Show STILL LYING TO HELP VARIAN TUB apologists lor for mr varian Vanan and champions of murder still try to make out that the offense called unlawful cohabitation is a felony although the law of congress denning it says it Is a misdemeanor in order to mystify the argument arg ament they assert the laws of congress say arson punishable with death is a misdemeanor counterfeiting coin is a misdemeanor bo ao is mayhem so is perjury so HO is receiving stolen goods and plenty of other offenses under the ed munds tucker bill unlawful cohabitation is declared to be sf ajel elony ouy 11 in answer to that we have bare to say that the whole paragraph tat utterly and en false the laws et the united states do not say that either of these of fences iba misdemeanor take the revised statutes and turn to the see sections that relate to the crimes enumerated and you can see that not one of them themis themes Is declared to be a misdemeanor neither does the tucker edmunds bill say may that unlawful cohabitation is a felony that bill creates a new ew offence ca called es polygamous amous association or cohabitation in and d calls that a felony but it perpetuates the edmunds act which says unlawful cohabitation is a misdemeanor the tuckered tucker ed mends bill calls the offense of of ro marriage arriage a misdemeanor r here then is a practical distinction between a felony and a misdemeanor which the apologists lor for mr varlan varian and champions of murder say bay does not nob exist under modern law butlin the laws of the united audited spates sates did say as is is falsely claimed above that would not help mr Va variants rians case a particle the question is not whether arson perjury mayhem or br other crime named is a misdemeanor but whether unlawful cohabitation is h felony if all those felonies amed med were styled misdemeanors misdemeanor rs it would net raise an offense distinctly defied as a misdemeanor to the class of a felony the greater may include the less but the less does not include the greater the threat of the advocates of murder that more cormons mormons Mor mons will get et killed by deputies and that the government era meat clear up to the president will back them I 1 is a worth just about as as their lies about the laws any officer who shoots down an unresisting resisting human being bein when attempting to serve a warrant for a misdemeanor is a murderer by the law of god and oi of man and if besets begets killed himself while lagg acting the role of assassin there is no law la in heaven or earth that will condemn the person who thus defended de tended himself from assassination and the vil lians who falsely quote the law and urge desperate deputies to engage in the pastime of shooting mormons cormons Mor mons will find that the government will not back any officer in such lawlessness nor will the president corf done such villainy we know what we are talking about and the wretches who are trying to cover carians Va rians vagaries and thompsons Thomp sons turpitude with chelp theta shallow falsehoods are only venting the malice of corrupt hearts in words without value and gas without light |