Show i 1 OTTnAGIN FEDERAL OFFIOIA Yesterday morning about 1 oYlock I 1 I the residences of L S Pislrid Attorney I I I DioKson AfwMant I District Attorney Yar 0 iKn and 1T S Commissioner McKay were n Iff visited l y me unknown parties and a lcIetu1y lift throwing of twoquart glass J JjmdmCII with humanc cX < lrftmcntthrou h 4 tire window inttf bedrooms 11111 parlors I t par-lors Language i MaiVely adequate to I t ehararterie Sllthl dastardly and J j t beastly Wi 1 but whoever prompted t J atuLwh yeriummitred Inch < an act are Ji1 i the Ibw onhe low the meanest of the mean Only one cause fan h ° assigned for such an outrage only one source can be indicated ruin which it came the I JbauV i3 the enforceinent of the 1 Edmunds law the source fome portion of the Mormon people No other cause can be assigned than th6 one we have mentioned for the gentlemen upon whom the out was committed are unknown the community in any other capacity than i that of oflicers of the t Government whose duty it peculiarly is to proceed against violators of the Edmunds and other laws As individuals and citizens we believe they are universally respected hut we Tialso believe that in their official capacity they are likewise universally disliked and I abhorcd by the great majority of the people F I peo-ple of Utah And this is natural for the u people oi i lan Ire ontinunllr amI forcer being told from press and pulpit that these gentlemen are naught but fiends incarnate incar-nate and thai the performance of their duty under the law is i hut doing the biddings bid-dings of Satan We do not believe that the outrage of Sunday morning was planned or will he sanctioned by the higher authorities of the Mormon church but that it was committed by members of the Mormon church we are convinced In the Tribune extract this morning City Marshal Phillips is reported a having said in 111 interview with Commissioner McKay i I I I can see how this t out rage may have been committed upon Mr Dickson Mr Ynrian and yourself by persons hired for the purpose pur-pose by tho enemies of the 1 church so as to convey the idea that our people did it When the City Marshal talks in this way the City Marshal raises a very justi v liable suspicion in the minds of all who know anything about the condition of affairs in Utah that bespeaks insincerely anti that t he knows more about the aflair than Iris assurances that t It whoever is I guilty if we can find them out they will be punished would indicate We would not le understood to mean that we believe I be-lieve Ihn City Marshal had anything I 5to t Ho With the aflair t personally but we would he understood to mean I that wo believe the City Marshal can find I out who were engaged in the t outrage of I r Sunday morning One < great trouble in i 1 Utah has ever ben I that I the church and j i o municipal authorities in Utih while very many times not cogniant that out j I I I rages were being I planned when they j J If I f hit nenni 01 mem t alter they navo oeen committed they have never sought to expose ex-pose hose who did commit the outrages hut t have rather harbored the t perpetrators I h Of them We will refer again to the City Marshall and give just one reason why we think lie could discover the I perpetrators perpetra-tors of Sunday inorninjrs outrag On the Fourth oi ifliyILtit 1 t h1 hoist 1 ell or caused I ttf be hoisld I flu national lag at halfmast t on the City Hall I The act in connection with some others of a like nature caused a great deal of indignation and nearly led to a riot I i f The Marshal when asked the reason for i iso strange an act said it was a mere whim of his Subsequent events and f proceedings and preaching proved the Marshals act to have been a prearranged aflair and to have been performed in concert i 1 i con-cert with others of the same nature That one aflair willfully 1 justify any doubts to anv explanation hat t the Marshal may give of any aflair Thy was the City i Marshal so ready with an explanation i t that he could see how it might have been committed by persons hired fqr the purpose pur-pose by the enemies the church so as to I I convey the idea that our people did it 1 Had the Marshal said what nine hundred i i and ninetynine men out of every thousand I in the Territory would have lidjIr i MfiKay I do iiot know who did it but it j i I is probable that some of our people who I 1 are filled with prejudice and passion have taken this method to vent their spleen i 1 but J regiet it and so wiil our people not a man in the Territory but would have I jfgroed with him and believed him honest A andsincere in fllTe > till out the truth of the t matter Wo tnnt 1 that Ije will still do so 1 Ttftvould be an injustice to the Mormon people as a whole to oay that they will i i approve the outrage upon Messrs Dickson Varian and McUay but Mill too maui of them will The Mormon people are extromclv hostile to till otlilr of the lovernment who aro onfoiving the laws here and it islo this sentiment of f hostility that must be attributed the outrage out-rage of yesterday morning If I f men have feelings of hatred for the Federal officials hero and are opposed to the t enforcement of the laws the display of such hatred and opposition in the mannci of yester day morning must t hold those who take such methods up to contempt and condemnation con-demnation from all parties Such methods meth-ods are an outrage upon the law and upon decency and the natural consequence conse-quence oftheir use is to make all men have a horror for any people among 1 whdm persons Vho i will use them t dan find any refuge The piohahilitics till point one way as to the source from hence this i outrage 1 came and we sincerely hope that thlI I perpetrators of it will find 110 sympathy = or encouragement for their vile deeds from any man or woman in Utah If the I b < lJ 4 majority of the people of Utah sympathize sympa-thize with those who have been and are being prosecuted for violations of the Ed munds law they should remember that the people of the United States sympathize sympa-thize with the Federal officials in Utah They should also remember that if it is an outrage to tar and feather Mormon missionaries in the States and the t people o5 Utah feel like crying vengeance upon those who commit those outrages it j i is an ontrag to ueiiie rue rem I donees of Federal officials in Utah and that the people of the United States will also feel like cry ing vengeance The I people of Utah should also remember that as they blame all the people of the States in which Mormon missionaries j ate tarred 1 and feathered more or less so will tiff people of the United States more or less blame the t 1 Mormon people for the outrage on the t Federal 1 officials Our hope is that no more such outrages those of yesterday morning may ever occur again in Utah and that thoso who committed them I may be caught and punished Such is our hope but we cannot can-not icpress the thought that t while the t outrages may not recur still the dastards who defiled the t residences of the Federal officials will never be known but will in some quarters receive sympathy and compliments |