The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-27
An Explanation from "A Juror. -" /.


y signed "A Juror" which have caused
a great deal Of comment, and various
people have been accused of being the
author, and they have even gone so far
as to accuse us of printing the circulars
. In the past we have refrained from
publishing articles of this kind or mix.
ing up in fractional scraps, but in order
, to clear up the mystery of the past
week we have consented to publish the
following article. Ed
Spanish Fork, Aug. %,
To the citizens of Spanish Fork:
AS this is the last letter. that | think
it will be necessary for me to send out
and as my own business demands my
my attention ! will try to clear matters
up so that no one will be in doubt as
to my motives or identity. There is
nothing have said in my other letters
or that will say in this one that am
sorry for. But am sorry that it was
necessary to write them. am sorry
that men elected to offices of public
trust will get the swelled head and i'm
agine they are the only pebbles on the
beach and that the people are their
servants to come and go at their beck
and call. officers should remember
that they are public servants and that
the public is paying for that service.
When they fail in performing their
duties they are justly entitled to call
down by the most humble tax payer in
the city. No one was blind to the fact
that our Mayor and two of the Council
were total failures as officers, but all
lived in hopes that they would event
ually see the folly of their ways and
attend to their own business and let
people alone who were inclined to be
silent and set their mistakes down to
lack of experience This subject would
not have been brought up had not our
mayor seen fit to attack the characters
of jurors in the council chamber.
will now take up the case of ]. P.
Greer and call that gentleman atten-
tion to few things wherin he is wrong
or at least where shall make claim
to that effect. First he is wrong in
using up about ninety per cent of the
Councils time in talking and not say
ing anything. The young can often
learn by listening to and needing the
council Of older and more experienced
men. And there is another favorite
expression that the gentleman would
do well to get rid of and that is IF
the people don't like so and so let them
bring it into the courts. AS a tax
payer would like to know who paws
the cost of court. The city is now
being sued for $1,000 damages and if
they lose the case who has it to pay?
Will j. p Greer pay it or does it fall
on the taxpayers? Another thing | will
call the gentleman's attention to where
he is entirely wrong and that is his re-
fering to Spanish Fork as the most
immoral town in the state. Twas night
watch in this city last winter and
believe | am posted and know what
am talking about and do say for the
young people of Spanish Fork that they
have less vice and more virtue than any
community of the same size in this
state or any other thai have ever been
IN and have been as far away as Cas-
tilla. If | We're an off GER of this city
and thought my friends and neighbors
were of that type, certainly would
hand in my resignation and move to a
more moral zone, something more
suited to an angelic temperament. But
l will say this for you J. F., | believ
you are honest and if you would use
little Denver Mud, which you can buy
at the drug store, and reduce the swell
ing in your head | believe you could
pull through.
In conclusion will say that have
made no assertion but what is correct.
have no apology to offer anyone |
have not signed my letters "A Juror"
through any personal fear, as some
have claimed. | have no intention, as
some have predicted of getting the life |
beat out of me or of being shot down |
like dog, | flatter myself that can
take care of myself in the open street
or in the courts of justice and / will ! |
guarantee all who feel lucky that will
not swear out warrant for any mans |
arrest.
With best wishes for honest men and
hopes that dishonest ones will see the
folly of their ways, | am respectfully,
MORONI HICKS.