| Show THE DEPTH OF DEPRAVITY WE were prepared to see the tribune cof cathis this city take a position on the side af the brute shurtliff A journal that advocates the rum shop and the brothel the gambling den and the rowdy haunt as antidotes to mormon restrictions might be expected to lean over to the crager of women and prefer the vile wretch who drugs and violates a helpless girl to an ho bon arable man who marries and supports and maintains the affections affection s of two or more virtuous women that is the position it takes on tuesday morning in a beastly attempt to garble r ble and pervert what the ws had bad to say in condemnation of the rape case at provo after a tirade of low abuse it says give the devil his due Shurtliff ik is no worse than plenty of respectable mormons cormons Mor mons and tiny any law that would punish him ought also to punish them when a degraded ruffian who has no conception of marriage above the gratification of animal appetite touches on the question of the marital relation he cannot treat of it from any other standpoint he therefore can see no difference between marrying a woman and violating her person indeed he be prefers the beast shurtliff who has a wife and who drugged and raped a young girl that fell into his bis power to a respectable mormon who marries a plural wife with the same intentions and obligations that he had in taking the first argument with such ade a debased and besotted being is out of the question we can only mingle pity with our oar deep contempt he further says when the NEWS goes farther and proposes the death penalty as the only adequate measure meare of punishment tor for the brute who ruins a girl for life it allows ranting folly to get the bertei better of its religion it mean that it would have every man who ruins a girl for life killed it only means it would have every non mormon who does so put to death I 1 what we mean is obvious to all who read our remarks when we say that the only adequate penalty for such an outrage as that inflicted indicted on miss adams is the death of the brute who ruined her for life we intend the remark to apply to every such villain whatever he may be called or whatever hs he may profess A mormon Normon who would go down to the depths ot of such a damning crime would be deserving de servin of e even n greater punishment if it could coul be in inflicted 2 isted because in doing boins so h he e would not only violate the laws of the lard and ot humanity but the law of god and his bis sacred covenants of chastity mormon or non mormon jew or gentile refined drefin id gentleman or befuddled tribbie n abune scribe whoever commits sucha such a crime as that perpetrated at provo ought to be put to an heath and the law is lame that does not provide an adequate penalty alty for that tha capital offense off ense no jury in any state of the union convict the father or brother of a glew girl rl outraged as in this thin case who slew 1 the wretch that committed the deed this shows that under the statutory law there Is an aa unwritten law in the heart that prompts the extreme penalty under suco such circumstances and justifies it when inflicted indicted if it is right it ought to be embodied in the enacted statutes and no private citizen should be required to execute the law As to the filthy insinuations and foul innuendoes that link in the tribune mind the horrors of this shameful case and th the conditions attending atte adins a pure union of the sexes under the regulations ordinance preparation and mutual agreements of marriage or plural the mind that conceived the connection is too low down in debauchery bau chery and its advocacy to deac reach with an argument artru ment as to the I 1 infinite difference we can only leave the animal to wallow in the iniquity of his own vile conceptions |
