Show editorials EDITORIAL S sensational correspond ENCE SALT bake LAKE has always been a place aglace whence and concerning which much sensational correspondence by mail and telegraph has been indulged in some of it of the most foolish and ridiculous kind perfect Munchausen ish the end of the time for such indulgence is not yet come nor will it until it is plain philil that it will no longer pay to exaggerate misrepresent and slander among the latest falsely colored statements from this city to the press at a distance are the following to the san francisco Ch chronicle tonice ronice in correspondence written in the interests of the unscrupulous ring in this city sait sai sal salt t lake city march 25 yesterday Y es the general subject of conversation everywhere seemed to be the quite unexpected acquittal of ricks bicks it was generally believed that the jury juryj constituted as it was and three gentiles would fall fail to agree and probably might convict so bo conclusive and dir direct e et was the evidence but when his acquittal was announced a general feeling of surprise surp burp ilse iise was manifested which soon turned into indignation dig pation bation nation and many of the leading business men of the city were quite free in expressing their condemnation of this unaccountable action of a sworn jury and even went so far asto hint at the formation of an organization to enforce summary justice in cases where such criminals escape punishment at the hands of a mormon ju jury under the influence and direct direction loaf of the mormon church prior to the passage of the poland bill the trial by jury was obsolete except in a few caseb by consent of both parties this bill was looked forward to as the panacea of all evils and crimes mormon and gentile under its provisions ro a probate judge is author authorized to select one hundred names and the U S marshal a hundred names to serve as jurors for the term the property qualification is necessary only the juror must be a citizen and able to read and write english the probate judge being a mormon off omm official lelal is supposed to select none but mormons cormons Mor mons and the marshal goes out among the gentiles for jurors this seems to be fair or at least a standoff as far as numbers are concerned kut but but yet it does not work well and a this jury system is considered but a slight improvement if any over th the e former one which was wa s considered worse than none atall at all ail it beems that the great difficulty is that in most or all the important murder and lascivious cohabitation cases in which mormons cormons are criminals the gentiles have formed opinions as to the guilt of the accused parties and when their names are drawn as jurors and themselves placed on oath they have the honesty to say so and that on the other hand the mormons cormons are not an inquisitive or talkative people they seldom say or hear anything outside of the church and as a rule never read the newspapers consequently their minds are not made up on anything except on the mormon question tion and eternal fidelity to the church and its members further they deny the right of an any y judicial judica tribunal or any other power on earth except the inspired mormon priesthood to administer an oath and do not consider such an oath binding on their consciences in the least the consequence is the gentiles are disqualified and the juries mainly if not altogether 3 consist of mormons cormons Mor mons as heretofore this certainly is not the faulton fault of the poland bill but it may he be attributed to hard swearing and elastic consciences to those acquainted with the situation here it is needless to point out the villainous hous misrepresentations inthe in the above w while readers at a distance will do well to tp reject it all and everything else of tb the e kind from the same source or any other |