Show ITS USUAL STYLE downtown down town advocate of absolute suppression and subjection of everything and everybody pertaining to mormonism in its bigoted zeal sometimes neg neglects leets to compare its own statements with a view to that certain concordance which journalism is supposed to maintain and thus illustrates with almost every issue how plain a case a wilf wilful ua prevaricator always makes against himself if let alone it reminds one of the adage that I 1 liars should have good memories 11 and to this we will add aad that if they expect to escape detection their memories should be constantly on theiu the oui vive ve the organ referred to few days clays the temerity to say ip in speaking of the persecutions for unlawful cohabitation going on and particularly the case of apostle apostal snow he has practiced the crime for more than no forty years he has openly preached it tor foi more than thirty years in that respect by precept and example he has done more harm than any one man living with wita perhaps three cr four exceptions the edmunds act became a law four years ago no man in or out of the mormon church ever up to the time of his bis arrest had heard of any change in his domestic relations when arraigned he be declared ardd that he be had only lived with one wife since the passage of the law and tha a plural wife the mormon press declare that it is an infamous thing that the court did not swept accept that statement and hold that the law had not been violated the dullest mind will see at a glance that had the court so held there would never have been another conviction for the crime with which he was charged I 1 lt it apostle snow has practiced tract practiced iced the crime crl nw for forty years be e did so for thirty six years before it had an existence as an entity in criminal affairs it it were worth while to bandy words with so depraved a sheet for it never ascends to the plane of argument we would call on it to define how a social transaction which is not a menace to life limb or property can be a crime vaili until it is made one by law and then when it is erected into an artificial offense how to is it that the great charter of the country can be ruthlessly brushed aside at the behest of a cheap judge adge or an unprincipled editor and IN the newly made offense be given a retroactive application the organ esses to be so determined an up professes older of the law such a stickler stickier for obedience to every requirement and yet it refuses to consider or to permit erwalt its allies to consider the the fundamental law but hangs on to technical constructions of questionable statutes by partisan judges as though they comprised the whole question herein is a specimen of avoidance of fact arrogance ignorance fanaticism and hate combined such as could scarcely be found elsewhere it is one of those monstrosities ties which have become so frequent hereabout that t they no longer create surprise no man in or out of the mormon church ever up to the time of his arrest had heard of any change in his domestic relations this is a falsehood pure and simple the evidence showed to the there are plenty of people who had heard to that effect within the time stated truth veracity honor are all set aside mens oaths count for naught their uninfluenced and disinterested statements go for nothing with this organ and its henchmen in their ungodly raid in their splenetic frenzy to control everything or destroy it they will accept t of but one con condition tion from the deop people e they are hounding and that is one which makes marriage vows as dicer dicera oaths I 1 I 1 false as s had the court so held there would never have been anotn another er conviction fo the crime with which he was charged just so and in order that there might be such convictions the court so held in other words if the law will not fit the crime the crime must be made to fit at the law this is a feat easy of accomplishment by those who find the crime existing in tue the shades of the past when there was no law at an all further on the same article says I 1 there are plenty of evidences that lorenzo snow did not in fact change one iota from his regular course A 31 life upon the passage of the law all ali that he did was to devise a plan which he believed would baffle the court and defeat the law there were also plenty of evidences the other way but as long as the defendant had to be convicted they did not seem to count it is only such evidences such law and such interpretations as tend to produce the desired result Ahat hat are wanted and in the last sentence tence of the above paragraph knavery is united to mendacity the usual benefit of construing an accused persons dersons acts in the most favorable ight light which obtains in courts and journals elsewhere is set aside here and the absolute fact that such person to Is living at as more in conformity with the law as his understanding suggests and his hi circumstances permit which in other places would secure acquittal is here a plan to baffle the court and defeat the law 0 christianity civilization and law if you are indeed represented aull only by such exponents as the organ and its t allies assuredly your 1 cueral has been delayed too long I 1 |