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Show Meant No Harm. - fl A dispatch was published a few mornings H since that a large number of citizens in H southern Utah had in effect petitioned a H District Court to disregard the law in the I decision of a case. It further stated that fl one judge was most indignant over this and 9 was determined that the matter should not jfl be permitted to drop without thorough ven- fl tilation. jfl That petition is not a startling proposition fl in Utah. It does not signify that the men I who signed it are bad men. It simply means fl that there is a large class of men still in y Utah who never were taught the importance jfl of yielding to the law's sovereignty. They fl were brought up to believe that they were jjfl bound by higher laws than any which have H force in this Republic. The act of those jfl men may be termed the attempted enforce- fl ment of a residuary clause in the contract fl they were brought up under. They did not fl mean any contempt of court ; they had no ,9 thought that by signing that petition they jfl were hurling contempt at American insti- fl tutions. They had seen the laws of the land 9 often reversed by a church court, and their 9 only thought was that in the case in point jfl the rules which presqribe how laws should fl be enforced and the other rules which point fl out tne duties of Judges were not, from their fl knowledge, applicable to the case in point. Jfl They simply for the moment lapsed into an fl old habit of ignoring the law when it did not fl suit them. M The serious joke is that they are 'right M HJI'i good fellows and did not mean any wrong. H( There should be a little book prepared for Hsm1 use in the schools, to show that civilization H'l'v and society rest on man's surrender to the K sovereignty of the laws. |