Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-20

when poor man, Thomas Manning.
found his wife had been deflled by
a courtier Of King Charles. He killed
the paramount but the king demanded
punishment and the same Judge who
sent John Banyan TO the pillory, de-
clded that such killing was not iustl-
fed.
don't care where the law Is In ex-
lstence, Ii Is never executed You
find a man tonight stealing from youl
wlfe's finger the marriage ring, and you
may shoot him down, Is II as great a
crime to steal the marriage ring as to
destroy the home. Talk about this law
being a relic Of barbarism!
THE sEDUCER's FATE.
want to say that this law Is the
result OF the deliberate judgment Of
this people. After II was passed, il was
considered again and again in the work
Of compiling IL was Afterwards sub
mltted 10 Congress and was not disap-
proved. Only In 1896, effort was made
in our legislature 10 repeal II but II
failed. And In 1898 when the laws were
compiled once more, II again went on
the statute book What impelled such
law? II Is lmpelled by the enormlty
Of the seducer's crime. Life comes from
God II goes into another world. II Is
not for us lightly TO strike 1t down.
But what Is life without honor. And
whoever starts out TO violate this law,
he knows that he is tasting death The
seducer's crime Is greater than MUIR
der. II strikes at the root Of society
Time may assuage the widows grief
Look at the sorrow that follows In the
work OF the libertlne. A cyclone wrecks
the home. II can be rebuilt. but the
home destroyed by the seducer Is
blotted out II cannot be rebuilt. II
Is gone forever The seducer stdJs the
nation In It's heart. Who strikes the
more dangerous blow, the man who
fires on the flag or the man who
destroys the hearthstone?
But the prosecution says the culprlt
may be tried and convicted for adul-
terry, or he may be sued for damages.
He may coin his heartbeats into dollars
and change his wife's tears into money.
What should the husband do? What
can he do In such case? II Is for the
jury TO say what value you place upon
the homes and what estimate you place
upon the virtue Of woman.
EITHER MURDER OR NOTHING.
] ask you to return TO fundamental
principles You may say that this dis
trrssed man may 90 free or you may
send him 10 the gallows II is either the
one or the other. II woman's virtue
may be murdered with impunty and
the home ruthlessly destroyed, say so
by your verdict.
CHARACTER A SHIELD.
Judge Powers then reviewed the
career Of Capt. Mills and the charao-
ter he Presented to the jury.
LIFE OR DEATH.
Our words are about uttered. The
last that / can do is about done. |
must submit 10 a Jury Of my country |
men the case Of my client / am plac- |
Ing IN your charge a man Of character.
q moral, Christian man. am not ask |
ing you to shield one who has ever |
varied upon society. / am not asking |
you TO shield one who has ever done |
aught against a human being. That |
from which he suffers Is his love for his |
wife, his intense love Of his children. |
That which has brought him to this are |
those impulses, honorable and pure.
An, gentlemen Of the jury, while | be-
lieve ! can safely leave his case with |
You as men, yet trust that II | have /
been unequal 10 present his case as II |
ought TO be presented that you will /
stand as his defender here. May you |
not be placed as he is placed now. |
May none OF YOU ever suffer as he has
suffered In the past May there come
10 you but little Of sorrow and distress,
and may you never regret that In this
case, In doing exact Justice, possibly Il |
was tempered with mercy. Mercy is an
attribute OF God. Mercy Is kind, and
II Is better 10 err on the side OF mercy
than to err otherwise.
Remember II Is death. or Il Is life.
Remember II is the gallows or Il Is lib
erty. Remember In the scales OF JUS
tice there hangs here today a human
life. Tell me whether you believe he
could have done otherwise. Tell me
the value that you twelve men OF Salt
Lake county put upon the virtue Of
woman. Tell me whether the barriers
are TO be thrown down and the lber-
tine invited, or whether. as George A.
Smith said In the dawn Of this Terri
tory that they must know that they
are no safer here than the dog Is when
the shepherd finds that he is killing his
sheep. Take this soldier and this gem
tleman and deal with him as God may
deal with you when the last summons
shall come and you shall pass to that
bourne from whense no traveller has
ever returned, when you shall be sum-
moned al last before the great, white
throne. there 10 be judged
AT the conclusion OF Judge Powers
address. there was stir In the audience
such a stir that Indicated how closely
he al hG1A "a ~ - I'll