Show 0 WHERE IT MAY STRIKE THE los angeles express has the following to say in regard to the late decision of the Arizona Chief justice in regard to the application of we the ed munds tucker act to other territories besides utah we are afraid the express editor will be considered heterodox on the mormon question by the bigots and know nothings of the Ane american press he says the decision of chief justice gooding that the edmunds act ap applies lies in arizona as well as utah iq i of mu much Z interest inhere 8 t the act imposes penalties for unlawful cohabitation and adultery and there are in arizona a considerable number of citizens not mormons cormons who are liable to prosecution under the terms of the law it is scarcely likely however that the measure will be invoked against them it was rather the teaching of polygamy by the mormons cormons Mor mons than the sporadic and secret practice of it by some gentiles that aroused the national indignation which found expression in the edmunds act |