| Show SOMEWHAT ONE SIDED tuk charge to the grand jury by judge zane zuno published in the NEWS of yesterday is an interesting paper the intelligent tell tehi igent ent reader of it cannot fail fall to observe that it is of a duplex character its first part appears to be 3 judicially orthodox while its latter half is decidedly part parl pa nizan izan and consequently calculated to use the judges own phrase on a certain occasion to idea defeat eat the ends of justice the c ourt court went out of its way to draw the attention of the jury to the attitude assumed by the young peoples improvement associations who nad pushed passed resolutions to the effect taw tam their members proposed to in f future u trade exclusively with their friends and to refrain f from giving their patronage a to those who were scheming and asistin assisting to take away the liberties liberta ies les of their relatives and friends by extra ical leal lebal and arid processes what V hat nat public clam clamor and public prints have said also came in I 1 lor or a show of the tile animadversions of the judge whose ire irb j judging from the manner in which bis his dellver deliver ances were uttered was considerably awakened tile the direction taken by the disparaging remarks of the tile court upon uhe the influences ia fluen ces to which he alluded were ont and decidedly unjust thearen their tendency was to prejudice the grand jury instead of having tile the effect of leading them to an impartial investing InveSt investigation ig gatica into alleged offenses agai agal the laws the utterances were e evidently identie intended to convey the idea ta atthe young people in taking the attitude they haye have assumed regarding regard ilig bg a certain class whom they have good reason to esteem in the light of enemies have sought to coerce trades men meu jurors and ana officials into aiosi a position in which they would oppose the execution and administration of the law tile the young people have done nothing of ane kind and if any of the public prints have taken such a course ulis journal must be excepted while believing that tiie the edmunds act is in violation of the genius of the constitution for fon solid reasons tha been frequently and clearly exhibited it is upon the statute books and being those whose duty it is to enforce IL it lave nave no alternative while we consider that the existence of such statutes is a paro dyon human freedom we have not complained against men lor tor the mere enforcement of the one under consideration it is the ex tra legal extrajudicial extra judicial and outrageous methods that are adopted by the prosecution and the courts to which we are opposed wo wa shall be antagonistic to them so long as the flagrant wrongs exist we have conden condemned ined the packing of grand and traverse juries which have stuffed to indict and convict mormons cormons Mor mons 11 we have censured the prosecution for taking advantage of the unfamiliarity of witnesses with legal usages by pursuing a coercive course to get an affirmative answer when only a ne negative one could be consistently give given as in the case of phoebe calder caider in reference to the pregnancy of magaie N naismith al sinith the method of the ahe prosecution being sustained by bythe the court which should have protected the witness by explaining to her the status of the interrogation ter rogation we have characterized as infamous the putting of grossly indecent questions S to ladies ladles and children after the point the prosecution desired to reach foint had lad been completely covered by previous questions and answers as in the examination of lie he witness agnes mcmurrin Ail hii before a dom committing magistrate we have denounced the efforts that have been made b by the prosecution and suta sustained ined by the e court to make it appear that witnesses te testified stifled one way beffre the grand jury and another way during trial as in the case of john connelly alleg alleged ged grand jury minutes published in the tile salt lake tribune at the time showed that answers were attributed to a witness as ass havins having been alven given before the inquisitors inqui yet it vas vb for not giving ivin lvin th those ose same answers that tile witness elfr esi esl had been previous to tac lac trial imprisoned in tile the peni pent t nuary awry the proof that the ini minutes bad been doctored was therefore clear rrue purpose of this infamy was evidently to create tile the impression that 11 morl Morr non uon witnesses were iverc necessarily perjurers per pM jurers we have ab nb n G coincided with some of we dolds doid doings S of commissioner mckay who in elile lilie the exaM examination nation of a certain case did not give any special cial clai reasons for holding the defendant when he leached reached a conclusion of the proceeding in his court but afterwards for tae d di lec tation of a wonder wondering lg world elaborate findings lindl in a dally daily journal in them he held that the same arile nabi habitation tation and the op opportunity ty for sexual commerce was sufficient proof that a person accused of un lawful cohabitation was guilty of that atense ft ense we nave not viewed as consistent with the tha dignity of the law the hiring of certain notorious ruffians to serve verve process at add and d to pry into the private affairs of f families the engaging of sneaks spotters human reptiles to 10 insinuate aate into peoples domestic coe cooc cou eril irn ird lias not been held up by us as peet wie of a supremely inviting loarf ur W i ve not been able to reconcile th in yi of judge zane ane in refusing to ad stae stac used persons to bail ball pending the final adjudication of their cases with as much favor as the court could A have desired being of the decided opinion that admission to ball bail is a legal right in the premises we never expect to be one with the judge on that question unless he changes ills riis view we have not taken any pains to hide our abhorrence of the course course of the prosecution pro se cution in attempting to deny tile the statutory privilege of legal wives t to 0 decline to testify in any proceeding edin edlu against their husbands but ut the list might be made indefinite ly dylong long andia and if judge zane holds itah objecting to such suell proceedings as those enumerated is in the nature of an influence to hinder the enforcement of law we most distinctly differ from him we have no hesitancy in stating statin that such outrages are calculated i in every sense to defeat the tile ends of justice in behalf of the young I 1 peoples improvement pro associations we can cau truthfully state that it is against such in camies their perpetrators and sympathizers that they have taken a stand so far as their business relations are concerned they do not propose to sustain such inhuman arid ud extralegal extra legal doings la in any shape whatever and their action Is not necessarily in opposition to the proper enforcement of law they wish to have no connection conne cuon cion whatever with those who under pretense of the laws enforcement violate both it and their official oaths if the judge wished to animadvert upon the influence brought to bear on jurors by public prints lie he could have found an ample field in the utterances of the salt bait lake tribune when jurors have assumed a positioning posit ionIn lonin cases in which mormons cormons Mor mons have beedon been on tr triai trial al in favor avor of the accused cons conscientiously i en and in their opinion according to the tile law and evidence they have b been n mercilessly and brutally assailed ass asi ailed they have been dubbed jack mor ino mons n s ll 11 their private characters have been assaulted and the vilest insinuations expressed regarding them these rabid and contemptible attacks have bee been 34 intended to have no other effect thau than to cause jurors to indict or convict as the case might be all mon uon mor alor mons accused whether guilty or not but for that side of tile thy controversy tro versy the judge appears to have no word of condemnation neither does dou he appear to throw into any degree of prominence in his charge the fact that the tho edmunds act which is general beneral in its application has thus far reen teen been almost exclusively enforced against mormons cormons Mor Alor mons 11 class enforcement fo of the law even if it the execution and administration were not extralegal extra legal drives every particle of consistency out of the side of the question opposite to that assumed by us |
