| Show A STEP TOO FAR FAK nr IN SLANDER THE double tragedy that occurred la in this city on turdy saturday Ba has been the common topic of conversation among all classes of the community the general sentiment is opposed to knob violence but universally so acquiescent in the justice oi of the death dealt out oat to the assassin it was right that he should die but wrong that he was unlawfully slain judge lynch Is not nov no a favorite in utah in the rough times when whon vigilance committees were stringing up cri crl criminals 21 2 1 in the region around uta utah kept free from the spirit of mob 0 violence and criminals were dealt with according to the provisions of law the Buni summary mary vengeance paid to the swarthy murderer who shot down the chiet chief of police was a new thing in the annals of sait bait lake city but it was incited by an apparently irresistible and general impulse the crowd was swept on by a common feeling of implacable ger gen and revenge not unmixed with a sentiment BenU ment of stern stem ustice Ther there ewas was not the slightest doubt of the guilt of the murderer he had shot down flown a brave and noble nobie nobleman man one that he knew was an officer in the discharge of his bis duty ho he had also seriously wounded another well respected when trying to arrest him himl added to the excitement occasioned by this ferocious conduct on the main street of the city and the horror occasioned by the trag trav tragic ic end of a valuable public the thought that just as likely as not the assassin would never be brought toju toja to justice stice the cryor cry of now snow tor for Welo omel which was raised as soon eoon as the gull guilty ay wretch was wab strung u up a at t the heend end of a rope indicated me the f feelings of the surging crowd when a convicted murderer 14 allowed to unger lingen along for ya years of justice I 1 and another guilty of shedding human blood walks the streets av as freely ux ibe imn ki most Imio innocent cent citizen citizens it is not strange thal thai ute uie people huun weun wean worked up to desperation by such buch deeds as those of the negro fiend overleaped oyer oven leaped the bounds oi of law and anu s order and is took Justi cento their own hands handa we are not apologizing for the not act of saturday we are against mob law lam in any shape we are in favor of the law first last and all the time but the situation ought to be correctly stated because of the efforts that are being beine made to pu put t a 3 false construction upon the whole affair it is stated editorially ina inn in a public print in this city that the wretched murderer was while jn in the knocked down by the officers in charge beaten with billies and brass knuckles and mercilessly kicked while down and that athe the officers have up their victim to the crowd an attempt is obo also made by the bame baine disreputable sheet to make this a peculiar cullar case cue buch such as never ha had up a parallel liei 1101 in of course urse urbe the statement is false and the inferences drawn are erroneous the fact that they thoy were wone published in thai that infamous moux concern is enough to establish their untruth while the murderous creature was being searched he made violent resistance and was struck once by an of fleen officer the person who knocked down the negro asime assassin and his face in thea the jail pail yard jard was not an officer the men who handled ed the rope and strung the wretch up in the stable were not officers off leers it was not a mormon outrage the police did not give up the prisoner prisoners he be was thrown into the J jan jau all ail and raising himself quietly from the position into which he had been cast he darted out like a cat into the crowd while the officers were comins out of tho the door and met mot his late at the hands of the mob and since bince we have noticed the vile thing which Is destitute of the smallest bpark spark of honor or devenot even of common manhood we will say any further that the murder of one of our bravest officers and the wounding of another isbit la but dut the natural result ot of its influence and teachings it has encouraged the criminal elemont element to resist the officers of the law aw acco Acca iding tp ita jtb theories the must nov vax defend themselves against the wore characters that dritt drift into the mount mountains wins wing but mus must t take blows kicks assaults with deadly weapons raids from gangs of drunken soldiers and all kinds kinda of violence without the tha of physical force never has an officer been n compelled to use his clubs club after being beino bitten and bruised and placed in mortal dan danger dangen er by some bome vagabond or ruffian but bat at t the 0 organ of the prostitutes prostitute a the apologist for the blackguard and the drunkard I 1 the defamer of women the slanderer of the dead the cesspool into which the obscenity blasphemy and arul ent ant of and loafers and smutty minded men of the baser sort flows naturally and la Is presented to the public has blamed the police defended the prisoner and incited incited resistance to the clays paid defenders who are unsurpassed anywhere for vigilance courage and official integrity teg rity the rho rhe fact that the thing hag has not long ago been abated as a nuisance an event which its low lived scribes have frequently feared is as great a proof as can be offered that the people here respect the law and are not given to deeds of violence it has been allowed to lie lle on to its f fali uli content we have taken no notice whatever of its dally daliy libels and scurrilous assaults upon good men and women living and dead but have passed them by in silence as we would the yelping of a mangy cur and coonly w Wo only mention it 16 now because of this dastardly attempt to make capital against the corporation out of an event which cannot be truthfully charged upon the city authorities nor upon any one class of the community it was one of those affairs of which we hear in different parts of the country androne of which took place yesterday at park city an eminently gentile Gen tUe vue town lown and it if a bona examination is desired into the deplorable affair of saturday jet it he be understood that the chief actors in the tragedy will turn out to be of a very different class to those against whom hints are thrown out if such a thing is in angulated augu rated it must be thorough going down to the roots it will not be left to the manipulation of persons who want to make anti antl mor moala mon capital out of it neither will it pan out as aa some people anticipate the mormons cormons Mor mons are not given to lynch ne law Ws or some bome of the vilest dogs in tho the shape of man that ever infested in a western town now bark lna ing and howling bowling against their betters batters would have bitten the dust long ago it will wui bo be just as well for those who are trying to distort the truth troth in this instance to go a little slow people however law abiding will bear but to a certain limit and beyond th here there to la no accounting for what they ey will do or how they may be be seized ed with impulses like that which urged the mob forward on saturday lo bow now alt it any one oue has any auy complaint complain t to make whether it bo be a federal official or a private citizen iet let at it be made against some bome person or petrous and in duo due form ot 0 law la w but nut away with your vila vile taala nations and groundless wordy charges no informal or hole hoie ln la the corner comer inquiries for mean and paltry pur poses or political or private ends if the law 1 is 3 to be vindicated let it be vindicated in a lawful manner |
