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Show j MUZZLING THE PflESS. j I Yesterday the Third District Court j was the s- ene of one of those extra-i ordinary events seldom if ever enact- I fcd ouUidfe of Utah, and never here j outside of Judge McKean's Court, j The Chit-f Justice a'.-ems determined, so far aa his influence extends, that no paper shall exist in this country that ia inimical to the Utah. " riug " and opposed to the carpet-bagofficials. Ifis honor soon after the opening of court called the grand jury into his ! presence, and alter road inn to them a brief article which appeare 1 in Sunday Sun-day morning's Herald, clipped from the Independent of Virginia City, Nevada, Ne-vada, he charg'd the grnd inquest to enquire into the luattor, and it they found the article which he had read to be true, to indict the Chief Justice. He also invited them to go badk through his life, official acd non-otlicial, non-otlicial, and indict him for any crime he had ever committed; but if on the other hand, they found the article referred re-ferred to to be untrue, they weru to indict the IfKKAi.n, or certain persons per-sons whom he alleged were its editors edi-tors and proprietors. A lull report of this judicial episode will bo found in our local columns. The Herald feels highly IhiUered at the amount of pomp and parade with which the Chief Justice honored it, and regards it as no small diatinc- ; tion to be thus, in open court, delivered deliv-ered over to the keeping of the grand inquisition of this district. And while humbly acknowledging our obligation ob-ligation to his honor, we are well aware that the standing of this paper as the leading journal of Utah and its influence as such was the priucipal motive which actuated the great attention at-tention paid to it. Nothing short of this would have done us justice. This is not the only time we have been so honored by our favorite Chief Justice. We well remember that a few days over four years ago, when tho Herald was measurably obscure, un-i un-i known, and just struggling into exist -lence, his honor, James B. McKean, j then as now. Chief Justice of Utah, ' called the grand jury into court, and I reading to them an editorial from I the Herald, in which something was said considered as disrespectful disres-pectful to the immaculate Ass. Justice C. M. Hawley, he 'charged tho jury to enquire into the j matter, and if the facts therein stated wero found to be true, they should j indict Judge Hawley; but if, on the : contrary, they wero foinid to be un-truc, un-truc, they should indict tho editors and proprietors of the Herald. We knownotif the grand jurors investigated investi-gated Judge Hawley, but wj know that they indicted the proprietors ul I the Herald, and we know also that the Supreme Court of the United ! States, Chief Justice MeK-ian's mas-: mas-: tors, declared his proceedings and j those of his grand jury to be iilQgal, I and so the matter fell to the ground, the Herald gaining influence and (power from the incident, and its per-, per-, secutors confusion ani shame. His-j His-j tory often repeats itself. Who shall say that it will not in this latest attempt at-tempt to gag and muzzle the Herald? We wish here to remark that j this journal was started in the 'interest ol the people ot this j Territory. It has ever sought to de- fend their rights and to protect them from the intrigues and assaults of rings and carpet-baggers. Many efforts have been made to silence us in our outspoken utterances. Threats of all kinds have been made, but we havo pursued the even tenor of our way, disregarding alike threats or cajolings, favors or patronage, so long as we knew we had tho support of tho honest people, irrespective of parties or creeds. The action of Chief Justice Mc-Keau Mc-Keau yesterday is but another attempt at-tempt to gag, muzzle and crush the Herald, but ho and his ring backers will find that a free press, the champion cham-pion of the people's rights is not so j easily got rid of. Tne Herald expects ex-pects to live to see Utah freed from carpet-bag officials an.l every vestige of the iutluence of its present corrupt ring; when- tno people will choose from among their own citizens the men who are to rule over them. |