Show 1 esse AHK amb AND ciry eiry SALT lalle laile CITY july alst 1872 I 1 never realized or appreciated the description given by travelers in arabia of the oasis in the desert until my arrival in this beautiful valley after a sojourn of months montha amidst the sage bage brush of nevada I 1 wonder at the improvements prove ments and as aa time passes the wonder increase the cormons mormons have created for themselves a in the building up of this beautiful city that will be a p ide and an ornament when their traducers traduce rs will be forgotten no other people would or could have made such progress in material and industrial du wealth as have the mormons cormons Mor mons saying nothing of the disadvantages of location and the prejudices of fana fanatics ties against them this territory can be ba aptly termed the beehive of the continent the people are industrious frugal and temperate aud and at the same time the most hospitable I 1 have ever met with I 1 have seen three different it ir ties of california prospectors who had been absent for several weeks and they unanimously speak well of the kindness and hospitality they met with while traveling through the mormon settlements in the southern portion of the territory and every gentleman and lady visitor to their city speaks in the highest hi grest terms of praise of the reception they meet with here much has been written of the wags and carpet in the southern states but if worse specimens of that genus can be found outside of this territory the language does not nod furnish words sufficiently forcible to do justice to them A comparison between the mormon and gentile in this place as aa representative people will not redound to the credit of the latter here there are more grogshops grog shops houses of ill lii fame and d gamblers than in any city of the size in the Ui nand od all are gentiles the mormon authorities levy license on the grogshops grog shops the payment of which is re aisted and appeals taken to higher courts the mormon police do their best beat to suppress gambling and houses of ill fame bu but bul t meet with determined opposition and denunciation from the gentiles the gentiles with few exceptions form a phalanx to oppose any and all enactments pertaining to mor emanating from mormon rulers the mixture in the witches caul eaul cauldron cauldren dron in macbeth was not composed of more incongruous elements than is the phalanx in this city who are opposed to order and law here we have the robber gambler gro grogshop shop man mau spiritualist prostitute psalm ainger singer apostate and josephite Josep hite bite ite banded together gether to to oppose brigham young As said in a harangue on saturday last we care not who rallies to our standard anything that is opposed to the damnable church despotism each esch sect separately denounces brigham Brig liam young and the mormon church from its standpoint and joins hands bands with tho the others he the old battle of the autis ou verbus the ins 11 persecution will never disrupt the mormon church but on the other annd will cement cemen tit Vit it tho stronger the mormons cormons are anxious for gentile immigration of the better class and bro bre willing that their religion be compared with other sects all belog being equal before tho the law many of their leading men have said to me if our religion stand the test let it sink into merited oblivion occasional sacramento union rn IN view of the enormous and malignant slanders indulged in toward tho the people in this territory by their enemies and the uns unstinted tintel vile abuse which is poured out by a few unprincipled stump orators and filthy sheets devoted to the purpose of overthrowing the liberties of our citi citizens zerla zerra th the 0 follow inz in extract from the new nev york star will be found most appropriate the writer could hardly havo have described the character practices and purposes and the tendencies of the bawo bamo I 1 or of several prominent persons of the rabid an anti antl ti mormon and anti utah elas eias classes ses bes it is almost impossible to imagine anything more false slanderous abusive vile A brutal and filthy than tho two strains in which such creatures sometimes indulge when they got excited against the tho people who settled and developed this territory truth civility fairness every honorable feeling and sentiment appear to be forgotten whon when certain characters get their high heeled boots on and open their mouths pertaining to anything connected with the views and polien of the people pepie of this community lut iut read this extract MORALITY rno rne tue the personal pers perd oual orelua i and aud re attack defenso defense and retal bretal latious of our annual ind and quadrennial electors speak illy for tho the civilization of an age which tolerates and less lebs for those who indulge in such means of compassing the public rood good or their own personal ambitions government which should be for the good of the people is worked as if it were a machine constituted expressly for the purpose of oppressing and swindling the people in this country it appears to be ba a bottled settled thing that the party in power is entitled to run the machine for and in behalf of its own friends and for the perpetuation of power rather than for the general good the idea of public justice public tc onomy economy public integrity and morality is only incidentally thought of on the eve of an im important election when each bartys stock in ia virtue appears to consist in showing up the vices vicea of the other meantime the science of government its practical application to the mitigation of the evils communities are to the solution of the great questions of the age ngo and present hour nour are left to ama deurs and private citizens for consideration the average candidate for popular favor is neither statesman eta nor patriot but charlatan or traitor to all else than his own personal ambition the noble competent man cannot get down into the mire to contend with the weapons money whisky and the like which the political parties of the day use to place candidates in office it thus falls falle out that as a rule the most unfit unlit class like scum or froth come to the surface and take the lead to in public affairs there are three principal reasons for this iet let the pay is better than they can make abany productive industry or legitimate profession and 2nd the legitimate perquisites augment the pay in money position and personal influence 3rd ard the opportunity to steal Is ia magnificent 0 so that if the two former fail the latter is a certain success it is 18 all bosh to talk about patriotism in politics it ought to be there but it when men man spend large bums sums of money and much valuable time to secure publia places they calculate to be well paid for the outlay at heavy compound interest this is about all the morality there is in politics that it is demoralizing that it defeats the true purposes ot government that it makes a buck buch hucksters aters market of places an and d pre ferments and prostitutes statesmanship out of all decency nono none can clery dery dehy i the people of this territory do not believe iu in any such political morality as that and whenever they are permitted the use of the franchise they are accustomed to vote not dot notor for fon corrupt politicians itic itle jaus jans but for their own own known neighbors and tried friends the sophistical pretensions of the unprincipled and ambitious demagogue demagogues to the contrary notwithstanding ding we might assert with perfect assur assurance ance anee that in no state stat or territory in the union have less votes been given to political pretenders than in utah such characters obtain the support of certain par parties tide for certain purposes aes to which the welfare of the community or the country has hns not the e rembret et relation A flemish army surgeon wooden shoes as aa a 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