Show MR PENROSE LIBERATED THE readers of the NEWS would be pleased to learn that on the order of judge anderson anderaon C W penrose esq editor in chief of this journal lo was rele released aged from the penitentiary tent iary lary november the cause of his imprisonment was that when on the witness stand november 19 in the investigation resulting from the application of john moore for naturalization he be declined to answer a question addressed to him by the liberal political polinie al aft attorneys orneys for the prosecution se the interrogatory wag wae how many wives have you on the refusal of the witness to reply V the court coart was appealed to by the political prosecutors and his honor ruled that the question was proper now just where the propriety of V the interrogatory appears is not quite clear the incident reminds one of the story of a schoolmaster who had puzzled a novice with arithmetical problems which he could not answer the puzzled person said he could formulate one that the donimic solve and forthwith presented this if a cheese costs costa four shillings what would be the price of a part cart load of turnips 1 the utter absence of relevancy in the problem was too much for the skill of the schoolmaster so 80 just what connection there is between the domestic affairs of mr penrose and the application of john moore for citizenship has not yet been exhibited hibi ted if any exists it is scarcely discernible to the naked eye the hypothesis of the interrogatory on the part of the political prosecutors must be its as a logical inference that the particular dimensions of mr Pen roses Ws family would establish the fitness or otherwise of john moore to be clothed with the dignity of citizenship of the republic we suspect however that the liberal Ll beral anti mormon prosecution simply seized a favorable opportunity port unity to place one whom they t esteemed to be an opponent at a disadvantage they therefore in slated that he be imprisoned contempt tem p t kneir malignancy was gratified and for a technical offense the victim of their spite a gentleman of standing and add ability in the community was consigned to a prison in which felons convicted of every conceivable crime are confined we do not attach any special blame to judge anderson for what is esteemed even by many of the political opponents of mr penrose Pen roseto to be an outrageous indignity the error of the court was in allowing the question as proper for the splenetic trio who were the cause of it ho however ever there is no excuse had their demand been carried out the object of their venom would still have been languishing in prison but the court could not be induced to perpetrate such an unmitigated the unmerciful dickson insisted thattie that the witness be imprisoned till such time as he should answer the wolfish baskin with his characteristic combination of snarl snap and whine contended that if necessary the case could be adjourned for a year or so until he should answer as to his domestic relations this was followed by the acme me too tolof of the anti mormont mormon cyclone P L williams whose bitterness to a people who never harmed him approaches close to the border of lunacy with perhaps an occasional step over the boundary we are pleased to know that many fair minded liberals have been disgusted with the recent doings in court of some of the bosses of their party they are against the aftem attempts P ts to override the rights of the cormons mormons Mor mons Dg to belief free speech and freedom of the press attempts attorn apts to curtail the latter by efforts to induce the courts to imprison editors of public journals among convicted criminals ina in a penitentiary cannot be regarded with favor by any class of citizens who have the slightest regard for honor and the commonest kind of common decency in case it might be imagined that the chief editor is defending himself in these columns we take occasion to state that this article is penned by another hand than his and in his absence from this abis 0 office |