| Show TIIE THE CRUSADE qualification CATION YESTERDAY the pronounced anti mormon expurgator district attorney lle die dickson kison appears to have done his best to expunge from the panel of the traverse jury whose presumed duty is to try mr air angus M cannon every of the element of that he could discover the whole purpose odthe of the Inq inquisitorial process to which the jurors were subjected had but oue one which was made perfectly plain it was to find those who were in sympathy with the prosecution this was the one and only needed in the eyes of the AttO luey LUCY anywhere and where that leau lean lug tug was discovered the persons so disposed were promptly passed or accepted on the contrary those ano were deemed to be in sympathy with the defense were as promptly excused for cause it appeared to be all right and proper in tue estimation of the attorney backed by the rulings of the court it the bias was against the defendant fen dant otherwise not surely justice and sound law must stand aghast at such a spectacle by this practice practise the theory that a jury is a prosecuting instead of a judicial body is established law and justice demand that it should be entirely impartial ho no lury jury that is in sympathy with the defense in any case is competent to sit upon it because that sentiment will weigh more or less in the making up of tile the result on the other hana hand no jury that is in syn syu sympathy ipaty with jile ilie he pros edition is compe competent in the me same relation on similar ground A panel of the latter complexion is vastly more mor e dangerous to society than that of I 1 its ts opposite kind because through its agency the innocent are rendered liable to unjust punishment it is a humane and accepted theory that it is better that ten guilty men go free than that one that is innocent should be punished nence hence the absolute necessity of the jury panel being free from bias on one side or the other yet the anomaly is here presented of the main for eligibility being sympathy with the prosecution aloo it appears now to be tile the chief aim to transform a body which constitutes the leading safeguard of the life and property of the citizen into a prosecuting body when mormons cormons Mor mons are arc on trial the objective point being in any case conviction it lt will be strange indeed however if such an outrageous scheme shall prove successful and men into whose hands are placed the liberties of their i fellow citizens shall consent to act in the capacity of tools or wooden heads to lay aside their own judgment and merely carry out the besig designs n s of the crusade it Is to be hoped that men whom it is proposed tu to put to such a base use will exercise their manhood and instead of being governed gov arned by sympathy with the prosecution or with the defense either cither will be alone influenced by tiie the law and the character of the evidence adduced contending stoutly that law and fact shall shall shail be thi the basis of every verdict returning to the process by which the jury platter is cled cles cleansed used we refer to a case in point the particulars of which are given in another part ot of this assue by the method met hooi hoot naw now in vogue men are expurgated because of their religious legious i belief in the rightfulness of plural marriage notwithstanding they declare their react readiness iness to find an indictment or verdict as the them case may be I 1 in harmony with the law and the facts presented while men of the basest instincts are arc retained on the sole ground of being in sympathy with the prosecution |
