The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-05
JUDGE ROSS CHARGE.
Further Instructions in Regard to
the Nail.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 4-Judge
Ross charge to the grand jury was as
follows:
Gentlemen of the grand jury un-
derstand, through the district attorney,
that you desire some further instruc-
tons in regard to the mail. Congress
has provided by statute that the post
master-general shall in all cases de-
eide upon what trains and in what
manner the mail shall be convened.
and the officer has, through his subor-
dinates designated for the Southern
| California Railway company and the
Southern Pacific Railroad company in
this judicial district, the regular pas
| senger trains of those roads, for the
carrying Of the United States mails.
Neither Of these companies is by
the law required to run any other
trains than their regular passenger
trains for the carrying of the mails.
and their failure to do so is not a, vio-
lation of any law of the United States
10 which my attention has been called
or that 1 have been able to find
AS I told you the other day. in ef
| feet any and every person who shall
knowingly and willfuIly obstruct or re-
tard the passing of the mail is guilty
| OF crime against the laws of the
United States, and if two or more per-
sons conspire to commit that or anv
other ofTense against the United States
and one or more of such parties do anv
act TO effect the object of the consni-
racy, ell of the parties to such conspi-
racy are guilty of a crime, and. if Won
ma from your Investigations which I
charged you, and again charge YOU. dill
gently to pursue, that any such offense
has been committed within this judicial
district against the laws of the United
States, it is your imperative and SOL
( emn duty to find an Indictment or in
dictments against any and every such
offending person.
| Using the substance of the language
OF Judge jackson in a, somewhat sim
liar case that arose in West Virginia
in 1888, 1T is proper for me to say that
exactly what is involved in the strike
which has brought about all of the
trouble here and elsewhere is not for
me or you 10 investigate.
AT this time it is not necessary to
say which side is in the right nor
which side is in the wrong, nor whetf-
er, in fact, either side is in the wrong
upon the merits of that question. II
may be we'll to again say that there is
but one way to redress a wrong known
in this country and that is through
the regularly constituted tribunals of
the country
| mo man, no set of men, no commu-
nistic combination of men, can lawful
ly undertake to redress wrong ex-
cept in the way pointed out by law.
! Whenever men attempt to unlawfully
combine themselves together for the
purpose of redressing a wrong, they
strike at the very foundation of those
laws which give them the rights of a
citizen, the protection of life, of liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
| ct is the solemn duty of all good
citizens to ponder and think of these
things and be sure that their acts.
whatever they are be within and not
contrary to the laws of the country,
and it is the sworn and imperative
duty of those charged with the adj
ministration of the laws to take prompt
and vigorous measures to bring to the
bar of justice any and every infraction
| of Them