The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-11
soFrESISG or TIE BRAIN.
Sad Condition OF the "Netropoli-
tau" Reporters.

As an set of charity towards the
suffer ng readers Of the Tribu 9. s.ms
one interested in the w,H,re o,ths
concern should call around at the offic I,
OF our esteemed cote npor4ry aud lie
liberately lay out the idiots Who u
their chief is pl-ased to term metro
pOlitsn reporters. On crIday, m REFER
euce to the Bsnedio: case. tue sheet
blandly announce d that the case would
be compromised" Just how tue
lunaiics should have conceived that
idea IS hard 10 determine. As 4 there
could DC any compromise sh srt OF ltns r
holding the de endant or disch arging
him. de was either guilty or not guilty.
Yesterday morning the sheet whose
neVer-verV-0rll liant local columns nave
50 Tar retrograded rs u. be compared %
the Hume Sentinel, again launched forth
IN haiti column article Ia which the
writer Said: The case did not get
COMPROMISED in the Police Court ate
ali-that Is 10 say. as lar as any outside
person knows il did not get c0mnfnni-
ised. The Police Court and Police De-
partment are largely Mormon ana
MormOns would always rather throw
the glamour of mystery over the must
simple transaction than have II occur IN
the light of day, ana so the whole case
has been involved IN mystery, or rather
silence from the first After whiting
IN absolute torture for few more lines.
the fellow continues: This may be 2
superficial view Of the case"-an idea in
which all of the Tribune readers will
heartily coincide. And further:
Mr.. Attorney Moyle and MIR. Attorney
Van Colt have decided that nobody
shall know anything OF what went Oh IL
the alleged trial of the young man, with
the sole exception of Mr.. Hopper, and
Justice Piper as usual acquisSced with
Mr. Moyle, aud so the public whoSetaxes
support the court, must remain IN l5uo-
rance oil what goes on there, unless the
Mormon Church says that The ignorant
populEce shall know. IL Is enough for
the probe 10 pay their share OF the ex-
pense OF city courts or any other mum c.
pal arrangement run by membsrS of the
so-czlied church aud hold their tongues
when inspired people talk, or admins
Ter justice"
All OF which, were it not such an out
rageous tissue of barefsced lies, would
be extremely funny. The facts in the
case are simply these:
First. Inc public were excluded
from the court room. not by order OF
the "Mornot Church." but by request
Of z. l.. Williams, of the counsel for
the defendant. who read the law
on the subject at the time
the request was made. Nobody. in this
section at least, save the blatant asses
Of the Tribune, would accuse Mr..
Williams of being 1.-The Mormon
or even an agent of the
same. In the eyes of the public, Mr..
Williams action was not only justifi-
able, but was in the interest of the good
morals of the community.
Second-Mr. Hopper did not advise
young Benedict TO 60 70 jail.
Third-Mr: Hopper was not in the
court room, but was excluded with the
only persons present in the
room being the Judge, the de. endant,
the court clerk counsel of both sides,
and the witness who was under exami-
nation.
No wonder even the most radical
of the Tribune ring are
growing ashamed of their
organ