Show WILL OBEY THE LAW Mr K 1 A Cooper of West Jordan in the District Court yesterday pleaded guilty to two indictments for unlawful cohabitation and in view of his promising promis-ing to obey the law in the future sentence sen-tence was suspended to give the defendant an opportunity to prove his good faith by adherence to his agreement Mr Cooper had just served a term in the Penitentiary and during his confinement had ample opportunity to reflect upon the situation and it is to be hoped that his determination determina-tion was a matter of conscience rather than policy lIe will of course be ostra cised by his former associates in the Mormon I Mor-mon Church but the respect he will gain from the better element of the community com-munity in which he resides will more than compensate him for the loss of fellowship fel-lowship in the circle in which he has heretofore moved There are hundreds of others who would gladly follow the course of Mr Cooper but who lack the moral courage to encounter the persecution which they will have to undergo from those who consider obedience to the laws the most heinous offense that can be committed against the treasonable institution which controls con-trols the local political affairs of the Territory Ter-ritory With the fact before their eyes that President Taylor Apostle Cannon and scores of other prominent tithe eaters are skulking on the underground to avoid the penalty which they urge their deluded de-luded followers to accept it seems strange indeed that so many of the latter are willing will-ing to become martyrs to a cause championed cham-pioned and led by men whose insincerity is evinced by their failure to practice themselves what they so persistently per-sistently urge as the religious duty of others It is apparent however that the dullards are slowly awakening to a sense of the duplicity of their leaders who are making them the victims of the law while they manage to avoid its penalties and the indications are that the case of Mr Cooper is but the forerunner of an almost general rebellious movement against the counsel which discriminates with such severity against the less prominent promi-nent members of the Church I |