Show i iee yee IET ime I ET HIM BE PUT UPON polygamy is not en regle its practice does not accord with the civilization of the age polygamy and radicalism are twin relics of barbarism the first mentioned twin very singularly is a good deal older than its brother polygamy was practiced by the patriarchs and according to the modem modern idea was an entirely inexcusable practice rac tice especially among emong patriarchs we dant 1 belleve believe that even a young man has need of two or more wives at any rate the world has more than maintained its quota of F population opa Opu lation and sec secured ureda a fair share of rat rational onal happiness to men and women without its practice we agree with the sentiment of the age that poz poy polygamy lamy is condemned by christianity an and ana is inconsistent with an aa advanced order of civilization we do not desire that it shall be practiced in utah or that theodore Til tons method of marriage on trial shall be adopted there or anywhere else this condemnation of polygamy and the whole brood of kindred vices we desire to make as explicit as our command of plain english will enable us to do when we have said thus much we feel at liberty to add that there is something else to be done in the preservation of a hi high h grade of civilization besides rooting out t the 0 latter day saints the administration of justice in accordance with the forms of law la Is equally essential to the preservation of tile the i count country fy with the destruction of polygamy hence when a saint of the utah stripe is put upon his trial for being too much dived we dont believe belleve that mr justice mckean sitting as a court and under the obligation of an oath to be a just and impartial I 1 judge juc jac age should put himself him in the place of the prosecutor and harangue the jury into a conviction by aa ax answering in bu hustings stings style the arguments of the defendants counsel thai that is precisely what mr justice mckean of utah has done unie unless 83 he is greatly belied belled in his ambition to be the leading crusader against an admitted wrong he commits a crime so great as to dwarf the dimensions of the social evil he wars against the judicial ermine should he spotless the judge on the bench should hold the scales of justice as evenly as the bronze impersonations of the goddess of justice the power for good of all the machinery for the administration of law lava is lost when the judge allows himself to become the part izan of either bide aide mckean is accused of this and his crime ap pears patent to the tho eyes of the world lee lei him be put on trial triai before the great groat barof bar of publio public opinion and may he receive that impartial justice which he denies to others athers 1 valo amaio Cr colorado plora olora ado ido aso people aze hulthen 1 HITHER BOUND the cleveland 0 herald thinks t that bit I 1 the mon cormons mormons Mor mons are not unlikely to enter upon another exodus and that there vis eis i is no more likely place tor for their destination than the navigator islands well the are not gone yet m |