Show ZANES definition judge zanos definition of tho word cohabitation as he delivered it inthe course of the trial ot an gus M cannon plainly shows that his honor is a monomaniac on the of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation instead of giving his construction of the word in terae explicit terms ho took up the theory of tho prosecution as if he had been one of the prosecuting council and indulged in a display of sophistry which plainly indicates that on this subject ho is a crank take for instance the following paragraph in his wordy ruling touching the legal meaning of the word cohabit as used in the edmunds act and tell ua if you can reader what possible relevancy it batter under consideration A man when he is in society of course stands in various relations to other persons stands in relation to the government to society to tho various members of it and in his own family ag he lives these he occupies various relations the relationship tion ship may be that of master and speaking of it in a servila sense for eliat relation has disappeared and as bet been the woman of djs family his relationships aro distinct and well marked ought to bo at least the relationship may bo that of a man to liis housekeeper or hired girl if you please may be that of father and daughter or son and mother or husband and wife it appears that some have conceded that judge zano is smart he is doubtless possessed of a kind of cunning and dexterity that often passer for shrewdness but no great a upon the bench would in bulge in such frothy digressions as the above citation again to illustrate how bad this judicial gentleman is effected with a virulent anti polygamy mania we find him on this identical occasion philosophizing philosophising ising as follows this relationship of husband and wife is not like any other on earth and the result is that rise to a different class of conduct that grows out of this relation which is different from any other different from that which grows out of the relations of father and daughter bon and mother along it grows the flowers that adorn human nature and sweeten the domestic and social atmosphere it ia true as the courts BOO sometimes thorns grow and it seems in some cases to bo pretty much all thorns but they do not belong to it it as a peculiar relation and its well marked conduct that belongs to it properly naturally is different from that of any other and hence when a man lives with a woman as his wife the conduct that attends that living Is different from any other kind of conduct and it does not remain in the liouta allo gether it gets out of doors among tho people and they eee it all this and much more kindred trash might have been overlooked if it had been uttered by an attorney eager to earn his fee but at the best it h mere twaddle which no sensible or profound or we might almost say eano judge would use under the same circumstances from the windy ebach tion which zane belched forth in his effort to define tho word cocab citation within the meaning of the statute the small caliber of the man tiro of the narrow 5 minded pettifogger and the zeal of a partisan sympathizer is plainly betrayed but there is another aspect to this zanol construction of the term unlawful cohabitation boroo have thought that tho edmunds act which made unlawful cohabitation a specific offense was designed to repress it is with j his idea in view that many of the people of the united states have been so very anxious to eca the law executed but this notion entirely explodes he says that the law was aimed at the appearance pe arance of an evil at any evil itself in other word ho decides that the cormons mormons Mor mons must cease to recognize their plural consorts aa wives and refrain from living with them under the same roof but otherwise any male person may have as many distresses mistresses mi stresses or concubines as he pleases and beget as many illegitimate children as he likes and his case will not come under the edmunds act at all by his ruling judge zane asks that husbands of plural wives shall repudiate openly the honorable relationship lation ship of matrimony and cast away the mother of his caldren in a homeless and helpless condition if he is not able to purchase her a separate house if the law is rigidly enforced after this roan ner the most serious results must ensue by the discretionary power conferred by an inexplicit law craftily taken advantage of through his own odious machinations judge banc has made himself act the part of a petty despot a judicial oppressor an enemy to humanity and a too to virtue but his honor knows ho is among a long suffering law abiding patient and peaceful people and it matters not how much misery or ruin he causes them for there will not bo the slightest danger that retributive yeng canco will overtake him as he reasons he has indeed naught of violence to fear from the hands of cormons mormons Mor mons ho pretends to be a christian he is in reality apparently an infidel or an athirst at hiest but ho may yet bo brought to feel that it is a serious matter to tamper with inalienable human rights and unexpectedly he may also find that heaven can yet cause io be inscribed upon his grave stone as an epitaph those words which have stricken terror into the hearts of many miscreants sic sw per |