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Show BEATING BACK THE TIDE AND THB SPRING. Plflfl When the tide comes in the piles of the wharf lltw-IwB resist it and turn it back for a little while and Jr pljfiH there are loud murmurs In tho wash of the sullen ' ,T f ffl waters. When the spring Is due; when tho snows A f jjfcfV disappear under the sun that is daily mounting j-'l- !l"''jB higher and higher in the heavens; after the birds 1'ollfl are mated and are building their summer houses, Jj 'JLff the winter delights in sending back his frost, to- )WMwttm wither the young vegetation and mock the efforts ''PkJH of the farmer to get an early start with his vege- t lift P'fB tables, grain and fruit. ', $!;; $ifl But these phenomena are not confined to the ! Irlsl elements of the ocean, the land and the atmos- ' $ ilfl here. j j m f jjffl . There was a. similar exhibition in a Third ward ! fra jjfjfB primary on Monday evening of this week. ! ji&ffinafl A vast mob of people was driven in by their i ifffnfB priests, to vote for the turning back of the tide; JpflraB to vote for a frost to try to kill the progress of ifl ipOl our public schools. There were scores of men and 1 CsNbIS women there who knew they were by their votes ;,,j3 ) Mm offering a premium on bigotry and incompetency, f cjffijH but that mattered not; they were there merely to fe j' ffi?H obey the orders of some bigots and the spell of the J ? MmM superstition that was upon them made cowards of I'.ilUliflfflB them all. They knew they were doing an injustice IpJIIJIctB to their children, but they could not shake off their mi 111191 fear; they forgot for the time that they were un- " -'-y fPjflBl just to themselves and their children; they voted ; ' fg ffiml for the turning back of tho tide, for the last frost M IEI in the spring, but they had no strength to resist ' if H Gentiles should note the fact .and on election day ! i fH should only vote for Gentiles. They should do JLiHi what they can to save Mormon children from the hHH weakness and fear of their parents; should do what ImiflH they can to Americanize Utah and should believe infll that discouraging as it now seems, the tide will HtmI eventually come in, the frost will eventually be fflWBm driven away and the summer will triumph, and j nfflHB bring its fruits and flowers. Utah will have to bo IfisiBjH in real truth an American State. We must not be il9Hfl discouraged no matter if faith is betrayed and StBH promises broken; no matter if the weapons of su- HflR perstition and fear continue to break down the HHI H j manhood of men and the womanhood " women, H I J tho redemption will como by and by. Out of the H ranks of the Mormon people themselves will, by H i and by, arise an evangel, who will have the cour- '$ age to cry out that God is just and that it is too H rj lato to try to introduce and perpetuate a system in H j Utah, which, for ages, in the old world, resulted H f J only in the degradation, dispersion and death of H n ; nations. On election day Gentiles should perform H i. their full duty. They may be beaten, hut if they H II ' I are no matter. The tide will como in, the summer B H i,f will eventually triumph over all the frosts of a H u I late spring, and the harvest will ripen. HI' |