Show THE HALT AND THE BLIND Again this morning the Herald shows that a halt in the judicial proceedings pro-ceedings now going on would be a good thing and how no one would be injured by a little let up just now and the best argument it advances for a let up is that it believes that the grand juries under un-der which so many indictments have been found were not regularly and properly constituted and that consequently their labors as represented in these indictments i are null and void They are not until so declared by competent com-petent tribunals and the presumptions always are that the courts are keeping within the law rather than overstepping it And if these grand juries are held to be legal where is the harm in rushing the thing now That the Government has dillydallied for twenty years is all the greater reason for doing so no longer and the community will be much better off when everything is permanently settled no matter on what basis the settlement set-tlement is made Who are being terrorized not in the interests of justice Are they those citizens whom we see every day on the streets and who are not afraid to meet any man not even a marshal and who fear God Should laws which are valid and on the statute books be held in abeyance that those who have violated them may not be disturbed in a continuing continu-ing violation of those laws If the laws are wrong why not call for their repeal If the gentlemen who constitute the committee appointed at the Logan Conference can make such truthful representations of matters here as will cause the President anch Cabinet to suspend the enforcement of the laws for a while why are not these same representations rep-resentations put into the political platform of their party and made the basis of their election campaigns in Utah They would win to their party many who are now opposed to it and who are not of their church either Does the Herald believe that one man who has been convicted under the anti polygamy law was innocent of the crime of which he was convicted We do not ask it whether it thinks the law just and merciful or unjust and harsh And wil l it explain this statement to the public All the Herald asks is that trials In Utah be conducted in accordance with the well understood under-stood rules and that defendants here be accorded ac-corded only the rights that the law guarantees themWho Who shall determine what these wel l understood rules are The courts which are created by the same authority thai made the rules or some body of men who do not like the rules Will the Herald tel when trials are conducted in accordance accord-ance with them that people may be enlightened en-lightened and not made blind To ask people to accept such theories of the law as these of the Herald is for the blind to ask the blind to follow After all is not the cry for justice very like the Irishmans cry for it when he said to the judge that it was the very thing of which he was afraid I |