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Show THE ARGUS. flMtb of tbe press. The Newspaper. ; I love it as the drinker does hie wine A daily, dear companion, map of life, In busy circle, politics and strife . Of words from tart reply to those divine. ; a mine It gives alike to all who askout before the eye. Of sterling worth spread It talks to me of persons long gone by ,shine And of those passing now that brightly And fill the burdened moment with their light. No freight train draws such a commodity , to me Of varous wares as this thing brings Of Information : heavn and day and night. sea are plundered of their sweets Ocean To give me what my soul so gladly greets. L. C. Littell. HE WICKED Broad-Asays : 44 x We are willing to admit that President George Q. Cannon is one of the slickest and one of the shrewdest men in the world. While President Joseph F. Smith, Apostle .Francis M. Lyman, Heber J. Grant, Moses Thatcher and a great many others, of more or less prominence, were fighting, wrangling and quarreling with each other over the true inPresident Cannon terpretation of the manifesto, to the present was as mum as an oyster. And up his views time that gentleman has not set forth would on the late manifesto. President Cannon Broad-Aif he confer a great favor upon the views on would please stand up and set forth his the true interpretation of the manifesto. x There are The Ogden Standard remarks : claim that the advance Bepublican politicians who of the in the price of wheat is due to the passage attribute the advance Dingley bill. To what they been made of wheat in England, has not yet known. , , The Salt Lake Argus Bingham Bulletin : It is a is about to be enlarged and improved. of its class, and we shining light among journals of it. As to are glad to hear there is to be more quality it should stand pat. We are reliably informed Piute Pioneer: in that Bishop Hansen of Tropic is whisperingwas he the ears of his confidential friends that Thatcher offered his own price to vote for Moses This may not be of any senator last for spring. but if Bishop of great importance as a piece news, he did take Hansen will tell the people just what he for giving his vote to Joseph L. Rawlins, would receive a vote of thanks from an outraged for all his mispopulace, besides being forgiven in the deeds in the past. This is the last subject would world we should think that Bishop Hansen care to mention. out these a number of Utah papers are sending and claiming that supplements to their readers this trash is an evidence of prosperity brought about by a goldbug administration. THATCHER AND THE STATE PAPERS. HE PENCIL pushers of the state are taking sides on the Thatcher matter ; some are inclined to view the action of the favorably while others profess to have no further use for him. In its capacity as a review The Argus presents excerpts from editorials, pro and con. The first is from the Salina Press : Moses Thatcher has signed the manifesto and is again a good man, but will of praise God from the bottom the ladder. No matter what his any of us may think about course, it is a relief to know that the whole business has been settled. to The Nephi Republic devotes the front page the idiotic a defense of the Mormon people from ediattacks of an irresponsible Marylander and We have become cognizant of torially says : who have the fact that there are some people this combeen poisoning the minds of others in we have dared munity against this paper, because which eome to show up the unnecessary mistakes been have made and this influencing business has the done by some brethren professed to be in folto church. If this is the way they attempt those low the meek and lowly Jesus, it is time in authority know it. The following recipe appears as an editorial of last week: paragraph in the Brigham Bugler One of the simplest and best remedies in the after world for cuts or bruises is to immediately as the accident place the hurt part into water it near the boiling point as you can bear and let This remain there until the pain disappears. removes all soreness and works a cure that apThis is probably an proaches the marvelous. echo of the scrap in which Editor Snow recently engaged. The Deseret Springville Independent: someNews has an editorial paragrapher who is the News is not thing on the funny order. If careful it will discover itself quite a distance from the old rut, some of these days. in Judge Boreman has started a weekly paper to It will be a McKinley organ, devoted Ogden. review of a defense of the administration and a caulocal matters of interest. In a Republican cus recently held it was decided that the gold an organ in Ogden. wing of the party needed Some one suggested the The Standard says : Press as a suitable organ for the but the odium that attaches to that and sheet was considered a sufficient objection, the result was the birth of the Commonwealth. partisan-non-partisan- ex-apost- Hon. Moses Thatcher Manti Messenger: acknow has had the manhood to come out and attitude on several edge the error of his past his membership important questions, involving in the dominant church. That came in the shape who last of a cruel surprise to many. To those Thatcher it was the most winter unkindest cut of all. -- 4 out-Thatcher- ed How valued after Southern Utah Censor: Saint of long standing hold all does a Latter-daMoses his church membership ! All efforts for Thatcher to set himself in unity with his quorum his standing failed, yet the thought of losing could not be borne. y The Hon. Moses Park City Record:' Thatcher is again in full fellowship with the Mormon Church. He has had his trial, accepted the manifesto, seen the error of his ways, been 44 serene. forgiven and everything is again s, And so it seems that the Switch has turned up its toes and joined the innumerable throng that of the slumber in the journalistic necropolis and watching vainly junction city. After waiting word comes for three weeks for its appearance more. like an echo from the tomb that it is no It is too bad ; the Switch was a.bright little paper and Mr. Ivins deserved success. It is worth living to witOgden Standard : harmony and singleness ness this turtle-dovNews and of purpose exhibited by the Deseret Tribune. In their eagerness to run things political in this state, the News has apparently agreed does the to do the praying while the Tribune swearing. e Colonel Pat Donan is telling all about the His Klondike in the Portland (Ore.) Tribune. illustratarticles are well written and thoroughly Through The Eureka Democrat remarks : the goldbug headquarters we receive the startling ed. That the pictures are real and the descrip-is information that the whole country is on the high tions not exaggerated is more than The Argus these to say . road to good times. So enthusiastic are prepared dolof fellows that they are spending thousands this is lars in trying to convince the people that Tribune pauses in its defense of the The of free to Ornish as far There is exclaim : true, even going so to this electric trust long enough to itself lend will which to see charge, to any paper however, that we should be glad one thing, in. glowscheme, a printed supplement, painting Demoand that is on just what terms condetermined, The wide sweep. next ing terms prosperitys of gas may count upon during the sumers their show to crat then quotes from the circulars We are sorry to see that few years. absurdity and adds : 44 The facts are that Mr, Living Issues : Thatcher has laid down the fight and has meekly eaten the dish of crow. If it were his intention to do so, he could have saved himself and his exfriends great humiliation by following the like a little man, sat ample of Mr. Roberts, who, down tothe dish and ate it with as good grace as he gagged at it ; possible.. Mr Thatcher refused ; he revolted at the idea ; he vomited all over it ; he stirred it up and it looked most nauseating and smelled worse than it looked ; he called in all his friends and publicly exhibited its disagreeable loud and features, and dilated and expatiated of its contents. Jhii long upon his abhorrence he kept up for nearly two years, when he fiially sets to work and eagerly devours the whole contents without making even a wry face, under the had been added, plea that a little seasoning when there had not. The Thatcher Murray American Eagle: Mr. Thatcher cLse terminated just as we foretold. was found guilty by the unanimous verdict of his prosecutors who constituted the whole council. It was a foregone conclusion that such would be the result. There were concessions on both sides, however, which led to a reasonable compromise. We are inclined to believe that Mr. Thatcher was two declarations right in his contention that the conflicted, viz : the solemn announcements made to the world at the division on party lines, and the political manifesto of April, 189G. The latter document in its literal language as construed by all who read it, virtually amounted, to nothing more or less than an abandonment of the position |