Show HARDLY FAIR The Tribune is nothing if not mendacious In its Issue of yesterday yester-day morning it has an editorial on the offcdiseussed subject of Belle Harris and her probably unjust imprisonment in the penitentiary It says she was and is imprisoned for refusing to answer as to whether or not sheis a married woman If this were the truth It would be a much more severe commentary upon the legal methods and prac = tires prevailing in the Second Judicial Judi-cial District than anything that has yet appeared for a persons marital status per ss la clearly no concern of either the grand jury or the prosecuting pros-ecuting attorney and to imprison anybody for refusing to disclose such a state of affairs would be more than tyrannyit would be a complete setting aside of natural national territorial and legal rights in that it annulled those privileges which do not exist by relation but pertain entirely and inherently to the individual We would give the officer referred to immunity from such a proceeding even in the abSence ab-sence of the facts which themselves give the lie to the Tribune in this particular as they have so frequently fre-quently done in other cases Unless it is fur the purpose of a foundation looking to other and further investigation the gra d jury have no more right to an answer to such a question than they would have to the question of what the witness ate for urea fast The attorney himself was shrewd enough to realize this fact and in order ta make the question relevant attached two more to it the three forming one undivided interrogatory interrogat-ory usWre you ever married If so to whom were you married and when And yet the Tribune insists that srnpathy even by Mormons Mor-mons should be withheld from the unfortunate lady because in supposing that she is trying to shield some one they are mistaken her offense being that she defiantly refuses to answer a little simple question I This is not true and thu paper referred to knows it is not true or is grossly Ignorant as to the logic and facts of the case There are some things in relation to Miss Harris imprisonmen t which of course the public do not fully understand and will not until the matter has reached its legal termination termin-ation Those who have met the prisoner will almost without exception tion bear witness to the fact that she possesses intelligence and discernment dis-cernment to an unusual degree she 13 not lacking in education and is much more reserved and refined In her conduct than many who have had better opportunities she Is not a candidate for notoriety and would gladly retire to her country home and be happy if her name were nover mentioned by the public gain Under such circumstances the remarks re-marks of our contemporary are not only untruthful but unfair and uncalled un-called for |