The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-08
.IT,s A POOR RULE, dc.

/ We do not hear of any animadver-
sions on Judge Beasty's course or criti-
cisms on the bench in reference to the
oommonwealers, their aiders and abet-
tors and the sympathizers with the
movement He has sentenced a whole
batch of the 'wealers to six months i'm
lprisonment each for their unlawful do
ings on the train, and has given terms
Of imprisonment suited to their Of
fence to some citizens of Montpelier
who rendered assistance to the Gull
prits.
In addition to that, Judge Beatty lee
tured the prisoners, showing them the
wrong of their acts and the folly of
their avowed purpose in trying to go
to Washington. This alone was ter
lible outrage on the commonwealers,
according to the logic of our morning
contemporary when attacking Judge
Merritt, whose administration both of
penalties and advice was mildness and
mercy in the extreme compared with
the judicial action of Judge Beatty. But
we do not in his case hear a note of
lprotest or dissent from the organ of dis
content. Is there anything political in
the reason for growing in the one case
and dead silence in the other?
Judge Beatty's views on the general
Question harmonic exactly with those
entertained by the Utah Governor and
Judges, to which such strong objections
were urged, followed very shortly after
with eulogiums from the same source
for the same thing, to be succeeded in
a few days with renewed condemnation,
leaving puzzled public to wonder
which end the organ stood on, and
whether it stood at all.
Judge Beatty, when discharging two
of the alleged sympathizers with the
lcommonwealars n their lawlessness at
Montpelier, made remarks from which
we take the following extracts:
1 want the citizens to understand
everywhere that they have no right
even to get rid of these men, if that is
their sole motive, by using railroad
property for that purpose. 1t is just
as much an infringement of the order
of the 'urt as the actions of the COM
monwealers themselves, and I want to
suggest here, not only to you, but to
others who are not in sympathy with
this movement, that you are in sym
pathy if you help one lot of these men
forward. In so doing you encourage
another lot to come on.
The right way for citizens to do is to
discourage them from coming and feed
them only on condition that they go
| back. If the citizens will do that for
short time they will go back. I do
not think any good citizen should have
any sympathy with this movement.
Instead Of helping these men forward
simply to get rid of them you should
give them food only on condition that
| they go back whence they started. But
| if you persist in helping them forward
you may rest assured that you will
| have to do it ali summer and into the
| fall and winter-no telling. for how long
a time.
| If these sentiments are all right to
be delivered from the bench from a
Judge in Idaho, why should similar
opinions, more mildly and tersely put,
be all wrong and q terrible outrage
from judge in Utah? Or, we will
ask again, has partisan politics any
thing to do with making the change?
When straining itself nearly to burst
ing in an endeavor to make out case of
Offensive partisanship" where it has
no application, would it not be as well
for the critic to exhibit a little less of
that offensive partisan bias on its own
account?