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Show PUBLIC OPINION. To The Tribune In the News "f the 2nd inst. there was an edlt'Trlal note Intimating In-timating that Met all had l.. yield t.i pub-lb pub-lb opinion, and thai public opinion Is real ami win always accomplish results Is public opinion any greater against In surancs President Met 'nil than it is agalnsit polygamlHts who live in opposition to the laws uf the land and the fawi 0 God? If nut then tn i is i nut th.- editorial n ferred to be b note ..f warning to i ime promlni nt people in i rla.li ? Salt like tit. I tab, Jan. 4. l'.frt. The correspondent has touched the propel- note. John A. Mc 'all president of a greal lnsuraifce company, in dealing with the matters under bis consideration held hlnisi if a liov rc-f ponslbllil ;, tn law, the lights of policy-holders, and the pub-lic pub-lic opinion of the United Slates. Today To-day he is a broken man. resigned from his place which he had filled with striking ability even if his proceedings had been dofjanl of the proper rub s of business, and with him have o(,no thf. leiaiK s apd favorites to whom he dealt out with lavlwh hand from the (Offers of his great trusteeship Public opinion was no more powerful against the McCalls than it la against I th.- polygamiatp. But the insurance men were brought to their accountability accountabil-ity by the vigorous stale officials vvhei first h id to be reat le d bj public 'pinion. 'pin-ion. Our correspondent will not have lo wait verj long to find that this Irresistible Irresis-tible force lnis made its way through every harrier with which the polygamous polyga-mous hierarchy hav e sui rounded themselves, them-selves, and that In deference to public opinion In the United Stutes the lawbreakers law-breakers and the pledge-breakers of the hierarchy have either surrendered unconditionally as the Met 'alls were compelled to do, or that they have lied from this country, as the Insurance Hamlltons wore compelled to do. |