| Show in commenting upon the violations of law and justice which characterize so many malay prosecutions of mormons cormons Mor mons convicted of offense an which tile the evidence shows they have not committed we wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not argue as to the moral or religious righteousness of the course pursued by the accused our criticisms of the pleas picas of prosecutors toe the rulings of courts and the verdicts of juries have nothing to do with our views of the acts of men and women in a family capacity those who construe our denunciation of proceedings against men who have tried to obey the edmunds jaw into an endorsement of the arrangements made with their families exhibit a very shallow capa city lor for logical reasoning we do not consider it our province to interfere in any way with a maus mans family con cerns it if the families themselves are satisfied with any arrangement made by bv mutual I understanding that is their b business not ours neither does it concern the gossips who seek to tind fault with things that thai they cannot understand der stand from the fact that they have not been parties to the agreement nor been cons consulted tilted as to its propriety when a verdict in our view is contrary to evidence when a public public prosecutor urges conviction in face ce of testimony that seems to exculpate the abe accused and when courts appear to exhibit exhibit a bias against a defendant because of his bis faith and extraneous to the matter on trial we expect to condemn such manifest injustice no matter what we may think of the course of the abe accused as a question of religion and propriety A man may be unwise or er even radically wrong in his treatment of his alamil and yet et be guiltless of breaking the munds edmunds law and it we disapprove e ot of his conviction against the evidence it does not follow that we approve of his bia family government his bis mode made of living or his ale deportment as a husband and father they are totally different things and we do not presume to applaud or condemn purely private and domestic affairs which concern only the parties themselves we condemn what appears to be a palpable and public wrong and that is the end as well as the object of our criticisms |
