| Show editorials EDITORIAL so I 1 NO APOLOGY 11 ane THE democrat in 10 another article again shafts its ground in order to dodge M ethe the issue of other errors its statement that if a polygamist in utah died intestate t all his polygamous wives and n had no rights whatever in his estate and could get no standing in 1 court I we showed to be incorrect and nd cited the laws law which proved it untrue now it calls our conviction of its falsehood an apology for the a 3 rime of polygamy this Is a dishonest way of evading a question of fact there Is no apology og y in our article for anything it was not an argument upon the question of polygamy either as a crime or a virtue it was simply an arraignment ment ot of evidence against the above laise false assertion of the democrat so when the democrat stated on wednesday evening that these proofs we adduced of its error were offered as an excuse and justification for polygamy it only added to its former mendacity i the clauses in the laws of utah providing for illegitimate children and their mothers which are proofs positive of the falsity of the Demo democrats cratys original statement it now utilizes in orar order to nind find fault with the mormon legislature and aud take another fling at polygamy popi PoFi gamy it is not true that any provision ro has been made for polygamous children as a compensation ton tor their illegia illegitimacy amacy they were simply placed on the same basis as regarded their fathers property whether they were the tha children of th the e first or of a plural wife this is the very thing which the democrat declared had never been done it was no more a I 1 compensation I 1 for the children of plural wives than for the children of first wives it was simply securing to all the children their rights to the estate and as regards illegitimacy the democrat writer knows very well that the term is not applied by I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 to their polygamous children but by their opponents in the eyes of a mormon all his wires wives are equally wives aud all his children equally legitimate because they are his under the regulations of his religion but the secular law only recognizes the first as thel i legal wife wih and her children as legitimate therefore in arranging provisions of which that secular law would take cognizance it was necessary to make such provisions as would not be likely to be disturbed thereby polygamist always intended to treat their polygamous children as inferior interior in all respects bothel to the children of a legal marriage made by the democrat writer is infamously false was he treated in that way either before or after the death of his illustrious father the doctrine theo theory and general plural marriage give the lie to 10 the assertion and if there is a case which would afford color to it that case is an exception and la Is looked upon with xe reprobation probation by every true I 1 mormon I 1 who knows of such a circumstance that the mormon legislatures never once spoke of poly polygamous amo as marriages ria biages ri ages es is true it was none of their blaness bu business Aness the marriages were religious ligi ous not secular and if the utah legislatures had enacted laws ing polygamy what a howl wo would uld have gone up from their accusers this is what was urged against them in congress and on the bare suspicion that something was lurking in our laws ahat that direction a clause was inserted in the congressional law of 1882 annulling all such laws or parts of jaws laws what sense is there in finding in q fault with a legislative body for not that never was in its power to do while the authority was claimed by congress to disapprove and thereby make void any act ot of that legislature in conclusion we will remind the democrat that there are some thin things Is of even more moro value than a good name mame from the people of this world which it seems to value so highly among these are consistency a regard for truth the approval of conscience and a nirm firm reliance on the word and will dillof of the almighty legitimacy before god and for eternal ages is worth far more than that which is called legitimacy by man and his laws that perish dimsh and the applause of the world which lasts but for a moment counts for noth nothing iri lri in view of well do done tle tie good and faithful servant which will greet the ears of I 1 many who had no good name to boast of while they burned on this earth g privileges AND POLYGAMY TiiE THE salt sait lake democrat of wednesday y evening has a long article on privileges in which it attempts to reply tb the argument ent of the DESERET NEWS that the constitution of the uni ted states protects thel privileges as well as the rights of citizens the democrat had ass asserted arted that the constitution of the united states aites only undertakes to protect rights and not privileges a against this we quoted the first section of the fourteenth amendments which says no state shall make or enforce any law aw which shall abridge the privilege or immunities of citizens of the united states now comes the democrat and in a labored effort to shuttle shuffle out of its position only establishes the fact that etwas it was in error we never asserted that the constitution directly and la in words guaranteed protection to I 1 mormon monal polygamy anat was not lot our contention it was solely on the quest question iott of protection to privileges as well as rights and in that the democrat now proves itself to have been wrong while still holding itself up to be right every quotation u it has made is against its firs first position and now as to the polygamy poly amy camy question in connection with 11 suppose a state should be formed and admitted into the union which legalized plural marriage or suppose one of the states now in the tile union should by a charlee change in an its constitution ution and the enact enactment meat of laws in kursu pursuance ance thereof legalize plural marriages in enthat that state would not the plural marri marni marriages marriaga ag thus legalized within that state become legal in very every other state of the union and would nut the of the united states according to the very authorities quoted by the democrat protect the thee citizens of of the state that passed the polygamy laws in the enjoyment of their privileges and of th the rights that accrued theM rom mormon plural marriage as we have shown Is matter it was not established by secular law it did net ask the sanction of the secular law there was no secular law against it when it was first practiced in utah and therefore while it was a religious institution it was not set up in violation of the regulation of the law the laws which congress has since enacted concerning framed against it as I 1 an establishment of religion as a rite of the mormon church and such legislation the constitution forbids congress moreover according to true democratic doctrine has no right night 11 ht to legislate upon the purely domestic conc cone concerns erns of an organized common i wealth and has no jurisdiction over the questions of marriage and divorce the establishment of i family mily relations under the regulations of the tha law belongs to the local government and not to the federal government and anything contrary to that Is contrary to fundamental democratic principles A MEAN bihan AND DESPERATE L THE san francisco chronicle Vh ronicle of nov has a vile article on the raitt raid by the police upon the maie male prostitutes it says the dior Alor mormons cormons mons have revived on one e of their old tricks this Is to induce mormon women to swear that federal officials have been guilty of improper relations with them tu tinis 1 about tbt the meanest device to whim de desperate men could conid resort as it vitiates ane aue ju of even the lowert cla class vf of women the mormons cormons Mor mons never resorted to any such tricks they have not done so now no mormon woman I 1 has sworn about improper relations with federal officials the chronicle has fallen into the tile tribune trap the truth is that some dirty men among them persons who have bave been prominent in urging the persecution of mormons cormons Mor mons forgiving for living with theIr wIves have been seen consorting with lewd iowa women in violation of th the e city ordinances the police have made some arrests the whole crew who have been crying erring out ont against mormon immorality have rushed to the rescue the federal courts are appealed to to shield hem and no now the tile effort is belau betas put pat forth to divert attention from the criminals by crying out it is the work of the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 this is about the meanest device to which desperate men can resort 11 but it is the device of the salt laie lake lake lare tribune and the san francisco chronicle adopts it in work of this kind the two papers are par 11 the morning organ of the prostitutes raves through nearly another column of Idiocy about the mormon church and thinks this will be a sufficient clent apology for the lecherous doin doln doings of the libertines whose cause it flights for but all its romances and epithets amount to nothing on the main question which is shall those guilty of sexual crimes which the courts here say are left to the police to prosecute be punish punished bd for their bestiality which the tribune apologises apologizes for as one of the common vices of humanity TIIE THE UTAH penitentiary AR y A new PEW OP THE HORRORS OP OF THE UTAH BRIDEWELL PORTRA ED AND AD SOME OP THE crookedness ESS OF ITS MANAGERS SHOW J UP in the oma omaha ha herald of nov wefond we nind find the following under the head of special correspondence to that paper dated utah penitentiary nov 17 and entitled A voice from a utah dungeon outrages ge 8 perpetrated on convicts donations to carpetbag carpet bag officials last night was 0 a cold one for many of the prisoners incarcerated in this bridei 01 d I 1 11 which judge powers sa says 3 Js is not fit tit to herd cattle in our ceils cells cells celis are cold and comfortless two men sleep top tol together oether gether A straw mattress and two wo pairs of thin thlu flimsy blankets torm form the tile bed and clothing one pair over and ami tiie tile t tle tic other under them many of the blankets blau kuts are arc worn threadbare having havi ng lituri hi elt cit in use for many years and they ar or never washed no pillows are furnished i nl shed coats and pants ants are used for I 1 pillows some of jt the men sleep with their beauty clothes on warm and numbers of them say thy th tny y suffer froin from cold night and day f from roin fall till tig are seldom warm culi cull no to ils lis 1 is a trying place to slee sleep p in a veritable black hole hoie the nocturnal e exhalations exha lations from the sixty odd eners and the stench from the miserably mise adly rauly ventilated privy located in the nonh nonn northwest west corner of the cell is stif stifling ming fing and dazing in the morning the great wonder Is that great numbers dont die outright under the miasmatic poisons the cell affords but about 05 cubic feet of room to the man and the ventilation Is not more than a tithe of what it should be especially when the four small windows are closed to keep the snow rain and cold from those that sleep against them these matters should be investigated and rem remedies edies edles speedily applied As it is men are arc cursing almost every wakeful hour about the cruel treatment and I 1 marvel that the attempts to break away from the place I 1 are not lot more numerous the greatest sufferers are those who have no personal resources and no friends in the country to pity and befriend them being in Z strangers dmn er a t in utah butah about men 0 occupy eu py t the ehr three ee cells which are all ali alt alike ke fr from om 7 p in till 0 6 am smoking in the cells ceils el is is against the rules but from the time the convicts enter the cells are tilled filled with smoke and with the basest vulgarity and profanity ever heard from the lips of men this is winked at by the warden who however imposes severe punishment for the most trifling infractions of or the rules which he and the marshal make at will while all these officers are carpetbag carpet bag g republicans the democratic party now in power is charged up with the baneful fruitage of 0 their misdeeds and cruelties there are many matters respecting the management of this institution which should have light thrown on them I 1 have wished that some one would explain why marshal ireland and warden dow should discriminate in favor of a few of the federal alsot als ais of utah their thelt tables only with edibles from the penitentiary t lar y li ch produced solely by convict I 1 la a b borall 0 r ril ral 1 summer bammer and fall and not extend lae tit fruitage of prison labor to all the F 0 olis oils lils ills for instance by consulting i moy roy memoranda I 1 find that I 1 ran ly a day da pah pai passed sad during the suni buni summer bummer ruei rudi aud fall months but out mr BIT dow would i beld seid to J judge zane marshal ireland atlo Atio niles dickson varlan Vartan etal et al at all ali reau alican appointees parcels oy of the various products from the government IW im acl arl arie ariu c farm on which the penitentiary tig rv ta my memoranda made baij daili daily ua oli tae sp spot 0 t rua run after this fash iu Ki kiad td milk onions melons cucumbers i ew etc peaches and sundry vegetables bread i tunia toes onions and milk milk peaches tomatoes and corn two bushel best bet potatoes milk bread and onions eighteen elcied picked chickc chickens ns milk melons and cor corn 1 bread re ad orn corn milk etc onions cp cucumbers cucumber cumber beets melons carrots tomatoes peaches melons picked chickens etc this was kept up during the entire season some days double wagon box loads of kindling wood are sent in n also featner sacks and other supplies too numerous to itemize these represent gifts daily dally bestowed upon the offiel officials ali als named and the ag aggregate g reto rete ga value of the seasOn seasons 9 output must amount to thousands thousand of dollars are they given as subsidies if it not what are the inspiring impulses which anic 4 prompt such great generosity in marshal ll reland and his bis brother in law warden dow both of whom are known to be parsimonious and why were they not sent sont to governor E EH H murray judges adge 4 boreman and powers commissioner kickay and other leading government officers is the query that bothers me has judge zanes immediate approval of marshal marshai ire lre lands accounts any anything thin to dorintha do inthe premises orare there no wheels with in wheels comprehended in these theme transactions As they cost the tho marshai marshal and warden nothing to td produce them do they get pay for them iii in any uy direct or indirect manner ireland and dow have some mines in geffs neffs canon carion a few miles southeast of this pen 11 and eye eve every ry hearthey ye year arthey they send up convicts to bori them I 1 question if the there is any accounting to the government or territory tout fo for fon r the jabor labor thus performed if the h government has any des desire treto to unearth interesting data respecting the acts of its utah representatives alluded an investigation be made at once and summon the trust trusties les ies the guards and some of the inside non pon evicts to testify TRUSTY RELIGIOUS THRALLDOM thanksgiving DAY Is generally celebrated in a spirit of kindness charity and toleration in thet ho presence of the great father of asaad an I 1 with gratitude swelling the TV lle lie praise and prayer express he manks thanks which are due for the bounties Q of providence e strafes of all kinds i afe ate ares i shut but out from the souls of sin sincere e worshipers w and the distinctions of creed the projects of 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