Show S with not al little of wonder and stud admiration the impartial student character must discern ife calm dolid and abd flexible na luro of the policy of day saints inthis in this reaped respect they are notably very different fo from i m nun mormon the world over if the mormons had been lees les sincere sincere arlesa or less courageous op a few years ago when the first attempt was made to execute tho the edmunde edmunds law they would to aid have contrived some plan to evade entirely all chances of legal punishment if they had adhered to polygamy from motives of or lust if they had hoto not looked upon plural marri age as a holy and obligatory ordin abuce of Almighty god they mig might lit have taken advantage of the early rulings of the courts to repudiate ate the onerous dutee dutes dut ee es of the husband husbands of plural wi f thud thus have place I 1 their polygamous spouses on a par with kept women to be cast off at will if ii they had bad been lees hon arable or leas less sincere bow how easy it would have been to have punishment abdat and ab nb the same time have continued to gratify their bater baber pus passions after the fashion of the christian world even ai at the present time the courts only require mordou accused under the edmund edmunds law 0 9 renounce the obligations obliga liona of honorable a ble marriage and then place their plural U upon gon an anomalous anoma loue footing in order to escape the penalties of the law in other worde words the prosecution in this class of cases only demand that accused polygamists ieta shall deny dy the title ot wifehood wite hood to their plural wives and cease to live with and recognize them aa as honored consorts though it meretricious re tation ship might be maintained without the interference fe rence of the courts under un der the whimsical rulings of the utah eudicia ry the edmunds lav law is not aimed at any real or supposed immorality of celestial celestia il ma matrimony trimon at betit ie aimed athe polygamous household aa as a distinctive social i and consequent piH factor in 1 the of society thus from the anti mormon point of view the abolition of the practice of plural marriage is 13 desirable de fur for political reasons that are based upon the differences in the constitution tu lion of society caused by or coor co or difate with the differences between the polygamous and monogamous mono gamo us system of marriage As far as the anti tormond under the rulings of the courts are concerned the edmunds lw low is merely a measure of political while on the other hand haud the mormons are coo con tending against the edmundd edmunds law from motives of the hig highest liest moral and religious duty that both mor mons and their enemies are sincere from their respective points of view as a rule cannot be doubted but bow how vast is the difference diff arence between their re respective spec tive points of view the te edmu edmunds is law as it hag has been con by the courts virtually makes unlawful cohabitation and polygamy political of offen see only while in the execution of that law the courts do violence to the most exalted ethical and religious principles of the mormons cormons Mor mons or 0 other ther wie while the edmunds law is di raced d against a political offense P its execution involves the infraction of f rules of conscience anstrom the honest conviction of the mormon execution also 1 involves 8 standpoint t 11 its the perpetration of a high crime against the laws of god and the immunities of religious us worship herein we believe lies the lusis basis of difference between be tweel the contending forces in utah today to day and it is impossible to deny that tibe tte mormons have at once the best and the worst of the contest from the very nature of the principle involved on both a sides I 1 es they have the best of the con tro versy veray because they are contending for greater and grander id ideas aas they have the worst ot of the boutro veray because the violent power of bf their enemies leave them no alternative but martyrdom for principle or a abject disgrace implied by the surrender of convictions to purchase immunity from physical physic al penalties and fines da JOHN his sued the rev father mcdonaldd Mc fir libel both live at port hood 14 8 are aromi prom neut citizens citi and aud bitter political op polenta po the doctor alleges that the priest published the follow following ilIg language referring to him hirthe aba doctor j I that tharold old woman that came acron across the atlantic and ie Is now among you have nothing tod to do 0 with him any place to which you will see ee him going be sure there is either murder or adultery going on an there the prIest will try to prove that he be used the word her instead of him and therefore could not a i aatu the doe doctor for |