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Show I DAVID JENSEN REFUSED TO DISCRIMINATE Law enforcement 16 not always Justice. Jus-tice. A city hae a bicycle ordinance, and an expectorating ordinance, ami an autouiobilo speed ordinance The ordinances are not enforced until Bomc one in authority, with a spite to Inflict, suddenly discovers that his enemy baa exceeded the speed limit, ridden without a light or spit on the 6ldewalk and he orders an arrest. That form of prosecution does not I command respect for the law, but, to the contrary, arouses distrust In the minds of those who come to roall7e that the law Is being made a weapon of unprincipled fellows with a grudge to gratify. This reminds ub of the attack made on David Jensen In the Horticultural convention on Monday, when the prosecuting pros-ecuting attorney was accused by a Utah county fruit man with falling to prosecute Cragun brothers of Ogden, who had shipped a carload of apples to the Salt Lake market. In which some wormy fruit had been dlscov ered. Cragun brothers explained that their fruit ranked higher in freedom from worms than any apples in competition, com-petition, but there seemed to be a combination formed to drive the Og-den Og-den firm from the Salt Lake market, and the method employed was the law. There are many outrageous things performed In the name of the law Probably the fruit trust, with clever designing, sought to use th state horticulturaliet to destroy Cragun Cra-gun brothers and the state official proceeded to call on Proaecutlng Attorney At-torney Jensen of Weber county to do ! the executing When Jensen discovered discov-ered the discrimination which proved that the law was being made to serve an unfair purpose, and refused to act, he was upbraided for falling to do his duty. He replied that he would Join In prosecuting all the offenders with OOt exception, but he would not lend his office to unjustifiably ruin a local business house, though It be in the I name of the law. The offense against the law had been repeatedly condoned by the au thorltieB in Salt Lake, and to have singled out the Ogden merchants would have been nothing less than rank injustice |