Show to whom belongs the credit editor ol 01 the in your issue of the anat I 1 notice the following excerpt from a quotation from the deseret jueus the famous or rather infamous segregation scheme was of this character it was spoiled by the supreme court of tho united states the latest plan to inflict double punishment has been defeated by the same judicial authority in both cases our native utah attorney lias been the active coun el and the chief mover and adviser in the legal controversy his success is gratifying as his labors has been and performed in the face of much opposition and many difficulties which are not generally known or ap predated brother richards is iu every way worthy of his laurels I 1 am heartily glad the news is willing that laurels shall crown the brow of a worthy object and do net desire to detract from the meed of praise justly awarded brother eichardt Eich ards but I 1 beg to add that in my opinion it would be a graceful act for somebody to recognize the aid he received as well as for tho news to tell us about the opposition and many difficulties he encountered permit me to state that through alie courtesy of brother attorneys I 1 had th privilege of examining a brief prepared in another case long before the nielsen case was thought of and have read alie brief used at the hearing of the nielsen case on comparing the two I 1 am impelled to the conclusion that either alie eneis a other or that this is a very remarkable instance of two widely severed human minds running in alie same channel ol 01 thought I 1 am reliably informed that a very si state of facts existed in alie segregation cases now mr editor as a looker on who claims no credit in these matters I 1 would like the exact facts to be made public and if mr richards had the aid of those earlier briefs let due credit be given and if not lee it be known who gave utterance to the logic that moved the supreme court in these cases if you will enquire closely I 1 think you will discover that there is praise due to others as well as brother richards I 1 do not include myself as J am bot entitled to any but I 1 think it will not be difficult to see that my studied reticence in this class of cases has been prompted by something more than cynical bonx B provo utah may 20 1889 the foregoing was in type for our last issue but was crowded out by press of other matter and we have been called upon by parties whom we suspect to have an interest in the subject who somehow heard of the article with a request that we do not publish it but the writer also called enquiring about its appearance nonappearance non and insisted that we publish it claiming that no one ought to be so modest as to desire that facts should be concealed ED |