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Show The Juries- It will be noted that in the grand and petit juries, drawn yesterday for the district court, there is a large majority of non- Mormons. In the grand jury there arc the names of thirteen non-Mormons and ten Mormons, Mor-mons, while in the petit jury there are thirteen non-Mormons and five Mormons. Apparently the druwing was conducted fairly and honestly, and in such an-open maimer that no one could find just cause for the slightest complaint. This difference might easily occur on either side; indeed it could scarcely be expected that in selecting from two hundred names the juries would be more equally divided. But had they been all Mormons, all Methodists or ail Catholics it should not make the slightest difference in verdicts. It is men as men, not religionists as religionists, who are supposed to sit on juries; and when a man occupies occu-pies that position he takes a solemn oath to find an indictment or decide a cause on the lnw and evidence, not according to bis personal feelings or religious prejudices. These should be set aside when a man enters the jury box and lakes the oath which is required re-quired of him. When we hear men say If they can only get a Gent i!e jury, or If they only have a Mormon jury thev will make it warm for some one, we consider it an indignity to the class alluded to. To suppose that an honest man, be he a Mormon or non-Mormon, vould. convict an innocent person per-son of crime, or acquit an accused when proved guilty, is to suppose that he would violate his oth, an insult to hie honor aud manhoovj. |