The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16
A SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL.

The Desoret News, on Friday evening,
| had sort of weepy editorial under the
heading: "For Law and Order" in
which it deplored what 1T called the In
Dor situation in Park City. 1t set forth
in general the facts as reported of
! the forcing OF two employees of the
I Bell Telephone Company to leave town,
I and added, cit is time for some COM
/ petent authority to take the matter in
hand for the maintenance of law and
order. -
Now, of course, The Tribune, in com.
( mon with all right-thinking citizens,
favors most heartily the proposition for
the enforcement of law and order. We
agree that any one committing the out
rage spoken of in Park City should be
duly punished. The supremacy of the
law is the safety of the Republic, and
Of all its inhabitants No good citl.
zen can afford 10 break down the Just
provisions of the law, or to take the
law into his own hands, or to invade
the rights of his fellow citizens This
is general rule, a sound rule, appica-
bic in Park City as elsewhere, and it
should be enforced there as every
where else, to the utmost limit that
the circumstances require,
AT the same time, we do not see why
The demand for the enforcement of law
and order should be confined TO Park
City. In fact, the Deseret News in a
dim sort of way recognized this fact
and switched off to a long discourse
about the troubles and lawbreaking ia
enough in its way, for San Francisco
needs any sort of scoring. we suppose,
that anybody can give 10 it. But why
confine the illustrations of the need of
the enforcement of law TO Park City
and San Francisco What is the mat
fer with enforcing the law in Salt Lake
City? Why should there be "A gang of
lawbreakcrs in Salt Lake City in con
troll of meeting houses, assembly hall,
tabernacle, temple, who are privileged
TO defy tho law and bring disorder
into the commonwealth and contempt
upon the judicial procedure OF the
State?
II is we'll TO enforce the law against
any offenders in Park City; members.
officers of the miners union OF other
wise, There can be no question about
this. Every good citizen agrees TO
that proposition, and none but bad citi
zens or evil.disposcd persons would dis
agree with the other proposition. that
the law should be enforced also in the
Beehive House and against the polyg-
amists and the law-defying lechers who
pollute the air and the streets Of Salt
Lake City. Why make fish OF one and
fowl of the other? Why should there
be any prosecution of persons who com
nit breach of law and order in Park
City and perfect immunity TO blatant
law-de6ers in Salt Lake City!
There should be equal justice 10 all,
special privileges to none, especially
special privileges TO invade the law and
defy common decency and the moral
sentiment of the country, There is no
reason whateyer why there should be
this discrimination; and yet the Deserct
News, which calls for the enforcement
of law and order in Park City, bowls
even more strenuously in favor of the
lawbreaking privilege for the lccher
Gus priesthood in Salt Lake Let MS
have even justice all around, an i'm
partial enforcement of The laws. and
a square deal. Law should be enforced
aud obeyed as an entirety. and by the
whole community alike. And until the
church organ in this city is pre"ared
to come on to this platform of equal
and Just enforcement of law against
all those who break it, it is not en-
titled to demand the enforcement of
law and order in some special place,
Park City or elsewhere. The Deseret
News is IN no position. as long as il
maintains the rightfulness of polyga-
nous law.breaking, of bad faith, of
blatant defiance of the laws of God and
man, to call for the enforcement of law
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