Show THE NEWS EDITOR WHINES Tho Deaerot News last nlghtdld well I to copy soma words of denunciation and indecent I I from us on Its dastardly 1s court must I demand that the Supremo must the make its decisions conform to church organs standard of law under un-der pain of the churchs displeasure and defeat In case the Justices should dare to como forward for reelection I would have done bettor as well as shown more of a spirit of propel feelIng feel-Ing In view of Its criminally stupid blunder If it had also copied what we said on Sunday morning I Is 0 most excellent thing for a chap of such tenor of mind as tho News editor possesses pos-sesses to be compelled to cat humble j j J pie once In n while It keeps his average I aver-age In boiler form The Supreme court merely held the I commonlyaccepted doctrine that I Boards of Health are empowered to I take the necessary steps for the prevention pre-vention of the spread of contagion and enlm the protection of the public from epidemics epi-demics For this the church organ editorially ed-itorially fulminated against the Justices I Jus-tices the curses of the church and declared de-clared that the composition of tho court must be changed TVo resented In fit words both the censure upon the Justices and the church anathema and I then Iho organ began to squirm We 1 recalled the News editors claim that ho had cured smallpox by the laying I on of hands denouncing the statement as a I preposterous lie He then claimed J that he had not said s When we I I produced his cLct words printed no f longer ago than last January fully proving that he had so claimed he 1 wriggled around to the position that I he meant tho cure only In case of per feet faith as If that were any help to the miserable idiot And now being I driven lo extremity and seeing the alarming position his malignity has brought himself his paper and his I church he puts up a whine of injured Innocence and cries I out See how I am abused Tho sneak Is too palpable palpa-ble The wretched creature Is a menace men-ace to the progress and good name of the State a standing peril to Its repute I and an infant terrible to his church and will so continue as long as he Is retained in his present position As to the main question the authority au-thority of the Board of Health to proscribe pro-scribe and enforce such rules of precaution pre-caution In epidemics as science and I general usage conform to the Supreme court was unquestionably on solid ground In Its decision upholding the Board of Health The statutes of Utah are plain and direct and ample for the case But even Jf they were not the court so fortified its position with prece enl In like cases that sustained the principle for which the Board of Health stood merely on the general principle of tho police power of the Statethat cavil Is put completely to lOUt The supreme court of Massa chusells quoled in the decision ruled in speaking of the right of boards of health to make general orders and enforce them without unnecessary delay de-lay In these words Their action Is Intended to bo prompt and summary They are clothed with extraordinary I ex-traordinary powers for tho protection of the community from noxious Influences affccllng life and death and It Is i important Impor-tant that their proceedings should be em jurra scd or delayed as Itt as possible by 1 tho unnecessary observance of formalities formal-ities lllesAnd And this opinion Is not predicated upon any authority of statute Again our court quotes Tn Blue v Beach K N E Rep 8 It ipnears that under a general statute requiring re-quiring the Board of llcalih to adopt bylaws by-laws to prevent the spread of contagious I disease4 and where It also appeared that smallpox epidemic was threatened the local Board of Health mode nn order requiring quiring that no unvncclnated child be allowed al-lowed to attend the public schools during dur-ing Iho prevalence of the disease It was hold that an unvaccinated child wag properly prop-erly excluded during thAt lime although it was well and healthy and had never been exposed the disease And bur Supreme court adds The order to exclude tho child aroso from t reasonable apprehension on tho part oftho board that the smallpox would become epidemic In Sail Lake City Tho order made had no effect beyond the ex Islonco i of the emergency Tho order did nol require tho child to bo vaccinated She could only bo excluded from school upon her refusal to bo vaccinated until dangcr from an epidemic had passed The court referred to many other precedents of a like character fully in point and amply upholding the power of boards of health In such extremities The whole case as presented to the court was one of law and it was decided de-cided on the law An agreed statement of facts was presented and the court had a comparatively easy task it dealt i with that task in a masterly manner and It was at once shocking and ularmI I lag to find the church organ proclaiming proclaim-ing a holy war against the Justices because be-cause of the conscientious conclusion they had reached I was seen at once to be an Invitation for the church to deliver Itself over to the uses of the Democratic party for the November election on n basis that was at once contemptible factional and dishonest |