The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-06
ORGAN OF THE THIEVES.


We confess that it Is somewhat diff
6cult to enter upon a discussion of the
local issues raised by the Sun with feel
ings of charity. 1t does not merit
charity. The course of that sheet,
marked out voluntarily yesterday, in
spires the highest Indignation of the
people, and causes all respectable jour-
nalists to blush for shame at the base
prostitution of that paper in the de-
Tense of lawnessness in its most VI
cious and filthy forms. That any pa
per, published in a community Of high
minded and intelligent people, should
g~ratuitousiy insult their sense of honor
and justice by p~alliating and apologize
ing for crimes and denouncing the Of
ficers of the law, is enough to kindle the
ere Of virtuous indignation sufficient to
melt the slender bands that bind that
paper to this city. Never, until opened
fair aud smiling, the morn Of the Sab
bath day, was there found In Chey-
enne, an organ of thieves and assas-
sins; an organ to apologize for crimi-
nails; an organ to denounce the minis
tiers of justice; an organ to pander to
the social thugs who hang about dens
of iniquity and who strike down the
wayfarer for his pelf. Yet the SUMS
pages were 80 blackened yesterday
morning, and we remand to a just
public the duty of properly condemn
ing the sheet that would disgrace the
day devoted to the worship of the God
of justice and all that is good in
Heaven and earth, by pleading for vice,
and justifying blood-dyed criminals.
While a large portion of our people
were calling upon the Divine Being for
a pouring out of the spirit of good, that
men and communities might be made
better and happier, the SUMS pages
were yet damp with the ink of infamy,
advocating the continued existence of
hell-devised vileness and satan-endorsed
crimes. Must such things be? Must
the fiat go forth that a newspaper, sus-
tanned and countenaiced by an honora-
BILE community, is endorsed In the base
act Of insulting the best sentiments of
the people2 In the name of outraged JUS
tice, must these things be calmly borne?
Yet the fact painfully forces itself upon
us and you, reader, that the Sun of yes
terday a~pologized for such men and
such acts as we have mentioned. Read
the u~tterances of that paper, and mark
the tingle of indignation through your
whole being.
1t is not by any means a pleasant task
to thus hold up a contemporary. But
it is a matter Of duty. A true concep-
ton of the sentiment Of our people in
spires the prompt condemnation of any
and all attempts to palliate or popular
ize crime and criminals. Were the
stand taken by the Sun the result of
carelessness or a lack Of knowledge of
the character Of the men for whom it
apologies, the offense would not be so
great. But we leave it to all, If the
proprietor of that paper has not lived In
the city long enough to learn correctly.
The step vas taken after due delibera-
ton, and we, among many others,
heard as common talk on the streets,
early on saturday evening, the inten-
ton of the Sun, which it 80 faithfully
carried out. We could not but have
wished that it were a 1.-THE as faithful
to the interests of morality and virtue.
We leave the subject for the present,
satisfied that the Judgment of the COM
munity will be just and prompt.