Show NO CESSATION The people of Utah have even vainly flattered themselves that all efforts of the Government to suppress polygamy were tentative and could but result in failure I I In this opinion they have been partially justified as all efforts heretofore to vindicate vin-dicate the law have been spasmodic and comparatively few persons have been in any danger of prosecution Today it is entirely different and a continued effort of some nine months to enforce the laws has resulted in throwing consternation con-sternation into the ranks of those Iwho have been wont to laugh to scorn all endeavors to punish infractions infrac-tions of the laws It was hoped that with the advent to power pf the Democratic Demo-cratic party there would be at least a par tialicessation of prosecutions for polygamy polyg-amy and unlawful cohabitation but such hopes have been disappointed The people peo-ple of Utah have always claimed allegiance to the Democratic and they believed that this claim would shield them from prosecution but it has not done it Was it not unreasonable for the people of Utah to expect any such action on the part of the Democrats The Democrats differ from the llcDublicans essentially on many tilings und in methods but can any party differ about a law that has been passed by Congress and that law has been passed upon by the Supreme Court and declared valid So filled were the peo plelof this Territory wi th this idea that the Democrats would continue to indulge thenfin illusive hopes of special protection protec-tion that they held mass meetings throughout the Territory and sent a special spe-cial egation to Washington to present to S id i nt Cleveland their Declaration of Grievances and Protest When it was presented it may very properly be said to have been still born and there has been no revivification When President Cleveland said in his Inaugural In-augural Address that polygamy in the Territories must and shall be repressed the people gave it no heed but deemed those words idle talk to appease the popular prejudice preju-dice They treated those words as many I treated President Clevelands words on civilservicereform and thought them but mere protest without sincerity or meaning What were the Honorable John T Caine Apostle Taylor and Bishop Cannon told by the President when they I waited upon him with the Declaration and Protest The President listened courteously and attentively to the address and upon its conclusion con-clusion said Well gentlemen so far of course as the Edmunds law is concerned I had nothing to do with that Of course it it my duty to see that it is enforced us well as all other laws You are entitled to fair consideration and to have the law impartially impar-tially administered as you Jisk and so far as any appointments which I shall make are concerned I i will endeavor to give you men who will see that the law is impartially administered ad-ministered That is what he said that is what he meant and that is what is being done And still the people of Utah are not content con-tent Last Saturday a very distinguished man and a Democrat Mr Justice Stephen Ste-phen J Field of the Supreme Court of thoTJnited stateswas in this city and iin tconversation i with a reporter of one of our city journals said it was his earnest desire to see polygamy suppressed He also said I believe thatll is the determination deter-mination of the Government so far as legal l efforts are concerned to continue the enforcement of the law It should be remembered by the people of Utah thatit wasto Mr Justice Field that they looked to dissent from the majority of the Supreme Court in the Reynolds case if the Court iheld the law of 1862 to be valid and that he did not dissent They should also remember that it has been Mr Justice Field chicfly who has for the I past twentytwo years stood in the Supreme Su-preme Court as the champion of a Democratic construction of the Constitution Constitu-tion and ever the friend of individual rights as against public rights And yet he says he desires to see polygamy suppressed and thinks it is the determination of the Government to enforce en-force the laws against it Here then are two of the most eminent men in the country both Democrats one the President Presi-dent of the United States and the other a Judge of the Supremo Court and both desire to see polygamy suppressed Could these men as officers of the law desire anything else than to sec the laws en forc d when it is the forcqd sworn duty of one to say with his associates whether laws arc valid not and of or the other to see that all laws are enforced 1 Aside from their official capacity could men of exceptional excep-tional worth and eminence who have been nurtured in the ideas of the highest civilization civ-ilization that the world has produced the civilization of nineteen centuries of Christianity desire to see successfully I I I established a system of flue family that is diametrically opposed to the system of I all sects of Christians the one tiling in i I which they have all agreed Would it be natural for them to sanction A itj that has only found favor with the semi barbjjroug nations of Asia and Africa la no consideration to be given to that system of the family which has always been in vogue where nations have attained at-tained rthe greatest intellectual moral plmysili and material eminence 1 The experience of the world will always have weight with the world Can the people Utah expect the Government to jnhke any cessation in its efforts to enforce en-force a law whose primary object is to preserve inviolate the family as founded in al Chiisban and civilized countries Would it not be better for the people of Utah to recognize the fact that the Gov ernmentiain earnest effort to sup > = r press polygamy and that it will be done 1 Since the Democratic party came into ppwer there has been no cessation of prosecutions for violations of the law and there will be none Those who say therewill beare s l deluded |