The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-10

permitted to reveal in court the con.
fidential communications of her Inns.
band; medical adviser could not state
here any fact learned in the pursuit
OF his profession. Why? Because the
business of the physician and the life of
the wife lead to the home, a place that
is sacred. What sort of brother must
he be who so delights in his sisters sor-
row that he is willing to babble here.
upon the witness stand, the secrets of
mis- fathers home, his sisters home, and
laugh in yourlfaces, gentlemen, while
he performs the shameless deed, and
while her hearts salt tears are binding
her? l submit. in all candor he is not
worthy of belief. You would not con-
denim culprit for chicken stealing upon
testimony like that
LOrdMacaulay tells US thatthe English
people are subject to spasms of virtue.
In one of these, they by public hue
and cry, drove Byron from his home
He was not good enough to live in Eng
land then, so they banished him, by
the power OF public clamor, to a
foreign land and stranger 5
grave. Then came the reaction. The
same people that had broken his
heart. had desolated his home. and
made his little child an orphan. could
find no marble white enough to form
his monument, no music sweet enough
to sound his requiem. We have spasms
OF virtue in America also. That was
one IN Massachusetts, when the Quakers
were banished. If we did not so well
know the lnhrmitles of human nature,
that history would be incredable. Yet
1t is unqueStionablv true that the Puri-
tan leaders banished this unfortunate
people. go FORTH they said, from
these orchards that you have planted
these vineyards that you have reared,
from your pleasant homes and the
graves of your fathers" Why? What
evil had they done? Not any; their
lives were blameless, peculiarly so; but
they were Quakers. That was suffi-
Gent
None but students of history know
the dreadful power of agitation when
accompanied by religious feeling. Men
and women commence such a discus
sion calmly, but the interest grows,
whispering is heard, church influence is
aroused, prayer meetings are held from
house to house, music lends its power
to fan the flame, until at last the public
mind is in state bordering on frenzy
This defendant is to-day the victim of
an agitation like this. Arralgned for
any ordinary crime the prosecuting at
torney would not attempt to convict
him upon testimony like this; one wit
ness. and such a witness!
beg of you to vindlcate here and now
the honor of the American jury. Let it
not be said that, standing here in this
sacred temple of justice, you suffered
to be blinded by prejudice or
swayed by power.
Let US not deceive ourselves. The
time is coming when we shall meet this
defendant at the bar of eternal justice.
If we shall do our duty here to-day, then
the recollection of this trial will be
pleasure and a support. 1 pray that
none of you at that awful moment. may
be scourged by the memory of duty
or abandoned; may not be
sand of you that unmindful of your
oaths you did not weigh the evidence;
that without sufficient cause you cast
deadly blight upon the lives of this de-
PENDANT and his family; that you yielded
when it was your duty to be tirm.-Bear
Lake Democrat.