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Show UNITKU STATES LAW IN UTAH. Editors Herald. The last session of the third district court is fruitful, it seems to me, in some odd suggestions and considerations. considera-tions. It shows eminently the veracity and consistency of U. S. judges and so called "liberal organs." "Those (who obey the laws, must be, shall be, protected in their rights," wo are told in an authoritative, formal voice from the bench. Serious application of tlmisiuadein applying Hie rigors of the law (which in this case is .simply a question of minorities) to a poor "defenceless "de-fenceless people with no other protection protec-tion or weapon, save their religious convictions. Compliments for" the gallantry, indeed! But if wc look further if we look to the Gentiles, at last, how is it there ? Nut less than weeks and months is it that parties, whose mineral property has been encroached upon hy trespassers, trespass-ers, have been praying, and betrgiug almost, 'for an injunction which "they have not been able to obtain. It was not sufficient that the fullest and most incontrovertible evidence was given of actual violation of the law; it was not sufficient that the most skillful leal help, disposable in this country, was secured; no, it m-eds bethat thousands and thousands of dollars must be distrained dis-trained from their legal owners, before "ju.-iiee" the old, lime, onecved woman he is in this Territory steps in and chooses to top an out rase. Jt is here, in this country, defended by "upright and virtuous" U. S. judges, that mining property, representing thousands ot dollars in value, and legally held, is sold by sham-owners, without their ever being apprehended, nay, even talked of in ihe community. Is evide'uee wanted.' Proof .'' L am ready to give it, more than will le acceptable to hear. Aud the dt-tVnders, of l S. judicial justice 'lhe "mouth pieces of public opinion; the brazen organs that have deafened us with their assertions of "neht, and justice, and truth, and liberty, and humanitarian proTeis?" ' l b"ea:i we have bad comments on the 1 rovo raid and its palpable evasion ot 1'. S. law, it i not longer than two weeks since an outrage was committed on a L . S. official at Camp Floyd, an outrage as glaring and unwarranted as any, and threatening loss of life; but which was the "liberal" paper that happened to step in and defend "truth and justice" and U. S. rights? Not one. luc aggrieved person, unimpeachable unim-peachable in character and antecedents, antece-dents, happened to be a member of the Mormon church, and. the accessor, acces-sor, being considered ao influential citizen, could do no wrong. victa C-itoni. f Miner. |