Show au TH 9 A i frior to passing sentence upon george thorn the ahir mormon aa of utah lan territory jast stica 0 W y T powers made S some very caustic remarks concerning the horribly atrocious nature of the T V T T 7 who had pleaded guilty i to the charge of attempting to procure an abortion addressing the defendant his honor hit hita 9 i 1 other r twy 1 i 1 mr thorn the section of abe T statute under which the indictment was found in your case reads as follows every person who provides supplies or administers to any pregnant woman or procures pio cures such woman to take any medicine drug or substance or use or employs any instrument or other means whatever with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman unless abe same is bec is bunish able by imprisonment in the penilee biary not less than two nor more than ten years it gilr be seen by the penalty imposed that the of which you are guilty is laws holds in great abhorrence let us see what inny oui history that commends the mercy of the courts the drugs which you furnished were sibber ou sexual intercourse with her youage j enormous an boonee bO onse a crime that is punished in all civilized communities except utah the there is no law against incest in utah let it be said to the lasting shame of tho pop lepf this territory that they baye not seen fit to punish harf detestable crime here in utah aman may commit incent wath his sister mother or he may BO free II 11 cre tin utah no man can be adultery seduce tion is no law R shame it is upon this territory that buch is the fact the woman your sisters to whom you furnished the aruga is now e murder tn ok th e life of her newly bora babe as it is alleged I 1 can readily the leti which you sent her and courim her child in embryo were a poteat factor toward her to that state of mind when she was prepared to commit YOH would almost seem an accessory before the fact to her alleged crime of murder nor all the court ia in the babe recently still born aalfs lake to old daughter if this is true then there add editto you other of fences abe seducing your 6 wn nelce rr all these maters indicate a degree of moral upon your part almost unaccountable Your conduct has been bestial and the ends be sub served if I 1 should pass a light sentence lie who violates abe of the marriage relation seeks to put to death an un born babe seduces an innocent wo manor be beverely eve rely dealt with I 1 have read in your letters your abhorrence of the korpon neighbors neigh bori what a paradox this presents guilty d ahei shocked a the lap bouses hold it is such men as you among the gentiles who weaken ahe tt forta now being put forth inbe balf of abe american home aa evi fenced by one man and one woman bogod by aba holy ties of matrimony for life 1 abe crimes of infant cida are baoming bc oming too frequent your case palliating pallia ting circumstances circum the el stence of the law therefore is that you be confined penitentiary for abo period of incest attempted abortion adultery and accessory before to allege dj the t degrac these are choua crimes which justice howera fastens upon th w leading auti mormon Gcorge Thorn 1 I have ead in of be polygamous habits 0 your mormon neighbors say his f f r honor what a paradox this pre enta then exclaims abc JuB tico Guil of incest and attempted abortion you are shocked at the immorality of a polygamous housed hold I 1 ahna hia honor expresses hia at and as vinced in of abia aitt leader george thorn bu arlime when compared justice Jus Tico hudsn ofaria tern tory there chalcea to be no law in utah providing for the punishment of the enormous crime of incest A law to punish jiu chan awful ou eu saJa indeed needed here now to restrain anti mormon licentiousness licentious and infamy auf if justice poward had resided i this territory long enouf he eglit havea discovered that alio absence of such a law punishing incest in utah was an unimpeachable testimonial of the transcendent virtue of the mor mon people among whom such sexual crimes were totally unknown until they were introduced here by anti cormons mormons Mor mons george thorn type A traveler visiting one of the states of ancient greece was surprised to find no law against adultery in the statutes taj province and he enquired why a law against that crime had not been and the reply which he everywhere received was that adultery was totally unknown therland there and no law against it bad been required even eo it was among the i ekr respecting incest which was un til it by alien adventurers of anti mormon proclivities it issa Teto say that if justice 0 W powers had beera acquainted with the history of sexual crimes in utah he would have remarked the press ing necessity for the passage of laws to restrain them since the anti cormons mormons have corrupted the pristine purity and early innocence of the original bri ginal territory but he would have refrained from hurling indiscriminate reproach against a whole commini com muni ty whose very gui in former days during a period prior the advent of many anti cormons mormons among them rendered laws against incestuous crimes so entirely superfluous that they were not enacted tk 1 because not required |