Show IS IT INHUMAN WHEN the historian shall undertake the task of writing and grouping groaning the incidents that have occurred in the career of the latter day saints as a community during tae last few years he will find plenty of material out of which to construct con a story of absorbing interest it will bristle with facts that will in the future be perused with wonder and avidity it will contain vivid illustrations of human devotion suffering and exquisite cruelty in these respects ets it will exceed many of the tae works of fiction the perusal of of which excites sensitive live readers to weep and abhor scenes in which tender and devoted women and helpless children are made the victims of a misguided and merciless policy will occupy some prominence in the narrative here is an instance in point A woman with a three months month sold old babe is taken bea before ore a court as a witness and declines to answer questions whose object is to discover the identity of the fattier of her infant she is held to be in contempt a nd the courts idea of the majesty of the law is that it must be maintained by thrusting this woman into a loat herome prison designed for crimin ids as of the blackest cast the life of tae little one depends upon its being kept in contact wi h its mother to deny this association might result in constructive cons murder as wi without thoat it the chi ld id would probably not survive As As a consequence cin c sequence the decree of imprison me at necessarily includes this little oue one who belongs to a class the savior said were of the kingdom of heaven I 1 lut even with t the e maternal companion ship of the mother retained the life and health of the little one is unsafe its present condition being a veri fleat ton ion of this pathetic fact the public t xe re aware of the character of the phu e of tc die e present officers in charge are humane and we nave no do idea that they alila would deny any accommodations dortht for comfort and aad convenience of tile tender institution of they have the oversight afford but bat tue difficulty is abat the ahe facilities lu in that respect are of the poorest and meanest clip description tion what is the reason for the perpetration of such acts that are lu in our opinion gross violations of the law of common humanity which is higher lu iu the scale of philosophy than any enacted statute it has already beatri stated that the lady lad v declines at present to tell woo wao is the father of her child only this and nothing more it maybe may be asked in this connection whether it is not believed she is a plu pin ral wife and that it is also believed tier her silence is caused by a desire drifter on her part to screen her husband lest lie he be placed iu in jeopardy on account of his association with her if that be admitted as a probability I 1 it L may be asked in reply in that case she is not dot acting upon an instinct tu tuat at is one of toe chief characteristics of a true womans comans nature he who is unwilling to admit go so patent a fact connected with womans comans composition is no higher in the scale of intelligence and consistency than an a ass 88 to a true wife her huab husband a is all ail in all and rather than place him in dan berslie ger bershe slie will confront it herself her history is f all of illustrations of this complexion I 1 audit and it has been a custom tu in all ages for the conduct of such women to be estimated as heroic it is needless to ur urge 9 e that it if this woman lomanis is a plural wife she is not a wile wife in ia the eles ees of the law the devoted woman looks out of her womanly eyes and not through the cold I 1 glassy e eyes es of at the law it 11 such a relationship lation ship exists in the instance in point as is is presumed to her the father or of her child is her husband and to expect her to regard the relationship as severed is antipodal to the law of nature and humanity liu manity people may say what they please to the contrary we contend that buch bach cases as the one in question smack of the inquisitorial processes that belong to the dark ages the revival of chien should be viewed with abhorrence the law does not contemplate the perpetration pet ration of cruelty and as to whether such instances as the one considered inculcates that element is left to the judgment of the unprejudiced portion ut of the put public lic it it does it is in con flicht with the expressed policy vt if the chief executive of this Rep republic ano alio has stated in plain terms that he does not the mormon people to te be in a position to correctly hold that the law is being vindictively administered adminis terea ag adust them yesterday dr joseph S richards kindly responded to a request t to 0 o visit the child referred to in trie foregoing and found it very in ill he was prepared to give a certificate to that effect and wat mat to retain it in confinement iu in the penitentiary would bendan 11 1 e its hf life e today marshal dyer stated state that the issuance of such a certificate would be useless as judge li Hende enderson raon had bad stated that under no circumstances circumstanced would tha th mother anna E browa be released unless she answered the questions to which she had bad refused to reply and so the matter stands in this land of free america in we century what a spectacle to see a great government cli out the hand of its mighty power through one of its agents to crush a helpless woman and a suckling babe |