| Show THE ASSAULT ON THE ATTORNEY THE assault against district attorney dickson Dickso nisa is a most unfortunate affair it is deprecated a as much by the mor mons a as by any one who Is opposed to them in principle or practice lit in tn the first place it is wrong la in the next place it is bad policy private veni geande is against the secular law the doctrines of our church and the repeated special exhortations and counsels ot of its leaders it is also injurious junous in to the community when some borne rash and hasty person commits an act ot of lawlessness ersness to wreak personal oual vengeance upon a gentile because every possible ad vantage is sure to be taken to exaggerate it and use it to f urther further inflame the public mind against the Mor IMor when such individuals take the law into their own hands they way may gratify some personal feeling for the moment but they inflict a wrong upon the I 1 whole community who have to 10 suffer for the folly already most villainously colored accounts of the affair havi have been made up and au an importance import aice has been given to it otherwise e that would be ludicrous ludi cious if it were not fraught frau t with so much vindictiveness az backed d by judicial J power the facts are that a boy of sixteen years who does not weigh more than a hundred pounds struck Atio dickhous a bauw witti his hb fist in iii brodt eliout of tile continental hotel till being that dickon had d lao lu avy bu mother inot lier as aa enforced witness wi with lh questions about her expected maternity and its cause which he resented with all the fervor and rashness ot of youth it was natural that his blood should boil at the indignity we believe his feelings in that respect were shared b by y ev every ery decent man and woman in the community but he had no right to break the law and no one that we have heard of justines 8 him in the assault the young men who have been arrested for complicity in the assault charged with conspiracy and other high sounding crimes it seems had bad nothing to do with the affair except being in the boys company when the offense was committed no one else it appears made any attempt at a breach of the law mr dickson seized one of them by the throat w with th great violence but that sees seems to have been f tall all the assault committed with the exception of the blow given him by the sixteen years old boy who afterwards gave himself up to the officers leers off if there was any shame in those who have worked up this simple assault into a deadly conspiracy they would woula blush crimson over this new attempt to manufacture a big mormon sensation out of so insignificant an affair we do not seek to palliate the offense it was wrong and should meet with proper punishment but this array of marshals and attorneys courts and bonds double proceedings and blood and an thunder outcries because an attorney has had a spat in the face from a boy who considered the lawyer had bad insulted his mother is too much of a broad farce as well as a piece of sickly claptrap clap trap to be made out of nothing by an anyone one except rabid and frothing anti 11 a mor or mons MODS |
