The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-11
,,or THE ORIGINAL INTENTION

.-o- THE ORIGINAL 1NA"
,,,, the Edmunds bill was passed
Wneh w law 1t was the under
anu both in Congress ana lt oa. rbo
ssan,her IS who voted for and 'no so Vol Of
lns sgaingt the bill, by the au.h pou,d
To'eu a himself, that it shoa,o
operate only against poiy lamn and ex-
3 els,,re This view was shown I'D "a the
lus "ssed all through the debate, anu Who
'pre9se ;tteemen in both Houses VIZ
'comn mn iii before them, were free "
s Iau Of the law as being i ln annisb-
SPEAK ,e =, the future. The punisn
warning warn lar the past was imposed IN .he
menu menu rOi deriving I polygamists OF 1ne
.Tisbt to vote and hold Once &C. 40 latter.
Ilgn a;. ii this view of the maze !;
phasizms on was inserted IN
oct making legitimate an
children chi born in bigaHaous OF pU,s1
cnl,u a ,wedlock previous to January y
loSs The notice. rightly lnterpre'eu
100, 20 th,s effect: For quarter Oh :
was 80 ,overnment has winked at anu
t tored Nth polygamy; it has known . .
w Nroot;co and that laws existed agaihS
~ dnripg all this time the nation Ia
VA ~ ana exercised absolute control owe.
the Territory, appointing its e1ncers an'
nrofessing the execution Oh aus law" w.
P,ornment has not enforced the az
eoainst polygamy, but has ailt'~e't ~. w.
neoole to so on in their prac'fOS -
peOp the nation is largely Tesponsi
15o for the fact that the praeuce Ia
80 D.o 80 widespread, and ina
lilies have grown up in the syS
tom Now, however. government Il"
conc,uded to pursue different p'Nlcy
- viii deal with the system visorousls
and I'll Gan tx. sH5f0resas tbs sisSf
nations negligence, poiygamy ~
grown and spread to such an ea'si
that It would &c cruel to disrupt IAN
Z lies. and such disruption wouio
wicked and attended by disasters
4 consequences, and in view OF the III
Their fact that government ieeis "
in sense II is responsible for the Ia
ure Of it's laws, the administrator "
revoke what has been done; 1t VIII
bv-penes be by-gones, and Will ST
e from this point, making ample prov
h sion to cover all contingencies a
putting nothing in the way OF max
determined and definite beginning.
The Edmunds law, fairly interpre
by its own provisions, by the debates
e the hill in Congress, and by what
said by those who were most ACTIVE
pressing the measure to Its pass'
aopveuea a message and netice like
above. In what faith has the no
been kept by the Federal AUTHORITY
that is conducting this raid? vi
dozens of prosecutions instituted'
many are against violaters OF tne
made March %. 1892 Only two or u
all the others being against persons
we're polygamists before there was
low against the practice or
entered the system during
ner;od when government was
eouraging 1t by inactivity,
Giving. out the impressioH, .
failure to prosecute. that nothing
intended to be done. Many OF the
who are being prosecuted are act'
not violating the law, whether OF
thew would do so were they physi
capable of it! The old offenders
the law contemplated should be
gotten, the idea being that death v
adiust the difficulty more hum:
than courts could possibly do it
the ones selected by the raider
ANNOYANCE and punishment, while
violators of the act, against Who'll
uo.ice ran in unmistakable tern
there be any such late offenders
permitted to escape.
in the name of humanity, OF MOI
of the justice itself, what dc
courts, prosecutors and r'
generally want? Do they want hus
and fathers to east their wives
half grown children ont on an uni
world to protect and care for them
or go without care and protection
they want to compel men to do wha
themselves and the whole world
despise them for doing? Is there
humanity, greater morality,
degree of justice inpermltting nus
and fathers to 60 along as the!
been going, and as they were led
lieve they would not be disturb
maintaining homes for their WV
properly raising and educating
children, or in saying to them:
must cast OFF these families, even
extent OF not visiting them, ne