| Show THE SITUATION IN IDAHO information received front from blackfoot idaho is far from being reassuring the news of the decision of the U 8 S supreme court in the snow cases has intensified the bittern essof feeling that animates the breasts of the anti mormon crusaders they seem to be inspired with a vindictive determination to crush the objects of their animus out of exist existence eum or as judge zane once put it to one of his victims according to the kind of mercy he has exhibited grind them to powder A hundred and forty five new indictments indictment presumably all or nearly au all against I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons have been een ground an out of course the segregation re p process cess is liberally employed by y which indictments or counts are multiplied against each victim one ne of the victims is bishop stewart of malad who has two indictments to answer to he Hels Is being pursued with exceptional relentlessness as it is but bat a short time since he be emerged from the idaho penitentiary after having served a term under conviction for unlawful one feature of the antl anti mormon prosecutions or rather persecutions at blackfoot shows questionable wisdom on the part of some of those who are placed in jeopardy pardy there are in idaho a number owl of o f lawyers who are well known enemies of the 11 Mn rifton people ana are hand annd and glove with those who are bringing them into bondage occasionally those characters are aide being employed by the brethren to defend them on the ground that beng being non mormons cormons or more correctly anti cormons mormons it they have influx influence nee with the courts aside Asid from efrom the tact fact that on general principles those men are not deserving of patronage that fills alia their pockets ekens at the expense of the brethren i it t encourages them to help the prosecution or multiplication ot of fresh cases caes to create business themselves IU in that way they ar are enabled to make one hand fill the other the fueling is ge general neftal that the mormon people as a body will be excluded from the privilege of voting at the enquin ensuing 9 in idaho under the disgraceful test teat oath oat ti act and thus freedom shrieks under the operation of the demoniacal crusade and the cries of an oppressed people ascend to heaven ip in the north as elsewhere cropping cropp ingi of plots and counter counterplots plots are comin comini 1 to the surface showing that all who profess to be faints saints agrenot are not worthy of of f the name those conditions show two effects that a are re the necessary result of the callar situation evertts of the present are potent developers of character they polish and brighten those qualities that causie the nobility of manhood to shine in unusual brilliance and strength they also evolve the hypocrite and the traitors thus thua all classes are having and aad will have in the future more than now BOW opportunities of acting the roles they elect as copt congenial to beir inclinations be they hi high h or low the hypocrites have to be e atoned allowed opportunities port unities atties as well as the righteous and after they have acted their part in the most interesting of mod mo modern d ern araas dras sas their acts will be proclaimed as from the house totis tops the expo ekpo sure of those deeds will cause fear 0 to o seize the hyp hypocrite okrite in zion let tho thi work go on and every man act out the part of his choice be that what it ny may I 1 |
