Show PROSECUTE THE DEBAU CHEES tile TUB public are looking booking for some somo further action against the lecherous officials and aud others 6 iulo amlo have been guilty of sexual crimes crimes and whose Is known to the police it is fi true that a barrier has been placed in the way of the officers by the ruling of 0 fude fud rude fudge rud e zane but that only affects one city ordinance in its bearing upon these cases there are other ordinance nanc s which may be b e brought to bear beat upon thein them and if the city authorities arc are afraid of adverse rulings hapon tapon them there is a territorial statute not open to this danger arwe as we have pointed out for their consideration Is noth luig iLig more to be done if not why not Is it possible that this public scandal can cau is ato be whitewashed with that thin ruling of the third district court or are the off omm meers officers biking making I 1 a good re d 11 for a more vigorous ef lor lort to b enforce the law perhaps we in voicing the feelings of the public are rather too lin impatient atlant about tills this but it seems that a little more pore activity Is demanded considering the circumstances m it has haa become we well weil ll 11 known that the police are ix I 1 possession of bylo evidence euco euce of a very damaging char character acler against a number numbed of persons who have broken the law and committed offenses against decency and good order of the most abominable character and it is not expected ge C ted that the municipal officers will wl I 1 b be e bluffed off by one failure of a technical cliar character acter rhe the prosecution ot of these hese offenders Is confidently looked foar for and tiie the community demand that the them prosecutions shall shail go on or that it shall be owned up that the proofs are not sufficient to warrant what has been claimed we have no ne desire to see sea this anve invest tl ti gation gatlon carried on in any spirit of retaliation the proof that one man is black does not DOt make another dark man white we have never claimed that gentile wickedness edness proves mormon righteousness we have never argued that mono monogamous amous excrescences make po al gamy fair and unspotted if all alt the officials bials who have been forward and bitter and amser U bulous in hunting up mormons cormons Mor mons mods for B living with their wives are shown to be as corrupt as some of them can he proved to be it will not go to substantiate innocence en on the part of anybody else no the cause we support will not be made stronger by any exposure of other peoples wrongdoing wrong doing we have never maintained that it would but bat those who are waging this war against plural marriage say that sexual sins are are riou riot legislated against in the E edmunds law but that such offenses off ensey must be punished by the local laws it is alleged that ample evidence is in ia hand to prove a number of persons guilty under those local laws of the sexual sins bins that the federal courts will not recognize amon among those persons accused are some federal officials and some alleged mormons cormons Mor mons we lve say prosecute them all alike not for revenge or retaliation but to execute the local laws purify society and repress s sexual crime it the police do not continue the work they have begun because they have met with a rebuff where they ought to have received assistance they wilt will become a public laughingstock laughing stock and the muni municipal cipa elpa autho authorities will be abject subject to well deserved reproach Kose prosecute cute the tha debauchees debau chees |