Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1906-05-25
pity, May oath. 1906,

it puffe me up with pride to thin
that already in only three weeks
three replies have been made. Nov
the burden of my prayer is, may thi
paper elicit three more replies, an,
IL it can be possible, may one of ther
be from a republican. If this praye
is answered l will sign my name t.
my next effort and never hide agail
behind that indefinite cognomei
Subscriber"
But to the question. have read
with interest the views of my Social
ist and Democrat friends and am will
ing to concede that their grounds are
we'll taken, Democrat especially
having brought out some good points.
The other gentleman could have done
better had he stuck to the question
Instead of diverting himself in his
efforts to be sarcastic. He should
remember that sarcasm is not argu-
inent and that bone picking contests
are appreciated only by literary canni-
balls. However, the attack was made
OH his cause and it is quite natural
that he should resent 1t.
AS to whether or not l misquoted
or misconstrued the "Appeal to
Reason" l leave readers of that
paper to judge. Suffice it to say that
il anyone is interested In the ques.
stion Mr.. Stevenson, 1 think, will
be pleased to furnish him copies of
that bad paper for which he spent
good money" from which he can
verify the truth or falsity of my
statements. To those who might
consign themselves to this task, l
would make this explanation of my
assertion that the "Appeal" charged
Detective MacParland with blowing
up the depot at Independence. Mo
farland Ia not charged directly with
doing 1t, bat he Is said to have helped
plan the daed while Marshall bemore
executed it.
But right here let me explain that
the Colorado Idaho affair is not the
issue l have desired to discuss. 1t
is only an incident that offered an
illustration of ideas have long
entertained - ideas that involve prin-
oiples of right which l have long
wished had the power to raise from
the mire into which they are being
tramped, and hold them up 80 that
other could see them in the same
TO public concerns as / have
seen them. Right or wrong my views
remain unchanged and am honest
in them.
My Socialist friend reminds me
that "every prisoner should be- ac-
counted innocent until he is proven
guilty" Now that is good sound
doctrine il not carried too far, but
in this Gland of the free" fear it
has been magnified out of all proper
proportions. The same principle
should apply at the same time to the
other side - to the officers as we'll as
to the prisoner. Some papers and
some people who are ever ready to
throw this rule of justice around the
accused, do not hesitate at making
the most reckless and abandoned state
ments against the officers who are
prosecuting the offender, aud that,
too, before they know the first scrap
of evidence the minions of the law
can produce.
Democrat" takes issue with my
idea that our sympathy properly be-
longs with the officers, and brings
out some very excellent reasons to
justify himself. concede that my
statement in that connection WAS
rather bI DAD. That fact was recog
nized at the time, and l anticipated
just the reply that was made, but my
paper was growing lengthy and for
this reason refrained from qualify
ing the assertion as it should have
been. That many outrages have been
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not doubt. Corrupt men have oc-
asionally succeeded at the polls an d
have used their authority to harass
innocent men against whom they held
some personal spite, but this has not
been the rule IN American jurispru-
dence. Americans have very much
more occasion to complain OF the
guilty escaping punishment than they
have for the conviction Of innocent
meu.
There Ia, also corcede, legiti
mate Held for the critising OF pubic
officials, and the just exercise NJ this
prerogatiye by the people Will, l