Show of crime in utah the D dily daily ily heleg graph of this city claims claim that there are arc fewer dewcy cricci and decd ct of violence vio leuco committed within the of ef utah ihan la in the iho adjoining stated and territories and to prove ili it cites tho the fact that it has been te rc cessar essary 7 to organize vigilantes lantei com ittzes in ID idaho idabo montana Uon tana nevada and colorado wo we admit that there are many deeds deed ot of sn in those new mining sections and whether they aro are more nu brou than those of utah we a e are not but we do assert that prepared pre pred to say where crime has been in those places detected it has bas almost invariably been sa verely lied we do know that a assassins are de denied n led fellowship with leading citizens much less elected to laigh high civil c und and even ecclesiastical om eft cl again the absence of such an organ dran altion as the vigilantes Tigi lantei committee is not always proof that no nece aty ex itta ests for its presence had the law and order party in idaho rind montana con tinned in the minority there would never brer have bare been A vigilantes committee in thoin territories no more than there TM hij here during the two years reign of terror that a between the departure of johbson Jb liason a army aria and the of the california volunteers when scarcely ft a week passed but some victim was wit sent ent to hell bell across lots by the cimpl raising of tho finger nor vere they of tile the samo same class as those abo lose their alies ih es la in idaho and mon tatia there nearly all who come to au untimely end are men 0 of rec reckless klesi character who carry their urea in their hands handi and are arc generally general v what are known w hard bard cases constantly con cori stanlly stanEly engaged in street brawls but here men of strict integrity quiet aud inoffensive in a tach deportment have bava in numberless cases been sent to eternity with as little corn function ion as would be manifested in lilling A dog because they saw fit it to diner with the pov era that be in matters of religion or had como into the posse possession isIon of too much mitch information the history of the he present room party panty chos that least two tuo occasions cc aion they have havo required the attention of organizations organ nat ieng very tory similar in their character to the vigilantes committee of idaho and montana and had utah mali a po powerful vigilantes vigilante committee committed in 1857 aado do not believe that abe be mountain meadow burdei ers v would bare been allonen alloe cl to braid the tha locks kocl of female victims into larri larria ats tn with aich to tie their mules and borsek or were isnow in existence we do not lie ile lieve liero that the assa assassin sain of sergeant pike would sit il in the high council odthe of the mormon church nor do wo we believe that the murderers or of tile tho parishes Pa rishe corbos s and od many others would now ho be at birge a t the scenes of their blood bloody deeds or that brigham young could have stood up in the r bernacle aclo ant justified tho the ams illion mini in lion tion laruen lamented ted brassfield |