The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-28

and submit to it all wheI
the tamest blood, the Veriest coward
would be reused to violent action
and yet these men have calmly lee
the filthy offender to the city jail
Policemen are human; they are also
public servants, and there is limit
to ali patience; the fact that they
are human makes them liable tC
extremes and to the impulses OF
favor; the fact that they are public
servants does not condemn them to
endure in silence what the most
craven>hearted would resent, If a
nan does not want to be arrested,
he knows how to avoid it. The
Tribune man knows.
The effect of the TribtI7le'S course
has been to awaken sentiment, a
feeling of resistance in every des-
perado's breast, and while it may
not be the immediate cause, it is not
at all unlikely that the foul assassin
alton of Captain Burt by the negro
Harvey on Saturday was but a nat
ural outgrowth OF the Tribuns,S
interminable abuse of the police
force, and its constant effort to ex~
cite the desperate element against
them.
The lynching of Harvey was a
crime. No one thinks to the con-
trary; but such q crime as, the cir
cumstances being known, any jury
in the world would excuse in those
gdilty of its commission. 1t was
an outgroWth Of Indignation absol-
utely Iesistless in its force. But
the Tribune, consistent at least in
its Yiciousness, makes this unfor-
tunate affair the means of the most
brutal attack yet perpetrated, not
only On the police, but on the cor
pOration, and demands a change in
the whole force in consequence.
The. man who wrote the article
must have bad heart or be an IN
mitigated ass, because he must have
known that in a place where there
were all the way from 200 to 1000
witnesses to the events which char
acterized the horrible affair, his
falsehoods could avail nothing.
The article in question was the
subject of broad comment on Sat
urday, by persons of the most just
and liberal sentiments, and even
among those whom society has
branded as unfit for association with
respectable people, and the uni
versal feeling was one of indigna-
ton that SO vile a SANDER dare be
uttered. It was not the protest |
against the bloody and disgusting
affair; it was the villainous attempt |
to throw the responsibility of the
whole frightful deed on the police |
force. So loud became the talk, and
so pronounced the sentiment against |
the article that the craven slanderer |
skunk to the Governor and demanded |
and then went to the |
Mayor and also demanded the pro-
lection OF the city. The con-
impudence of such a
proceeding is unparalleled in |
the history even of the corps Of |
writer's for that paper. He brings
upon himself just public condemna-
ton for libel on the police, and
then humbled by his own vile SIAN
der in his heat oppressed brain he
sees-as Macbeth Sees Banquo's
ghost, which nobody else can per-
ceive-that he has placed himself in
a bad fix, and calls on the objects of
his ABUSE TO protect him.
1t is time public sentiment should
assume definite form, and an ex.
preston of confidence be given the
protectors of the public peace. We
warrant the assertion that IN this
city of $4,000 inhabitants and over,
if 500 persons were removed, or left
and stayed away, there would be no |
necessity for a police force; and vet
the Tribune is the champion of the |
$50 roughs, bIacklegs, prostitutes
and deseeradOes, who are perpetu-
al and an extravagant expense to |
.aw-abiding citizens. Is therein all |
degrees of contempt one which is
low enough to express a feeling
towards sheet that Yiciously ieop. |
ardizes life and property, and gIories
in its vileness?