Hide Article Text (OCR)
steps into a cigar store as he has to know definitely that the food, which he buys for his family, is free from poisonous ingredients.The same law which surounds him with security in the physical realm, should afford him protection in the moral sphere.Several young boys of Boise were recently overtaken in gambling, against the laws, in a side room of a cigar store. They were taken to the police station and sweated” as a means of obtaining information regarding the character of the place, which held a license to sell tobacco, according to the statement of its sign on the door.Men who will connive at such advantages under the law, the plan for which is to attract boys to gamble, should be treated by effective laws, to restrictions or inhibitions which would be severe in the extreme and of such bitter consequences as to afford ample protection to the rising generations.Restrictive laws for the purification of civic conditions should be made uniform, positive and iron clad. Such regulations eliminating moral ethics and applying only the commercial are far cheaper for the public than the construction and maintenance of reformatory institutions, where too often the rivets of a lasting criminal career are firmly clinched.the law that requires registration of births and it is understood that many other Mormon women do likewise. In Utah there is no such requirement of law, the legislation of that state having always been under control of the hierarchy, which avoids all official evidence of the crime it perpetuates.The Voice of Zion.When John M. Haines, the very capable mayor of Boise, became possessed of an ambition to officiate as the chief executive of Idaho, his was a laudable desire and no one can say that he ought not to have striven for it.But it was in the consummation of the scheme that humiliation came, for Mr. Haines had neglected to secure permission from the machine. His working force was a good enough one, consisting of Chief of Police Francis, Senator McMillan, Joe Spcigle and Mr. McReynolds, and when they went over to Bingham county to interest the Mormons they were attended by flattering prospects. The saints came around willingly with comforting promises and the Boise man was assured that the county was his beyond preadventure.But the mail that arrived the day before the convention was laden with letters from Salt Lake to the bishops and other mouthpieces of the hierarchy and as the postmaster dumped the bag on the distributing table, he remarked, “here’s your orders”.Zion had spoken once more and the Mormon support was immediately transferred from Mr. Haines to Mr. Brady and Bingham county did not start the Boise man on the road to the executive mansion.il9 A Case of Polygamy.298tee_ It is greatly to be feared that Bishop Amos Wright ■ of polygamous pillar of the Mormon church at Mont-ele- pelier, Idaho, is scheming to deprive the vital sta-i. tistics department of the state of an interesting — birth record. His plural wife, Mrs. Loella Weaver-Wright, departed for Utah last week, expecting to remain there a couple of months.,te The venerable bishop is already the father of 22jss children and nine of them belong to Mrs. Wrighte(l number two. Eight of the nine have been born since the manifesto. The fact that Bishop Wright is liv-or ing in open polygamy does not seem to haVe attract-:1j ed the attention of stake president Hyde, who says e_ the church visits the severest penalties upon those who practice polygamy.The bishop married his second wife when she was only sixteen and at that time he had covered a half a century of existence and some of his children were older than his girl wife. Hers has been a hard experience and it is to be hoped that the hereafter may bring to her the reward that is promised the women of Mormondom as compensation for their sufferings on earth.Mrs. Wright has gone out of the state to avoid
Newspaper Details
The Idaho Scimitar
Boise, Idaho, US
Sat, May 02, 1908
Page 15
Full Page
Clipped by
Familysearch
Utah, USA 17 Oct 2024
Other Publications Near Boise, Idaho
The Idaho Scimitar
Evening Capital News
Boise Citizen
Idaho Tri Weekly Statesman
