The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-01
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c-ee above. which has been pulling
the readers Of the local newspapers
during the past week or two. The
aIore-kid ties Aust 60" IS the title o.
-acv satire done BY the clever hand Of
some writer who j. familiar with local
affairs, and who Is capable OF following
the extraordinary legislative and
judicial course Of the government. in
reference 10 the Aormons TO its legI-
timate conclusion. The paper gives
an account Of the arrest and prosecu-
ton OF one Anderson McAnderson, the
member Of a peculiar sect, whose ne
culiaritv Is marked Dy a belief in
the command given 10 man 70 IN
crease and multiply. The time Is
BOO A.D., or twelve hundrd years
hence, whea nations most &C
vanced in civilization" had passed
laws prohibiting more than one child to
a family, the restriction having been
based on moral grounds, and also TO
prevent oyer-peopling the earth. The
More-kid-ites, under the plea of re-
ligion, went into the northern wilder
ness. and maintained their families ION
the poIykid basis" They redeemed the
country and prospered amazingly, and
while no more than one child could be
found in a family elsewhere, six, ten
and even twelve children were not IN
common among the More-kid-ites. The
sect being isolated Congress paid no
attention to it for some years, but
finally. after q generation had passed
away, drastic measures were passed
making it q felony 10 have second
child and a misdemeanor to hold such
a child out to the world" Athabasca-
the new Territory-was provided with
q full corps of csrpet-bag OFF,
Gals. who had sacrificed" lucrative
business and profitable professional
practice at their distant homes, and
accepted small salaries under govern
ment; substituting frenzy for zeal, and
prejudice for law" they insugurated
vigorous crusade against the More-kid-
ties; charges Of bastardy rested against
four-hfths Of the children, arrests were
daily made. the penitentiaries were
crowded, and suffering and distress
ware everywhere in the land. The story
nov goes on to tell Of the trial OF Nc
Anderson, before Judge Orthodox Ran
ter. HcAnderson had been indicted
for poly kidamy," and also for hold
ing the second child out 10 the world as
his own, the latter indictment having
thirty-one counts, the aggregate impris-
onment under both indictments staring
him in the face, being twenty years
ana six months, and the ag-
reeate fines something over ten
thousand dollars. We are informed
that the government meant business;
that this community must be re-
formed, and reformed Immediately, :"
as there could be no delay for the oper-
alton of time in working social revolt
unon. The trial is amusing, or would
be if il were not too much like the ter
ribly earnest trials that have been seen
in the enforcement of another law.
The Jury having been chosen, and, OF
course, is a jury to order, the District
Attorney is about to address it, when
the foreman addresses the Court as fol-
rows: IF your honor please, we've
talked this case over among ourselves,
aud havin' a good deal of confidence in
the Commissioners who held the pris-
oner to await the action of the gran
iurr. and also in the gran
Jury who indicted him, we've
come to the conclusion that
there amt any doubt of his bein' guilty
and 80 We return a Verdic' Of guilty.
This was a little too barvfaced for the
Judge and the District Attorney, and
the latter informed the jury that 1.-THE
forms OF justice must be preserved,
and the sacred provisions OF the Con
sutution must not be thrust aside" De
PENDANTS counsel objected 20 the jury
on the ground OF prejudice, but was OPP
posed by the District Attorney, who
stating Webster's definition OF prejudice
as an unreasonable prediction for oil
against" and asked, ais my opponent
prepared to say that the conclusion
rssched 5y the jury was with NJ
rsason7 Are no. the facts that the
90 nmiss.oa,r held the defendant, an
that the grand jury indicted him
rsason7 Are those officials in the hs bit
Unfolding innocent people2 Therefore
thsir judgement is rot unreasonable
and therefore no. preiudice." The
Judge adopted the District Attorney
view OF the case with a promptness and
certainty suggestive Of something that
has been witnes sci in these times
The frs. witness called was the wife
o. the defendant. but counsel for the
accused objected 10 her Icing compel
Ied % testify against her husband