Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-18

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| problems would Do 90 shoot the editor.
/ literally or hguutvoly whom they
/ consider responsible for tho turning OF
the seorchlight upon an kinds OF em-
! barasslng situations, but Ct remained
FOR the defense iu notorious murder
trial, recently to make the suggestion
in court that what ne pleased TO cali
tho unwritten law should be- extended
90 cover the murder of an editor.
The Pittsburg Timcs-Gazette COM
menting ON this. remarks. pleasantly
g3ut the plan has its drawbacks and
disadvantage. which should be taken
into consideration before it is rashly
Endorsed. The very completely OF or
ganlzation which marks the modern
newspaper presents an initial difficulty
u IS conceivable. for instane. that
pupilist might shoot at the religious
editor because the sporting editor had
slanderod his fighting ability. 10 is
conceivable that a poet might assassin
ate the political editor because the dis-
eliminating lady who presides over the
Woman's page had put one Of his som
nets into tide waste basket There Is
50 much room FOR mistakes from mixed
identity that the plan will hardly COM
mend itself TO sober minded Wyu. A
further objection rests on the dispropor-
ton which would often De felt be-
tween punishment and crime should the
cuilelcss editor who has merely called
you a black hearted scoundrel unfit for
decent society ~ treated with the same
ruthless rctributiou as the malicious
wretch who cuts out any reference 10
your coullon and Ignores your golf
rcoordsa
1--WE admit that there are probably
editors who ought 10 be shot There
may also be preachers and lawyers and
doctors who ought To bee shot But we
can't have the police rules infractod
and tho nerves OF poaccablc citizens
shattered by allowing the ndiscrimiu-
ate administration of Justice in the
public highways Very often, too. the
culprit may not be as guilty as he APP
pears TO the man with a gun. His crime
may have been due 90 iuadYerteuCe or
misinfOimatiou or COngenital inabili-
IS 20 tell the truth. Tn that Cagse he
should he pitIed. not puuctured. Instead
OF putting the scribe within the juHs-
diction % the unwritten law, LET ms
minimize the perils of his hazardous
occupation. Above his desk might be
hung motto like the Ign displayed in
a western theatcr: Please don't shoot
tho piano-player; he is doing the best
he can
stick 10 your colors and your fan
ncls.
Those Moros weren't pacided Fur
long.
Speaker Cannon is not yindietlve,
just firm
Just now Jim Jeffries is playing a
weighing game.
Johnson IS trying his hardest to
scrape mp a scrap
All the colleges would make 81 An
drew their patron saint
Alexander the Great was the smart
est Alec that ever lived.
u chafes an old topper 10 see alcohol
burned In a chatting dish
NJ Ni'Ahi' WIN many YOURS y
that they are only half baked.
Tt isn't the coming tower that makes
the battIeship a tower OF strength.
England IS stl possessed OF the
idea that the sea is a British common.
Eggs are very much' cheaper. The
hens realize that they owe the public
a duty.
The Payne BIN may produce more
revenue, it certainly Will produce more
| agitation.
The German academy OF aviation has
been founded. 40 intends TO make
things n.y.
Some ~ the Legislators are begin
ming 10 think that the last day rs as
"a thousand years.
ON the prohibition question 81 seems
/ that what nobody wants is what
everybody must take.