Show WANT THEM cuni duni SHED anyo anu manifest edfort effort to punish certain members of this community before trial and whether they shall be found guilty 0 or r innocent is a a thing that should command the sober attention not only of the general public but es fes peela pecia ily liy lly of all persons in dut hut authority hority who have or ought to ilao ilae liao have anything 0 to do with this unpleasant bu siness 6 it is an acknowledged maxim in law that a person la heid h held eld tube to he ann Inn innocent 0 until proved guilty from this thia it naturally follows tat teab a person under arrest dil on charge e of crime should bo be treated aa innocent so fir far as is consistent w with ith hi safe k looping e ing until he has hag a fair trial and is proved I 1 guilty or discharged charged a the tho above humane and j max im we may presume had its weight 11 in inducing the constitutional provision that in all criminal prosecutions cut ions lons the accused shall enjoy the tight 9 16 to a speedy and public trial triai til alb aib by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed il in id this thia territory however there apparently 4 ar A nily exists a d determined et ermine ermini d purpose ur nullify ta the equitable e constitutional tut ional provision above quoted by absolutely refusing to certain ln prisoners bj enn ern in criminal cases th the e right ligh t to a speedy trial and by keeping 0 the them m in durance vile as long as possible without trial triai or prospect ot trial of course there must be some motives for this over oven overriding overriding ridin g bf a plain constitutional provis provision iorg iori by the off omm officers lefts of the law unless good goad and satisfactory motives are presented for such an extraordinary coursed course the theine inevitable yi table tabie result will be that the public wilHm motives that are not good and satisfactory and those offie officers ers drs must lie under such imputation as being virtually nil ull proved before the bar af public opinion by the absence of cent evidence of a rebut tive tivo character this proof of unworthy motives becomes still stron stronger stroner er when iti it is positively known by incontestable testable evidence that some of the officials directly I 1 concerned are aro as full fuli of prejudice as nn an egg is full fuli of meat agal agai against us t the them person thus deprived of his indubitable constitutional right and agid against all persons classed with him in the community though they number nine alne tenths of the whole in the case cisa of or col ricks rieks recent ly decided ho he was closely confined nearly ax fix months and repeatedly right tight of speedy trial for everybody has ills llis his hia opinion but the general conviction of the tho public ia li that vindictiveness was the chief cause and the general opinion of the public is 13 further that the whole case was a trumped up one supported by perjury because when the case tase was taken before a judge who know known his hig business has no reputation for prejudice and is not given to ob the course of justice by irrelevant theological disque disquisition st tion lion red hot missionary zeal pith with without out knowledge and passionate ge declamation c am upon the supposed evils of mormonism or any other subject it was sattler in a very few days the charge proved to be utterly untenable and tho the prisoner honorably acquitted acquitted bub but still with six months kamages aa damages mages besides lawyers and other expenses justly due to him film let iet yet still unpaid from those who had ad been instrument instrumental af in hatching the charge and in preventing him from frolli enjoying his right light ight 1 to speedy trial tria there other citizens lee and dame under charge of high crime in the fie gacond corbid district they have been under arrest and closely closely confined sometimes in irons nearly y as I 1 long iong ong as col ricks bicks was confined yet they are not proved r 0 v ed guilty and therefore arb are fe legally g a ily lly to be presumed innocent they aie abe are denied trial upon one ane pretext or ar other time birne after time andward and hard have bard no a assured prospect pros hect when they will be tried 0 or r that they ever will be meantime the judge of that district with marvellous marcellous marv maiv ellous inconsistency wastes the time of the court and insults the public by indulging in ill violent diatribes upon the religious faith and practices of the much larger portion of tho community now leaving the matter of the 1 guilt or innocence of those two citizens entirely out of the tho question we may ask why are they denied the right to a speedy and i impartial trial what is the real rea 1 reason reason for such extraordinary action towards them Is it that the prosecution is afraid of its bide side of these casesi cases and dares clares not bring it to a proper judicial test Is it a determination to the prisoners before trial lest peradventure on trial they should be proved in of the charge the prisoners themselves do not appear to fear a speedy and Impart impartial hd tria trial 1 on the contrary they desire it seek it ask it but are repeatedly denied it must be therefore that their prosecutors are afraid of a speedy and impartial trials trial triai and are desirous of putting it onn off as asiong long as possible we do not nat see what other conclusion can be arrived at by intelligent unprejudiced candid people |