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Show Freed Crcs4a tliy Dt Overdone. s What is the country coming to, anyhow? Frauds , and scandals, scandahi and frauds, world without" ": . - end. . , ' . . .' Election frauds, land frauds, schemes to defraud imbecile millionaires Into unholy marriages,' Chad-' Chad-' ' r wick frauds, and now comes Utah with wild animal bounty frauds. Fraud charges are so numerous and variegated that they keep one's head in a whirl.. Is ihe world growing r worse, or is a spasm of virtue sweeping over the country that serves to uncover the frauds that have been going on all the " time? Or has it become the fashion to yell fraud just for the sake of making a noise in the world? The venerable Senator Mitchell of Oregon "denies "de-nies the allegation and defies the alligator" with all the vehemence jot which he is capable, and asserts the purity of his innocence in connection with his indictment -for alleged connection with the land fraud exposures in Oregon. He says his offending, if offensejt is, consisted in introducing a constituent constitu-ent whom the courts afterward convicted of perpetrating perpe-trating certain frauds against the public domain. The Senator hurried from Washington to his own State to give testimony in the investigafton pending before the Federal grand jury into these frauds, and was,met with an indictment charging him with complicity, in. the same. -offenses. The Senator's word is worth something. If he is merely the victim vic-tim of Circumstances, his skirts should promptly be , cleared. ''-"' ' . " ' His case presents one that may well suggest he inquiry, is not the fraud investigation business liable lia-ble to be overdone?' The Telegram, believes with "V the late President Grant that no guilty man should be allowed tdTescape, but -in so doing the innocent should not be panished along with the guilty. Let NIraud investigations be thorough, but also let them be just. .. ; ' - . |