Show THIS PALL FALL OF THE BASTILE A DISPATCH from paris on the of july a day memorable in french history says the celebration of the anniversary qt of the fall of tile the bastile was opened today to day by salvos of artillery the ceremony of distributing brov proal 1 and money to the poor was conducted on a scale scale of great reat generosity the are arc and the derd were a splendidly lend idly decorated fairs were beld held in all the city cily squares v this brief notice of the commemoration tion of the capture and demolition of a building whose name has become synonymous with tyranny oppression and the power of might over right sug suggests ea the query anen will utah cele celebrate r the pup suppression of her herbas bas tile and the triumph of constitutional liberty on the bench southeast of this city is an establishment that is a standing disz disgrace race to the government under which we exist it is today to day a place of torture and extreme cruelty it is scarcely ut fit for fora a hos hog pen and a swine raiser with any feeling of cUm compassion passion for pig flesh and regard for economy in his bis business would take care that his mud loving charges were not exposed to the heat beat and d unsanitary conditions in which honorable honor bono aole raule men are now COD confined fined on account of a principle of their religion added to the burning rays of the sun in the unsheltered adobe balleu yard that by courtesy is called a penitent ary is the fo foetid tid atmosphere of the board bunking huts in which the unfortunate prisoners are crowded from evening till morning and which become so toul foul that inexpressible nausea is the regular consequence then we learn that recently the bread doled out his has been so sour that it could not be eaten and ane sight of the food has sickened all beholders we do not mention this byway by way qt of blame to t the warden or his assistants who probably do as well as possible all the circumstances being considered but the whole place is a reproach to the government and unworthy the civilization liza tion of the age if men av ale to be imprisoned I 1 for or conscience sake sake there is no need to imperil their health and lives and place them in constant suffering f from rom the horrors of this latter day bastile A fair shelter from the almost torrid heat beat of day and a decent cell to occupy at night may be claimed for the worst of malefactors the utah penitentiary ar is criminisi no place even for capital and for men who cannot be justly caled criminals at heart but who are made offenders by a special law aimed at their religion and many of whom are only technical offenders made so by forced and strained applications of words by the common meaning of which they could not be convicted the hellhole hell hole bole on the hill is an outrage as infamous as the terror of france which the enraged parisians Pari in ITS 1781 perhaps some rabid mormon eater with more lip than brains will shout treason and say that abat we are incie inz inar violence to destroy the utah bastile but everybody with common sense will understand our meaning and comprehend that we seek no wrong morally or legally but only hope and speak for better things if the government intends to put men in prison for honoring and associating with their wives it should erect a decent place in which to confine them the present structure and mode of imprisonment are worse than a storied slave pen and justice de decency dency and humanity cry aloud for their abolition we trust that the time is rot not far distant when utah will be able to celebrate the fall of its bastile aud and also the dumph of civil and religious liberty |