Show IIOPT On this side of the Great Whence there is but one hope left to the i miserable murderer Hopt and that hope id eo dim distant and improbable im-probable asto be entirely forlorn If President Arthur should interpose he could stay the execution but Mr Arthur ia not at all likely to interfere when the court and his representative in the local chief executive ex-ecutive have all declined to again block the wheels of justice and longer make a farce of law Ropt has defied the statutes for four years laughing at justice knowing all the time that he was guilty the public also being equally well aware f the awful fact his case has done as much as any I other that has arisen in Utah to bring the law against murderers into antempt for four long years the peoJle have been waiting for the blind goddess to assert herself and show that legislation in her behalf meant more than mere words a declaration that was only in tended to frighten the timid and give employment to the lawyers The vindication vin-dication is soon to come and whit wh-it does come a sigh of relief will escape and a better feeling of security will come with it The punishment of Hopt is the least of the good that will result from his execution it may create the impression that after all the murderer can and will be punished and if so human life maybe may-be held more sacred than it has been and those who have murder in their hearts will be slower in bringing it on their hands |