Show BARBAROUS AND D L TUB Tui opponents of the Mol Mor Mo mon mon people are themselves guilty bf nearly all the grosser offenses wl wh Ich ch they lay at the doors of the objects of their hate Their animus is so sit sit- sitter Sit Sitter ter as to place them wi with th the extreme rank of fanatics Yet fanaticism is one of the charges they m make ke against the of victims victims-of their venom They have good deal to say about a twin relic o 0 barbarism among the Mormon people but they fail fall to o observe serve them own barbaric methods exhibited b the application of the most cruelty J We have occasionally treated upon the villainy ot of certain Federal officers in Utah an inexcusable perversion sion perversion sion wn of their official functions have consigned innocent women and infant children to incarceration in L a foul prIson tor for months victims of merciless tyranny have not even been accused of any ny crime The cause of theIr imprisonment has been one over which it could SCarCelY scarcely be said that they have personal co control They are alleged ed plural wives an and aad the reason for tor the tile oppressive punishment inflict inflict- inflicted inflicted ed upon them and their babies is that they have declined to answer ques- ques questions that would criminate those who are alleged to De be t e tl their husbands Looking at this question from any standpoint it impresses the inflictors with the brand of tyrant which will attach ta to them ot only while they hive but to tG their memories so long as the of their misdeeds shall hall endure r Care are re shall U sh iU be taken ken t that the record shall not be lost to posterity Aside from the pULses phases bases in gin which the subject lies already been presented it itcan itcan Itcan can be profitably viewed in its relation to the co constitution of womanly nature To the tree trae tr e woman the husband un- un under under un under der God 10 to o her is is all in all In him her soul souls soul's la affections are centered and absorbed ab No is too greatt great r her to offer for lor the object of her love love even to the laying la-ing down of life itself It If it be a woman taken taken befOre a nand nd jury jary or court might have haveIt haveit haveit It in her power to give testimony nony that tend would would tend te d to subject h hw her husband to pains and penalties what could be bemore bemore bemore more natural than that she should de- de decline decline de decline cline to give the information To im- im imprison imprison im imprison prison her on account of the mere fact mere fact of her silence is barbarous and inex inex- inexcusable inexcusable inexcusable The laws and customs of civilized ingredient nations recognize reco nize this ingre ingre- of nature as well as the sacred character of the family rela- rela relation relation rela relation tion and place their ban upon the ap- ap application ap application of coercion to compel the wife to testify against the husband It may be said in answer to this po- po position po position that the plural wife wile does not stand in that relation in the eye of the law jaw What W hat bat is cold law especially la v especially of that character made expressly to mak make people criminals who have not the re- re remotest remotest re remotest desire to commit aa an intrinsic by wrong by the side of nature as es- es establIshed established es established by natures nature's God The woman looks upon her relationship with the man of her choice as divinely sanctioned besides being exactly har- har harmonious har hari montous wIth with her law which makes the act of her husband ill in cherishing her ber as a wife crimin criminal l is a i is in con con- con conflict filet with her noblest instincts Tyran Tyran- Tyrannical Tyrannical and callous callous- hearted callous hearted officials mak make the operations of that 1 law w reach her placing her though Innocent even evenin evenin evenin in relation to that statute in the tion position of the felon She Is punished with inh uman unman severity for assuming an at- at attitude attitude at attitude which she can scarcely help anymore anymore any more than she could stop bre And with her if she happens to have one her infant goes to the place designed for criminals We earn that when the babe of Lucy Dev Dev- Devereux DeV recently incarcerated In the penitentiary each day heard the door of the place of unlocked the helpless and innocent little frag- frag fragment fragment ment 0 of humanity greeted the sound with glee jumped and joyously rowed crowed at the apparent expectation of of obtain obtain- obtaining ing iDE freedom Those who perpetrate such inhuman outrages es as have been enacted enacts and are still proposed proposed under the anti Mor Mormon anti mon raid have exhibited a demonise ct that is a disgrace to humanity It is is useless aa for f fw w them 4 w to f 4 i insult fiM 4 the t gl M af- af government of this Republic by clam clam- claming claim clem- claiming ing ing that they are acting acting- as its consist consist- consistent consistent ent agents Such a claim is 8 an insult to the nation It is tanta- tanta tantamount tantamount anta mount to asserting that from rom a magnificent structure designed to give liberty to the oppressed and succor the bowed down it has teen been transformed into an en engine engine ine of despotism whose object is to inflict site exquisite cruelty upon and crush the weak and helpless Such men are enemies to the institutions of the country and to humanity being dead to the finer instincts of mankind In Inthe Inthe Inthe the blindness of their zeal they are un- un unable un unable able to perceive their own in infamy Y yand and take the position of fanatic fanatics of the most extreme and malignant t type e |