Show MR MB DICKSON AS A herz HERE is mr Dick sons proposition in a nutshell as declared in his argument in the arnold case on saturday the law aims at the destruction of the polygamous status it can be demolished by the polygamist filing a paper with the court declaring the tie between himself and his plural wives mill and void because illegal and obtaining a decree from the court to the same effect the relationship of the man towards bis plural wives becomes by that process the same as t at of a man toward a woman who has bai been his legal wife but has been judicially divorced any subsequent association bet the anaa man and his plural wives is then legally iaco la Docent ceni so tar as the edmunds law is concerned suppose this new theory were judicially endorsed Sup suppose poe further that it should be silly sally accepted by all men having plural wives and families what would be the greult reu rei alt lt simply this so 86 far as the law is concerned existing lan ja jilies milies could remain intact as their associations would t he e legalle if gall innocent as they are intrinsic ally then matters would be in the same social status as thuy they were before the inauguration ot the crusade of wi aich the district attorney has been the head bead aud and f rout front jowas the acme of that gent lemans ambition appears to be to arf destroy the domestic institutions of the latter day saints can any one see how it could be ac uc complis aed by his new the ory ery would it not if endorsed and accepted as heretofore hereta fore express expressed ea result rather in their solidification in the event of judicial endorsement dor and th the acceptance by the saints paints of the it may readily be imagined with what erratic suddenness the district attorney Atto iney would turn his coat and repudiate his bis new ere creation stion ol 01 a ap pp and distempered mentality he is making such glaring blunders iu his hib blind f fury and ebbit exhibiting biting such unseemly spleen that we know that a good many of his so called gentile friends are totally dis disgusted with his doings some day he will make that discovery himself ot of late he be has acied aced more after the manner of a bull in a china shop than a rational being by taking that course he be is doing I 1 himself more injury than lie he does his bis victims much as present appearances pe arances may seem the other way the f he holding of a little brief authority has intoxicated him with an inflated conception of his own powers of which he has an exuberant estimate when shorn of the official position which ne prostitutes ay as he will be in hi time he will doubtless be surprised at the smallness allness of the hole into which he be will be able to crawl he will yet feel as aa if it would add to his c ft to pull the aperture in alter after ham in the language of an eminent american thinker things refuse to be long mismanaged |