Show IN rULL BLAS T te fc 4 esaak 1 th ji machinery ahin er 0 the third district courain couri ri salt t aake la e city is in full blast once more the gaar 10 process 1 being giet fa on il grand ecale scale the prosecution in uncases cases of unlawful cohabitation hr an announced its anten intention aion io to rae martyr martyrdom domas a expensive and cruel as possible in caad cases where under the preposterous rulings of ith ithe courts men are technically guilty dufft T of one continuous cohabitation with more than one wife indictment indictments havi have been found with from three to five count counts as a a rule and it is i proposed to uee use the aggregate extreme penalty in each case to force accused men to promise I 1 obedience nce to the law aw as an interpreted by the courts cound or io to nake them suffer euffer along a long and cruel martyrdom the anti mor mon prosecution evidently hoped that the fear of greater auld ni more afe burdensome penult penalties i es would indu induce ca accused mormons to do vl violence olento to their consciences and repudiate thelt principles events thus far show how entirely the prosecution has miscalculated in these cases it seems to make no diffie difference rence whether it man is threatened with six iz months or three years imprisonment when a matter of con science and religion I 1 is involved if it would be wrong for an indi individual to promise obedience to a bad baclaw law when be U was menaced with eix bix months ini imprisonment P rison ment it would be equally wrong to do the same thing fi pa iween aken the penalty was twice thrice or even five or six times as heavy all the records of religious persecution which the world aff affords lords demonstrate the utter futility of any i and all forms of legal lega 1 pun punishment ashment Ish ment from fines and imprisonment to incineration at the stake take when the alleged offender r has bus co committed d i the technical offense ense in all sincerity ty from a sense of religious loua duty and in in harmony with hi that the mormons accused of unlawful cohabitation are conscientious and sincere in their belief that they would commit a great etise against god and humanity by promising obedience to the edmund law as interpreted by the court courts no candid mind can doubt for a moment therefore so far as the breaking down of the conscience of these accused Ifor mormons mousis is concerned eer ned it matters matteri not ut wbk whether er penalties I 1 of eix six months imprisonment or six years incarceration be meted out even death deth itself would woul d be unavailing skeptic skeptics may incline 11 to I 1 the opinion that the consciences of of these accused mormons are misled in their undoubted a in carity but e even ven allowing for the cake ake of argement arg ament that this is v eo no it is equally true that mens conscientious convictions are not to be changed by brutal force whether euch such conviction convictions 1 be right or wrong so far as they are sincere and honest they are superior to all law and only to be changed by areu argument ment persuasion and enlightenment if they are ill founded all history bearing upon this 5 point proves that this is inva ria b ly true those who hav havelin elun der taken to strike a political blow at the mormons through this ed munds act have only succeeded succeed id in sir arousing ous 1 aug th the rell giau zeal of the people whom they thought to in tinn date and disunite there id is not one friend of the edmunds law or one crusader engaged eng aed in the exe cution thereof who would care a fig about the plural ni ard age pru tice of the ifft it it were tj uil tor political rum i ves it b bad ai bee befit hoped that prosecution for fur poly gamy and uti unlawful lawful cohabitation would eo so leakea or terrify the mormon mormons that their political liviu te gration would bastic endue e has already proved miserably ably vain and foolish beyond doubt the r re suit has been exactly the opposite to that which wax was anticipated judicial assaults assault 5 u upon on beav coo con sciences under the anti polygamy law lam have only aroused the united energies of reli religious Zious zeal and that calm desperation which make men equal lo 10 death in pie preference ference to a surrender of principle 1 he heroic at attitude of those these ahu have haie calmly chosen long and vgo vigorous rous imari dun men ment rather than purchase immune ty by a mere were promise has lai won not only the unni venal versal sympathy pathY of their brethren but also in A ure the respect and admiration of all candid minds throughout this country and the world since the anti mormon crusa arra have hiTe mad made a it so clear that political domination and political spoliation are their real ulterior motives the mormons one hay e naturally became became tena tons clous cious of their heir political rights and more thoroughly united in defense mon interest interests of the most tall vhf z M every hand aur ep faegre observably 6 approaching apar a ins of even t a I 1 antt an armon 0 dit and dil die aeter mr th the e more more cruel and the tn enio vicious 1 unfair the cru attempt to be aba dipre r dia i do they the y sten their 6 otan W downfall it requires no r foaud penetration to foresee what a sweeping weeping a reaction reaction react fon will follow the the rout and overthrow of the pre erit leaders in the mormon p beree erse cution it it ie coatter ot sonie some re gret too that the fatal force of this reaction when it come comes will fall heaviest upon ahe dupee dupes and toole toola who have lent theme elve in in I 1 support of the crusade yb while those who have filled their pocket with fea fees and won notoriety tit property which the ahey I 1 y had not will promptly scamper out of the territory and leave their foolish supporters eup porters to reap the pen alty ally of their own cruel blunder blunders but so little tle discretion haye have the gentilee gentiles of the Territory exhibited from the beginning that they can scarcely be expected ted to shake themselves theme elvea free from the fetters which devote to destruction when the reactionary timo time comes |