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Show THE ARGUS. A Dreadful Crime. Wallis grevious bodily harm for his exposure of the sheriffs office. It is the duty of a newspaper to call the attention of the people to evils which occur in public offices, especially when the taxpayer is made to pay for such evil. The newspaper editor who knows positively that the peoples money is being squandered and does not expose it is not doing his duty. That the Post stated the truth concerning the sheriffs office is proven by the assault made upon the editor. While the law and respectable citizens are behind them the newspapers will not be deterred from their duty by brutal bullies. would I could control my thoughts, How happy I would be ; Forget the poveity and the crime That has surrounded me. Of Of 5 years gone by, how can I tell Of murder that was done? 0, dreadful thoughts, they will a rifle And lure my conscience on. The same old tale youve often heard Twas on a summer's night The heavens shone with brilliant stars, And all was bright and light. I saw a form quite close to me, Then heard a fearful noise, 'Twas buzz and buzz into my ear, Then lighted on my noso. A loud report did fill the air, For I had caught the beast 'Twaa a large mosquito on my nose. Just to have a quiet feast. Park Record : From all accounts it was a dastardly and cowardly piece of work. Things are coming to a pretty pass when the very men to Mbs. C. B. Curtiss. g whom people are supposed to look to for protection from personal harm, are the very ones to be feared. But so long as newspapers are published, just so long will the man in public life find his acts criticized, no matter if an editor gets licked every day. A public office-holdin these days who is too to stand belaw-abidin- LICKING THE EDITOR. HE ATTACK of two Bear LETTER FROn PRESIDENT SHITH. The following letter has been received from President Isaac Smith of the Cache stake presidency. It is a denial of the truth of certain affidavits upon which a sentence in The Argus review of the Thatcher trial was based. In justice to President Smith his letter is published in The Argus : Logan, August 23, 1S97. Mr. Noble Warrcm, Jr., Salt Lake City: Dear SiR-- In your issue of The Argus August 2fst, page 4, you say relative to remarks mndo by me at Clarkston that I said : Mr. Thatcher is tho wickedest man that ever belonged to the church. Now, I am satisfied that you were told that, as I ha vo a document ia my possession making a similar statement. When I saw what I was reported as saying I denied having said anything of the kind, and I went to Clarkston and interviewed those who had made the statement, and not being satisfied I went to tho meeting and stated that" I was accused of making such a statement, but if I had I did not intend to, as no such thought was in my mind and I desired by an expression of those present to know whether they remembered me making such a statement, as I deeired to take it back and make matters right if I had so said. On calling for a vote of all who remembered my making such a statement only one outsidoof those (0) who sent in the statement raised a hand, whilo forty-tw- o raised their hands that I did not make tho statement or say "Moses Thatcher was a wicked man or " wickedest man, etc. I said little about Mr. I hatcher, but I did speak on the "declaration, trying to show it was not what some had pictured it up to bo, and referred to some newspaper reports accredited to Mr. Thatcher, denouncing them as false and one statement as a wicked statement. 'I had a long talk with Mr. Lucian Farr right after the meeting and told him what I had said, and I deny again that I ever thought or said Mr. Moses Thatcher was a wicked man. I trust you will do me tho justice to correct tho misstatement made about Isaac Smith. mo, and oblige, yours etc., Lake deputy sheriffs on Editor Wallis of the Paris Post has called forth a number of ing talked about, had better get out of office, for that is the only way for him to escape. pointed comments from Utah members of the fraternity. The Logan Journal says of Provo Utonian : Every person the assault : Another ediwill denounce the brutal assault made upon Editor has been brutally slugged tor Wallis by deputy sheriff Xeibaur.' A man by a cowardly ruffian. The holding a public office is open to public criticism victim was James H. Wallis and if newspapers whose business it is to find out of the Paris Post, and his assailant one Joseph how public affairs are being conducted, place A. Xeibaur, a deputy sheriff a peace (!) officer. themselves on dangerous ground for using that officer and deputy sheriff, Another alleged peace freedom of the press which the law allows, then Joel H. Rich, stood by to see that it was properly freedom of the press becomes a farce. Xeibaur has certainly not gained the good will of the peodone, and did not lift his hand to interfere, although Xeibaur was reducing Wallis face to a ple by his action, while Mr. Wallis, no matter pulp. The editors offense consisted of calling how unwarranted his article which offended Mr. attention to the way in which the sheriffs office Xeibaur might have been, will get the sympathy had been working the county for inordinate fees, of all citizens. line of his direct the Xeibaur in which was duty. attacked Wallis while he was sitting using a James H. Wallis, editor Richfield Censor : of the Pans (Idaho) Post, is the latest victim of typewriter and was wholly unprepared. Since attacks upon editors are becoming so common, the fad. Mr. Wallis. recently criticized the way in which the sheriffs office of the every one of them should carry a good revolver, shoot than it be able to draw quicker lightning, county was conducted. Joseph A. Xeibaur, a so rapidly that it would be empty before the body deputy sheriff, took offense at the article and touched the ground, and pick off a different vest came into the office, whipped the editor over the button each shot. We hope that Xeibaur gets a head most unmercifully. Of all the licked long term in the state prison, and that he is a editors, he has been the worst licked yet. rich man, so that Wallis can recover damages commensurate with his injuries. Incidentally, Tintic Miner : It is time the editors of the a hot dose. also Rich should get country papers prepare themselves for such attacks. If the truth is to be resented by force on Again the brutal bully the part of any ruffian of whom the paper tells Brigham Bugler : has resorted to his disreputable methods of getthe truth, it is time the editor was prepared to ting even with a newspaper man of smaller size. resist the attack in kind. So far the Miner man has not been subjected to such an assault, but Monday, it appears that one Xeibaur, a deputy sheriff of Bear Lake, made a vicious attack upon when he is, we trust the report of the affair will Editor Wallis of the Paris Post, savagely beating be satisfactory to a public. fellows ferocious his face into a jelly. Such no more consideration at the hands of Utah State Journal: The pretext for the out rushes vicious cur that a decent people than cowardly assault upon Wallis was that he had and attacks peaceable citizens on the street. used the columns of his paper to criticise .the peace officer thus taking conduct of the sheriffs office. Wallis was terribly Then think of a the law into his own hands while another deputy used up during the assault, and Xeibaur was arIt is rested. This is a case which, in our opinion, stood guard to see that no one interfered should not have been taken into court. If the outrageous! T report is correct, Xeibaur and his pal should have official took The : been Press killed by the indignant pugnacious Salina citizens, in the Post and the victim himself in to do the no article published being offense at some position The killing. Xeibaur and Rich are unfit persons to proceeded to wreak vengeance on the editor. hold office, and should be fired out forthwith. latter was converted into a physical wreck, his Every editor ought to be prepared at all times to welcome with bloody hands to hospitable graves face being pounded into a jelly and various other wreckall persons who interfere with the liberty of the portions of the anatomy almost hopelessly press by taking the law into their own hands and ed. The newspaper man made a mistake in not make cowardly and brutal attacks upon them. carrying a gun on his person. Killing is p drastic remedy, but there are times when it is justified. A lesson is needed in Utah whole business The and Idaho, considering the frequency of late of Randolph Roundup: to do assaults upon unarmed and defenseless editors. of a conspiracy appears to be the result er thin-skinne- d fair-minde- fair-minde- d d a editor-lickin- g truth-lovin- g de-ser- so-calle- ve Impugning the motives of a man behind his back is generally regarded as a social sin of great magnitude and prevalence. Yet it is just as in a language he bad to traduce a fellow-beindoes not understand or a diction he has never mastered. It leaves the object of attack at a deg cided disadvantage, for he is never sure whether he has been lauded or maligned, but wonders whether he should return thanks or defend himself. 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