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Show ! PUDLIC FEELING. I The shooting of Joseph McMurrin by I i Deputy Marshal Collin "on Saturday I J night ia an affair to be regretted,whatever ? " may be. the truth of the matter or j whether the account of the one or the ; other is true. That occurrence, with which the public is familiar, indicates I I !etter and more sadly than anything else the state of public feeling. It shows jj d that the feeling between Mormons and I non-Mormons in this city is intense, and that things are on. that strain that it will take but little to lead to riot, and perhaps ; j to worse things, and eventually lead us J ' into civil war. The shooting on Satur- day night was the outcome of this feel- I ing. Taking the account of this affair as j j given by young McMurrin as true, it I ' clearly shows that he was the aggressor, ' and an aggressor without provocation or j ju cation. That ho disliked Collin and . 1' ; 1 grudge against him was 110 excuse t j f. vaulting him. If, on the other hand, j v t Collin says is true, that there were I . 1 or four in the lane, and I j ; , pounced upon . him, he I certainly did ' what ninety-nine men I j out of a hundred would have done. If I f the account-of young McMurrin is true. ' Collin did what ninety-nine men out of I a hundred would do. Collin was on his ! I way home, he living in the lane, which j I is dark and narrow, when he was set j ! upon by a man very mucli his superior I I in size and strength, and he defended I I himself as best he could. Another 1 thing must !e looked at in I ' connection with the Collin case. It is I but a week or two since he was set upon I I by another man, a man very much larger r j and stronger than himself, and was I s knocked down. Collin then made no j I attempt to shoot, but very properly I l left the law to deal with his assailant. I I B"t that occurrence was in broad j J daylight and on a public street. Yet I bow different were the circntn- f j stances when lie was attacked Satur- I lay night He was proceeding home I Ij and was just entering the lane in which I ., he lives, when he was attacked without I ; provocation of any kind. If there were j but the two men in the lane, Collin was I the man who was assaulted, and consid- 'nng the time and the place lie was fully I . justified in resorting to the use of firearms I ; to protect himself. If there were others I with young McMurrin and they attacked j - Collin, there can lie no doubt but that I they intended to heap some indignity j upon him, to mal-treat him, or to I " 4 murder him. If such were the case, then I ! Collin behaved in a brave and almost I heroic manner, and his assailants but got I , their deserts. : 1 t At present it is impossible to know the i actual facts in the case, and the Htate of I i excitement in which the public mind is I ; at present makes it impossible to learn A the truth, or. if learned, to pay it a just j regard. Thus far opinions formed as to f the cause of the quarrel ; whether the j two men met by mere accident; whether j i j the assailing party was there by I intention ; whether alone or in f company, have leen based almost solely j f ? "JX)n sympathy for one or the other party, f P and the political affiliations of the persons j I forming such opinions. I i ThiB affair, as we have said, shows the jj jmblic feeling here more clearly than : anything which has yet occurred. It ! ! ; shows in what a fever of excitement the I ' t public mind is over the enforcement of the Edmunds law, and that; it I ' . would take little to bring about' a t ' ; st ; of affairs little less than anarchy, h j -V jch times it behooves all to discour- ' ( - s anything tending to make the excite- , f ' :t more intense, the feeling more bit- : : Few can desire bloodshed, yet the i ! 1 . ..vise action of a few might lead to an : armed conflict that would necessarily re- j " suit in very great bloodshed. The state j of feeling is such that if two persons of ! j t" different sympathies should happen to s , nPet and have an altercation, or in ! the excitement of the moment use i i - hot words, such persons. are very, apt to f ' resort. to the use of deadly weapons. t Surely, then, moderation and cool com-i com-i ' i ' moil sense will best become all under the ! ; ' circumstances, and will in all probability j . the mean 8 of avoiding many sanguinis sanguin-is -: ary encounters. We trust that modera-l modera-l tion and cool common sense will have I sway, and it is to the interest of all per- ' ons and the general welfare that they I t should. - - : J |