Show aro ABETTING lawlessness IT it the duty of the press to uphold the thela ia this to Is a fundamental principle of tithe ithe ethics of journalism in connection with almost every subject over wm the public af pf aay lofty me 6 a e d that a breach of 0 the pe tt the press preas wu will ol 01 0 law sad order am buluk WU ww lUK wo tt ake jw fl OZ or arc toes ot of society socie no matter what their conduct or offense may have been be deat dealt with according to law to t this is rule one exception is widely but wrongfully made in the manner la in which 11 mormon elders are treated often they are denied by the press as wen well as a the popular feeling of the people those rights which are conceded to the went criminals among which are area a fair trial and the protection of the law from rob mob violence in a late issue of the chicago times the toll following owing paragraphs occur in a column containing an editorial summary of news items richard harkness who had turned mormon and was living with three wives was taken out of his house bouse near columbia south carolina by a band of regulators 1 a night abight or two ago to the buff and given twenty sto heeled ve lashes hes every one of which drew blood 91 mormon missionaries have been actively and successfully at work among the ignorant classes in the vicinity of augusta georgia all other efforts to drive them out having failed I 1 a band of el regulators was recently organized with the distinctly expressed la intention of applying tar and leathers feathers to every mormon they could lay hands bands on this has had an excellent effect forta or on tuesday night when the iregui gators scoured the neighborhood the game had fled fied 11 it richard harkness had been given a hearing bearing before a lawful tribunal prior to 10 the infliction upon him of such horrible cruelty as the punishment described in the times he would without doubt have been able to establish his bis innocence for no latter day saint can be found in south carolina living with three wives the accusation sounds like one trumped up by some priest led mob in extenuation of their murderous conduct lf it the mormon missionaries spoken of as having fled fied at the ap a mob styling themselves regulators reg alatore ala tors and threatening personal bonal violence to the ministers or of an unpopular creed had violated the law law in any manner why wh y was not the authority of the law invoked to bring them to punishment the times observes that the movement had an excellent effect 11 Is an effect excellent which subverts law and replaces its iti authority with the violence of an infuriated mob south carolina and other states of the former confederacy have suffered ter 1 riely from a supplanting of law by in 11 di different erent forms but those these states will not be entitled to t either sympathy or respect until they make an earnest effort to establish legal supremacy |