| Show SHAMEFUL DISREGARD FOR dury DUFY trip THE grand j jury u ry which has just closed its career failed to brins bring in a single indictment against the keepers of houses of ill tame fame or the creatures who resort to them male and female lor for lewdness the moral prosecuting officers whose nostrils dilate and whose teeth grind together at sight of a man who has married and cared forand for and cherished two families at once have not the least expression of legal hostility to the haunts of sin in this city nor the creatures who infest them suspicion hearsay rumor is enough to place in jeopardy a man charged with having married a plural wife and witnesses are hunted down and forced to appear against him even if they are members of his own family and are bused abused and insulted if they fail to swear to what is wanted against the accused but the acts of men and women that are notorious and proofs of which are easily attainable are quietly ignored and no effort is made to suppress the evil the police courts are chained cua ined and muzzled by the higher courts so that they cannot proceed against tas class of of crime and the same power that fetters them ref refuses uses to prosecute the criminals that is how is administered in utah by the reforming agencies of the nation the rho grand jury in order to excuse their shameful condonation of the breaking of tile the sunday liquor law by some of their own members and other saloon keepers branded a certain witness with several vile names they accused aused him of a number of crimes we we want to know why they did not indict him for embezzlement for per perjury j ary for any of the of fences with which they charged him they officially declared their knowledge of his guilt why did uey not bring him to trial for the numerous infractions of tile the law of which they declared themselves cognizant it aney had failed to indict some I 1 mormon charged with acknowledging wo iwo i wives against whom there was the faintest shadow of evidence would they not have been berated for their negligence both officially and by a brutal press most certainly but their failure of duty duly in the respects we have named do not evoke a breath of blame from either source they take their exit with applause they them have acted the part for which they we were re felt ut upon the stage for the term th Thaw lawless lesa liquor dealers and male and female prostitutes i are safe the vindictive crusade to break up pleasant homes has been supported the field for fees has been kept kepi open and they go off with a flourish of official trumpets the failure to indict the ia informer former whom the they accused of crime esthe is the most complete complete answer to their excuse for not cot indicting inducting indic ting the lawbreaking law breaking liquor dealers some of whom formed part of the grand jury that whitewashed the whole batch of fourteen they write down their own shame and expose their own disregard of the duties they took an oath to perform how about their own I 1 lack of memory I 1 in this regard that they might be stirred up into the same animosity and vindictiveness that rankle in the bosom of the district apet attorney and his venomous associates murder was in their hearts tor for it cropped out in their words their invitations to the veterans was to come and help them in an ou onslaught slaught upon the peaceable people of utah it was cowardly malignant and devilish and coupled with the falsehoods for which no excuse ean can be found it exhibits to the world the character of those these who seek to ruin because they cannot rule this prosperous territory if that mol mon married to three generations is not named or indicted or his bis existence demonstrated in some convincing manner the character ot of district attorney dickson will be established on a par with that of the scribes of the tribune lud and nothing deeper deeper darker nor more damnable in the hew way of mendacity can be produced T in language than their established reputation uta tion |
