Show THE CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURYm The charge to the Grand Jury yesterday yester-day was a clear and pointed enunciation of their duties to themselves and to the country The careful study of this charge by the community at large would be a most desirable thing not because it calls t attention to the condition of things in our midst but because of the sound exposition exposi-tion of the duties of the Grand Jury that they shall investigate all violations of i the law without prejudice and without with-out passion without fear and without favor This charge clearly shows that it is the law which determines what a crime is and when it has been committed and how it shall be punished It calls the fact to the attention of those composing the Grand Jury that they are to act not from any motives of malice or hatred or ill will they are to act in the spirit of the law and not in the spirit of party It tells anew the old truth that there is but one way that laws can be made in this country and the laws so made are the only ones that you can recognize The too general view in Utah has been that the laws so made that is by Congress or by our local Legislature when they have not been in harmony with the specia L Lr likes or dislikes of certain classes they r I were neither to be obeyed nor respected and with many it has been deemed high S merit to violate these laws Filled with passion and hatred the violators of the law have thought and loudly proclaimed that the law was being enforced from a feeling of passion and hatred not know I ing that in the law and obedience to I i t tI lies the safety of all classes of society and that to let any claim a privilege above the law and exercise it is the beginning of chaos and anarchy The prevailing prevail-ing idea in Utah is that civil society soci-ety was organized that a religious class might rule and that their right to > rule was based on other grounds than the I rights of the citizen It is a pernicious j and a false idea and has been engendered from a neglect to study and investigate f the source of civil power in our government J govern-ment It is false because it does not consider con-sider the facts as they are and that the facts may not be in accordance with a f trurer and higher idea of government is I j not a reason for ignoring those facts An appreciation of the actual state of things is the first andinost indispensi ble condition to an improvement of things whether the things be temporal or spiritual and to ignore the fundamental funda-mental condition is to show incompe tency to lead to a better one Civil society is organized for mans temporal wants and needs and these wants and needs become his rights while the protection of these rights is the object and the justification of the existence of laws It is not the aim of the law to promulgate truth nor to suppress error but to make and enforce such regulations as shall best preserve society upon the basis of the ideas it has chosen as fundamental to its welfare So long as a state shan deem its existence secure only on the basis of a certain theoryit will make laws to uphold that theory and to undermine those laws by evading or by violating I them is to undermine the society making them If a safer and a fIrmer foundation is to be had in the enforcement or another theory it is requisite that such theory shall be made known by argument and persuasion by appealing to the intellect and letting the mind rule the body even the body politic I pol-itic What man is we may know but what is his destiny beyond this world we can only conjecture and we must build our civil societies upon what we know him to be and not upon the hope of what he may become To deal with man in time as being of eternity is for the finite to assume to control the infinite it is to leave to vagueness and dreams the direction direc-tion of affairs in which the passions of mankind are ever at war and acting in certainty and where they need an immediate imme-diate control to preserve man from the brute nature which is too often with us The safety of the lowest and most depraved de-praved man in society is guarded as much by the law as the safety of the highest and most worthy This very care of the rights of all no matter what their condition condi-tion is the supreme excellence of the law and if the law infringes upon some rights and does not protect others let those who are aggrieved ask from the lawmaking law-making power that they be protected and that their rights be not infringed and not seek their rights in a defiance of the 0 power can protest them But in asking this protection let them remember that the authority which alone can grant what they ask can alone decide whether what they ask is an infringement upon the rights of others and whether it is inconsistent incon-sistent with the very being of society as founded |