Show AVERSE TO pettiness the ladd grand jury of tills district was composed mainly of men mho seem to have been av erse to pet ainess it is as much by the cases ignored as by the true bills found that ilia aock of a grand jury may sometimes be judged taking this into colland we conclude that boreman kiesel clerk abbott stud wore d to make tile grave po entrusted to them a scourge with to accomplish com whimsical persecution several milt were theoa n out as too contemptible for consideration tit eo nain ea of these cases are faaili 1 I aar to tile public it Is evident that tho late grand jury mas not di posed to aid northern fools leloo tit ant children for obsolete nor newspaper correal indents on dents fur I 1 cent with regard to the cases of alleged criminal libel which ignored we are glad that a good example liss been set for future grand juries T c STANDARD wants no more liberty of utterance titan is right arid consistent with public mel fare if ever it shall I 1 Ail fUlly and unjustly amdall the yale character of any man or know angly lie about public ofil rials it m ill probably receive as it will deserve legal punishment but unintentional errors should not be visited upon newspapers with any more severity than upon individual and the freedom of it to press should be pre served as sacredly as the of the individual the public suffers when tile press is silenced by terror if ball men find that they can mulct fit heavy damages and imprison editors for any petty reason they will not be blow to take advantage of that fact A man who sues a publishing company for daman to his reputation generally ik f r i tv times its enuch as his ala reputation is morth A man who invokes the c i ri minal law against an editor generally seeks to accomplish some selfish and vindictive pu of course there are vile journals jour nils as there are vile men and when they commit flagrant milfus wrong against an individual ora community they should be blistered by the hand of tile law but tile ru majority of papers endeavor to be truth ful and helpful to tile public and they should be protected to all rest extent |