Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-14
where the persons are imprisoned, and

EXAMINE THE PUBLIC PRISONS,
9 Penitentiaries or jails, or any place wher
: any persons are confined, deprived {
their liberty. Some complaints hav
been made, know not whether they ar
!, well founded or not, with respect to tn
Il manner in which the county jail has bee
jail and see whether it is properly KEEP
, or not. The law requires that thos
places shall be kept properly, and it i
the duty of the Grand Jury to examin
and enquire into it. / have heard com
, plants, also, against a lunatic asylum
where the public probably keep some o
? their lunatics. You should inquire int
that also. | know not whether the com
, plants are well founded or not, but
understand the public confines lunatic'
there. If that is SO, it is your duty tt
inquire into that and see that it IS prop
erly kept and that
NO UNNECESSARY INHUMANITY
Is practiced upon anybody. You are
made, by the law, the agents of the gov
eminent and the people to make these
investigations, and it is your duty to dc
1t honestly, fairly and fearlessly.
SECREC4 IMPOSED.
1t is your duty, also, gentlemen, tc
keep secret what occurs in the Grand Jury
room. You should not communicate tc
anyone outside of the Grand jury room
how any particular Grand Juror has voted
upon any matter, or what has been said
there, nor the fact that an Indictment
has been found until the party has been
arrested, and then it would be improper
for you to state what occurred in the
Grand Jury room, or how any member of
the Grand Jury voted, or what its action
had been.
Your oaths, gentlemen, require that
you should diligently inquire into and
true indictments make, of all public
ofenses againstthe people of the Territory,
or against the laws of the United States,
triable within this district. You are for
hidden by your oaths and by the laws of
your country from indicting any persons
through
MALICE, HATRED OR ILL WILL.
If any man should come before you
against whom you may have any feel
ing, you must lay it all aside and look at
it impartially, in the light that the law
compels you to look at it, not to view his
case from your personal standpoint. Your
sole purpose must be to ascertain the
truth of the accusation against him.
Your oaths require, further, that you shall
not leave any person unindicted through
fear, favor, affection, or for any reward, or
hope OF any. You are required to
ACT FROM PURE MOTIVES,
You cannot act from personal considera-
tons; you cannot take into considerations
any consequences to you, any conse-'
quences to any man. The law describes
the conduct that constitutes crime, and it
is for you to determine in every case
whether the person has been guilty of
that conduct with the intentions which
the law requires in order to make a crime.
| feel it my duty further to remark that
you are not to take into consideration anv
public clamor for or against any class of
crime. There appears to be an impress
sion, judging from the public prints and
common report, that associations, bodies
OF men and women, can, by withdrawing
their patronage and their support from
business men,
INDUCE THEM TO DISAPPROVE
Of the enforcement of the laws of their
country. This you cannot take into con-
sderation. The fact that any man. be-
cause he may be affected in his business.
may disapprove of the enforcement of the
laws OF the country, cannot be considered |
by you.
THIS GOVERNMENT EXISTS IN ITS LAWS.
And its power is made manifest by those
who are selec ted to enforce them, and |
any man, any person, who disapproves
OF the enforcement of the law is against
his country and against the laws of his
country. The idea is preposterous that
because anybody may lose little patron
age, or even good deal, or that all the
business men of this town may lose
patronage or support, that that can be
considered by you; and any person who
Supposes that public officer, in the dis
charge OF his duty, duty which the law
imposes and which his oath imposes, or
that any Grand Juror, in the discharge
n the duty which the law imposes on
him, is to be affected in his action by
the way IN which the Indictment of par
lies will affect the interests of any bust
hess man, is indulging
AN IDEA THAT CANNOT BE TOLERATED
1t is singular that intelligent and patri :
'tic people. if they are such, can enter ,
ain such views of duty-that they should :
suppose that because they disapprove. or
because they might induce a business ,
nan to disapprove of the enforcement of q
he laws, therefore, public officer or a
irand Juror should fail to discharge his !;
luty and commit perjury. Gentlemen.
our sole purpose is, as have stated he, /
ore, TO discharge your whole duty, ascer- h
am the truth, and when you have ascer- Q
AIMED 1t, or such sufficient probability O
s the law requires, you must indct, and
there is not sufficient evidence YOU Il
lust ignore the bill and discharge the t.
ccused. You must not go outside of Il
our office, outside of the law or 90 be- h
IND the law and say that it is wrong. W
here is no appeal from the will of the r.
eople as expressed through the law W
taking power in laws, to any bodies such q,
town meetings or Mutual Improve 81
tent Associations, or any other kind of Il
association; There is but one yay T
lat laws can BE made in this country. N
Id ="
he LAWS so MADE ARE THE ONLY ONES tt
THAT you CAN RECOGNIZE, ca
nd If you attempt to recognize any other bt
WIS than those you violate your oaths. flt
u violate your duties as citizens of the tn
nlted States, and are unworthy of the &c
gh honor of being called citizens of the TO
nlted States, Gentlemen, if there is sc
y man among you who believes that he ge
Ii be influenced by any of those mer- III
nary land groveling considerations. if OF
u think you will be influenced by a de- nc
e to favor any person or class of per- Isl
ms, if you will be influenced by fear. pl
nldlty, or your own personal considera- ire
ms, rise up and say so, and l will ex- M
Sc you; because any man who would be Sc
iuenced by such motives as those is not