Show lw 1 1 j A BAD 1 i we have frequently had occasion to animadvert upon the villain ous of many of those mercenary creatures who are employed as united states deputy marshals in utah and idaho territories hut until now we have overlooked some of the most mean contemptible temp tible instances of depravity to be fourd among the deputy mar chals right here in ogden it is perhaps not generally kneen that the wife of deputy marshal perkins is the daughter of a poly gambit but such we are most credibly informed is exactly the case and yet this fellow with unnatural cruelty and indifference to the honor of his own family has joined in a raid and become the willing tool of an alien gang determined on the prosecution and imprisonment of all such menas inlaw in law who furnish the world with lovely and noble daughters that prospective deputy marshals and gentile young men are willing and anxious to marry if jthn daughter of a polygamist is good enough for the wife of deputy perking we can see no reason why it should be criminal to beget sons and daughters an fn polygamy if the of plural marriage are placed on a social equality with the children of mists and are sought as consorts by gentiles we fail to seey wherein the criminality of polygamy lies but after having married the daughter of a po lyga mist deputy perkins is now engaged in the business of trying to put every polygamist who does not desert his family into prison Is northis not this an instance of unparalleled depravity or does the deputy by hiis conduct in harassing mista mean to say that he made a blunder in marrying as he did and that now he is trying to get revenge on the memory of his father in law and prevent the birth of polygamous daughters in the future so that no gentile may get a wife from hereafter as he did in this case one of two things seems certain namely either deputy perkins has some unmentionable private reason to regret his marriage which is a humiliating confession fes sion or he is grossly ungrateful towards the particular institution of marriage he probably owes hia fortune in get ting a good wife upon the hypothesis po thesis of either of these circumstances it is pretty evident that no honorable man who pretends to a degree of common decency would be found engaged in the business of fixing criminality upon other men simply because they beget children same in which hia own wife was born but the anti Mormon party which deputy perkins is serving is and has been striving to fix the brand of bastardy up on the brow of all alie daughters of ista and doea deputy perkins mean to aid that party in placing such a mark of fahame on his own wife we should think that the soul of the human brute auld revolt from such a course athla seeing to atlie course of perkins for we can explain his tion in the anti mornion Moru ion crusade in no other way unless indeed ho is selling himself and the honor of his wife for the paltry fees that he may be able to get but in either case we afraid that deputy perkina ia a bad eap or lie would refuse to serve aa a deputy marshal in such cases |