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Show SERVING PROCESS. Whenever a deputy marshal serves any process, or undertakes to serve one, especially if such process relates to a case of unlawful cohabitation, such officer by the People's party press is termed dishonorable dishon-orable and indecent. . Our attention has been drawn to this matter anew by the following which appeared in the Ogden Herald of yesterday: - The raid at Logan, however, has been a total failure in so far as its chief .object is concerned. If Deputy Marshals Vandercook and Mix were honorable, or even decent men, they might accomplish some result, but, as it is, they bring the dignity of their office into disrepute. The use of such fellows in such an official capacity is a disgrace to the United States. It is like employing renegade adventurers and moral lepers to preach sermons, ser-mons, preside over a national treasury, or consort with virgins. We do not know officer Mix, but we do know officer Vandercook; and further, we know Mr. Vandercook to be a gentleman. gentle-man. The fact that the officer does not first address a note with his compliments to the person upon whom he has aprocess to serve, and ask him if it will be agreeable agree-able and convenient to meet the officer at' a certain hour, is no evidence that the officer is not a gentleman. If the officer were to employ the method above referred to, we are afraid the reply would state that the gentleman whom the officer wishes to see is not at home. The gentlemen whom the officers desire to see are very rarely at home nowadays. Any person at all conversant with the condition of Utah knows how extremely ex-tremely difficult it is for an officer of the Government to find either principals prin-cipals or witnesses in cohabitation cases. The principals and witnesses in these cases not only look out for themselves, them-selves, but the people of the Territory are on the lookout in their behalf. The appearance of any two strangers in one of the smaller towns of Utah we may say in any town in Utah outside of Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo and Park City, will put such town in a state of consternation. And why will the appearance of two! strangers put such a town in a state of consternation ? Because the two strangers will be looked upon as officers of the law come to arrest or subpoena some one in an unlawful cohabitation case. In view of all the facts, is it any wonder that the deputy marshals do not announce their entrance into a town by a herald, and the sounding of trumpets and the floating" of flags? The officers of the Government in this Territory have to execute the law and the process of the courts under very difficult circumstances, and these circumstances compel them to move about silentlv. Tf Marshal Ireland has a single deputy who is ungentlemanly when executing the orders of the courts, or who is rude and gross when searching houses, we trust he will discharge such, and we believe he would. But the officers of the law must do their duty, and in "doing it they' are compelled to do many things that as private pri-vate citizens they would not do If officers offi-cers are ordered by the proper authority to search private houses they must search them, and if those whose houses are sometimes searched in any way obstruct the officers, such conduct may compel the officers to do things which under other circumstances would be rude. If a person must submit to have his house searched, it is better for all concerned to submit gracefully. . |