Show editorials f manufactured t INTER VIEWS ti anthe IN the letter latter from our washington correspondent published in another pant part of this paper reference referenda refe renea renoa is made to th the reported interviews with hon george Q cannon which have ap feared in the publio public prints we ibave alave well understood that in many respects those reports were not genuine those who are fa familiar mIllar with the situation here and acquainted with mr cannon could perceive the numerous errors in the press dispatches purporting to relate conversations with him they contained too many inaccuracies to be faithful accounts of remarks made by that gentleman who is too tao thoroughly posted on utah affair affairs sand and the benu senU sentiments ments and attitude of the mormon people and too cautious and exact in his hid utterances to make use of expressions that ahat have been attributed to him by enterprising representatives of eastern journals it will be been seen from our lashirl Wa washington shirl 0 letter that a telegram concocted in utah and sent east from frum ogden containing many flagrant errors hu has toiled the tha basis of some of tha tho ie zo ported interviews with mr cannon it is very unfair both to the mon cormons mormons Mor mons and to tho the gentleman who so ably represents them to bastea fasten upon nim me the nonsense fabricated by antl anti mormons cormons Mor mon mons yet many newspapers in addition to publishing bli bit shing accounts of the fiu Plu I 1 alleged I 1 eged interviews have bommen commented t extensively upon mr cannons remarks manufactured for him by lively press reporters taking for granted that they were his views as an authorized exponent of the tho bys tem tern known as mormons cormons Mor mons we protest against this as injustice to him and to the mor mons yet there are many papers which would much rather publish the stuff made up to deceive than any true and reliable explanation of the principles and policy palley of the latter iatter day saints however we consider it night right to draw attention to of the reports of interviews which occasionally come bohand to haud hand and caution the publia public if they accept such auch news at all to receive it cum grano salis ap 80 em 80 THE PLAIN intent OF THE 1 LAW IT Is worthy of special note that during the tee consideration in congress of the amendment by which the governor Govern orlof of utah was empowered ia to fill vacancies under a certain probable contingency the soundness odthe of the hold ovens overs over principle jross adal admitted tied and sund declared during the discussion of the meagre measure hi in the senate ib it could not be denied that the principle would hold good in the Terri terni territories tories as it does in the states aud and during i g the debate in the house home it was plainly expressed as the unanimous opta opinion ioa ion loa of the tho con ference committee coni composed posed of members ot of both bolh taisea and was not disputed by a ingie lagle member of either the or of lne une house houss if bad had been familiar with the utah statutes they would hive have seen that the amendment was totally unnecessary they were ii unde ader rhe the impression that there was no provision by which ane sal fal failure ilare of the august election could be remedied and anat unless congress legislated fb oon foe the he emergency the whole territory would be without a leal legal officer they were mistaken la in supposing that all the utah local officers are ard to be elected the same year andl they asre not noi awagain uon non how now many in instances stan ceil yeek it P s provided by our At atutes statutes that the terms of office bhail ahall cai continue until bora sora am are elected and qualified N nhat nhav they desi designed gneo ai as they de oared dared in so many words was that aino no an ar should through the failure of the august election ss and to prevent this they BO so the amendment that the Ga governor vernor should 1111 hll buch euch vacancies Cles cies and such yai n might be caused through gh the fall fail failure uret of the election it follows then beyond a doubt that in those oases cases where the law provides that the incumbents shall hold their for fon or a certa la n period iland and un successors are elected and th therea ereis no vacancy and therefore there ethere cabbe can be no appointment i the amendment was rejected by the ae committee on appropriations but when it came to ule vie t e conference committee it was accepted with some others byway by way of compromise each hoube house receding from bome some of its objections object ions iona to the others amend ments menta in the conference committee mr blackburn desired a change in the amendment concerning utah to make it clear and beyond ques tion that no appointments should be possible in cases where the law provides that the incumbents shall hold until their successors are elected and qualified but every member of that committee as stated by mr butterworth and acknowledged by mr blackburn agreed that this is exactly what la Is provided by leaving the amendment in its ita pre pro sent shape under that consideration they considered mr black burns proposition unnecessary and that gentleman saad sid bid to the house 1 91 I mean to deal fairly in this matter berand and I 1 was waa going to bay say that while the amendment which I 1 of was voted down downs every memmer of tho the conference committee insisted that the law itself provided for the case I 1 only sought to make it moto moie specific and ana to give it a construction which would prevent any such practices as the gentleman from ohio mr Con converse verbe verae has suggested ted as possible ble bie sl if there is any vacancy then any auy case in which an officer is elected for fora nora a given term expiring on the first monday in august 1882 with no provision for holding until his successor is elected and qualified led the amendment authorizes and empowers the governor to fill it by appointment F eo fo o that the michi michl nery of government may go on but in no other case ia is he auth author authorize oriz lz ed ad to appoint for that would to fco mak ing difficulty and confusion instead of avoiding it and would ba be the means of producing the very evil which congress declared the amendment a in end was intended to avert it creates no vacancies it abrogates no local laws law and jf if acted upon in its plain P an intent t ent will make no disturbance an C 0 but fil ill nii nil the measure of its creation tio n as e explained by its main 8 supporters up EFFECTS OP OF AL PRES SURE SUB E THE tur philadelphia american refers to its prediction that them armone were going to offer ofner a roald and pretty effective resistance to the tho execution of th eEdmunds the tha Edmunds law and goes on to say eay asit it Is an interesting problem how far any community can be compell compelled sd by a la law w externally imposed to deist dobat from practices which its ita public opinion religiously approves the english experience in ireland does not beam seam to P promise r omae success in the attempt mormonism perhaps never wll wil wid bo be broken up except from within and every external attack heightens its esprit de corps and postpones the dissolution of the sect this is good common sense illuminated by the tha light of exper experienc experience lencs lonco a history shows the failure of tempts at compulsion such as 88 the american points out and alio also the effect of outs do pre pressure buro suro upon religious bodle bodies 3 namely to consolidate and strengthen them we Weh have aveno no fear that mormonism will ever be broken up by any means but we agree avree with the americ american an that it certainly certia cannot be destroyed by the attacks of its enemies interns discords are the only agencies possible to weaken it and eind they are rendered improbable by assaults from the outside which it is continually required to withstand the character of the opposition this system has hns to meet is buch such as to call forth all the sympathies and energies of its adherents E even ven von the slothful and are stimulated to activity and zeal in its defence by the unwarrantable and oppressive measure designed for its extirpation we deplore the exist ence and despotic schemes under color of law and national authority rend and of so iso bitter and malic malicious i dous fous a spirit as is manifested by professed exponents of christianity against that which they denominate mormonism niam 3 abut we cannot but re rejoice J oice olce over the effects effiec ts of their unreasonable hostility this people cannot sink into the inertia that tends to dissolution A ceaseless outs outside outride do pressure and excitement cit ement compels union and activity tj and thus the means intended to destroy actu actually aly help to keep alive and vigorous a system designed by tho almighty to prevail over everything that rises up against it god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform OYSTERS IN THE TILE GREAT SALT LAKE AN eff effort ort ia Is to be made once more to raise oysters in the geat G eat cat salt balt lake the telegraph states that ilat an order ha hns been received by fish commissioner blackburn from mr house an old resident of corinne utah for two barrels of te seedling edlina edling oysters for cultivation in the lake the statement is erroneously made that cathis this is 13 the first attempt to cultivate the oyster in salt lake 11 A thorough trial was waa made several years ago at the mouth of the weber biver river the tho seedling oysters arrived in good condition and were plante planted dand and tended carefully but he conditions were found to be unfavorable too much salt impregnated the water at a distance from the river the mud that washed into tho iho lake from the rivers mouth month was unsuitable to the tho bivalve and the oysters soon boon foont 19 petered out leaving not a sign of their existence it ia Js possible that mr house route may be more successful at tho mouth of bear river biver than tho the promoters of the tho scheme were at the influx of the weber but his attempt is Js not the tho first of the kind kird we should be ery very much pleased pirated to be able to chronicle the eaul cultivation of the oyster in he the groat great saline lake of the tho north american continent THE difference I 1 A agent and attorney of this city recently received the annexed communication communications which we publish suppressing thea the signature nature as a sample cleof of others that 0 reach this office nw NEW aug ests 1 to yvo the land agents agent A I 1 hear that you are axe offering homes to families that will wiil iome come to your place and join jour your church it waa haa always been my belief antl anti and I 1 have get my wife to thinking the same and bhe che eald said if bad a mind to send me a deed of a farm that we could go if you bend send thib this lease send it as soon as you jou can nand end to john ac it is popularly suppo supposed ed that this church is engaged in a general im scheme and that its missionaries sion aries go out oat to the world chiefly for the pur fose pose of gathering up recruits to swell the ranks or the mormons cormons Mor mons regard regardless les ies of tho the character berof of those who can be caught in the mormon net thib this iden idea has bas been foster fostered td by the pulpit and the press opposed to our oun inith faith and we the language we havo have tied used hero here is theirs in substance if thi this swezo the tho object in view we bave save a great deal of trouble and expense by publishing invitations inducements to persons desiring to emigrate and offering pecuniary assistance the pr preaching aching and traveling of our missionaries sion blon aries arlea might be dispensed with almost entirely we could bring the people here by thou thousands cand sand taking stakIng our choice of applicant but this is all a mistake tho the mon uon Mor mormon mons church bab baa a mission to perform included in whiz which are the gathering of the saints of god from all parts parta of the earth and the building up of zion but bat these aro arc consequent upon the great gre t work ol 01 0 pr preaching taching the gospel to ali all nations nation as a witness of the approach of bithe the end this duty rests upon the whole church let fenet every man that is warned warn his neighbor Is is the divine command to us the he first step in the latter day work is the preaching re ching of the gospel this la 13 fou bov followed wed by administering baptism for th the 0 remission of sins to believing and repenting repeating persons then coin corn comes the leyings 0 oa on of hands for the kuo blo gift of ul the holy tAll tail this precedes the gathering we wo havo have no 0 kuo blo ul the holy tAll tail this precedes the gathering we wo havo have no general 1 immigration or colont colonizing zig scheme to promote the conversion of people from error and bin sin ia Is what we have havo in view il and the gathering Is a continuation of the work that convents converts con verts m my ay iy congregate together where they may more fully practice the religion they have embraced than is possible pos to them in a scattered condition and that the zion of god may inny bo be established A the supposed Inducement inducements ss offered to t eople to emigrate by ty mormon missionaries have no exis tenc teno except jn in the fancies of those who invent them it id is not true that people labroad are promised land laud and sustenance and other temporal favors to gel get them to emi gate there thore is ne no need of thib thia more people desire to come to utah than means of assistance can be obtained for our wok of gathering is consequent upon the reception of the buths i u we preach in t toe n e hearts and lives of con cou converts verts no conversion no gathering it Is the bringing together of the leet elect 22 the temporal redemption of the saints bainte not an indiscriminate dio criminate collection of people anxious to better their material condition of course a few disingenuous persons incited by unworthy motives mingle with the throng of those who come kinf slaying ing the songs of zion and desirous of serving the lord and they soon manifest themselves and exhibit their true designs they the usually become enemies to the men who have assisted them this isto Is to be expected ingratitude is generally allied to thib the baseness of tre hypocrite everyone who professes to be a saint must have at some time the opportunity to prove hime eif elf the writer of the above letter merely wants pecuniary assistance to come hero and make a homo home he therefore profet professes ses belief in our cread there is little doubt that he fie knows nothing about it we have no scheme to immigrate such individuals vi we are lot nob not anxious for their theft presence of belief amount to nothing mere ascent assent to a form of faith falth does not noi avail our church is not made up of pretenders ten tenders derp derk those whose hearts are not in it cannot remain attached to it and we do not wa wish sh to nid aid such in moving to this part of the world but the if honest in heart who receive the truth in the lovd love of it obey I 1 in sincerity and wish to gather with the saints as a natural consequence of their faith and obedience have our sympathies wherever they may bo be and wha whatever tevor their country or condition wo we gladly hall them a brethren and are willing to help them all that lies in our oar power to come from 16 the four cor ners nera era of the earth and join oin in ines es the zion of our god there is the difference we wish every everybody body could be made to understand it concubinage AND aed THE TEE CHURCH OF E A ciway almay man wAN of the church cf of england has made some stir in london 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