Show NO LYNCH naw LAW IN OURS DURING the stake conference just closed presidents john taylor and george Q cannon expressed their views in regard to a sentiment which has been entertained by a few persons in the community in consequence of the tardy administration of justice in the case of the murderer hopt the cry of lynch him which some thoughtless individuals raised when the prisoner was being conveyed from the court room was not echoed in the hearts of the masses of the people it was but an ebullition of feeling without judgment indulged in by a few who have haye nothing better just now to employ their time than to hang around the court room and tell teli what they would do clo if they were running things it must not be taken fora for a general sentiment the remarks of the tiie presidency oil on this subject will be endorsed by all men and women of reflect reflection ion lon and sound mind it is better that many cuilty guilty persons escape than that one innocent individual should be de deprie eriv of life ilfe by vi violence if courts do not perform their duty they should be neld held responsible for their own wrong and an excited populace is not the proper tribunal to adge a man orece or execute a penalty for crime and if people in the world give way to lawless acts that is no reason why the latter day saints should pattern after them we have no use for lynch law 11 mob violence is incompatible with our faith and the mission we have to perform such were the ideas conveyed in the teachings on this subject at the stake conference but it is claimed by some that lynch im ing 11 is j under certain circumstances we consider this very dangerous doctrine once let the theory obtain that the people have the right to do that which they have authorized the ju decary or executive department of the government to perform and the step ia to anarchy will be very short short it IS is argued by a d local contemporary that if j justice us tice declare that a man merits death the best law is that which executes the mandates of justice with the greatest celerity and chich is most consistent with humane intelligence 11 but who isto is to determine what justice declares are the populace to be the judge judg ethe the jury and tiie tile executioner the I 1 greatest celerity in the execution ot at a mob moh sentence has frequently been haste to commit mob murder what N hat part of the community usually col coi commit those deeds of violence that come juilder the appellation app elation of ef lynching lunching lyn ching tie tae the calm calin dispassionate fair minded disciplined minds winds no quite the contrary aud and it if any of the best men with the reckless in such lawless it is because their passions have bem been let iet loose at the expense of their judgment our contemporary remarks Now how it is possible to make murder out of jil justice stice assuming as above that be just is a question it would be difficult satisfactorily to explain Y r murder cin can be I 1 made out 0 of justice in this way murder is defined in our statutes to be the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought malice may be express or implied it is express when there is manifested a deliberate inte intention unlawfully to take away t the he life of a fellow creature now supposing that the victim of 1 6 lynch law is justly worthy of death Is it law lawful fulfor for tor any one but the legally appointed to kill him and is it lawful for any ona one but th the a legally authorized court and und jury to determine that the culprit ou ought lit ait to be put to death aleath tuese these questions must bo be answered in the negative if then as a matter of fact an accused person is a in murderer whether ile ilo ho lie is so pronounced bedaw or not nog if a mob take his life the tha mob are guilty before the law of murder that is of manifesting and carrying out oat a he deliberate liberate intention to take the lite ot of a fellow creature our contemporary says further 6 an now ow it is the cry of the shallow abed that the people are becoming fa lawless uless because of recent lynch ings ingy the assertion asser tiou tion is ig unworthy respect we maybe but we join ili in that the recent lynch ings show that the people are arc becoming lawless what Is lynching lunching lyn ching if it is not lawlessness can it be claimed nat nad lynching lunching lyn ching is lawful would such gush a claim be entitled to respect and if the law which is the public voice has vested the right to determine guilt I 1 and tind execute penalties in 14 certain ilg ltv 11 J po pointed anted off meem officers is it not an indication of 1 lles lies lawlessness ness when mobs take those rights out of the tile hands appointed and assume to exercise force forbidden b by the law and are not those who at attempt empt to justify such a course hotheaded if gifted with ever so much depth or breadth or length of pate our our out contemporary repudiates the I 1 idea iaea ca that it favors lynching lunching lyn ching but what can be thought of such a sentence as this in the same paragraph in which it makes the repudiation if a few corrupt juries were lynched a d and a few caviling judges nailed up on either cither side the wholesome effect upon that class of humanity whose V vices ices and tailings failings make juries and J judges u adges a necess necessity hy would be simply miraculous its whole argument is based on the hypothesis that Illyn lynching lunching lyn ching is sometimes just 11 now if this assumption is correct where is the consistency of deprecating the practice and being un uni i favorable to lynching lunching lyn ching if lynching lunching lyn ching is just those who are arc unfavorable to it are unfavorable to justice would it be unkind to suggest that the term shallow is not very inappropriate prop to the genius who penned the tha argument from which we have quoted and which Is favorable and unfavorable to lynching lunching lyn ching all in the same breath we trust that the people of utah will ivill avoid the reckless lawless spirit which incites those ileedis deeds of horror that occasionally thrill the country it is not of god it is of that evil one who was a murderer from the beginning let the law tako take its course and if it is tardy or even unjust t I 1 let not 11 cormons mormons Mor mons join in ili a ahue hue hua lind andery cry to seize the reins of justice justic cand and execute penalties unauthorized and in the spirit of vengeance malice and vindictiveness ti tf veness ceness which are always the accompaniments pa pani panl aliments alinen ments ts of lynching lunching lyn ching |