Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1906-06-01

Editor Mail Box Our mutual
friend 'Su bscri Der" hopes for three
more replies, and IL possible he says
he would like one of them from a
Republican. Now, so far as | am
concerned, the opinion of republi-
can, a socialist, or democrat matters
very little, as perchance | am more
of horse protestant-whoser religion
is to work six days in the week and
rest on Sunday-than democrat,
although that is ms political faith.
l don't ask him TO quit hiding
behind his cognomen, but 1 have
lurking suspicion il he and l
should ever meet, that would find
him inside of neat white collar,
while he would probably find me in
overalls. This being the case, 1t
would largely account for our dis
agreements on existing conditions.
Our friend explains that it was not
the Colorado Idaho affair that he
proposed to discuss. Nor l. IL was
the question of "Motes" and
"Beams" that caused me to enter the
arena.
Every prisoner should be accounted
innocent until he is proven guilty,
he says, sis good sound doctrine If
not carried too far" | confess my
inability to comprehend, how that
doctrine can be carried too far, and
trust he will pardon my dull com
prehension, IL ask hi n to elaborate
that idea a little more.
The gentleman comedies that his
statement that our sympathles should |
be with the officers every time, was
rather broad, and further along In
his article, he repeats the same state
ment. would like our friend and
any one else, who is taking any stock
in this affair to place my last article
and his side by side and see if he has
done me Justice. For instance he
would make 1t appear that the state
ment every man has his price,"
was original with me. Now, 1 took
pains to give the author of it to be
Tallyrand, the great French statesman
and keen observer of human nature,
and will here give the Iron County
Record due credit for putting 1t just
as written, and wish to say more
emphstically that he (Talleyrand) |
was a greater statesman and student |
of human nature than l am, and also
to, modestly, very modestly suggest
that possibly he WAS a greater states
man than Subscriber. Again he says,
corrupt men have occasionally sue.
ceeded at the polls aud used their
authority to harass innocent men.
y but this has not been the rule
la American Jurisprudence. No,
indeed, but it is slarmingly on the
increase. Note the exposures of COR
ruption and graft of a host of men,
the last few months, who stood in
high places, and were supposed to be
lik caesars wife above suspicion,
but the conspicuous ineXactitudes
are too numerous to mention, and no
doubt our friend doesn't want to
have them pointed out to him.
Let me doctor the last four lines
Of his article, by inserting two words.
Don't lose your heads and take sides
against the officers Cor prisoners)
until they have made pablic the evil
dence, which they think has justified
their acts.
Let Subscriber, Socialist and
read the signs of the times and not
be deceived by one sided assertions,
for this is the Goth century, and great
changes are at our doors. The giant
Of labor has got small taste of the
Peirian Spring and may be dangerous
until he drinks more copiously.
A DEMOCRAT
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