Show t ff J NOT CREDITABLE i I Chief justice Zane and his venomous henchman Varian cannot feel very I II I + proud pvfir what they have achieved in h thS case of young Burt It IS f true the I t officials have gained a victory and a young man is suffering imprisonment d at their hands but the triumph is one that brave honorable men could not I delight t in The boy Burt had been lied l > about and slandered by a base ungrateful ungrate-ful wretch whose course in the community a com-munity has been such as to gain fort for-t i Jnm emnlovment that honorable men 1 vho have regard for their Characters a oid as they wojdd any other business i that would reflect on their good names I ndw won or kim the contempt of decent de-cent people of all classes Having been 1 i libeled by the fellow Burt took the l only means open to him to punish his I slanderer Tile means were unlawful 4i is true but what else ceuld the young I man have done to save his good name f e from imputation than flog the fellow f who slandered him There are offenses f aE ichti La the laws do not reach i there are times when the individual jnus bea law unto hims > lf whether or I A not + this was one of those offenses and 1 I times Mr Burt thought it was and Lei Le-i < acted accordingly The law did not in r W vterjDOse tj protect him from the lying tongue of the slanderer but it did assert i as-sert itself to punish him for his offense against peace and good order The fine f 1 imposed in the Police Court was a suffice j1f suffi-ce nt plaster for outraged justice and l t L more than enough considering the ht young man hndbeen interrupted in his jJ Trork before he had well begun it Tot 11 To-t f hound him further and inflict extraor dinary punishment upon him we repeat f re-peat reflects nojcredit uponthose who engaged in the business it looks like malicious persecution and the public I < will so regard it Judge Zane and Mr T Varian if put under oath will both swear that they do not believe young Burt had the slightest intention of in J terjfering with an officer in the discharge oi nWdujty and that in their opinion tVyoung man never once thought that the despised creature he was pummeling pummel-ing represented in his person the executive execu-tive authority of a United States court We excuse no one who knowingly and wilfjplly breaks the law i but courts should never permit the petty spite of themselves and their officers to stand in r the place of justice |