Show CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW Chief of Fire Department STANTON while in charge of a great conflagration left it to pick a quarrel with and assault a private citizen who had had the unparalleled unparal-leled audacity to exercise his American privilege of criticising the management of the conflagration The chief was arrested and fined 25 a Liberal city councilman moved a vote of censure upon him for his conduct and the vote would have passed but for the action of aLiberal mayor who took an oath to execute and maintain the dignity of the laws A coterie of influential influen-tial Liberals raised the amount of the fine imposed on the fire chief in 25cent sub scrlp ions and presented it t him in token i of their admiration for his coolness self 11 restraint and general competency We fancy we hear the howls ancy the Lions L-ions and the gnashings of teeth which would have arisen had the actors I all thi seen b s-een Mormons instead of Mormon eaters Treason law defers contempt for the government and other outcries would have been sounded and the scrub who manipulates wires for the Associated Press would have made the line hot proclaiming pro-claiming this latest treasonable demonstration demonstra-tion of the Mormons Verily it makes a wonderfuldifference as to whose ox is gored |