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Show 0 Stop, think and listen and you will not be Judge not that ye be not judged. hit by a railroad train. Remember that in this land of acclaimed justice, every man has the right to a fair and impartial trial, no matter what the charges may be. It is easy to accuse anyone of a crime, but it is another matter to prove it. A wrongful accusation against anyone is the most vicious thing in the gift of a designing person. A whisper of a wrong travels like wild fire and a single straw is turned into a big stack, but the good appears to be trampled under foot. AVe have laws and courts to protect our property and to protect our rights, as individuals, corporations and business interests. Unjust criticism and mob rule invariably come from those who have an axe to grind because they do not have any trust in our courts. Fair criticism injures no one but unfair criticism harbors of savagery. No man has the right to criticise and pass judgment unless he has carefully weighed the facts" on both sides. If a bootlegger can make an accusation against a good citizen, and the side of the bootlegger is only considered, then it is high time that our social standing be tuned up for. repairs. When mere accusation is enough evidence without investigation for drastic action, then the time is near when no person or his property is safe from the mob. Brutus led a bunch of politicians to the slaughter of Caesar and a whole nation believed the cause was right until Mark Anthony presented the real facts, when the murderers had to flee for their lives. George Washington has been charged by a scandal writer as having been a card sharp and drunkard. Locally we have those who are trying to condemn the 9 Republican party because of what some person may have done. As a rule a man holding public office is invariably condemned for everything that happens and for a great deal that never happens. No matter how honest he may be, there are those who are ready to stamp him as a general grafter and whatnot, until at the present time few men dare to run for office. Charges of misconduct have been filed against our three county commissioners William II. Stenacker, Reuben F. Dahlquist and Rulon II. Labrum, and damages The commissioners claim a are asked of $10,000 from each man by three women. frameup and blackmail, and it is now up to the courts to settle the matter. If these commissioners are found guilty there is but one tiling left for them to do and that is to resign their positions. But if they are not guilty, their good name will still he besmirched because of unjust criticism and slander uncalled for, and their families must suffer in silence. SALT LAKE CITY , SA TURDA Y. A UGUST 20. 1927 |