| Show OFFICIAL lawlessness THE news of the killing of edward edwardas M 1 dalton on thursday by a deputy marshal at parowan carowan created a pro profound found impression when the particulars of the dastardly act were learned through tigh the he col columns dumns of this paper all classes ot of the community denounced and deplored the occurrence only a few malig ga ants nants I 1 of I 1 the tribune stripe who are filled with the spirit of murder and hate had bad any apologies tor for the crime or excuse for the official assassin 6 it is claimed by them thein that the ma mir r derod dergo man bad previously twice es capro from arrest having been indicted for unlawful supposing thi this to be true it does not justify in the least the course pursued in this instance all the ke reliable liable accounts received concerning the homicide agree in id the statement that the he dp deceased ceased was at theotime the time of the sh peaceably passing along the street aud and that he was unarmed that he was not escaping from the officers and that the call for him to stop and the firing of the 0 shot that killed him were almost if not exactly simultaneous i the indictment said to have have be been en found against brother dalton was for a simple misdemeanor it was not for a a felony he was not doing a any y unlawful act at the time of the shooting nir it if the officer tad bad a warrant for his arrest he had no authority to take th the e accused wit without hoitt informing him of that fact and showing him the warrant if required to do so it is not claimed that he made any resistance and even if he had bad attempted to escape after arrest for a misdemeanor the law would not have justified the shooting it was lu clearly learly an unlawful act on the part of the officer W abo thompson ampson jr the enemies of the cormons mormons Mor mons will make no BO capital by the base attempt of their organ to palliate the act and falsify the facts of the homicide and the comments made upon it the proper course tor for all parties is to recognize the wrong and see that the law is magnified n we are informed that marshal D dyer yer does not approve of violence on the part of his deputies ncr npr any unlawful proceedings against persons accused of of fences against the law that he 1 does not justify improper methods of arrest in the eases of mormons cormons Mor mons any ant more than of other alsed persons we have every reason to 0 believe this is true and that there is no hesitation on his part in open deprecation of such acts of deputies as are clearly in violation ol of the law and the cause of antl anti I 1 mormonism I 1 in iii utah will receive no support by attempting to screen the as assassin from the legal cou consequences sequences of his deed of blood A desperate attempt will no doubt be made to save the the deputies concerned in this cowardly and cruel act abt from the just penalties of violated law we express this opinion from f rom the course pursued in tomes past sod and the bias that thai is continually exhibited against everything mormon aud and in favor of our enemies but it will I 1 be found in due time that the polly policy was suicidal I 1 and that justice only lives and endures in ia the administration of the law and that it is sure at some time to claim its own even of its official interpreters and administrators the pretended anticipation of violence on the part of the indignant populace pep ulace the perpetrators of the crime at paro wan waa was but a manifestation of the wish that was father to the thought nothing would more delight the trouble bleeders breeders bre eders in utah than a rising of them the people to inflict vengeance upon some scrub official who has committed an act calculated Is ted to goad an op oppressed oppresses presse d and harassed people into reckless jury iary but we are happy to say there baa been no sign of any disposition on the part oi 01 the to take tile the law into their own hands bands grief and indignation swelled their bosoms but the lawlessness which in almost every other part of this western region would have followed the murder was not even hinted at by the populace in whose power the vicious visions deputies were placed when the deed was done that is right and will be found tae alie wisest policy because it is right both the officers ceis who are entrusted with the execution of the law and the people who are made subject to intrusion and discomfort should learn their rights and neither should encroach upon the rights of others we have not had occasion to denounce the doings of insolent deputies since marshal dyer has been in office as during the reckless reign of his predecessor but there are some creatures who have been continued in subordinate office who trained under the wretched and vicious ireland school sc hool and who are not fit to be entrust entrusted gd with power nor to thrust themselves into the homes and presence of decent people deputies havercome have come to think that they are a privileged class not bound by the restrictions strict ions that govern ordinary friem members of the community and feelings of this character that have been fostered and encouraged have let to the desperate and unjustifiable act of fatal violence at parowan carowan Pa rowan deputies have been permitted without rebuke to stop people on the public lic highway for whom they bad no warrant ranhof of arrest or other legal paper they have threatened to shoot persons going from one house bouse to another it if they did not submit to their interrogations that they have no right to shoot a defendant even if escaping from arr arrest est for a been shown in these columns less jess have they toe the right agh t to snoot or threaten persons un accused of crime neither have they the right to question men women or children in the manner ol of which many complain people shurld understand tt that a deputy marshal is A not a judicial officer in any sense of the word word no one is cona com piled p to satisfy his impertinent curiosity or to give him information concerning any ones private affairs officers should not he obstructed in the lawful peri performance armance of duty but they should not presume u upon pon their position and try to scare the uninformed into admissions or any other evidence respecting themselves or their neighbors excess of duty is lawlessness every officer of the law is bound to keep within the limits ot of the law when he transcends those limits he ought to be punished just as much at least as any private individual who transgresses the majesty of the law cannot be maintained in a Ints ined by winking at the unlawful acts of officials and the people are not required to submit to any proceedings on the part of officers which are not required or authorized by law resistance to lawful authority lawfully exercised is wrong and unjustifiable Jus tillable but resistance to unlawful authority or lawful authority unlawfully exercised is neither morally nori nor legally wron wrong still it is better to avo avoid d th the e a appearance P pears uce ol of evil and quiet submission to wrong for the time being beig i is better than rashness and violence 1 c e A legal remedy ought to be had for e every e ry I 1 illegal act and those in a authority a th I 1 t will I 1 do far more to establish sod and r maintain a y fain respect for the law by dealing out justice to officials who disregard it than by tacitly ea endorsing dorsin their wrongdoing wrong doing because herfor performed mea 1 in excessive zeal against a people marked out for special severity the bloody deed at should serve to show the count rythe extreme methods which are being pursued in the senseless crusade against the mormons cormons Mor mons and ought to S suggest the propriety of a halt in he unwarranted pursuit of one selected class of offenders whose acts are not prompted by any criminal spirit but have been performed by virtue of invincible religious convictions at at any rate let the law be vindicated in the case of officials sassi nation at parowan carowan Pa rowan |
