Show lhoste FOSTERING RING immorality AND JUSTICE LAST friday fourur four arrests rests were made by the police of persons guilty of the most shameless indecency awl and criminality on beins being brought before thet the justices court two were convicted of afi vagrancy and indecent it exposure exposure anda and the other vile couple who w were 0 i ta taken ken lagrante were discharged from custody the reason of this feeble disposition of these cases is iio not a lack laeff of willingness on the part of the local authorities to punish the guilty parties but because the courts which are engaged in the work of perse persecuting cating the f mormons cormons Mor mons have thrown up bulwarks bulwa around the debauched and dissolute in the t he shape of rulings that turn aside the f force oree ot A statutes and ordinances and interpose the power of the federal against the local I 1 ad judiciary clary ciary when the doings of a number num be r of so called respectable respect aole bibe bipeds d a among them some of the attaches 0 of f the dis brict court were exposed to the public every technicality and evasion known to pettifoggers pettifog gers was xe resorted sorted to zy by the prosecuting attorney to protect them from punishment the ingenuity which is exercised to enmesh mor mons in the toils of the law was turned in the other direction to pro hect the gentile criminals crim inala the lewdness the re sorters to vile houses had been proven guilty in the police court was protected under the ruling ewt that it must be open committed in a public place and a public pi manner anner in order to come within the meaning pt the municipal law and ahn the territorial statutes was brought into bearing and its validity could not mot be overturned the public prosecutor so zealous in pursuing and punishing utmost extreme those cormons mormons Mor mons who could be cap captured tu red fox for living with their wives utter utterly I 1 y refused to proceed against the de depraved ie aved band and filthy wretches who h had deen been detected in the very act of committing foul crimes against morality decency and society descending beihoff the dirtiest brutes in their grovelling gro velling bestiality and when the lower courts acting under a law sustained by the higher court proceeded to try cases cabes of this character the majority ot of the supreme court of this athis T territory errit ory by twisting the law so ao as to cripple lade the authority of the justices of I 1 the peace decided against their juri jurisdiction adi sdi boft 01 of such cases and thus protected the libertines in their lechery it is because of these rulings rulious in the interest of vice and to the detriment of virtue that persons like those discharged drom justice court or mildly punished for a comparatively trivial of fence tence were not made to suffer the penalties in such cases lawf lawfully ally made and provided the decision of judge zane that lewdness lewd nesa must be open and public to be punishable puni wd and of judges powers andE and boreman dreman that ty justices of the peace can authorized by statutes statute try cases of resorting to houses of ill fame haw wen given license to the lecherous and bound securely the hands ot of justice in iii the their ir favor thu the local authorities must not punish them the federal authorities will not the power that refuses to prosecute the corrupt prevents the exercise of the power that is ready to act for the public welfare and thus crime is encouraged and criminals snap their fingers and sn sneer eerA ait the law when the statement has been made in congress or its committees that tile the law is executed in utah agal against list mor monsa mons and to shield Geli gentiles tiles it has been received with credulity A denial obtains more mord favor than the assertion it seems incredible that abati officers and courts supposed to be working energetically ergeti cally in the interest of morality should be hounding men for taking carlof care of plural fa families miliea and shielding wk wretches etches steeped to the ears in debauchery bau bauo chery hery but the statement is capa bleff unimpeachable demonstration I 1 A MM Mormon ormon who has more wives than one is sent to prison prism for a protracted term three times the period that tile the law pro provides fides as a maximum because he acknowledges and supports though lie ae does not live with more than one of them and this thia under a law which makes living with more than one woman the gist of the off offense nse enBe and at the same time a gentile who seduces his cifes sister and becomes the father of a child of shame is turned loose by the tome bame court that unjustly punishes the others on the ground that his illicit relations lat foris do not amount to unlawful cohabitation A li mormon who has had two wives but has separated f from rom one of then them evet ever since the passage of the he edmunds act for calling at her house itt in order to receive child voluntarily surrendered by the mother is Isi convicted of violating the law and a villain who though ai married man has been seen byr by contradicted Tin wit i nesses in most debasing sexual j infamy laget isget alt liberty because his detectable doings were not performed before move the public gaze I 1 that is how law W is ie interpreted by united 13 states tates budges in the territory 0 of o f utah that is how society is protected from immoral assaults assault upon its peace and good order that ashow is how ho w christian hristian institutions are upheld that is howth christiaa civilization I 1 is fostered that is hoy the benighted mormons cormons Mor mons are madeo see seethe the majesty and purity and in d J justice of bielaw the law as enforce dby th the auth authority sr of this veat great and in mighty gentl 1 A and aad ad no now that the lo 10 local authorities are forbidden to punish the supporters and of the social evil which the regenerators of society ha have ve introduced trod aced into the territory is nothing to be done acne to restrain the wrong doers and repress the wrong when the district courts were reproached with tak their ir partial and immoral construction of the edmunds act by which living with i wives was severely punished and cohabitation with any number of women outside the marriage relation was condoned the an ewer was the law was not aimed ag against dinst common sexual crimes they are left to local laws d butcho same voice that uttered this shameful edict now forbids the local authora authon authorities to execute those laws it eb charges arges as a matt matter erot ot form that grand juries should investigate such cri crimes rues but what grand jury has attempted to indict auy any one or for t these hese 0 senses offenses what prosecuting officer has interested himself in procuring in an indictment against a moral leper whose beitia bestiality lity has been witnessed beyond dispute what re softer to or keeper or ow dweller eller in a house of ill fame has been indicted which of the guilty beings whom the and Justi justices cels courts have been restrained from try ing hig has been prosecuted in the higher court have flave not the officials I 1 who are kent bent on harassing mor 1 mons and breaking up mormon i homes I 1 proven beyond doubt that they I 1 have no desire to punish sexual crimi irate Is isit it not dear that it is not vice they we are after that it is not society they arte afe protecting that it is not purity they are promoting but that it is a religious I 1 system they want to crush and I 1 a religious creed they want to destroy what are our local courts to do under these circumstances they should exercise all the limited powers which i the higher courts permit them to re i tain ta in the interest of public morality punish the guilty so solar bax as their jurisdiction extends and nd turn over to thel the action of the grand jury all persons who vilio lander the latest absurd and vicious ruling must be indicted before tried for misdemeanor and take care that if there ls is a failure of justice it I 1 shall not be through any sh shrinking irom from duty on their part and let ad 6 who have any sense of justice and i de dei i sire eire for the promotion of social order ad aid in letting the world know that the crusade against the mormons cormons Mor mons supposed to be for the purpose of 01 maintaining the sanctity of rome home and the parity of bithe the family cir cleis 0 striking at atthe the very basis of the family relation introducing discord to disrupt peaceful homes and shielding and supporting those damning and festering influences practices and institutions that fill the world with disease and shame being a blight upon the physical and spiritual nature and tend to widespread wide spread corruption misery and decay t i |