Show MISERABLE A AND stonyhearted SPITE MARSHAL IRELAND appears to be trying to make himself as disagreeable as possible in the position which he is permitted to occupy for a little season he has reduced the allowance of newspapers to the inmates of the penitentiary down to a weekly dole and now undertakes to exercise an unauthorized censorship over public journals only admitting such as suits his own tastes and notions he cannot point to a single evil growing out of the reading of either daily dall semiweekly semi weekly or weekly newspapers T in the pen he admits that the prisoners who are in for polygamy and cohabiting with their wives are the most orderly and gentlemanly of at any that are incarcerated and he acknowledges that nothing in the papers has caused an infraction of the rules yet he says he will exclude all papers that animadvert on the conduct of government officials IQ in other words he be will shut out all that will not salather sp lather marshal ireland over with fulsome adulation and praise that administration of the law which is a reproach to a civilized nation and a burning shame to those engaged in it the stringent relations which have been lately adopted it is well understood have been inaugurated out of the petty spite spit against the mormons cormons Mor mons whose spirits cannot be broken and subdued by the indignities devised for them before the mormon prisoners were incarcerated newspapers books and periodicals of all kinds were solicited for the inmates of the pen now they are whittled down to weekly newspapers ers and they are sorted out by the marshal and those papers which the mormon prisoners care for are excluded to cap this piece of paltry spleen marshal ireland has refused permission to elder john nicholson to come and see his dainy dying father or take a look at his remains I 1 if he expires which he is hourly expected to do when when marshal ireland lies upon his couch and longs for a last view of some one he loves we hope he will meet with more mercy than he now dow extends to an aged and honorable gentleman wo desires to bid a noble son farewell before he closes his eyes in death and when marshal ireland welters in the doorn which will overtake those who fight against god and the dictates of humanity we hope that some mormon as a ministering spirit will be disposed to stretch out a hand of compassion and ameliorate his sufferings that he may mav not be treated with the stonyhearted stony hearted unkindness which he metes out to those unfortunate enough to be kempor temporarily ar by withla we his power |