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Show I Our Mail Box. I The paper In not repotislblo (or opinions t x-pressed x-pressed under this heading, except when credited cred-ited to the editor. Codar City, Utah, April 12, 1900. Whilo passing about town of lato I bavo bad handod mo by mombors of tho local Soolalist club sovoral different numbers of tbo Socialist paper "Appeal to .Roason. ' Those papors soom to linvo boon sont out for freo distribution, as in some instances in-stances I bavo soon from ton to fifteen copies in tho bauds of ono man, and standing at tho olllco window I have seen quito a numbor distributed through tho mails. From a lato copy I learn that hundrods of thousands of thorn bavo ' boon sont ovor tho United States, that : it is tho purposo of tho publishers to flood tbo country with thom, nnd that horouloan offorts nro being mado to placo tho shoot in tho hands of tho working pooplo ovorywhore. Such zeal as ourfrlonds display in accomplishing accom-plishing this purposo would bo- com-mendablo com-mendablo if tho motlvos of tho papor itsolf woro worthy, or if tbo agitation It is keeping up would bo apt to ro suit in good for tho laboring classes. Tbeco snonstor ojprtBiaro Ueing mado in tho intorestsof ofucors lt a .labor organization now uudor arrest in Idaho on a charge of murder. Tho apparent objoot is to oxolto sympathy for tho prisonors on tho ono hand, and on tho othor to destroy tho ooufldonoo of tbo pooplo in tbo constituted courts oi our country and fill tho publio mind with tho poison of projudico ngainst tho oillcors whoso duty it is to punish tbnt class of criminals.' Tho prisonors nro pioturod as models for a Messiah dovotod husbands, loving fathors, faithful friends, ideal citizens; and tbo absurdity of tbnt class of men oommitingsuoh crimes is emphasized whilo tho oflloors of tbo law are represented rep-resented ns voritablo JudaBes. Tho oaso is spokon of as tho "Colorado-Idaho "Colorado-Idaho Conspiracy," and thodotcctivo who secured tho evidouoo for tho srato is associated with every conceivable con-ceivable crlmo from porjury to murder, tho rabid shoot oven going so far as to ohargo him with tho blowing blow-ing up of tbo dopot at Indopoudanao. Doteotlvos In gonernl aro referred to ns "Plnkorton Thugs," and "slimy sleuths". Insinuations uro mado that tho govoruor of thoso two states nro "ownod" and, 'diotntod" by Xbo Mino Ownors' Assoainion, that thoy aro liars aud law bronkors who do-liboiatoly do-liboiatoly planned and oxocutod tho assassination of Staunonborg that thoy might bavo n crlmo to fnston onto tho Western Fodorntiou of Minors nud so accomplish tho destruction of tho prisonors now under nrrost. Every statomont mndo by tho oillcors which can possibly bo twisted is distorted aud usod to nrouso nnd bins publio sentimout for tbo purposo of hnnd-icapplng hnnd-icapplng tho prosooution. I do not protond to know whother Moyor nnd Haywood aro guilty or innocent. That is imposslblo for "Appeal to Roason" or any ono olso oxcept tbo prisonors tbomeulves to say. Tho men hnvo not .been put on trial yet aud Idaho has guarded its ovl-donco ovl-donco very oloeoly. In vlow of thoso facts tho taotics UBod by "Appoal to Roason" would seem to indicate a defect or wenk-noss wenk-noss somowhoro in tbo dofouso, which it is hoped to bolBtorup by misguidod publio sentiment. Tho gnmo is ns old as crime Itsolf has boon used iu Cedar insldo tho last twolvo months and is being employed now by tho Protestants in tho famous Smootcnao. Tho tirado of "Appeal to Roason" 1 i boars ovory mark and hrnnd of thU sohomo of tho lawloss, nud tho woudor ; Is thnt wo of Utah who havo soon it plnyod bo ofton do not rooognizo it ', now. Whoro would wo ho without tho seorot Borvloo system? Orlmo would ho doubled In a yoar if It woro not for tho foar folt by tho tho criminal olnssos that seorot sorvloo mon will unoovor thoir doodH nnd bring thom to justice Criminal classes do not liko Plnkorton doteotlvos. Tho reason is obvious. But tho thing T want to kuook, nnd 1 wish I oould knook it hard, Is tho praotioo of holding oillcors of tho law up iu n falso light. What kind of pooplo nro thoy who oloot mon to ouforco tho laws and thou dosort thom and handicap thoir ofrorta by imputing imput-ing to thom ovil motives whiohoreato projudioos that warp publio aontl-mout? aontl-mout? What kind of cowards aro thoy who witnosB, without protest, tho oxoorntiug of mon plaood In olllco by their own ballots? Should wo support tbo orimiunl or tho oilloor? Whoro does our sympathy belong? 1 any WITH THE OFFICERS OF THE LAW ovory timo. Wo muBt imputo to thom right motives nud uphold thoir hands in tho performance of thoir publio duties. Destroy oonll donco In our constituted tribunals of jiiBtlco and you trnnafrom an order rospooting pooplo into a nation of Anarchists who rospoat no courts and no law. Tho casting of odium Upon our legally appointed oflloors is always a daugoroua praotioo that must load to lawlessness. I hold It to bo ono of tho Bacrod duties of oltizeuBhip to help build up nnd establish oonildouco iu tho judioinl machinery of our groat nation. Lot ovoryono bownro of thnt mou or thnt systom that Books to destroy it. SUnSORIHER. |