Show THE TRIUMPH OF LECHERY ONCE more the federal authority in utah has been exercised to screen a and nd encourage the lecher and the bawd when the debasing vice known as the social evil was first introduced and fastened upon the body of this municipality ci the authorities took vigorous measures to extirpate and cast it out their praiseworthy exertions were rendered abortive bythe by the action of the federal courts the attaches and hangers on around those tribunals were the chief supporters of the foul ministers to lust last and their kneir influence I 1 prevailed so that the evil was protected and kept irom from destruction the suppression of vile resorts being thus rendered impossible restraint was next adopted in the shape of fines upon the keepers of those haunts of sin and their inmates this not striking at the root of the evil an en deavor was made to 10 reach tile the demand instead of the supply while base men with money were ready to purchase corruption those who supplied the demand were able to pay their lines fines and still flourish and fatten in their infamy measures were then taken to catch the male supporters of female wickedness they were successful in detecting a large number of bestial persons including many alleged I 1 respectable I 1 people and some federal officials at once the former tactics were adopted the help of the federal courts was invoked the same judicial power which was exercised to its full fall extent and pushed beyond legitimate bounds to break up mormon homes and disrupt mormon families was put forth to save tile the gentile debauchees debau chees from the consequences of their crimes and now the j judicial ermine has been thrown around so as to completely envelop the depraved brutes who revel in licentiousness the plate passing methodist and the rejected and besmirched michigander unite in a ruling that virtually removes all probable cause of fear to the votaries vot aries of prostitution the magistrates who alone have endeavored to enforce the local statutes against the evil are deprived of the power to put punish lish the violators of those laws the process by which this aid to vice has been effected may be understood by reading carefully the decision of the majority of the supreme court of the territory chief justice zane much to his credit dissents from the ruling the court per er the justices orthe odthe peace from trying such cases in doing so it exercises authority which is only conferred upon it when necessary to the complete exercise of its appellate jurisdiction and this was not a case of appeal it takes from the justices of the peace power conferred upon them by the legislature in conformity with the organic act tile the jurisdiction of those magistrates according to that act was to be as limited by law that is tile the law which the legislative assembly ly should p 1 subject to such restrictions as are in t the e organic r anic act ct the legislature v has 8 ivenia justices jurisdiction dict on over cases in which ich the penalty does not exceed three hundred dollars fine and six months imprisonment there is nothing in in the organic act or in the constitution of the united states which forbids this that at jurisdiction uris let on is then I 1 as limited ily bylaw la 11 it is a a rightful subject of legislation as no one will have the hardihood to deny the bulj in in other territories or the states does not apply their limitations as to tile the powers of justices differ from each other and do not aso govern ern in III this territory As to the trial by a jury of six men t that t is a jury provided for offenses tr tried e without indictment the authorities cited by the court refer to misdemeanors tried after indictment indic indi ment ement the cases too are not tried under the common law but the statutory law and therefore a jury at common law is not required but the jury provided in such cases under the statutory law and the court admits that the prevailing doctrine I 1 is that even when there is no jury at all in the inferior courts the guaranty of the constitution of a trial by jury is secured if the party can appeal to a higher court where a jn jury of twelve can sit upon the case and nd such an appeal is provided by law in the case under consideration what is the decision but a labored effort to prevent the local magistrates from trying cases of male lechery its sophistry Is clear to every student of law lam and its effects are in the interest of licentiousness and crime when the district courts ruled that the section of the edmunds law against unlawful cohabitation meant only the consorting of men and their plural wives in other words that it was only tor for mormons cormons Mor mons and not tor for gentiles they stated that common sexual crimes were left to the local statutes and the local officials to punish seducers and colla cohabit biters era with more than one woman outside of the marriage relation 11 were declared exempt the edmunds law but when the local authorities proceed to enforce the local statutes against them the federal authority again steps in for their relief and says the local courts have no jurisdiction every energy and force of the federal judicial power is exercised to inflict penalties on have more than one wife and at the same time the frequenters of houses of ill III fame are sheltered from all punishment either under toe the congressional or the territorial statutes this is how justice is administered in utah this is the mode by which the I 1 benighted mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 are to be taught t that at respect for the law and the courts I 1 which some of the vilest creatures on earth pretend to be the object of the vindictive proceedings which disgrace the present anti mormon crusade who ever heard of a district attorney or a U S marshal hunting bunting down a sm sin soaked reveller in un marital sexual crime what grand jury has brought III in an indictment against a male or female prostitute what sincere effort of any federal court has been put forth to restrict suppress or punish the common corruption of the age in utah the result of the rulings that have been given in this matter is the encouragement of reeking vice the u upholding of bestiality the triumph oft of the g strumpet in the perfect immunity of her paramours par amours and all this proceeds from the professed champions cha i of christian morality maralit 11 th the e pretended admirers of chaste za families ilie the feigned advocates of unsullied homes let the world look at the actual reality and sed what a hollow pretense what a ghastly humbug what a leering I 1 lying ying damnable sham is the whole judicial and official assault upon the family relations of the latter day 9 y saints I 1 it is enough to make bend demons 0 n s yell in derision and while pure men and women blush with shame at the deep hypocrisy cause the heavens t to 0 decree a just vengeance in the wrath of a briw righteous ild and burning indignation |