Show inhumanity alast wednesday the judges ol 01 the court visited alie territorial rit orial penitentiary and inspected that institution aday or so wards judge 0 W powers was aaker how the utah pen compared with thalie of michigan and he ia reported as having replied in roost emphatic term 1 I think said ho that the utah penitentiary is aim ply a disgrace to civilization it is an outrage to keep men up in that yard with the sun beating on them why air men in the east would not keep their cattle in such a place the of the united states ought to bo ashamed of it and yet this horrillo horr ihlo place which judge powers characterizes in such graphic language probably affords chief justice zane a good deal of satisfaction for it is tolerably evident that he takes a fiendish delight in imposino im the most unusual hard ships upon cormons mormons Mor mons y adjudged guilty of under the edmunds law the arbitrary and his court by himself refusal of the partisan chief justice to admit men convicted ot unlawful cohabitation by his own rulings to bail under bond at any rate pending an appeal to the supreme court is to our mind ample evidence that zane is actuated by tho malice of bigotry and devoid of the common sentiments of humanity it is such and cruel monsters as lio IBS shown himself to be that fill he well balanced humane majority of mankind with loathing and res if the chief justice should fail in his efforts to blind barney I arney bull dose or seduce judge boreman into the shameful sup port of zanes judicial definition of the term cohabitation as it is used in the edmunds law and cannon and musser should be granted a new trial the spiteful unfeeling chief justice would stand virtually convicted of gross inhumanity in tyrannically throwing well known honorable and citizens into a terrible pen of torture winch judge powers describes as a disgrace to civilization and a where men in the east would not keep their cattle aitor should the disgraceful evidence of the malice and personal of the chief justice when he imposed sentence upon angus M cannon be forgotten it will be remembered that his lionor on that occasion so far lost control of his cold blooded soul as to exhibit the animus of revenge for inadvertently in the bitterness of the moment he overstepped over stepped the limits of his judicial prerogative and in addition to imposing tho utmost penalty of the law he appended the unwarrantable hard labor clause it is gratifying to know that judge boreman has never been guilty of quite such painful judicial incompetency as thu but if he concurs in the evidently predetermined ter mined purpose of judge zane and refuses to grant cannon and musser a new trial lie must share the guilt and of the chief Just icea arbitrary conduct in some way or another the impression seema to have gained ground that zane and boreman have tacitly agreed to sustain each other in the anti loomon lM omon business but we cannot eay that thia is true it would only be natural of course if zane should make a desperate effort to have his action in these unlawful cohabitation cases entirely sustained by his associate justices and to thia end lie will doubtless use his utmost exertions but judge powers is an independent man of superior nature and he cannot afford to blight n future full of tho roost splendid promise by concurring in zanes shameful definition of tho word cohabitation which renders tho edmunds law vague and monstrous and connives at vice by ignoring the substance and punishing the shadow we cannot believe either that judge Bo can afford to stultify himself merely to gratify tho vanity of the chief justice while he inflicts a cruel wrong upon prison era entitled to the full benefits of the law nor do we think that judge boreman can afford to bo reckless in view of the probability of his being at an early day his action or decision concerning the cases of cannon and musser will either prolong his e of office or cut it short according as ho is guided by a liberal interpretation and honest unbiased construction of tho law or yields to tho bitterness of partisanship and the blandishment of tho chief jus tice all legal customs and usages the protection of innocence and tho dictates of humanity alike guaran teo a person accused of every reasonable or possible opportunity to establish his or her guiltlessness tho mormon people and cannon and musser ask nothing more than of evenhanded even handed impartiality frn the justices af pf the court of utah kv |