Show IS MANSLAUGHTER ENCOURAGED It Is time to discourage the wholesale whole-sale reign of manslaughter and murder which has been going on hi Salt Lake City during the past year Unless there If combined effort to punish the crime of deliberately taking life a check may como lo It which will bo regretted by all who hayc the best Interests 6f Salt Lake Cityand thc State of Utah at heart The Tribune hai on several occasions culled attention to the fact that the growth of murder In Salt Lake city is becoming alarming that men and boys deliberately go out and take human life feeling that they will not be punished for It Attention has been called repeatedly by The Tribune to the fact that some one must be In a way responsible for this laxity and fcir this deplorable growth of human hu-man lifetaking If any fault lies with the courts Its It-s time for them to get together and agree upon some line of action whereby where-by Justice will be meted out to those who deserve It IC tho jurJe who arc swayed by sympathetic plcn and fiery oratorical efforts are to blame It Is timethat somcthlng be done to purify the Jurybo If It Is a growth of sentiment and becoming widespread i among our people to the extent that I nurder and manslaughter arc beeoin Ins respectable and the pcrpctratoisi I of thnsje crimes have little or no fear of punishment the people should rise up and tnkc t I the matter In hand A condition In some respects possibly pos-sibly similar to the one now existing In Salt Lake City prevailed Inthe city of Cincinnati prior to 1SSI for a mini her of years A coldblooded murder was committed almost every week Juryflvcrs for a consideration made il a business there they do not hereto here-to secure acquittals Finally thc reign of murder became so universal that human life was unsnfu on the streets or at any employment Fancied wrongs were redressed with the gun the > Islol or the knife and eaih time another soul passed Into eternity In ISS I the condition became imoluiable Justice and decency and those whose Ihs were In danger cried out for a readjustment of conditions The Jail vas full of men and omcn charged with the taking of human liCe Finally u great mausmoollng was called at ono of the Joading public lalls Those who attended wore among the best citizens of Cincinnati they were the taxpayers and the lawa bId Ag citizens When an expression of sentiment was partially completed indignation i in-dignation rose to a point where the great multitude purst out into a mob and proceeded to the county Jail which structure was torn down and the criminals dragged forth to death More than one hundred human lives were taken most of them having no connection connec-tion with the outburst of Indignation Indigna-tion uimply being persons looking on but the wholesale ahcdding ot blood had effect Every criminal awaiting trial was speedily tried Justice was swIft In Its work Nearly a score of murderers were swiftly put to I death Juryfix lilt bucuinu a thing of the past und tardy Justice In the courts uas no longer a practice Cincinnati was regenerated re-generated The Tribune sincerely hopes that no such retribution will ever visit Salt bake City It would warn those In position to check this wholesale I murder now going on and appeal to them to net with speed and to mete out justice jus-tice and punishment to the guilty without undue delay Let us not wait for the laying on of a hand more powerful than those provided by statutes Invented by men In order to stop this reign of bloodletting |