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Show How the Charge Struck a Liberal. Editors Herald: i i I gained a partial admittance to , the District Court room yesterday , morning, and stood literally on tip-' too, as well as on the tip-toe of ex-; pectation, awaiting the charge of bis; Honor to the grand jury. It came at last. It was certainly an extra-j ordinary combination of law, gospel 1 and political oratory. The perform- ance at the theatre last evening produced pro-duced some puppets that changed about as rapidly from one character: to the other. After swearing the jury j to free their minds from " every : hatred or malice," the judge proceed-, cd systematically to impress upon them their duty to 6tore , their recol-i lections with historical incidents calculated to give those base passions full olav. No one knows better than Judee McKean that " blood atone ment" in Utah is as obsolete as1 witch burning in Massachusetts, and that for all purposes of the present duties of a grand jury a lecture upon it is as irrelevant as would be a charge from an Eastern judge to indict fr Salem fanatic. His Honor had much to say in deprecation of Tcrritarial grants of water privileges to some men of wealth and intelligence, which he said had led to the still further impoverishment im-poverishment of the poor. He is strangely forgetful that the Federal government that gave him his appointment ap-pointment has always pursued the same policy. Without it Judgo McKean would have been obliged to do as our earl v settlers, to pack his traps on his back and walk to Utah. Will he tell us that the Union Tacific railroad has enriched anybody at the expense of the people who live along its line? If no one but each individual individ-ual farmer who wished to irrigate his land had been allowed to tap the mountain streams, the Judge would not have had a potatoe for his dinner. din-ner. Again, bis Honor occupied the stand in the character of Rev. Dr. Newman, and went for polygamy with ali the zeal of that distinguished , clerical politician. He told the jury that "its practice went hand in hand with the murderous doctnn of biood atonement." If so he may console . himself with its speedy extinction. So there is hope after ail that his , Honor may lie down and slop at night without the fear ot an avenging angel, or of an attack from a crowd of desperate women who insist upon his "going into polygamy" with them. " Libera- Salt Lake City, Oct. Sth. |