Show THE MILES CASE we were once impressed with the idea eliat colment con ment n relation to this bauta cauta was thereafter unnecessary but find it at this late day occupying as prominent a place wore the public as it ever did in fact it in more if possible at im at the proceeding than formerly the issue lit now a direct arid clearly defined one and thoo of ho residents of rtuh who the domion Mo faith must down to the unwelcome con they shape their religious ten eta binl practices go ai to of gieir opponents ot sulamit to ouch m a conflict heir enemies ty he and machinery ot tho federal government eniy bring it is ft lamentable elate knitli a people acs to alia of thorp who thein would be a cowf but not o in utah lere the majority offer an further opposition 10 of the majority and pio teat the produce pue ering and alt ane and tho protea are mi by additional cult and under ft will bo at bj the press and public in other ilist alto aba nilon his particular and most unpopular phae of belief why d they liot deprive those whom they call ibell encin lea of if not only opportunity of ag and hig will no te aked eliy do they con dinue to darity thenn elvea tn maw the tide of popular sentiment and feht again t tho bawa aro sustained sustain pd by it kemt nino senthi of tha whole population tho to cheso ima pit en so repeat ally bs ft of titue and ma to them j i t im her and now when president johh taylor WAS interrogated by mr J hollister Holli ater M to his reabon tor not having taken additional wives since the law of 1862 was presed h ro plied that it was not because of his belief that the law aas one entitled to respect because it infringed upon his spiritual belief and sought to restrain him in hm practices had hoped it was because of bis prest T a regard tho law but was compelled to depart with tha that a law bo entitled to respect as tho collector thought ought to be extended first b framed in with the magnet charta of alie land and the natural and unalienable rights of thoo who leopla the land it is for entertaining and acting in accordance with such belief that john miles ha been sentenced to spend five year of clife in a felons cell of the nebraska penitentiary and forfeit one hundred dollars to tho federal government if tho judge who sentenced him or the jurors by whom ho was pronounced been aa spotless in reli tion to their sexual associations as would have brought them up to the standard of dorala which alicy seemed as desirous of establishing by their action in the miles case elicio would of course bo in the proceedings for since it was ordained that a polygamist must not be tried by polygamists should not alio rule be ex tended so that when immorality H the gravamen of tho of fenc as in the miles case he accused would not be tried by immoral men wo do not pretend to gay that all or any of the men who tried that case were immoral but morality was not made an issue as it sli have been perhaps for the reason bluit between those who cither believe in or practise polygamy on one annd and those who either practise or are not opposed to unless the conduct his proceedings in a mner different froming fro mIns censors on the ot herno jury could have been im paneled in thia district |