Show p i H THE LULL if The fee industry seems to have subsided f F sub-sided somewhat the past few days but i is 1 whether is owing to the manipulators I I of the machine taking a muchneeded i rest to a want of material to work ont on-t I or to the afflictions produced by that to I r I ij 4 ih them hitherto unapparent quantity I r R conscience cannot at present be told i i I with anything approaching accuracy Iff J t perhaps all three of the agencies named are at work but as to tins I a of t nothing more than a diaphanous I i conjecture can be ventured Certain = I t I Cer-tain it is however that there is at present f i i pres-ent a very grateful even if unexpected l I lull in the hurricane prosecutions and T f j the downpour of fees 1 1 j t The most casual observer will scarcely 4 fail to note that daringthis brief period f the earth leas madeits diurnal rotations I PC as usual the waters flow to the sea 1 j 1 < harvesting the bounteous cropos with r I which nature has blessed our Territory is i progressing satisfactorily no one has been killed everything isterene H I Ur and we are altogether gliding along the I 4 fj f stream of destiny toward tire gulf off of-f eternity just as though the feemill i r i were turning out an hourly grist In J L f 3 fact it may be said without fear and F l j trembling that if the prevailing state of ff aI I things has made a change in any ± ri respect it has not been for the worse P It would perhaps be taking too charitable s char-itable a view of those wjo have for a I i l J bag time been levying tribute upon the national treasury to believe bra moment r mo-ment that they have been beamed into i 1 even temporary decency Men who t t it deliberately commit shameful acts 1 I it knowing them to be such beforehand j1 are insensible to that feeling Shame is the sensation imparted to men who 14 1 have souls too large and hearts TOO I warm to connive at meanness and ° il s have been led or betrayed into F the commission of a wrongful t st act so that the reader < can readily see without using his spectacles that this particular mantle of charity will 1 t not cover the enormities under discussion i P I discus-sion I I It is not enough to av that we are I 1 i strangely and unduly in t entiled in the 1 r pct disposition f tie public finances not I Ls enough to proclaim is defensive matter that the fee triumvirate are doing nothing which inc Jaw does not allow t to and the lawmakers do not approve not enough to declare that tlm twill t-will not be molested To the first l a t r rejoinder we have to reply that oiie dl r person is a 5 much iuierejted in the t public welfare and haws much sight to complain of the abuse of a public trust as any other to the second 1 i 4 that the law permits a great nwiij I i qa things which it is 1 gs rarely necessary f desirable to act upon Iud to thc iiiirtl i i hi that the innocent June 6ceniu < lk ted i = and if the raid continues hereafter with l is h such fury as hascharacterized hereto I J J < More many more are ufcely to feel the c t cruel pressure of the greedy hands of p tli inob whose rule of conduct is power tli i first pelf next and principle never and J when the car of Juggernaut has run the t market hereabout short on victims it I can be trundled offto Ogden Logan oc Jtl Provo where fresh triumphs and more t spoils await it not that the k same machinery does not exist L a 111 each of those place but none of these have ever figured inide the mystic circle and dont know how to I I r work with so much precision and regularity f 2 regu-larity as the local article Lajingall 1 considerations of principle and finance I aside isit nQt a beautiful i t spectacle t presented 1 i pre-sented he these tliesesuperloyallan abtding Arnericau < < gentlementhat of packing t i It their values filling their flasks and r t t philandering around the country fish I i ing for businessand all in the name of decency apdJaw |