| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME editorial written during Utahannual fall madness Though whimsical it hadpurpose We chronicle with regret the loss of several brave men recently shot in the back by fellow hunters who were under the mistaken impression they were hunting deer it opened Every fall with the advent of the hunting season men take their guns in hand and go into the woods to stalk the deer They 8o in such profusion that the hunters outnumber the quarry and quick-trigger guys shoot into the bushes that move without verifying the suspicion that there is game behind the branches This habit of hunters raises an interesting question as to the responsibility of gun-toters even when the weapon is lawful and in lawful usage Is there any statute to requirehunter to see game before shooting Canman blast away upon suspi cion and tearhole in the back offellow hunter without being guilty of what the law regards as criminal negligence Of course we know that the legal verdict always says the dead man came to his death by accident but we also know that this is plain nonsense man shot in the back byfast-shooting hunter goes to his eternal reward through the carelessness of fellow man who according to custom is entitled to shoot without seeing and to hit what he shoots at without liability except to express proper regrets The publishereye on national events also provoked thoughtful editorials One inday before equal rights were championed by governmental leaders was titled simply Freedom and observed No recent incident in American history so sharply points the contrast between the principles of democracy and the methods of governments in which the state is superior to the individual as the unanimous action of the Supreme Court of the United States on Lincolnbirthday Four penniless Negro tenant-farmers who had been convicted of maurder byFlorida court were set free by the highest tribunal of the land because they had been convicted on confessions extorted from them under threats and torture and unsupported by any other evidence 661 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
