| Show THE DEATH STRUGGLE IT is said that a drowning man will grasp at a straw with equal truth it may also be said that prosecuting attorney dickson and marshal ireland f feeling eeling their tenure of office will soon expire are ready to grasp in their dy inz in struggle at something infinite sim ally less than a straw en entirely ignoring in the spirit and intent of the edmunds law mr dickson has evidently made up his bis mind smarting under defeat and disappointment to make things unpleasantly warm during the remaining few mouths months othis official career for the mormons cormons Mor mer mons 11 under the color of law lavy and the pre 1 tense of doing his duty he he has determined irrespective of result tp to swell up his fee bill to the fullest extent to this end the of street rumors and the bare bald assertion of any despicable pi cable would be informer I 1 will be accepted dy by him as sufficient cause b to justify his askin asking for and obtaining warrants of arrest a bushel of them for that matter against any number of reputable citizens citizens whom he will ivill endeavor to prove 64 fromn formation received 11 as guilty ity of an infringement of chefa munds s law if certain rumors are true one may expect such a th thing 1111 at any moment and thus the farce in commissioner mckays office will be continued from time to time of course while this degraded work lasts some few undoubtedly will necessarily suffer great annoyance and some be wrongfully deprived of their liberty but the mainspring 1 of the whole machinery will wilt not be lost sight of not the incarceration of a f few evv 66 mormons cormons Mor mons for the alleged crime of polygamy or unlawful cohabitation but the ma making ing of a few thousand dollars prior to step stepping pIn down and out of f federal positions ti ons for por every case in which prosecuting n 9 attorney dickson appears he is by I 1 law aw allowed a certain fee some 20 or 30 dollars and of course it goes without saying that the more cases he can institute the greater will be the amount of his hia hi income the same thin thing applies to marshal ireland ile ho is allowed a for the service of every subpoena the more subpoena subpoenaed es that are served in a base case cas das e the more lucrative becomes the position of a marshal this fact is doubtless pretty well known but for want of reflection it may not have been appreciated to the f fullest extent by an unsophisticated public it will account however in n a measure for the uncommon activity at present displayed by the prosecuting attorney dickson and U S marsh marshal al ireland both of these gentlemen are perfectly satisfied that they will be retired b by the incoming democratic administration and their game is I 1 evidently to make hay while the sun shines for months many wards in this city has been under a despicable system of espionage houses have been watched and the steps of their inmates dogged f from rom mornin morning till night with a viea view view to gaining sufficient information to institute a charge against them ot of unlawful cohabitation or polygamy or some other kind kindred reci accusation one would scarcely think that there could b found men and women who would lend themselves to so low a business busine ss yet such men and women have been found many under the promise of a certain fee see ee have gone largely into the occupation the contempt felt for tor such low lived persons is unutterable the conduct of these human blueth hounds almost makes the actions of judas iscariot carlot Is appear respectable by comparison by such contemptible methods as herein indicated it is rumored that ds as soon as convenient lightning wilt will strike in all directions and the subpoena service wilt wiit be put on f full fuli ull uli time the number of witnesses subpoenaed is so great occasionally as in the instance in commissioner mckays court ane other day that the spectators have to retire for lack of room this line of court tactics has been strongly evinced since the november election when the republican party got noti notice ceto to quit such a multitude of witnesses of course may be perfectly unnecessary in any case but the fact of their being unnecessary forms no factor in the matter the milk in the cocoanut coco anut is evidently the fees that accrue these form the great incentive to action no case can hp bp prosecuted without a certain amount of machinery A judge and jury a prosecuting attorney a marshal witnesses etc are all necessary in the proceed proceedings lugs ings but when it comes to practically sum summoning monin g a largever large percentage ge of a neighborhood to prove r i some very trifling ng things which we will ivill not attempt to enumerate at present there would appear to be a screw loose somewhere at all events such an occurrence becomes a legitimate subject of comment united states officials do not always act squarely to put it mildly their zeal sometimes runs away with their discretion and for fur this they have been occasionally called to account such things have occurred in kentucky it ts well known that a former marshal marshall 1 of kentucky was ea eager er to swell his fee account that s same am e marshals accounts formed the subject of an investigation ti before a committee in congress known as the springer committee but owing to the disappearance of some same papers in the case the matter was allowed to drop federal officials should simply perform their duty and not allow prejudice to run away with their judgment A superabundance of though a means of putting money into ige ite the pockets of officials might form the subject of an investigation in washington the spirit and alid intent ot of the edl edi edmunds ands law and no more should be strictly carried out and the mormon community be accorded that evenhanded even handed justice which the constitution of the country guarantees persecutions do not crush but fortify convictions the course pursued toward the mormons cormons Mor mons from begin beginning nin to end has been all wrent wrens cruel ani ang and tyrannical it will never do any good men alen and women may be thrown into prison the days of the inquisition might be revived but the convictions of the people will remain unchanged the battle may be lon lod long iong slow and tortuous but the end shall be achieved and the mormons cormons Mor mons will be victorious mark it all men should do right irrespective of the milk in the cocoanut coco anut |
