Show A OF 8 t S justice 0 W powers was api pointed an administrator or judge of civil and criminal law but it seems that in addition to this ap pomped proper jurisdiction he has incidentally taken upon himself the prerogative of a judge of temples before the first district court at provo yesterday a boy thirteen years of age named andrew pleaded guilty of grand larceny n stealing a pony from an indian justice powers told he youthful culprit to stand up to receive sentence the lad arose and then the justice addressed him as follows if our report is correct 1 I am sorry to punish you I 1 can seed apu to the penitentiary for tea years and not less than one but the penitentiary is a very bad place for you you will be put in with very bad men and you will probably grow up to be a very bad man it is singular that in this territory wo have no of reform to bend such boys as you to it is exceedingly strange that while millions are spent here in erecting build inga that are of no bene aitto mankind that some money has not been expended in preparing a home or school of reform for auch boys as you this might be excusable in anew country but I 1 can seo no reason borsuch for such neglect here while so much Is being put into temples and other buildings of little use 1 wish I 1 could have a place to send you to where you would grow up better I 1 am td send you to a place where you will bai with bad men to arow up in crime but I 1 will suspend sentence during your we cordially approve of the humane discretion of justice powers in suspending sentence in thi instance but we arc at a loss to conjecture what his honor knows about the usefulness or uselessness of the mormon temples to which he alludes it seems to us little presumptions for a gentleman who hag only been a few months in utah who had never been as far west as the mississippi eiver a year ago who knows comparatively gothing of the grace of god and who never was aside of a mormon temple and can have no real knowledge of theia purposes to set himself up aa a judge of temples A school of reform for boys would no doubt ba useful in this territory n a very few cases like that of young ichrist tian aen but if the self constituted judge of would discreetly avoid deprecating institutions and buildings which h does not understand and the very interior of which he has never been to any nothing of his den plo rable misconception of their im ce and use his reputation for deliberate cautious judicial sense would not ba impaired A federal judge of temples is something of a curio in utah however and perhaps justice powers hopes to ercel as such and if so hu future judicial opinions respect ingi temples shall hava precedence in our columns over his lionora II onora legitimate exposition sand decisions under the statutes TUB union pacific railway coms pany is now employing cormons mormons at its mines at almy and rock springs |