Show spirit of hie the press salt lake like tivies rep keep in mind the fact that there is nothing in the history of the past to justify judgment of bad faith the word of the mormon people has never before been pledged in III euch ouch a matter whenever it has lies been pledged in any matter it has been kept it is not a sound argument to say that because they have practiced the arta arts of 0 politics against us in be the battles of the past they cannot ba be sincere now when hen with their arms stacked they come forward and tell us that they realize that they have been beaten oh on all the points for which they fought that they accey accept t the verdict and that they are sire ready to join with us under it in healing the wounds of the long con flicht and in advancing the best interests of utah right is right and wrong is wrong we cannot condemn the mormon people in the attitude in w which they stand today to day without committing comm bitting a wrong that reason and conscience must at once cry out against remember that there is no ground in in reason for supposing that they are not sincere and remember fat further ther that it if they are sincere it would be a calamity for utah if the gentile people abol should refuse to credit their ir sincerity look over the entire q question in the light of reason examine it la in all its hearings upon the welfare of this great territory weigh it in the balances of truth and justice discarding prejudice and bitterness from its con consideration 0 u and then take a stand for the right san francisco chronicle the iron tron era bra of dover N J contains an interesting criticism of a part of the new newyork york city press in which it justly observes obe erves that every subject in the columns of the JW post ller alil and tima is app approached rached from an un an american standpoint and that the writers for these journals seem animated by an undying hostility to the united states and its institutions the attitude of the papers I 1 in a ques question t ion is not at all remark remarkable ali papers a it aal canies conies of their devotion to free trade your firm believer in the doctrine of cheap labor so and I 1 cheap goods is bound to detest a country where men and goods alike are valued a it trifle higher than thin in the old world philadelphia press the policy of the democratic party for twenty years past ast has been to truckle to the whisky interest just as it crackled truckled truc trac kled toabe to the slavery interest before the war aa As a party it has opposed every effort in the north northern ern states to regulate late the liquor traffic or to compel the saloons 0 pay an ala adequate license fee aa as wit me new york new jersey and in I 1 t ilk diana in the last state it has re fused to obey the plain mandate of the state constitution which expressly rd re quires U i r e the legislature to pass a license law 1 1 knowing these facts it ia Is easy 0 to o see that the iowa democratic declaration la in favor of a carefully guarded license law means simply tree free whisky |