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Show j 4 WAS' TT f AN OUTRAGE '? ; The Church prints are vigorously working work-ing their editorial bellows in an attempt .to show that, in accepting tlie escort of a detail of soldiers ; from : Promontory to tliis city, oh the occasion of the arrest of George Q. Cannon, Marshal Ireland was guilty of perpetrating a great X)ntrage on a "peaceable and law-abiding community. commun-ity. The -luminary of th efcraW says ihit .'Somebody, having the right to do, made a-equisition upon the military , -authorities for - the use- - of - the . troops." Wiry, of course. That being so, where does the Voutrage" part of the business, come in ? - If the party who made the requisition' upon the military authorities for the , use of troops, had a legal right so to do,. and the soldiers were sent to perform the work for which they were called out, how can an "outrage" of ariytltindlha'erbeen committed by any- j body at all connected with the affair? , x Doubtless there are 'those who hold to the" opinion that it was unnecessary to xall upon the military authorities vat all. Probably '" itJ was. But what are the soldiers here for, if not to respond to the requisitions inade - upon them by those having'" the "lawful " right "'loconi-mand' "'loconi-mand' their services? Does the fact that the officers . returned to this city with ' their prisoner without being obliged to fall back; uj6n the, most active assistance of the troops, make clear that if the soldiers had not been there the prisoner would have been brought through just the same ? Or does it prove that an outrage is committed when, in the judgment of an official having the right to ask - the . assistance of the military, the presence of two dozen soldiers may have a salutary effect upon a somewhat excited populace) and his requisition is honored accordingly ? : The way in which the Herald-- figures the matter up makes the whole thing as ;lear .s mud,t and makes everybody awfully tired in trying to see through-it. |