Show f OFFICIAL METHODS I 1 v i Our j attention if hasuse been called to ccase Ec ase which wa was in rece recently on oil ill the c cae calendar ada r of of a Just justices abw ios court in lu si smithfield utah A vicious coulig rene gadi de from the mormon Mor non church was charged with grand larceny and arrested and nl brought ji ato anto col cairl for trial when ill the pro sec executing attorney who was anxious to work york up a poly gamy fee getting racket hit upon a bright I 1 idea dea he knew that the pris prisoner was was in all 41 proba probability ability bi lity guilty and heal he also SO had bad a good goud reason to stil suppose pr ae that the e accused had acif 11 accurate curate knowledge of i the tile family batug of certain 10 lo cal al residents is who were reputed polygamist misa so an this worthy a n it lorr Mort non pro prosecuting s cc attorney attorney offered to enter a nolle prose prosequi pro against 11 him as to the charge of grand I 1 larceny a arceny I 1 11 i mcase aca e t the h e said ai d pris 1 I 1 I 1 AVII A VII oner would f furnish evidence to pro prod or six parties foi 0 th I 1 4 statute statutory ry ofrendo of plural marriage m ri I 1 I 1 the agreement on oil this bi basi isis was ratified buth both parties to the unhallowed cont contract rapt performed t their hei r respeCt respective i ve parts according ts fu these stipulations the charge of gra grand 1 ud larceny was prom promptly pile wl wilh ahk drawn and the attorney was re rewarded for his leniency with anfor pla tion which enabled him to out five warrants for the ar 1 reu of alleged ista and among those abo ho were cru embraced braced in this category was the own father of the vile informer this is only one example of the many reprehensible methods resorted to by the official tramp ad acx cli engaged in the miserable business of hounding honest peaceable industrious citizens of utah from their homes and fields or causing their arrest for trial beford a packed jury 1 which is daily done I 1 not in ill the interest of peace pros or virtue but solely that a miserable wolfish pack of federal I 1 money seekers may pocket additional irga large fees in the instance wo we have just cited the tile auti 11 mor artion prosecuting attorney condoned a grave crime agai against alst the plainest rights of r pro property porty merely for a selfish sordid and sedi seditious bious purpose if those thoe allied alleged to be guilty of polygamy could be tried by au all impartial jury of their fellow co country u n t r y men according ing to the time honored usages of our constitutional methods of trial trw there would be attempts on the martof part of day sainta saints to avoid legal bya by jury ry aa ays denied 1 ulle alleged 9 ed mitta mists and in this way they are condemned before they are heard A miserable travesty of a jury id is im paneled to try their cases and tho the federal judgen forestall conviction by their arbitrary and oil illegal charges in this condition this dds territory is subjected to all tl ane ie troubles and aggravations under which the provincial dependencies cies of turkey have groaned the anti abuses and treaso treasonable nible and gross misrule which tire to 0 rampant in utah are mure grievous ous to be burno than the ac acs despotism of an all oriental dictator like the king of siam although the individual will 41 0 f this potentate ia is law to his subjects I 1 and the mere inere mandate of hia his lips may be the death of any auy of those who bear allegiance alleg allege pance ance to him yet his maje better nature is never obscured by a demoniac lust fur for a few feir paltry dollars and null a loathsome notoriety as is the c case ase with the primary anti mormon I 1 tyrants of utah even the siamese monarch with his almost unlimited prerogative is not to totally dead to the appeals of wives and children in distress and he d does 0 es have a care 1 forthe pros prosperity p erity and happiness of those over whom he lie rule because his awn own interests are identified with the welfare of his people buethe but the anti adorm mormon on officials 01 of I 1 this territory Ter rory will not even limit their rapacity wan wh en it pr practically a acet da I 1 I 1 y reduces the ilic honura honorable ble cherished wifehood of this region to worse than widowhood and deprives children of a fathers care and support making them virtually ois or ahans and when their disrupting cruel seditious agitation and misrule I 1 interrupts the business of the 1 kh they are indifferent erent to tha th I 1 interests n teresta of their duped supporters 3 the gentile mereb merchants ants and the general material weal because these federal official trai irani I 1 aim arc t transient ent plunderers and hayo no care for anything or anyone e except x capt to sate their rapacious maws maw S at the public i expense this is is not merely a t part izan p view of the situation in cali but it will bear the closest scrutiny of disinterested unprejudiced and im partial larthal candid investigation which ve we court v it |