people may therefore take the law in their own hands, is shallow and dangerous and unworthy of civilized and enlightened Americans. The people Lave delegated their powers and expressed their will. In the Constitution ance of nations might well pause before keeper on Main Street. While the rate RELIEF. of our country they have stated how A "LIBERAL" METHOD OF GIVING the distant streets does little or no that power should be exercised, and they are bound by their own act in the framing and acceptance of that instrument. It is declared therein that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; that no person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws; that no person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of ife or limb; that every accused person hall be confronted with the witnesses one million AFTER showing, in his annual re- the good, the traffic being limited. The present city government is, however, much like the hotel keeper who insisted that his guests should take soup as well as the other viands provided, because of it being a rule of the house. DISINGENUOUS RESOLUTIONS. IF the lovers of whited sepulchre sham wish to enjoy frequent feasts in harmony with their tastes, gratification is within their reach. They have against him and be tried by an impar promised policy of increasing the but to read the accounts of the pro tial jury and have the assistance of Counsel for his defense. Every one of these provisions was violated by the self-appointed judges who condemned Italians, and were at once the accusers, the judges and the executioners of the undefended and defenseless men. popular burdens and swelling the ex- Last summer there was a good service. that ceedings of the sessions of the City Council. If the haters of hypocrisy wish to be nauseated they will do well to avoid the perusal of those narratives of official hotch-potch. No citizen should, however, fail to notice the saccharine resolution adopted unanimous This "stale, flat and unprofitable" talleged expression of appreciation of the "able and impartial" services performed by the resigning attorney, combined with the crocodile tears shed over his retirement,should be compared Even if all that has been alleged was too large, the price (8 cents a footy March 31st, in connection with the against them were true-we do not frontage) too high, and the service in-acceptance of the resignation of City know anything about that except that adequate. Attorney S. A. Merritt. Numbers of people asserted the matter is legally in doubt-then that they received their notices directthe lynching was lawless and in de-ing payment of assessment, while the fiance of the provisions of the Consti- sprinkler, up to that time, had been tutions of the State of Louisiana and conspicuous by its absence. of the United States, and the power of March 31st the Council, after its the people even in a republic must usual fashion, covered these points of be exercised under the law or it is bar-complaint "Liberally." (1) They inbarism and subversive of every recognized principle of civilized government. creased the sprinkling district to thirty with the treatment accorded his legal advice. In a number of conspicuous instances his "able and impartial” services have been treated with undis But for all that, war would not make guised contempt. The reason for this the wrong done any better, or afford has been apparent-the Council had any satisfaction to reasonable beings or Another point connected with this no use, in certain matters, for "able nations. The recall of the Italian min- imported sprinkling is that storekeepers and impartial" services. What they ister 18 an error, which we hope whose buildings I wanted were legal services that were are erected in will be soon repaired. It is a step in close proximity to each other unscrupulous and partisan. the direction of hostilities. The in the central part of the city, are presence of the Charge d'Affaires, left charged the same as the suburban to attend to current business, has no residence property holders, for whose significance in the direction of con- benefit much of the sprinkling will be tinued diplomatic relations; it is neces-done aiong portions of streets where sary that he should remain for the there are no buildings. present. The recall is a rupture Taxation, to be just, should, so far as between the two governments. But it practicable, be in proportion to the beneis possible that this may be cured fits derived. The positions of the benwithout any further measures in the eficiares in this regard are widely diway of a conflict. Mutual explanations vergent. Those who have stocks of will probably result in the restoration goods to protect from the dust, and of amity, and fraternal relations whose frontage is limited to a few feet, between the two countries will be re-receive a benefit much greater than the residence proprietors in the outlying But if this proves to be impossible, portions of town, yet the latter must although the navy of the United States pay a much larger amount than the is almost demoralized aud the army is former. sumed. not by any means on a war footing, the March 31st one of the Councilmen patriotism of the people is such that remarked, deprecatingly, that an even arms and men and money would be frontage foot tax all round would comforthcoming in such weight and in pel the residence holder on Sixth East. such a manner that any nation or alli-Street to pay as much as the store As an instance, it is not necessary to go beyond the response of the retiring tattorney to the request of the Council, for advice as to their legal right to sell the public grounds known as Pioneer Square to a private corporation. Col. Merritt's opinion was really an able elucidation of the law and the popular right involved in the question. It was against the right of the Council to sell, however, consequently the "able and impartial" opinion was treated contemptuously. Yet, according to the resolution of last night that advice must have been the product of sound legal capacity and conscientious regard for the rights of the people, whom the Council are erroneously presumed to represent. The resolution of last night-speaking of its adoption as a whole was as bogus as some of the councilmen— those who were never elected to office but usurped the seats of men entitled And language was in that journal, in Janu- There was then in England, a well- "that excellent, and by all physicians Once in a while Col. Merritt, while acting in an official capacity, has blurted out an expression which savored of sarcastic wit. In the session of advertisement printed up to that date, the Council held on the 17th of March, It boomed the bargains in tea at $24 the subject of the agreement between per pound. the city and county regarding the transfer to the latter of one half of Washington Square, on which it is pretended the joint building is to be erected, being under discussion, Mr. Lynn made the following inquiry: "For information I will inquire of the city attorney if it would not be possible, under such a contract, for the city and county, separately or jointly, to dispose of their respective portions of the square for any purpose that they might deem proper." The manner in which the city attorney's legal advice regarding the sale of Pioneer Square had been treated, and the action of the Council in disposing of the property of the people, were evidently floating like dark clouds in the Colonel's brain. Hence the re freshing reply: "In the face of recent occurrences, anything seems possible in this city, sir." This was a telling truth, pungently expressed. It receives a striking verification in the passage by the Council of a resolution of appreciation of "able and impartial" public services which they treated with unmitigated contempt. In 1660 the English newspapers began to advertise the sale of slaves, and slave On July 12, 1711, a stamp tax of one cent, was levied on every paper printed in Britain. This caused all the Gruo Street papers to suspend, except two. On April 22, 1712, a tax of 12 pence, auctions. In 1662 the art or 25 cents, was levied on every adhad so far advanced that "adds" vertisement. This caused honest trade began to take the form of reading notices to disappear, and patent medi matter, and were inserted as news cines and lotteries, and other swindles This new development gave employ- to put in an appearance as advertisers ment to the brightest of the literary It was to advertising, the South Sea lights of the time. The Warner Safe bubble owed all its success. In time business is nothing new. Over 200 the "ad" tax was abolished and was years ago the stolid Britisher was bun- never afterwards resumed. coed into reading an advertisement as is the volatile Yankee of today. of Dr. Johnson. It had become a science in the days The burly doctor, after reading a pill advertisement, which he mistook for a new revelation in science, by which old age and its infirmities were to be set at naught, called on Goldsmith, and both walked down Fleet Street, and to the East End Johnson found that he was, as the of London for a supply of pills. When Yankee would say, "played for ," he delivered himself of the sucker," following: а "The man who first took advantage of who OLD AND NEW ADVERTISING. ACCORDING to the ham strung gerel of the poet, men are wise, The famous Dick Steele got into the advertise, in every generation. newspaper business in London in the there was a generation when men early days of the eighteenth century. could not advertise, at least in news. He established a journal entitled The papers. There were none to advertise Tattler, and in order to advertise his in. It is probable that a form of adver-paper he published on March 13, 1709, tising existed even in ancient Egypt, the following item: and if one were in the mood for diving among dusty records, the fact might be established that the modern full page "ad." is only the child of the ancient temple inscription. "Any ladies who have any particular stories of their acquaintances which they are willing privately to make public, may send them by the penny post to Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., enclosed to Mr. John Morphen, near Stationers' Hall." The English language is ours, and Of course, before a week, the Tatler we will not go beyond it in tracking was the talk of the town, and it be the history of advertising. In London came the fashion in literature. It was, was published a paper called The unquestionably, a journal of merit, Mercurius Politicus. The first adver- and even, today it makes interesting tisement ever printed in the English reading. In 1722 an advertisement appeared in a London paper which attracted great notice. It read as follows: Clerkenwell, having had some word "Answer: I, Hannah Hyfield, of New God willing, to give her more blows tha gate Market, hearing of the resolutenes of Elizabeth Wilkinson, will not fail words, desiring home blows, and from her no favor. She may expect a good thumping." The match, it is said, took place, but the newspapers in those days had no prize-fighting department in their Sunday issues, and posterity must look in vain for the victor in this Amazonia contest. It is clear that the principl of fair play existed then among Brit ons, and they had also their Marquis of the half-crown in the fist, was to pre Queensbury. The reason for holding the hand, the coin would fall and sh vent scratching. If the woman opene would lose the battle. Advertising in our time is one of th fine arts. It is estimated that in Chi cago alone $500,000 is spent annually i that department. And as to the “ad' reading notice how would the old Dec tor Johnson feel after reading one o the latest in the pill, potion and politics line. It is possible that to advertis ing three-fourths of the United States newspapers owe an existence, and probably to pills and potions, one halt of them. COUNTY. "Kansas City, April 1.-The two branches of the Mormon Church at Independence, Mo., known respectively as Hendrickites' and 'Reorganized Church,' are fighting for possession of Mount Zion, a low hill, about four acres in extent, which was selected by Joseph Smith as the place where all the elect will assemble THE TEMPLE GROUNDS IN JACKSON which they have held regular religious shall come upon it in the process of services. They are a peaceable, inof-time, there will be“a beautiful Temple" fensive, and devout people, and are reared there, on which the glory of disconnected with any other denomin- God shall rest and on which the ation. They do not agree with the servants of the Most High will minisUtah "Mormons" but concede that the ter for the salvation of mankind. latter are carrying out the doctrines and discipline given by Joseph Smith, more perfectly than any organization that has claimed to be the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They do not hold the Temple grounds for any speculative or selfish purpose, but believe that in due time the Lord will reveal to them what is to be its on Judgment Day and from there be The foregoing is a press dispatch which will be found in most of the leading papers of the United States. It was wired on an appropriate day. We do not know whether the church building belonging to the Hedrickites -not "Hendrickites"—was destroyed on All Fools Day, but we do know that the greater part of the dispatch is nonsensical falsehood. A few years ago the "Reorganized" or "Josephite" sect erected a meeting house fronting on the Tempie grounds but standing across the street. The leading spirits of the body commenced to lay plans to gain possession of the Temple land. A suit had been planted by that sect to secure the title to the Kirtland Temple, and it was not defended by the Church in Utah, but allowed to go by default. Emboldened by this, they thought they could lay hold of the land in Independence which was fixed upon years ago as the place for the Temple in Zion. But thus far they have not succeeded. The spot described was not selected as the place where all the elect will assemble on the Judgment Day; the "Mormons" do not believe that the Now it may be that renewed atfoundations of a temple were laid on tempts have been made to get the matthat spot by the Angel Gabriel; and ter into the courts, and set up a claim they do not believe that a beautiful for the land, hoping that the Hedricktemple will be erected there or any-ites, who are few in number and not where else in a single night. The dispatch is a specimen of anti"Mormon” news, which usually consists of about the same proportion of truth-a faint trace, scarcely distinguishable in the mass of falsehood of which the tale is composed. But it will be copied throughout the country, gravely commented upon by the editors who pose as educators of the people, and held up as a sample of the peculiar views of the ignorant "Mormons." overburdened with this world's goods, But it will not be "built in a single night," nor in any but a natural and lawful way. And any party or individual that endeavors to seize it in the spirit of injustice and unrighteousness, will find that they will not prosper and their ungodly effects will bring upon them a curse instead of a blessing. We hope that further accounts will throw better light upon the affair so stupidly described in the press dispatch from Kansas City. TOBACCO AS A KILLER OF CON- RECENTLY Count Tolstoi presented, in a leading magazine, an article on Wine Drinking and Tobacco Smoking. This eminent Russian ought to be an authority upon this subject. There are few men who have indulged more extensively in both practices than he. His views on this theme, being the result of experience and observation, ought to carry weight and be of some interest. He says: "People drink and smoke, not merely for want of something better to do to while away the time, or to raise their spirits; not because of the pleasure they receive, but simply and solely in order to drown the warning voice of conscience." He asks this question: "To what extent can smoking stifle the voice of conscience? We have no need to seek for the materials for a solution of this question in exceptional cases of crime and remorse; it is amply sufficient to obmight almost say of any-smoker. Every serve the behavior of the ordinary-one smoker abandoning himself to his passion, loses sight of, or rides roughshod over, certain of the most elementary rules of social life, the observance of which he demands from others, and which he himself respects in all other cases, whenever his conscience is not completely silenced The land in litigation has long been by tobacco. Every person of moderately possessed by the small body of believ- We hope the wrecking of the build- good breeding in our social sphere holds ers in the Book of Mormon who are ing is only an April 1st report, in keep-merely for his own pleasure to interfere it to be unseemly, ill-mannered, churlish, commonly called Hedrickites, after ing with the rest of the dispatch. It with the peace and comfort of others, and Granville Hedrick, their first leader, would be a shameful reproach upon would take the liberty to flood with a fortiori to injure their health. No one who held to the belief that Joseph any sect or person claiming to be re-water a room in which people were sitSmith was a prophet of God, but that ligious, if the meeting-house was dehe fell into error in later years. They stroyed to facilitate an effort to gain are not and never were connected possession of the land upon which it with the "Josephite" movement, but existed as a religious sect long before that movement was started. stood. Most of the ground selected as the gathering place in Missouri for the They have acquired, chiefly by pur- Latter-day Saints in early days is now chase, the title to the land de- occupied as residence property. But scribed, and have been in pos- the land referred to in the telegram has session of it for many years, their remained vacant, with the exception of leading Elder and his successor in the small building mentioned, and that office being the Trustee-in-trust. Their was erected in such a way that it could headquarters are at Independence, and be readily removed when necessary. A they erected upon the piece of land in neat fence surrounds the land and question a small meeting house in whatever may be the changes that ting; to scream and yell in it; to turn on other act tending to disturb or injure hot, cold or foetid air, or to perform any others; and yet out of a thousand smokers scarcely one will hesitate to fill with noxious fumes a room, the atmosphere of which is being breathed by women and children who do not smoke." The Count insists that the smoker is not only a nuisance to his neighbors, but that the indulgence is derogatory to his own spiritual and intellectual capacity. He expresses himself on this point thus: "For the more a man stupifies himself with these stimulants and narcotics, the more stolid, quiescent, and stagnant he becomes intellectually and morally," So earnest is he upon this question just and its selections from promi- joint city and county building. He that he dwells upon the effects of nent journals have been judicious and contended that the legality of his offispirituous and narcotic inebriety after indicative of great editorial ability. cial acts was under question and, in this fashion: Contributions will be obtained for the the event of his being deposed, whatmagazine from some of the best writers ever experience he might gain on the in the country. We wish the new ven- committee referred to would be lost, if ture abundant success. the decisions of the courts in the contest should continue to go against him. "It follows, therefore, that by far the greatest part of all that is done in this world of ours, both by those whose profession is to guide and teach others and by those who are thus guided and taught, is done in a state of ebriety. "Is it conceivable that people not drunk should camly set about doing all the extraordinary things that are being accomplished in our world, from the Eiffel Tower to obligatory military service? It is utterly inconceivable. "None but drunken men-men who never have a lucid interval of sobriety could do these things, could live on in spite of this perpetual, irreconciliable, terrible conflict between life and con science, in which not only in this matter, but in all other respects, the people of our world live and have their being. "At no other period of the world's history, I feel convinced, did mankind lead an existence in which the dictates of conscience and their deliberate actions were in such evident conflict as at present. "It seems as if the human race in our days had got fastened to something that is holding it back, impeding its progress. There would seem to be some external cause which hinders it from attaining the position that belongs to it of right, in virtue of consciousness. The cause in question-or, if there be several, the main cause-is the physical state of stupefaction to which the overwhelming majority of human beings reduce themselves by means of alcohol and tobacco." But Count Tolstoi is not without hope, as he predicts the emancipation of the race from tobacco and drink: "The deliverance of humanity from this terrible evil will make an epoch in the life of the race, and, apparently, this epoch will arrive in the near future. The evil is already recognized. A change in the consciousness of men in reference to the use of brain-poisoning stimulants and narcotics has already taken place; people are beginning to realize the terrible mischief they produce, and they are manifesting this feeling in acts; and this imperceptible change in their consciousness must inevitably bring in its train the emancipation of humanity from the influence of all such brain poisons. This emancipation of mankind from the thraldom of brain poisons will open their eyes to the demands of their consciousness, and they will forthwith begin to put their life in harmony with its dic tates. "This process seems to have already begun. And, as is usual in such cases, it is beginning in the higher social classes, after all the lower orders have become infected with the evil." Recent numbers of the Globe have contained graphic descriptions of a journey in Mexico, by some one connected with the paper, but published first in the El Paso Bullion. In these days judicial matters seem to be largely enveloped in uncertainty. It is always proper, however, to anFrom one ticipate that courts will do right. Conof the letters we extract the following, sequently Mr. Hall's expectation is as it will be interesting to our readers based on a correct principle—the exand contains facts about the "Mor-pectation that the decision of the mon" colony in Mexico: Supreme Court will be uniform with that heretofore rendered by Judge Zane, because of the latter being according to law. "Early in the afternoon the Mormon Colony of Diaz was reached. It was established in 1883, and is situated some distance from the Corralitos river on what may be called the second bottom. After the session of the Council on The soil, like that of the entire valley, is as fertile as Mississippi bottom land.' It Tuesday night a member was asked seems as though a miracle had been his opinion upon the subject. He exwrought when witnessing the extraordi- pressed himself unhesitatingly to the nary progress and change the Latter-day Saints have effected in so short a time in effect that there was not the scintilla of this wilderness. Comfortable and neat doubt in his mind but that the present cottages of adobe, shingle roofed; windmills to raise water for consumption and occupants of the contested offices irrigation, huge barns, stacks of hay, would be unseated. This has been the cribs of corn, orchards, vineyards and opinion of a large number of "Libwell enclosed and highly cultivated fields have replaced the sacate, erals,' many of whom expressed mesquite and chaparral that less than themselves at the time the steal was eight years ago covered this mesa affording lurking places and lairs for perpetrated, as being disgusted with wild beasts. In fact history is repeating the proceeding as totally without justiitself, for the Mormons are doing at Diaz fication. what they accomplished at Salt Lakeconverting the wilderness into a bloomWhile the course of Mr. Hall has ing and productive garden. Diaz, how-been as consistent as that of any of ever, does not entirely depend upon wells ficer of the city government, he for irrigation, for the Saints have conveyed the waters of a large spring that having frequently contended for bursts out of a neighboring mountain justice and the rights of the peorange in a well conducted acequia madre of several miles in length to their lands, ple, his attitude is anomaleus. so that they now possess a water supply From his remarks on Tuesday night it sufficient for a population twenty times would seem that he has grave doubts greater than it is at present. In fact, the above figures are used figuratively, for I as to the validity of his position— will amend it by saying that the water his right to the seat occupied supply is sufficient for the purposes of all future colonies." this appears to Indeed by him. "Another circumstance made an im- go to the extent of a conviction with pression upon me and that was the range him. Consequently, how he, in this which agriculture possesses here. The potato does well, as do also all other escu- mental situation could, as an honorable lents and food plants common to the man, remain in the office he appears Eastern States. All of the fruits of the to occupy, is beyond comprehension. temperate zone also flourish and the mission grape grows here to perfection. The With regard to some of the others who Mormons at Diaz bave made a success in are similarly involved, there may not the cultivation of sorghum cane and be much room for surprise, because manufacture from it excellent sugar as well as syrup. The sugar beet also grows some people pay but little if any regard here to perfection, and may in time lead to rights and principles involved, so to another important industry in this valley. The Latter-day Saints have also long as they can accomplish their purTHE "GLOBE" AND "MORMONS" IN and hundreds of thrifty and well filled succeeded most admirably in bee culture, poses. The general conduct of Mr. bee hives testify to the good conditions Hall, does not, however, indicate that that exist for this particular industry." he is a man of that stamp. It appears that some men otherwise inclined to be fair, are able to set aside every honest scruple in matters of a political character. Yet it is plain that a person who occupies an office which belongs to another purloins property to which he is not entitled, besides thwarting the will of the sovereign people. Of course, this may be done unwittingly, under tion is good; but, judging from Mr. a conviction that the title to the posi Hall's own expressions, this is not his situation. MEXICO. THE CONTESTED CITY OFFICES. THE New York Saturday Globe announces that it will be soon changed to a monthly magazine. It was the intention to make the change at once, FROM the manner in which Mr. W. but the first number of the magazine C. Hall expressed himself in Tuesday will be issued in June. The Globe has night's session of the City Council, it steadily improved from its commence- appears that he anticipates a decision ment. It contains articles on live adverse to himself in the contest questions, chiefly commercial and polit- for the seat occupied by him. He preical, well worthy the perusal of the sented the probability of such a conbrightest minds. On Utah ques-clusion as a reason for declining retions it has always been fair and appointment upon the committee on their GENERAL AND SPECIFIC DENIAL. people. In theory and in practice asserted that they received this is evident to every impartial notices directing payment of assessWITH a long and dreary repetition investigator. Those who try to show meut, while the sprinkler, up to that of exploded charges against the "Mor- the contrary are compelled to resort to time, had been conspicuous by its abmons," the morning "Liberal" organ misrepresentation, the misapplication sence." fills up a great deal of space today. It is useless to take any notice of the greater part of its musty string of stale prevarications, but we find these statements among them, and take the opportunity of entering a general denial, so that the author may not be able to say "the Mormons admit," etc., which is one of his ways of "proving" the truth of his falsehood: of some ancient remark or opinion Non-"Mormon” school Is there a statement in that which is not absolutely correct? What is there "mean" in the whole paragraph? Did not the Tribune utter these complaints teachers, day after day in common with the | whether male or female, denomina- disgusted public? Were not some tional or otherwise, never received streets flooded with water till they fairer treatment or greater freedom were miserable mud puddles, while anywhere than in Utah. They have contiguous and parallel streets where not been abused by word or deed. They filled with blinding dust? Were not "Why, since the passage of the Ed- have not been molested. Many of them the water-spilling carts-not sprinklers, munds law, the President of the Mor- have been employed by the "Mor- driven over the streaks of mud made mon Church, John Taylor, before a pub-mons." Some of them have sought to by immediately preceding drenches, lic assemblage of the people in a town a little way in the country, declared that gain fame, or money, or both, by pattern- and strips alongside in the same streets theirs was the only legal government. ing after the sectarian preachers and left dry and dusty? Did not owners Furthermore, he declared that the pure women who are here teaching in the the Tribune, and spreading falsehoods of vehicles complain continually of mission schools were every one of them about the dangers they have incurred the mud made by this stupid and inof bad character." by working among the "Mormons." competent service, and did not taxBut they have never received any in-payers declaim against the importation jury from the Saints, and there is not while better work could be had from the slightest reason for complaint nor local sources? any foundation for the Tribune's libel of President Taylor. Where is that "little town a little way in the country" where President Taylor made that alleged declaration? Who heard him make it? When was it uttered? Give us the particulars. We deny the statement. We believe it is a lie. Not a mistake, but an intentional falsehood, manufactured to deceive and to serve as a ground for making it appear that the "Mormons" holu to something which they do not believe, and which is, indeed, the very opposite of that which is taught in the revelations of God to the Church. So much for the first of those assertions. Now the scribes who delight in such lying may go on repeating their fabrications as often as they please, but they will not, we suppose, offer any more, as proof that what they state is correct, the further falsehood that it has never been denied. Our denial is both general and specific. If there is anything "mean" in alluding to the dissatisfaction of last summer, was it "mean" for the Tribune to give voice to it at the time? And how much "honesty" does that paper exhibit in stating, today, that the service was infinitely better than ever before, after its own reflections upon that service last summer? "It is just as well to be honest once in a while," but no one should expect that the meanest paper on earth will ever re Now as to the second. The Tribune "JUST AS WELL TO BE HONEST." pent and be honest, even for a day. has repeated that lie a great many times. Perhaps the person who reiterates it has come to believe it as true. started with one of those pretended ports of "Mormon” public speeches, for which the Tribune has made itself no torious and infamous even among many of its own party. It is another lie without foundation and without excuse. A PERTINENT INTERROGATIVE. "Do we live in a country in which the criminality of an outrage depends solely upon the number of leading citizens who engage in it?" "THE News is very mean in its comIt of the complaints of last summer. ments on the street sprinkling, and tells It is re-just as well to be honest once in a while. There was more sprinkling done last THE advocates and apologists of the summer than was ever done in four or lynchers at New Orleans would do well five summers before. The service was to ponder on the subjoined query, infinitely better and more widely extended than ever before, and it is only which is taken from the Galveston fair to say, too, that with the well News: sprinkled streets there was less disease, fewer funerals, less business for the doctors and undertakers, and less sorrow in President Taylor never made any people's houses; and the people in all such statement and never entertained American cities are willing to stand a any such opinions of the teachers re- street rising in dust and blowing into the fair expense to prevent the filth of the ferred to. We know what we are talk-threats of their children and into their ing about. No pure woman, whatever houses." her religion or profession, was ever in The foregoing is of course from the any danger of slander or indignity of editorials columns of the Tribune. "It any kind from so high-souled a gentle- is just as well to be honest once in a man as our late President. The author while." Exactly. But whenever was of the libel is one of those dirty-minded the Tribune honest in regard to anycreatures that revel in foulness and in- thing that relates to the DESERET fect their low and suggestive concoc- NEWS or to any matter in controversy. tions into the columns of the Tribune, Here is what we said that has evoked where they find a fitting place. the above quoted comment: Subjection to every government under which the Latter-day Saints may live, is a duty imposed upon them by divine command in addition to their civil obligations. They show their faith in this injunction by their works. They are a law-abiding and patriotic "Last summer there was a good deal of dissatisfaction in regard to the imported street sprinkling service. The grounds of protest were that the sprinkling district was too large, the price (8 cents a foot frontage) too high, and the service inadequate. Numbers of people That is a brief but complete answer to the so-called arguments of the defenders of mob violence and irresponsible "power in the people” sophists. A good question for debate is, What is the difference between lynchers and Mafia members? One defies the law at night, the other in the daytime. It seems strange a civilized nation on this side the Atlantic shouli uphold one, and a civilized nation beyond, the other. Reports from Plymouth, Pa., state that the condition of coal miners in that region is bad. Fifteen colliries in this district average about seven days a month. Miners are drawing only $12 to $20 per month. Men with families are in desperate straits. |