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Show JUDGE SPRAGUE AND THE "TRI- In reply to an editorial note which appeared ap-peared in yesterday's Tribune, U. S. j Commissioner Sprague sends to the Dem- I ocrat the following communication : Sait Lake Crrr, March 8, 1886. Editor Democrat: I congratulate the Tribune on its progress towards sanity, as indicated by its article in Sunday's issue. If so brief a yoking of "the Tribune up in a team with the News" has been the means of this marked improvement in its manners, the Union ought to continue indefinitely. To be sore, in order not to be entirely untrue un-true to itself, it intimates that I quoted falsely a clause, which neither was nor purported pur-ported to be a quotation or attempt at quotation; but this is only a trifle, and. in consideration of its comparative fairness, I will state why I did not defend my ruling in the Treseder case. It is First, and chiefly Because no judicial offioer, whether he be justice of the peaoe, or higher, ought to recognize responsibility for his rulings to a newspaper, any more than he should to any other form of street clamor. Secondly That a paper would publish the bosh, written by an alleged editor, too, of claiming a right to instruct courts as to their duties, is prima facie evidence of in competency or tne writer to understand the grounds of any ruling whatever. , i To say, with the implication that it applies in any way to the Tribune, "it has, too, as much interest in the publio good as any court, and is as strenuous as any to prevent injustice being done;" certainly shows that the fool-killer is remiss in his duty. ' E. T. S. |