Show 1 i JUDGE LYNCH X We doubt if there is an intelligent t thoughtful citizen of Salt Lake vb o docs not regret the tragic occurrence at the City jail on Satuiday afternoon I I after-noon and yet Is there a person who I when he in sincerity asks his own r heart if he would have otherwise can obtain a wholly affirmative response i 1 re-sponse Salt Like has the proud I fame the world over a f being a la wand I j w-and order city This fair reputation has been gained and sustained by B l uniform course of popular regjrd 11 and respect for law and the constituted 1 1 consti-tuted authority In the past when J this city was the centre of a vast region that was psopei if at all by I ht J J reckless daring fellows who regarded ff re-garded themselves as beyond the i rt 1 borders of civlliz Uion and who knew or respected no law save the i r first law of nature that of self i preservation Salt Lake preserved a quiet peaceful deme mor and mani a f festel a noble regard for the 1 rules and decencies of civilized i i society The vigilance committee + ll ruled in California Nevada Montana I Mon-tana Idaho ani Colorado inflicting h summary and terrible vengeance J upon t lOBE who had become too desperate f j jri des-perate and lawless to be endured t even in the wild semibarbarous communities of those respective l U sections or drove the decent element t ele-ment from the place but Selt Lake 11 r moved along pursuing the even tenor of her way the terror to the I j lawless and the admiration of the L lawabiding The mail and the i L newspapers used to bring us almost > i 1 daily accounts of murders and Jf lynchings in the surrounding States and Territories where normans life s was safe and no law was known or t3 t heeded Yet here peace reigned l > J ° supreme and the statute3 held t i sway This city stood out in striking ff f strik-ing cjnhmt with the towns and between the Mis I i i > citie3 everywhere souri r ver and the Pacilij ocean I There hiva baen outrageous murders i mur-ders committed in our streets and > i other aals perpetrated which 1 elsewhere would have insured t 1 the guilty prompt punishment at to h the hands of Judge Lynch but P rr here the sentiment has been to let t 1 i the law take its course The feeling j il i Ij always was that it was better that II i Justice should miss her mark and fail entirely than that disrespect for 3 I f i t 1 the law shoul be encouraged or permitted I I I 3 Ir Now after thirtysix years of commendable and under the circumstances ii i Jt cir-cumstances even glorious conduct 11 t jtn and restraint the people break I jt J jti i loose and in their momentary madness h t I mad-ness lose their selfcontrol becoming p ° 1 becom-ing almost fiendish in their fury 11 fi Nothing more horrible can be conceived > Rjr s celved of than the spectacle that was l riY witnessed in the jail yard yesterday i ii it 1 afternoon and which was participated HI J I partici-pated in by all classes of society i tai t I n t h In their sober quiet moments men i r will wonder how they could have I l r lei I engaged in that awful tragedy and q r j 1 yet they were powerless to restrain 11 r themselves They were impelled i 4 y forward and forced to set by t j an influence or power that 1 tt f 11 has never been explained or detinedj h t is and perhaps never will be this side J i t = I the grave They fenevr what they l 1 were doing and why they were don do-n W li i ing it but they did not for the moment ql 1 l i It 4 mo-ment know that they had been i i g It l transformed into barbarians with a u t niI no loftier ideas of civilization or j tf t i clearer conception of human laws i t1 than were enjoyed by the rude races t t + 1 of the centuries gone before ItIi We can and do sincerely regret this awful and lawless demonstration demonstra-tion and still can the men who took ° iit part in it be severely censured even i by the coolheaded and d cautious 11 i The gravest crime known to the 1i r laws of God and man had been com + 1 l mitted under peculiarly aggravated I ti circumstances tho chief peace officer i3 1 offi-cer of the city had been shot down in 1 Ii F cold blood by a brutal negro years b of whose life were not worth seconds I r tt of that of his victim i the law is slow 1 Sri and uncertainfull justice being the 1fI exception rather than the rule AH i IJa t f I these things flashed through the mind of men and for the moment drove reason out Vengence took the place of respect for the law and bafore the actors fully realized what they were doing the shocking deed was finished If we will even now reflect honestly and intelligently at the same time coademing the lynching can we look back at the circumstances and believe that things could have been different All the conditions being the same would not the result again be what it has been this time We think ic would deplorable as it may seem and reflect as it I may upon the culture the civiliza I ton the Christian inilucnce Cyan of man To have done differently I would have argued much greiter self control on the part of the people I of Salt Lake than the members of the ordinary community possess I THE HERALD is truh sorry for what has been done It fuels that the fair fame of Salt Lako has received re-ceived an ineffaceable staiu TLe inluence and the example are both bad aud may make themselves felt in futura for evil more than good It would have been better had the law been allowed to take its course slow and uncertain as the pace of justice is Yet notwithstanding all tills we cannot find it right to denounce de-nounce and rave against the mad avengers who acted with such terrible terri-ble promptness determination and effect It lawlessness but law lejsuess that the men themselves could not control and men nowhere will ever control until the race te = cornea stronger better and purer |