| Show TIIE THE IDAHO VICTIMS rhose who may read our idaho correspondence pon dence today to day will see that the mill Is s grinding there not slowly that according cord in to leen legendary dary and mythical lore lor 1 being the he ma manner kner in which the mills 0 of f the gods proceed but swiftly lakoun lik ilk unto all that pertains to and is supervised by the adversary eight of our brethren have been made victims ot of the work of the destroyer at one fell swoop all have gone to the sacrificial altar without the consciousness of crime against god man or the world and received the punishment imposed without murmur or rr com cum complaint plaint severe and undeserved as it was and is the names ot of the offenders against an ex post facto law have already been published in the NEWS and are well known to a majority of our readers they also in coune count connection ebion with a statement of the proceedings at their trial and sentence will be found elsewhere in the communication in these columns previously spoken of the seven br brethren ethren ethron convicted of unlawful cohabitation with their wives wises had been united to them long before a law was enacted which prohibited the practice of living with and supporting them so that weir punishment like that of most of or their brethren similarly situated in utah was the result of retroactive legislation assisted and carried on to the fullest extent ly by those who wear the livery of the law in order order that they may the more completely set it aside wide all these things had bad to be offenses must needs come but woe unto them by whom they come the lord will have a tried people and it is such experiences perien ces as the saints are now undergoing that make up the required ordeal and show to our father in heaven how truly we are devoted to his cause notwithstanding there will be a lay day when those who brought about and compassed the means by which our trials were placed upon us will sup sorrow deep and bitter with every draught the evils have havo come and they are the maans means by which they came meantime we say to the brethren in idaho be of good cheer and remember that the present la 19 the fleeting hour the night of adversity is proceeding with each succeeding moment toward towar d the mornin morning of a better day and thase whose feet save hase have not been ensnared or led in the gloom will be rewarded as only the faithful living in faith can be the time has come when those who are unable to stand will fall when the blind bilna will stumble add and the weak minded go astray it is the time when he that dallies dailies is a dastard and he that doubts is damned of brother geo with having secreted a criminal who was being sought for by U S deputy marshals we can easily believe what our correspondent has stated that he was ws convicted without any evidence being pro produced to substantiate the charge for we know him to be the very soui soul oui of honor onor ile he goes to prison with I 1 the love and respect of all his brethren and sisters and will come forth thence wit without houta a shadow of crime attached to his charac character terin lerin in their estimation or that of the almighty we nave have received a photograph phot ogra h of the group roup of eight victims to a villain villainous kw law and the hatred of a partisan judge which we shall never look at without a feeling of lionor honor for the noble men kmen who were willing to endure the unjust sentences imposed upon them rather than sacrifice their manhood as the man garrison did to toes es cape the penalty |
