Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-31
OBEDIENCE GUILTY.
a Very Fine Technical Point In.
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newspaper rule that is but seldom
broken, and is almost as universally
and strictly observed, among the
fraternity, as were the laws of the
Medes and Persians. We publish
letter from Garden valley signed
"Obadience." We haven't the
slightest idea who the writer is. His
true name was not given, and it is
the rule not to publish communlca-
ton when the authors name does not
accompany his effusion. The writer
is privileged to use fictitious name
for the publication if he wishes; but
the editor must know who he is. We
violate this rule, however, this time,
for purpose. The letter is pub
lished verbatim ct literatim. Our
informant stated that deer we're be-
ing killed in Garden valley by whole
sale, and this denier of the allega-
tion virtually substantiates the truth
of the statement, and it is plain case
that he is one of the guilty ones. The
tone of his letter from first to last Is
proof of that fact. Our informant
might have made a misstatement in
saying that deer have been killed bv
wagon loads. He would have stated
the exact truth, no doubt, if he had
said sleigh loads. But this doesn't
matter. If the violators of the law
killed them by sleigh loads they are
perhaps just as guilty as if they had
killed wagon loads, and the fact that
they hauled them in sleighs instead
of wagons may not acqu't them
However, as the WORLD man is not Il
lawyer, and knowing that there are
many very fine technical points that
> rise up to block the way of legal en-
y actments, he will have to acknowl-
{ edge that this will be point for the
. keen intellects of law sharps to argue
and for the judicial mind of the
Judge to decide. If the complaint
y to be drawn up alleges that deer
we're killed by wagon loads and it is
. afterwards proven that the complaint
: was a lie and a slander, and that they
" we're killed by sleigh loads, it may be
that in that event the innocent hun
3 ters will be declared not guilty anc
- sent on their way rejoicing, will
5 clear consclences and light hearts
70 and be filed with the satisfaction o
/ knowing that their accuser was
& black hearted perjurer in that h
., stated deer had been killed by wagoI
:. loads at time of year when wagon
h do not run. We have known Judge
1t who we're SO cruel and hard-hearte
w. as to decide that complaint wa
y not contrary to the spirit an
intent of statutes in such case
10 made and provided, even wher
q such plain and unvarn'she
,e false statements as the one herei
e. mentioned we're made. This CORES
z, pondent will acquit himself and oth'
u, deer slayers of Garden valley befoI
h. the pubic-the greatest and most ju
is jury of all-but unhappily jury NJ
of clothed with legal authority. III
M public will say, sure enough, that the
'o never went out in the morning wi
Ia malice aforethought and their gur
rn with premeditated intention to k
deer and haul them home in wago
lth in the cleaning. This is positiN
" Therefore they are not guilty
no charged by our informant. b
,ut would cruel, stony hearted cot
for look at the whole matter with su
ore clear eyes of right and justice? TT
Ut is the question. Natural justice a
legal justice are two different bran
and sometimes run in parallel lin
ut but at other times in dIametrica
opposite directions. In this case
be would be difficult to tell in which
In rection a legal decision would r
J Legal points are things unsafe to
- 10 on, Sometimes you have a dead 81
non thing, or in other words, dead th
uck sure: but when this dead thing
his pricked with the sharp point o'
i" fine technicality, it sometimes GRAY
and crawls rapidly. This correspo
EN- ent slings IN one of this class of tie
cry nicalities. The vexed question
, aI, is a wagon a sleigh? If not,
ned sleigh a wagon? If not again,
ring they equal to the same thing,
amt therefore equal to each other on
as a strength of the axiom that "th'
which are equal to the same thing
x;,o equal to each other?" If slelg
ton. not a wagon and wagon Is NJ