Show TAKE IT HOME tim THE technical decision of the U 8 s supreme up rame coutt court in the snow casas cases practically hurls the latter day faints into ik a figurative den aeu of lions s to be torn to shreds and devoured they are caged and apparently at the mercy of those who have AS w yet riven given no symptoms of mercy simmered down to the finest point ofton of condensation sensation densa tion theu i offense is not the performance for mance of past conduct ht a allure to promise to do something that has hag never been dt defined fined is in the f future the issue oft the part ot of those who make the demand for the new I 1 judicial covenant is as supremely dely absurd audas senselessly cruel as the position of an unreasonable parent who chastises his hi child for not hot dougl as he wishes notwithstanding that tha he never has benned denned the nature of heis and continues doggedly to refuse to be explicit on the point such is 19 the position of the courts of utah and idiano idano today to day the repetition of toe the offer of clemency to the mormon prisoners a at t t toe penitentiary presented tW a few days ago go by governor Govern br west was a peculiar it is questionable if a parallel to it can be found in history especially ally when it is taken in connect connection ibn with uke the same offer made to each of the trino ners in court before the gusmai passing of judgment it shows bayona ayol question that those men who ar are now suffering tor for the sake of con cette not viewed As Intrinsic criminate even by their opponents not who are fired the hatred toward them it says as plainly as language bould have spoken etim it lionly atty give your word wora that your shallie shall be sa as we request and your liberations libe rations a foregone conclusion it wes was held by those who wha tendered it that the proffer was made in good faith Nedis necessarily rily there must have hae been confidence that any prom promise se given in response would have beeri been given in the same quality the tender of of the was therefore as much as to say 6 we know that you yon are men of probity and honor it if you pass your word t that t such a course coarse aul wul betoken betaken be taken by each of you personally wo we believe you will be true to it we haves full faith in your honesty this must have been the standpoint of chose who ho made the tender of of W conditional clemency else it could not nave have been bl held eld out in good faith barnd but no one could tell amt waat the conditions were not the slightest approach to a definition could bo be oven given except th that whatever AUver they were they would be subordinate to the caprice the whims and vindictive twists turnings and contortions of courvi courts who had pursued with them with the most relentless cruelty it was noth ing short abort of a call abt abr an unconditional surrender without the slightest guaranty ot of protection from the merciless operations of judicial officers whose unwarrantable course has crushed out ont of the hearts of the people every particle of confidence in their integrity or justice let ane enemies of the saints say what hat they maptha may the spectacle presented in a number of people in a tout foul prison where they are practically dead to the world hial having g the privilege of walking out from its at a word f from rom them tham was not devoid of an element of grandeur their consciences their wives sd and their r cli children tioren and their duty daty ta to god as as an utter absence ef 01 confidence inthe in the local ideal federal courts were the bar barriers piers in ia ane way these were obstacles that tha t they could not surmount the Tue ground 04 04 which they stood was not TAP tre re was but bat one course they could i consist consistently cutlY pursue and they took it had they done otherwise even those who profess process so great anxiety to have them surrender what they conceive conc elve to be 0 their religious and other rights would have despised them and their own self respect would have vanished never more to return retarn lut every right t thinking man take the question home toj himself before a harsh judgment is passed capon a people who as a whole have as high a sense of honor as can be discovered in the hearts of those of any other community under the sun gun no matter how deluded he may presume the saints are let him say within his heart stitt I 1 had a certain firm and unfaltering conviction and acting upon it had married more wives than one and by them had reared en ildren chat that those wives and little ones were in man view attached to me by the most sacred ties that in addition to the inviolable sabra sacraments ments th that borrud the family faintly union it was with the iBOs tide voted reciprocal affection 11 let these conditions ibe imagined then let him ask k himsel him seil lf w what hat would bo be the character ol 01 his position it some edict irem from any soulee should demand that he out cut those ties asunder that i ae h should not only sever se the sacred cords cards by his condee con duc but that he ac should publicly or otherwise agree or covenant to do it that he should cut e ut his wives adrift and eracli practically e ally disown his bis children and thus thas not only disrupt the family organization but cause ineffable suffering ering to flu fill the hearts of those he had agreed most t solemn solemnly lt to love cherish and protect what would he do the k writer has i frequently brought I 1 the he point home in this shape to gentlemen who nave have ex expressed de ter mined opposition to mormonism i i and in eve every ry instance they have said they would not their backs upon it aney were in such a position in some instances they nave have aid with more force than elegance id bed bif I 1 would people keople wilo who ara opposed to mormonism can try to deceive themselves as they may but they cannot get around the icet set that to demand that people of this community shall tear up and disrupt relationships of the most sacred as well as endearing character that have existed for years is to step back inta barbarism arb it is cruel it is hideous elond measure it is id unmerciful til it is above all unjust for as stated by bya a notable author justice is the essence of ot government and without justice ustice all forms demo democratic cratto and monarchic ke are tyrannies tyrannizes tyr annies alake P I 1 a people as the latter day saints are entitled entitle di to some decree of con consideration rAtion and if itIs ia the duty of all gabd men in considering the question with wah which they are sa so conspicuously connected to take into the which it is viewed by them |