshone by any other othor occupant of the bench beach in utah doubtless this ambition bitt biti onto orto to eclipse all other j judicial competitors peti tors is partly due to the fact that gis gig hib his associates are republicans while he is a democrat he evidently proposes to show that in the arena of anti antl mormon judicial jugglery a representative of the party out of power wen will appear as a farthing rush ho tight compared with a democratic atar of the first magnitude his honor of the third district gave him the opportunity t and he was not slow to embrace I 1 it t jud judge zane having shown his h hand and in giving ving a detailed explanation n ot 01 the new method of transforming a penalty consisting of six months im imprisonment and annne a nine fine of into one of of any required dimensions according to the measure of the victim to be subjected to atit remained forthe tor the gentleman who presides over the judicial destinies of the first district to outstrip him in making the new definition describing the elasticity of the edmunds act in exhibiting the segregating system the chief justice announced that the time that a man had lived and cohabited with more woman than one as wives could be divided into years months or weeks and separate bills of indictment be found for each fragment of time Her ewas the opportunity of judge rowers powers to show his anti antl mormon proclivity besides a predisposition for detail that is not far from the verge of the remarkable he ile simply multiplied the zane possibilities of the toe edmunds act in the matter of placing 11 mormons cormons Mor mons on the rack by seve seven n bringing down the divisions to days this was a L master stroke because the 9 maximum aggregate penalty under judge zane zanes s divisional process there being weeks in the three years since the passage of the statute would amount to imprisonment for only 78 years and a fine flue of according or to rowers powers the obnoxious mormon could be sentenced to an aggregated term of years and six months and compelled to pa pay a 32 aw it he hap bened to be impecunious 11 lous ious he could be made to remain in prison 91 years and three months longer in order to satisfy the poor convict act The advantage of judge powers delineation of the elastic law lies iles in its greater capacity to more completely scoop in a larger amount of mormon to the more extended period of promised incarceration the more effectually make the victims tired such lengthy periods in prison would certainly be conducive to fatigue and be a powerful test of endurance there is one polut point that appears to have escaped the observation of the two astute judges in relation to the interpretation of the edmunds act sup suppose pose that a latten latter day saint su subjected to either the 78 48 years penalty benalt or that at of years audo ando and 6 months fichou should d be so fortunate as to sh shuffle e off his bis mortal coll coil before f ore the expiration of the term can mot these noble and ingenious men devise some scheme un darthe statute by which such an escape estape from the rigors of the law could be met why not extend it its 8 penalties to the other life the thes one I 1 difficulty in themay the way wax that wi be insurmountable h victims who m might ight cuccu succumb by being released from life under such a regime would be sure to go to aglace under the immediate supervision of the god of mercy with whom no contract can be made by men of th the bitter anti antl mor mon stamp they thair are in harmonious unity ji from their modus 0 operandi with the the powers of darkness so that the victim relieved by death would not be within their reach any more for ever but it judge powers has seized an opportunity to excel why should not the remaining occupant of the bench in utah stand circus fashion upon the judicial shoulders of the other two and instruct the grand jury of his district in regard to segregating re f for or anti antl mormon I 1 purposes a given time into hours and indict accordingly we have heretofore shown that the penalty tor for unlawful cohabitation can be manipulated very much as a tailor tits fits a customer with a suit of clothes according to the size of the victim the case of president hugh S gowans suggests another idea connected with this process of enlargement or contraction he evidently received one indictment for the alleged offense and two tor for being belog president of a stake it the disposition to eclipse manifested by judge powers be infused into the grand ju jury 1 ry which forms a part r t of his court may it not be reasonable aa 1 e to expect that a stake president would be indicted a number of times proportionate with the difference in the segregating process as defined or limited by the two judges who have ruled upon the question it if so if brother gowans nod bad been under the jurisdiction of the judicial genius of the first district would it not have been reasonable to expect that be he would have been placed ed under seven times as mahy many indictments as have been imposed on him they y would have aggregated a POI pol PO possible I ble bie penalty of ten years and six aix m months nt h s and a fine ot of what a fortunate being he must be from this standpoint I 1 standpoint if t the e law was intended to be so elaborately and viciously applied as it is now construed why was not the discovery made sooner surely such an interpretation could not possibly have escaped such keen intellects as adorn ado rn the bench beech of utah it must be a matter of conjecture as to whether they were not tint aware of the possibilities of the statute a considerable time before springing the trap and were simply holding it in reserve for special purposes the action of the leading authorities of the church in retiring for tor a season from public places has been reflected upon their enemies and a few pretended friends have been anxious lor for them to came come out and face the music baits have even been thrown out to induce them to step into the snare in relation to the assumption of such a position by the enemies of the church we have but little to say but if those pretending to be on the friendly side who have questioned the consistency or propriety of the course taken by the leaders of the church do not feel the reverse of costly they certainly should develop ments are constantly occurring that ought to show the dullest minds that the amount of or justice they would receive at the hands of the courts of utah could be injected into a persons eye without causing him to wink the tone of the anti mormon prints is in beautiful harmony with the judiciary some of their contributors are local legal luminaries to find such writers sustain sustaining inc inz a construction of law that places a power in the bands hands of a grana grand jury to jeopardize the liberty of accused persons to any degree they may desire lifts them to the summit of combined absurdity andanieus and animus they appear to consider that to so interpret a law so that it can on the same principle consign people to prison for contracted or expand expanded a periods at the option of the courts ig Is lovely ovely because ae victims are mor w mons 11 it is hald that rood good sense and good law are closely related but law of that kind and sensible conditions are as completely divorced as utah judges demand that mormons cormons Mor mons shall be from their plural wives there is a rood good goodseal deal deai of hypocrisy lying around loose and some of the ant 11 mormon 11 professed prof essed vindicators vindicatory of tl the I 1 e law have got ot much mote than their share the fact tact fact of their being members of ike ibe the human family is no credit to the race |
