Show usurpation AND CRUELTY on friday under the title of how can we have confidence we showed clearly that certain officials here had bad made judicial constructions perform the functions of wished for special anti mormon le legislation the subject has been more or less frequently ventilated in these columns but it will bear a good deal of probing 7 and puncturing it can be pursued a good deal further farther and the proposition proved to a demonstration in the earlier stage of the present anti mormon crusade judge zane was in the habit when a victim was before ham nh m to be sentenced for unlawful cohabitation of expressing poignant regret that the punishment nish ment prescribed by the egunus edmunds lw was not heavier this manifestation infestation ife station of benevolent grief that filled the sympathetic soul of t this kindly disposed official cropped out notably in the case of parley P pratt who had plead guilty to the indictment found against him of course it would have been cruel to have left this philanthropic official in such aa abyss of grief the effect on his constitution mental and physical might have been permanently injurious But the difficulty was easily surmountable with such an able unscrupulous and subtle rescuer at hand as the mild mannered mr dickson the judge himself had manufactured an obstacle acre that stood in the way of a construction that would effectually obliterate his own sorrow by the simple expression of his personal grief at the paucity of the punishment he made it plain that he himself knew that the maxim maximum am penalty was six months imprisonment and jine fine this would have been a formidable barrier to the application of the elastic process of construction to other men bur buff not so to him the prosecuting attorney invented the segregation process by which the penalty can as easily be made imprisonment for life and a line fine that would require a coll for tune to pay as that specifically defined by the law and chief justice zane whose judicial backhanded back handed agility has probably seldom been equalled equal led and surely never never surpassed in the annals of jurisprudence accepted of the Dickso nian theory he adopted it with as much ease as he usually rules during the trial before him hi m of a mormon the objection 0 of f t the e prosecution is ig sustained object tion of the defense overruled the ultra liberal construction was can caught up by the judges of the other districts and re echoed in idaho mr dickson being the fountain of the judicial diabolism while that gent lemans ability especially displayed as cone octor oil of extraordinary constructions may be a subject of admiration the fact that it should be prostituted prostitutes to such demoniacal uses is equally a subject for regret if he had a drop of the milk of numan kindness even if it were so infinitesimal as to be barely susceptible of being seen by the aid of a powerful erf ul microscope tue tae scene presented pre seated on wednesday last in the first district court at ogden when men who were serving out a term in the penitentiary were sentenced to another for the same offense would fill nim aim with remorseful shame but the leading point we now elucidate is not th the mere fact of the strained changeable and elastic constructions placed upon the law by ot 01 ficiala claiming to be kind tae feature now insisted upon as monstrous is that the character of those constructions is such that they are made to do the duty of special enactments tile official usurpers usurp ers in utah have in their endeavors to crush an honest people go P ae practically exercised powers that bat are claimed only for and by congress while it is questionable whether it even belongs to the latter when such men put on an air of in because their cruel ties are published to the world the bubl sublime ime point of effrontery is over topped |