The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-28
THE LULL.

The fee industry seems to have sub
sided somewhat the past few days; bu1
whether 1t is owing to the manipulation:
OF the machine taking a much-needed
rest, to want of material to work on,
or to the Affections produced by that to
them, hitherto unapparent quantity
conscience, cannot at present be told
with anything approaching accuracy.
Perhaps all three of the agencies
named are at work, but as to this
nothing more than a diaphanous
conjecture can be ventured. Ger
tain it is, however, that there is at pres
ent very grateful even if unexpected
lull in the hurricane of prosecutions and
the down-pour of fees.
The most casual observer will scarcely
fail to note that daring this brief period
the earth has made its diurnaI rotations
as usual; the waters flow to the sea !;
harvesting the bounteous crops with
which nature has blessed our Territory
is progressing satisfactorily; no one
has been killed; everything isserene,
and We are altogether gliding along the
stream of destiny toward the gulf of
eternity, just as though the fee-mill
were turning cut an hourly grist In
fact, it may be said without fear and
trembling. that if the prevailing state of
things has made change in any
respect, it has not been for the worse.
1t would perhaps be taking too char
liable view of those who have for a
long time been leyying tribute upon the
national treasury, to believe for a mo-
ment that they have been shamed into
even temporary deoency. Men who |
deliberately commit shameful acts. |
knowing them to be such beforehand, |
are insensible to thatfeeiing. Shame is
the sensation impaired to men who |
have souls too large and hearts 100
warm to cennive at meanness, and |
have been led or betrayed into |
the commission of wrongful |
act; so that the reader can readily |
see without rising his spectacles that
this particular mantle of charity will
not cover the enormities under discus
sion.
1t is net enough to say that we are
and unduly interested in the +
of the public finances; not
enough to proclaim as defensive matter
that the fee triumyirate are doing
which the law does not allow
and the lawmakers do not approves;
not enough to declare that the innocent
will not be molested To the first Il
rejoinder we have to reply that one
person is as much interested in the /.
public welfare and has as much right to
complain of the abuse of a public trust. :
as any other; to the second. I
that the law permits great many ;
things which it is rarely necessary or 6
desirable to act upon; and to the third. {
hat the innocent hare been nlslested ii
and if the raid continues hereafter with i Y
'Hch fury as has charaeterized it hereto q
ore, many more are likely to feel the a
;rnel pressure of the greedy hands of s
he mob whose rule Of conduct is power "
irst, pelf next and principle never, and {,
7hen the car of Juggernant has run the il
market hereabout short on victims. ii Il
an be trundied otto Ogden, Logan or s.
'roEo. where fresh triumphs and more 81
polls await it; not that the b
anne machinery does not exist II
eaeh of those places. but none 81
these have ever figured inside the al
cystic circle, and don't know how to
'ork with so much precision and regu-
lrlty as the local article. Laying all
onsideratlons of principle and finance :
SIDE. isit not beautiful Spectacle pre-
ented bsthese SUPERFICIAL, law-ab,ding
merican gentiemen-that of packing
leir valiSes, filling their TASKS and
around the country fish
e for business-and all in the name of :,
scency and law?
Ca