The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-22

ihulanola. about usurpation iii Pana-
ma about his San Domingo policy
ABOUT his conduct in the Minor Morris
case, 1 felt justified, and while / may
set no credit for sincerity of conviction
III TINS Brownsville matter, / plant my
sen on the bedrock principle that the
innocent should not be punished for the
SINS OF the guilty. and that men should
DC presumed to be innocent until they
are proven guilty.
Spooner's Reply.
senator TilIman concluded at 3:21 d.
mr. when Senator Spooner rose to re-
ply.
senator Spooner said he declined to
be tainted or beguiled into competition
IN the use of offensive epithets. The
senator he said. would look in vain i'm
the record for an assault or offensive
epithet he had applied to the South
CNNoVNN@ ssNaNOr. Ae was MOI a SEP
aeoflat censor. II he was one, he would
l ln attempt to teach the senator (Mr.
hlilfnan). because the latter had de-
III, ,lp,erateiy characterized his colleagues
ny name at the outset of his speech
his estimate of Mr.. Tillman was that
ne would regret some of his words to-
ord.
Mr.. Spooner said the senator could
not be more mistaken or unjust to
charge him with holding malice. HE
has never given me cause" Mr.. spoon
er added. 1T was appropriated for
hlIn 10 say ne criticised the attitude and
utterances of the senator, land 1 with
draw in no respect what l said as to
the effect of those utterances."
If he should utter words which
would inspire the black man of the
south TO disregard law and place more
pie of the south, he would expect crit
icism.'
Appalled, by TiiIman.
Mr.. Spooner said some of Mr.. Till
mans utterances as quoted by Senator
Patterson had appalled, and shocked
him. If at later date the senator
from South Carolina did not regret the
epithets he had today applied, Mr.
SpoOner should feel then for the first
time he had not known the senator.
Mr. Spooner said the senator had said
today as to mis- attitude which he would
not have taken with credit had it been
repeated by any other man.
Government without law is tyran-
ny" said Mr.. Spooner. land the world
has come TO regard how vital it is. not
to the mar involved. but to society"
To lapse from this fundamental prin-
ciple was to lapse into anarchy, and
barbarism, he added.
When Mr.. Spooner denied the right
of any state TO delegate to citizens the
taking of life on personal judgment and
in anger he did not refer to the south
more than to the north. but. he added.
he did not denoUnce the advocacy of
that doctrine by any man, especially
by those i'm high places.
Equality Before the Law.
Perhaps. Mr. Spooner said, he had no
adequate appreciation of the situation |
in the south He knew il was a deli
cate cne-one which would tax to the |
the tact of those who must deal !
with it. for the black man. he knew, |
must stay there. 1t was fruitless of /!
anything but danger to discuss the |
equality of these races, and TO his mind |
il meant applying a torch.
Leaving out politics, Mr.. SpOOner !
said with great emphasis, before the /
law the white and the black man must /
be equal" There was no man so wicked /
that he was not entitled TO the protec- |
ton of the law. Saying he would not !
discuss that unspeakable crime COM /
mitted by both white and black men, he |
continued:
Not Limited by Locality.
THE senator will not claim that the /
appreciation of womanhood and the /
jewel of the wOman's exist |