Show OUR SITUATION the Auti Mormon crusade in idaho that the federal officials in idaho are determined to do all iciey possibly can toward the cormons mormons is a forgone conclusion that the press with afew honorable exceptions are going to assist them as far as they possibly can is also an incontrovertible fact the court now sitting in blackfoot is filled with a Mormon bigots and th espirit that is actuating the is to crush buethe mor mons at all hazards to twist and reshape the law so suspected individual shall escape no mormon summoned before the inquisition need expect a ray of justice as the decree has gone forth that none shall escape punishment we pity such men as J W jones who because the walls of a prison stare them in the face will relin every sacred obligation and religious covenant coye nant and rob good virtuous arid faithful women of th ei r blessed title after they have lived and battled for years and have endured the hardships and vicissitudes that beset ahe path of life the condition of such men 13 unenviable months in the penitentiary is not worth ib good woman and an eterna lj salvation inen we want to know it when boasted murderer john H king arid the notorious cattle hief chris nelson as deputy marshals made their official visit to paris last saturday wee kand desecrated the benign influence of a religious meeting with their aamna ble presence by serving summonses oh respectable citizen they were undisturbed and unmolested in their duty as several hundred people from the surrounding settlements who were assembled on that day in conference can testify to yet they telegraphed the report that the men for whom they had warrants were corralee corr aled in the meetinghouse under the protection of an armed guard and that they were driven out of town by men with shotguns upon this information marshal dubois and an armed posse boarded a special and arrived in paris monday morning following to find that it was all an hoax and that they bad been thoroughly duped such damnable lies as these cause the vituperation of the avowed enemies of the mormon people to receive a renewed impetus and make the indifferent to become hostile and bitter to community so far as the sheriff being out upon the arrivas of marshall dubois is concerned that roay bo true but his deputy was here and was having his dinner at the for him As to marshal dubois and liis deputies they behaved as gentleman with the exception of bill jones who had benot been an officer of the law would have received a sound thrashing for insulting one of our citizens we understand how true it is we cannot say that headmaster gitzpatrick Titz patrick of theo SL R R is endowed with the office of deputy marshal and that he holds cite writs of arrest for every suspected polygamist in the county if this betrue we would like to know whether the go are conscious of paying their men for these offices loathe law and if would not be well to investigate the matter anyhow the people as their patrons would like some official in formation on the subject ca keepers and others of the same type mav be employed as marsha lathey may prowl around of a night as much as they aliko they may tear good peaceable and exemplary exam plary citizens from their families prejudiced and packed may try and convict them the prison walla with its terrors may environ them they may he hound hand J and toot aun me heaviest chains their lives may be taken from them but tv not their and religions obligations no these boly yon tracts will endure athla state of and will preserve luciro in a blessed reign of eternity bear la pep |