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Show TRUTH. CHATTER. (Being the personal opinions of the one else is writer and for which no manner responsible.) in any If this soldier, Fuller, arrested and held for assaulting Miss Edith Gill, on Sunday evening last, proves to be the should be guilty man, his conviction as sentence a heavy as followed by the law will permit. Even then the punishment will not be adequate. By every rule of justice and equity, his life should be forfeited, the same as that of the man who commits murder. In some of the states, the legal penof alty is death, but the to fit seen make not the Utah have compensation for such offenses so severe. In his case no appeal for clemency should ever be entertained. The writer believes in the enforcement of law through established form and custom, but in this instance cannot refrain from indulging in the regret that the crowd which came to the unfortunate young womans assistance on, the Light of this more than brutal offense, d.d not overtake the miscreant and hang him out of hand to the nearest tree. It would have saved the state, all the expense of a trial and the cnly outlay of money required to dispose of him forever would have been the slight cost of interring his carcass in a remote corner to moulder away dishonored and forgotten. Ftom all accounts, the temper of the men who responded to her appeals for assistance was such that they would have made short work of this inhuman animal, had they apprehended him right after the commission of the act. But now that he has been caught, let him be tried according to law and, when convicted, given the limit. The proof against him seems to be strong enough to convict and if he is guilty everyone hopes he will be convicted. It is too bad that a man wearing law-make- Pf f: r- The rs the uniform of his countrys should have fallen so low as to army have done anything like this. Because it lowers the dignity of that uniform and makes men who have worn it and are wearing it with justifiable pride ashamed that one of their number should degrade others along with himself. Time was when the soldier blue, unadorned by either strap or chevron, was a badge of honor and patriotism. It should be always. But, looking at the situation in all its varied lights, is there not, belling the crime this soldier is alleged to have committed, a reason for the commission of the deed, which while it does not justify it in the least, at the same time may have been one of the means, or more than one, which incited him to do it. In the days when Putnam and Prescott stood behind the breastworks on old Bunker Hill; when the Great Washington crossed the Delaware; when the troops with scaling ladders climbed the walls of Monterey; when McClellan led the hosts of the union at Antietam and Hancock stood between the union of states and the charge of gallant Pickett at Gettysburg, the discipline of the army and the sentiment which was exhibited by the citizen toward the enlisted man was different from what it is now. In those times the rank and file were addressed as "boys, a term of endearment and affection. When the order to charge was given it was "Come on boys and before the serried lines the enemy fled. The position of officer and private was not as it is today, where the soldier is addressed as "man and, by a thousand and one ways made to feel his inferiority all in the name of discipline. He must not only be respectful In the presence of his superior, but servile. He may not address his commander without first receiving permis jNebv -- ice-packe- d v sion to speak. Tlio salute given and returned is no longer the action ot politeness, but an enforced condition and woe betide the unhappy enlisted man who forgets to exhibit the mark of servitude. The soldier is no longer looked upon as the defender of his country, because of tho love he feels for it. but the paid servant in livery who had better look out a bit or it will be the worse for him. The feeling which exists in the mind of the officer toward the enlisted man has spread to the people. How many families are there in this city who open their doors to the sergeant, who kow tow to the lieutenant or the captain? What standing has the enlisted man anywhere? The saloon man regards him as legitimate prey, and when his money is gone, chucks him out, but the fellow with the badge of authority may stay and run a bill and make an ass of himself if he likes. The "high class bagnio keeper wants none of him and tells him to go to the dive. He isnt welcomed anywhere to speak of, except in places where he produces money, and when that is gone it is back to the barracks until next pay day. & & Does not this sort of treatment tend to brutalize and degrade men, instead cf lifting them up? While it may not apply to this particular case, may it not to many others? Jt J A lot of good women, with a mis- taken zeal for temperance, caused the abolition of the enlisted mans club, the post canteen. Since that time desertions and drunkeness have increased. And, because of that action, Miss Gill was made the victim of an outrage. Was this man Fuller down town to church? You can bet ho wasnt. He had been down town, with i remarks: "Oh, late remembered, much forgotten, mouthing, braggart duty, always owed, and seldom paid in any other coin than punishment and wrath, when will mankind begin to know thee? When will men acknowledge thee in thy neglected cradle and thy stunted youth and not begin their recognition of thy sinful manhood and thy desolate old age? Oh, ermined judge, whose duty to society now, is to doom the ragged criminal to punishment and death, hadst thou never, Man, a duty to discharge in barring up the hundred gates that wooed him to the felons deck, and throwing but ajar tho portals to a decent life? Oh, prelate, prelate, whose duty to society it is to mourn in melancholy phrase the sad degeneracy of these bad times in which thy lot of honors has been cast., did nothing go before thy elevation to the lofty scat from which thou s dealest out thy homilies to other for dead mens shoes whose duty to society has not begun? Oh magistrate, so rare a country gentleman and a brave squire, had you no duty to society before the ricks wore burning and the mob were made, or did it spring up, armed and booted from tho earth, a corps of yeomanry full grown? tar-rier- Cigar UTtore Ap-to-D- ate Is others, simply because ho knew ho could get. something to drink and no doubt did get something to drink and, fired by tho stuff ho had imbibed, ho committed this horrible deed. course, this is no excuse for his conduct, but had tho post, canteen been running, the man would have drank a few glasses of beer and gone to lied. We aro prone to blame tho individual for misconduct when too often circumstances havo assisted in the consummation of wicked deeds. There aro many things wo condemn in tho man that should bo laid at tho doors of the many. As Di'ckens appropriately flobv Open Mr. W. B. 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