Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-23
TIE RELEASE OF EUsrICE.
Whether it was EA pedient to Bring,
Him Back for Trial.

~ va ia tutehL ~ EtElHIE
Him Back for Trial.
In commenting upon the circumstances
of the release of Dalrymple, the notorious
English forger, an Eastern exchange con-
siders the case peculiar, and comments as
follows:
eli is said that the British Government
has declined to carry on the proceedings
against him because it would cost so much
money to do SO. This 10 certainly q curious
reason for allowing an alleged criminal to
go scot free, and if it were acted upon to
any extent the result would be most de-
moralizing. No Government can afford to
make the prosecution of offenders against
its laws a matter Of dollars and cents, or
Of profit and loss in this way"
These structures upon the policy of the
English Government are not perhaps alto
gether unjust. The vindication of justice
should not devolve upon a consideration
of dollars and cents. II is only in extreme
cases that a prisoner should be allowed to
escape. We have always been taught to be-
lieve that the English are sticklers in the
affairs of law, and that they are disposed
to uphold the majesty Of the statutes at
any expense. Hence We prefer to believe
that for the release of Dalrymple there was
some other and moro potent reason than
the one discussed by our contemporary
moro dollars and cents. In fact, the Eng
lish Government is too opulent to make
such a presumption reasonable.
The case of Dalrymple is in quality par
allel with that of Eustice, whom the Com
missioners of Eureka thought best not to
h w 1,rA,ylA 1,nnlr f-N~1 Deal VA, TTAal
on the ground of expense, parallel at any
rate so far as We understand the former in
the criticism referred to. We have heard
unfavorable comments upon the action of
the Commissioners in the case of Eustice.
These comments, it should be stated i'm
mediately, came from those who have but
little, if any, material interest in the COM
munity. They are those who look at the
affair from a disinterested and rather
utopian way. With them justice is alb
stract. They forget that government is
altogether a selfish affair in its nature and
origin. In government whatever is expe-
dent is good, and whatever is inexpedient
is bad. The question of morality, strictly
speaking, is q secondary consideration.
The critics who find fault with the action
of the County Commissioners in letting
the beastly Eustice go free take very high
grounds, and condemn our royal relations
for preferring money to justice with no
more bitterness than they pitch into the
governors of Eureka County. While they
may be right in regard to the action OF
the plethoric English nation, they are I'M
questionably wrong in regard to impov-
erished, tax-ridden Eureka. Two thou
sand dollars is moro in proportion for this
county to pay out than a million
to the English. The two cases, as to tho
capacity of Eureka County and the Eng
lish nation to pay for justice, are very I'M
like. In this respect there is such a diff
ference that the two cases lose their SINH
larity altogether. Eustice is gone, and if
let alone will certainly never intlict this
community again with his loathsome
presence, though he may live to
fill some other with horror and
actual and possible. In such Il strait as
this county is at present financially we
cannot afford to be liberal to the extent of
protecting the world at large against a vii
lain. The best we could do, if he should
be brought back, would be to get rid of
him by sending him to the State Prison
which could not be calculated on with any
thing like certainty. The wholesome
effects of furnishing him as an example for
the benefit of other fiends is already ac-
complished in the detestation and horror
with which everybody thinks of him. No
lascivious wretch could be more etfectually
deferred from following in his track of
crime by dread of legal punishment than
by the fear of the summary handling that
he would meet with Immediately at the
hands of an outraged public should the
otfense of Eustice ever be repeated in this
section Of country. 1t was expedient, and
consequently right not to burden this
county by recalling the fugitive Eastice.