Show WHEN WILL THEY IT seems that the press of this country will not look into any question relating to utah and the mormons cormons Mor mons deep enough to get an aa ordinary understanding lot of it here is the chicago news bews commenting fr fo on the recent united states i supreme court decision and stating the ruling as that 66 bigamy is bigamy whether a man have two wives or twenty and that he cannot be punished for each wife separately that is about as near the fact a as editors commonly get when the they attempt to touch on mormon affairs no such question was before beford the court it was not alluded to in the remotest manner the d decision boc ion gave I 1 a v e not even a hint on that subject sub zere there has been no question on this point before any of the courts and it t has not even been sprung in the papers it is not open to dispute the law is so plain in in that respect reaped that even the attorneys and courts engaged in ih the crusade against the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 and who are ready and anxious to take every advantage they can have not attempt ed to twist the lawsons law so as to raise a controversy on this hoad head the offense is in cohabiting with more than one woman it makes no difference whether the number be two or er twenty or a hundred it is 6 more than one in either case the penalty is the same because the offense is the same as created and defined in the third section of the edmunds act the chicago news is entirely off the track and misstates the ground of the litigation as well as the result the question at issue was the power of the courts to divide up into several ahat which the law makes but one offense and to inflict several penalties where the law prescribes b but u t one pe penalty Talty and this related not to the no number ber of wives but to the tim during which tue the offense occurred instead of finding several indictments lor for different or several counts in the one indictment on the same game principle n c 1 e the coart of last has baa tr decided c i d e pd that only one onse odense can be charged up to the date of the indictment and therefore that only one penalty cin can be imposed for conduct up to that date the at torney and courts here thinking their doings were not subject to review by the higher court undertook to divide up ae the 0 and to multiply the penalties a ur es and thus inflicted false imprisonment and illegal lines fines upon a number of victims to their excessive anti mormon zeal all this the appellate court has decided to be wrong in an fn prin cl ciple I 1 and void in law will will the chicago news and other superficial on utah questions try mhd grasp this statement of the situation and sive save themselves from exhibiting such painful lack of information as is palpable in their doleful attempts at wit and their laughable essays at explaining explain hig something W rg that they know nothing about |