Show THEIR RESPONSE we published yesterday a formal reply of the mormon prisoners ners in the utah penitentiary to the late conditional offer of amnesty 1 made to them by governor 0 W west the thi s reply isk ie timely conservative serva tive tivo and correct document it is full of truth and enunciates some heroic sentiments truly the mormons who have practiced pl plural u ral in the past and are now in prison are a superior order of 4 men the like of which the world has scarcely ever seen they declare that they are ready to suffer death if need be he rather thae than forfeit their homor and manhood or compromise their rea legious belief and thia this too they declare while at least sow mw of them are buffering suffering which threatens to drag them i into nto an early grave truly thie this is w mom moral iroka be gioeni gio eai trew 14 po no diw mul no bmw docia about chis so ort r t af patient en sake the C govermor over do eor cannot canno fall to r recognize recognize this thil F ftc AJ must ef observe that these mormons who have always obeyed loyally and faithfully every law of the land save aly only that aae especial aimed at their religious con 2 a co by the courts ara are in inno no rebels or traitors or ordinary lawbreakers lawbreaker even though they are in prison be cadee they will not promise proto iee to 0 o obey one law winch has aaa construed in ba many different ways by the courts that no oue one can presume to eay say how it will be interpreted in the future governor west will notice that this we first district court in thia this city has at least eo construed the thelah law against cohabitation that it strikes directly and solely at belief and honestly expressed opinion as we point out today in a pre deed ing editorial hie ilia excellency is a lawyer and he must recognize the total impropriety of euch such a construction st as everybody else who candidly considers tho the scatter does |