Show editorials 1 CONFUSION WORSE confounded WITHOUT intending to be invidious or unnecessarily tinne ess arlly critical we would like to venture a question as to what the interpretations of the edmunds law by liy judge zane and his associates are leading and what they are likely to produce tue the beginning of the new order of things by his honor produced confusion which threatens to be thrice confounded through the new ideas ad danced and different it not conflicting theories of law setup set up the judge in the trial of the first of the series of cases for unlawful cohabitation brought before him had what was thought to be a settled fixed and nite meaning attached to the terms of the enactment and all t the people had to do in that that connection was to read ponder and inwardly di gestro gest to enable them to comprehend where an offense ended and good conduct duct be bean began an some of those who thou thought amey they were on safe round ground ac cording corig to the courts interpretation were not permitted to indulge inthe in the fleeting luxury longer than the winding up of another case still others who ima imagined ined themselves even evert in the light of the later cevelo development ment on safe ground have been undeceive dand thus athas it has been going on up to the present time lime and interpretations and expositions have so thickly overspread the jaw law as to 40 become confluent and give the ort orl original inal inai document the r appearance of of a little law floatie floa floating tiu tin around ina in a sea of explanations a orders and anit opinions perhaps the loftiest loft iest flight in in the direction of the pinnacle of this distorted structure is the opinion given by his honor in the case of the united states vs john daynes for unlawful cohabitation we say loftiest loft iest be 1 l cause it went above and beyond all former achievements in the way of an off offhand hand interpretation a proceed tit ing in which the judge is sup supposed rl ased by his friends to be extremely f felicitous e acito Is i with no design of havin having the reader understand that tia lia tit it is higher in the scale of soundness or goodness the pris noner aloner n oner at the bar having sacrificed moral principle to escape physical imn 1 p naturally desir desired ted led to know Z what kind of pro gramme he must thereafter adopt to make his dearly bought freedom secure he was the 0 i husband of two wives both of whom it Is to be presumed he mar married marries riel through his bis own preference principle L jand band nd duty the price of liberty was the discarding of one or the other the sequel showing a preference for the other and whether Napoleonic his planos plan plau of dis dismissing the braganza and cleaving unto the flaps hapsburg burg bung was to be f the means of Involving him in another entangling alliance with the court was what he wanted to ascertain well the power on the bench did not keep him in suspense ion lon long iong while it was the moral duty of the trafficker tra flicker in wives to live with and maintain his first or 41 legal legall companion unless there were som eother reasons for a separation not appearing then and there therb still there was no law making it compel r sory sony for him to do so but iu in any event he must not hold hoid hold bold out or live with more than one that is to use our own language to convey the jud judges judels ets els idea any woman you may elect to live with is your wife accord 1 ing to the edmunds law the statute law everywhere recognizes but one marriage or state of marriage at a time the fast first wife taken and the others are not your wives ives when the holding out business ceases 1 you may take your choice from the number and when ewhen the choice is made all other contracts are annulled and the one you choose is elevated to the proud distinction of being your companion through life the bone of your aone one and flesh of your flesh so to speak the burden of this is not so gre greatly atly at variance with his honors sentiments on former occasions as to rive give lve ive it the prominence previously spoken of but the entanglements entangle ments and conf confusion aslon growing rowing out of a strict construction st ruction of the language used lis as for example daynes had a living i i divorced xin wife presumably a leial legal legal one by statute law and uli url undoubtedly oubre ly legitimate by common law when he i took a second d one statute law L will not reco recognize nize a second wife and all contracts of that kind are therefore void vold he has 1 11 the privilege of abandoning the I 1 first and sans ceren ce lonte tonte taking the sec second ond who is not a wife to anybody y and never has been to his embrace thus making her the only mrs daynes and striking that title from the original holder of it the reader will please stay with us a while longer and see what whit we can jointly make out of all this so much for the judges hold ing now for the deductions and ye se quen ces mrs daynes the first was legally married in accordance with the tee forms of law lived with her lord and bore children to him then comes mrs imars daynes the second who is not mrs D at all because there cabbe can be but oneat one at law and arid the place was not vacant so that having married him she became the wife of a man who was oot not her hus bandl band I 1 again if it daynes elects to i choose her as the legitimate partner of hasl atoll his beelin sand his fame by ils his amply exercising his preference unde undo the sanction of the court how can the latter reco recognize nize the antagonizing conditions which he helps to create when he announces in almost the same breath thata maie male person must not live and cohabit coli abit with one of the opposite sex it if he already has a living and wife his dionor honor knows full well that the process of obtaining divorces Is more solemn formal and complex than that and warns the male element ol 01 the community against taking a wife unless the one formerly in possession has previously been detached by means of those solemnities and formalities at the same time advising them that their own choice obviates ge the law as interpreted by hb the court and establishes marriage and divorce in one simple unaided act acal if the reader follows the subject carefully and arrives a at t any other conclusion than we have herein that Is confusion worse confounded the more it Is investigated and tean lean give us in exchange for what we advance a lucid clear and distinct understanding der standing of the situation we should be pleased to have him f furnish it for immediate publication and be he ml might ht then while his bis mind is prepared for feats wilch which in others would produce chronic aberration unfold the mystery surrounding the abiding place and character ef of the sectarian god a being destitute of body having no parts and devoid of passions sitting on the top of a topless throne or if if he prefers something more in the range of science he might enable us to mentally grasp the infinity of space certainly Certain lyv lyt if he succeeds in the first he can go a long way toward a conclusion as to the other two THE ROSSITER CASE THE trial triai of win A rossiter Ross lter iter on the charge of unlawful cohabitation with two wives ended yesterday the customary verdict of 1 guilty beld bein being pronounced by the jury this produced no surprise in any quarter because it is a foregone conclusion in all cases where the court the prosecution and the jury see eye to eye and each is a harmonious factor in the accomplishment ment of a purpose whatever mr Ros Eos domestic relations may b be the evidence and the law failed to make out a case against him and by both of these were the twelve worthies who filled the ithe jury box supposed to be bound but what of that are they on duty to give conclusions as the law directs and the facts warrant unless both law and fact happen to be traveling the way they are going if they are they either have a peculiar way of showing it or we have all at once become very obtuse the points developed in the trial have haie already been placed before the public and aud need not be repeated at this time that an excellent and conclusive defense was baade by the defendants attorneys tor was manifest to all who listened listened and the majority of those who read the proof of cohabitation even following the con lenient and adjustable interpretation of the court was either not proved at all or so insufficiently developed as a to create at least a doubt in the mind of an impartial person and what elsewhere or here in any other kind of a case would wohld that failure or that insufficiency have produced acquittal it looks as though we were daily getting nearer to a condition of things in which the burden of proof will be shifted from the shoulders of the prosecution to those of the defense that is an accused person will have to prove lis his his innocence or take the consequences in the light of recent events stranger things than ilan even that may be loodea looked for C oley CITY CREEK WATER IT is to be hoped that the joint committee of the city council that on water works and public grounds being united for the purpose will report early and favorably on the scheme for the acquisition by the city of the entire length of the canon cadion and creek bearing its name and that such arrangements range ments as are necessary to complete the transaction by which ownership and control may be effected will not thereafter be hindered or delayed the point made by mayor sharp that we must have the entire length of the stream to enable us to wield sufficient pressure upon the water at this point to make it available for distribution through the means of waterworks water works was a happy one right to the point and worthy of full consideration but it is not the tho only one claiming our attention and all should be duly weighed in the first place lace we consider sanitary affair affairs ead tad bad had water certainly Is chargeable with a great percentage of the mortality here and elsewhere and when this can be remedied it ought to be we no longer constitute an isolated community with a small population but an inland metropolis whose boundaries are expanding and whose numbers are swelling with each succeeding day increase of territory and increase of souls peremptorily demand a corresponding increase of all the elements necessary to lif life ilfe e and mutual mil wll being belog and to accomplish this we always look first for water the necessary quantity being gained or in prospective the quality thereof receiving our next attention when the roll of 0 residents footed up one half or two thirds what it does now we had plenty ot water and of reasonable purity but the times have chause changed dand and we ve must change with them bringing the supply up to the demand as nearly as circumstances will permit to do this we must draw drav upon those natural resources which are most convenient and accessible and we know of no source more reliable voluminous and pure than city creek with it under lull municipal contro control lithe the east and west dry benches would be dry no longer so far as relates to culinary purposes at least as the dissemination through mains to lse lie b e constructed would force a plentiful supply not only there but to remote parts of the city elsewhere notably the lower wards where ditch water is merely the accumulated slops klops of the city and miasmatic influx ancs permeate the atmosphere during all the warm months of the year by reason thereof wells except of course the flowing ones which cannot become the receptacles of filth and retain it while superior for culinary purposes to the lower ditches are not the best sources of supply and are themselves in too many instances fruitful sources of sickness and death it should bethe be the object of this and every other community to dis dispense P ense with them as soon as practicable and use on only ly flowing water as it comes in its native purity irom the everlasting fountains of nature the importance of such a condition of things can scarcely be overestimated overestimate dand and we trust it will be dealt with by bv the local authorities ties in the mallner manner which the best interests of the greater number of our citizens demands and with as little delakas delay as will be consistent with an undertaking of such consequences there ame are other reasons why the canlon cannon should pass into the tho control of the municipal authorities adjacent tu to the abe city at the mouth of the cadion are immense deposits of gravel of the best quality and inexhaustible quantity these if utilized would be valuable whereas now they are comparatively wor worthless or worse than that because in themay the way of bul bui building ding and other improvements in that vicinity As the gravel Is taken away the rugged places will be made smoother and eventually level leyel sites will be found instead of 01 mounds residences would speedily follow gardens flowering shrubs and au fruit and shade trees would take the places where now aridity unproductiveness ti veness and useless undergrowth unde growth prevail city creek would then through such control and regulations as it would receive be a source of benefit and pleasure to the other divisions of the corporation As a thing of beauty and a joy at all times it would be valuable but as a reservoir and aqueduct from which the life giving and life ilfe sustaining element could be obtained at all seasons of the year it would be precious beyond all irice once we again therefore urge upon the committee the necessity of prompt and favorable action such action as we have no doubt will oe de adopted by the city council and endorsed by at least nine tenths of our population let the good work proceed at once and no cessation take place till it be crowned with a perfect system of water works THE LATEST STEP wile louis XIV ascended the throne of france as his fathers successor he conceived oncel ved the idea of a strong central government with witti himself as the sen cen bial 9 gigure figure ppe and 11 otier things and mean troa troy tary as ALs being baing ap a order onder of things udder under great greult pf af national political and add social good might be effect effected eq in n other words w ds hu he would be pot merely supreme iu in we tun kingdom but bat tae king hing doin dot itself iila ilia famous pron un clan mento betat IVe Le tut tat oest clest moll moil 1 I am the sta sla state te defined the plans and purposes of t the h new order of things thin s completely all nea measures pea of progress and public ends ands consummated went forth to me the world lith with louis imprint immovably attached to them thein and the bu superficial ero erf leial and fleeting glory gained thereby thereby filled his sturdy soul with complete j joy jov OY to say that some goodwan good was wag not accomplished by means of the despots ambitious projects would be to traverse history with a populace composed large largely lyof of ignorant and half civilized canaille who knew nothing of law but its pressure nothing of government but its binding force and nothing of station but its tinsel it was quite easy for an unscrupulous despot to make his tenure secure by causing them to believe that a trifling benefit was a marvelous dispensation in their favor avor and looking to the king as its source they became more loyal and affectionate bo so he could well afford to dispense further to them benefactions bene factions the nineteenth century would riot toler tolerate atea a louis XIV in civilized and enlightened not even everi in france I 1 1 in it only one part of one ono oi of the educated and progress bre gre asive ve nations of the earth the united states is such power as that once exercised by louis wielded ind and are such measures as |