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Show Jg9 THE CAUSE OF THE SILEXCE. Wmm Ox Tcespav cttcrnoon, near the 3HH Warm Springs, Gustavo TVbman, & fgE&T prisoners! -work with the city Jail gffisstg sang. atterapUtl to escape, lie was jgjMP Fbpjl by two workmen In tbe SEJSx Tlclulty who heist him pending the PJSjp? . arnvaTof"lhe guard. The latter on HSE reaching Eclman struck him a MHf blow on the back of tbe head. The ba shock produced InsenslMlltyand the SSSS injury was of such a nature as to fcj? tt render recovery doubtful. The un- 3j;f furturiSta man was taken to St. &3jfr- ManrVIIociJtaL fejB It la but fair to the officer that un SJBj qualified condemnation of his oon- W&jt duct, which on its fcce appears to $g have been uncalled fur, 1m rithheJd gtsR pending an InTe&Ugation, providing ig- anything ot that nature Is intended. jgjBj? There may be tome circumstances sBr fconnected-wlth the Incident not yet PSB tl-J''10? that made the application of ffSt! jviulencejustiDalp.'e. In any event ESP t ihisty denunciation is not commend- HHsr " aSJTc. feafe ' B 5?? notable feature of this clrcutn- jjfe stance is the oj eter-liko dumbness of B3E, ),thB.aulI-'.Mormou" press in rela- SB . ' tiontoil. Tills tilence is all the gMp x' more conspicuous because of tbe ijags striking change that has occurreJ s2 regarding tbe treatment from that JjBs- quarter of nutters of a like nature. jffi? For instance, roveral mouths ago gSjri . n couple of officers had occasion to gtajSI visit a liou-e to arrest a youth whose 8p " career fur years has liecn of "the TJSjl worst poselMe description. He, S3 n- yiSu -a- sang of accomplices, had Xp C ! Gsen committing a series of burglar- 3 TTt'-U tbo Brelt annyan" and ' fmk fiJora number or citizens. The police S ESghaa been abased and ridiculed by 83K r -the portion of the press jeferred to 9k bceauseforsometimotheyhadfailed $$i todiicoverand secure the guilty E "I2fer """'atel, loeydid IK "locatfftho leading chronic thief, but IS 'Vhen'lhey attempted to arrest him flE . ., h.Js.fatherlafei!owii'imeJ Paddock, He- . jrfjioIently rrtlfted them. The result Bit -J was that in order to effect their pur- H cr're" ono of the officers struck the mtk lt!llgerent Paddock with hlsfistand Htt - .noubed him down. I Hfli t ji. .Tiiui the antI-"Jformon" press g was not silent, but fiirjy shrieked Br (nn let a weight of heavy headlines 3S - " -about the brutality or the "Mormon III- police," "Mormon thugism," aud SB uttered many other characteristic jgjj compliments. fm The two officers wore arrested, lEjjS : , and were examined before' a TJ. 8. 8g jr, Oommkslancr, who, while almost JMK admitting that there was hardly any p ground for his proceeding held them MS toawait the action of tiiegrandjury. g There was an impression that this mK magistrate, who usually aimed to be Kg fair, wes- aclusted by some feeling && offrtu"oftUB Journalistic whip. E 'o The grand Jury, as in duty bound jflU ty the Constitution and by-laws ol Hf anti-Mormon methods, found a true bill, aud the case against Messrs. SJ Pratt aud Cummock,the officers who K arrested young Haddock, Is on the ji iiipcJ'Ct for trial during, the present HEg mouth. Em, Then ub Is the anti-"Mormon" K press silent regarding the affair of Si Tuesday' Thajtason Is obvious Bf - Qnn-4 .notorious Mr. Lyon, tbe B" uard who struck and injured Gus-K- fc " lave Kckraan, is a Gentile. This 1 ' makes, all the difference, in the JO ,' worlJfor in the ordinary manlpula-jKs manlpula-jKs ' tionnfmitters, the question Is not, jt "Jhat Is tiie nature of the deed Hi tfiansdone?" but "Who is the In-K In-K dividual who did it and what arc J his religion and litlcs?" H We share- an opiniou that we be-E be-E lievu to lio universal with every ob-Hf ob-Hf servjnt'jiersonluthbcltytotheeaect K - that had Mr. Lyon been a "Morns "Mor-ns mon'Mie would have leen under ar-K ar-K - S t a short lime nftei he inflicted B' .' S tn"-TnjuryujnXckman. . |