| Show SHAMEFUL persecution IN THE NAME OP OF LAW A FEELING of deep indignation Is experienced perien ced inthe iu the community over the course pursued toward francis A brown of ogden city it is not confined to the mormon element but is shared by many gentile citizens the object of vindictive judicial persecution is sixty four years of age he has suffered the full penalty of the law made i specially against the mor mons although he was recommended to the mercy of the court by the jury that convicted him of living with his wives it is understood that he has no violated the edmunds law since his term of imprisonment expired but that does doea not suf suffice flee the crudale is not really against the violation ot law either moral or statutory it Is against a realf religious dodds institution it has been demonstrated that men may live break the law as often as they choose they may cohabit with as many wo women in en as they like if they will only repudiate those women as wives their con duct will not be interfered with and they will be counted as s good citizens without stain and without reproach francis A brown has been indicted for unlawful cohabitation with his two wives wies although it cannot be shown that he has baa lived with them since he emerged from prison there are four counts in the indictment each for ten days they run as fol follows foks from may 1st ast 1886 I 1 to may from may alth to mav from I 1 may to may from froin may to june ath there is nothing to regulate the number or periods of counts or indict indictments it il rests with the prosecuting attorney who runs the grand graild jury the counts might with just as a much have been eight or r sixteen or thirty two in number as I 1 four law except in name does dees not govern in this matter any more than justice morality honor or decency tile the will ot the attorney is in these matters the supreme law some curiosity has been expressed as to the peculiar twist or or quibble on which the prosecution intends to proceed for the further r persecution ot F A brown As it is pretty well understood that the gentleman is not fairly within the provisions of the edmunds law not having cohabited with more than one woman either inside or outside of the marria marriage e relation during the period covered by y the indictment people wonder what new scheme has been made u up to entrap him it is explained in t this ha way the prosecuting officer 4 so we learn from ogden holds that a man who has been living in a polygamous relation ion and has not publicly public fy renounced that relation must be guilty in the eyes of the law bec because aube if jae he has not availed himself of his opportunities it is his own fault and not the fault of the law that is the kind of legal logic which abe used inythe persecution of mormons cormons Mor mons who refuse to renounce their wives and become like the rest of us as s A lecherous creature who has been detected in vile debauchery was selected as the deputy to arrest a virtuous and honorable and worthy cui zeu zen and the victim of this shameful prostitution of law is to be consi consides considered dei ed guilty without any overt act it if he does not prove himself iu if he were steeped to the eyes in actual infractions of the edmunds law lie he could escape punishment by promising to repudiate his wives violate his covenants with them and his god and treat them as mistresses distresses mi stresses after the pure fashion of so called american society at I 1 the rate in which the persecutors of the mormons cormons Mor mons are pouring in their unholy preparations it ft will not take them ion long to till nil up the cup of their iniquity iet let the ug saints ailts possess their souls in patience A day of reckoning is not far off justice will have its own and the miserable wretches who pervert law and stamp on equity will call 11 for the rocks to hide them and the mountains to cover them from the divine vengeance which they have invoked upon their own heads |
