| Show CANNOT BUT COME The answer of Chief Justice Zane to I thin question of the Grand Jury whether or not a man could be indicted more than onco for continuing to unlawfully cohabit with more than one womanthat he could to puts a new phase on the Utah question That such is tho law perhaps none will doubt If it is what must be the consequence The consequence practically practi-cally in that if mon will continue to i violate the law they will bo 1 punished until the end of their lives A continuing continu-ing offense is ever renewed offenhe and for each renewal there is a punishment in fhe case of unlawful cohabitation a six months imprisonment and threo hundred dollar fine Does any man who can read the signs of tho times Aright doubt whether or not the people of tho United States will become less earnest in their determination to extirpate polygamy l from the land I Does any man whose eyes arc not blinded I by prejudice and passion doubt for one moment that the people of Utah will surrender I sur-render their obnoxious marriage system t and come within the laws of their country if the laws are continually t and forever enforced against them Within the ranks of the Mormon church are already heard the sounds ot discontent while occasionally there comes a cry for relief from i c those who feel the oppression of the laws vindication That the fire of fanaticism fills the minds of many is true If the minds of many are so filled likewise the hearts of many others are longing for a relief and they are praying that the leaders l will bestow it upon them If the word shall go forth from those leaders the word which so many are anxiously longing to hear to obey the law and cease this hopeless strife shouts of joy will ascend to highest heaven The conflict between the people of Utah who are contending for license and lawlessness i and the people of the United States who are contending for right and the law is fast drawing to a close and with its close there cannot but come the surrender of polygamy The United States have written Dclenda est Carthago Let the people of Utah read itand above all let them heed it |
