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Show VERILY, A LESSON HAS BEEN TAUGHT. In the recent campaign, the fact has pronouncedly asserted itself that the brain and good hard American sense of the non-Mormon element in Utah is heartily in accord wit'.i the new order oi things in this territory. Even the haters ol right and justice and the bitter bit-ter fighters for spoil and gain, the hangers on to .he Liberal party, realize this. Listen to the wail the Ogden Cuiiinteicial makes: The Commercial has no quarrel with the Mormon people as such. It simply opposes certain practices of the church which it feels sure are opposed to civilization civili-zation and lepubbcan government. And it asks Mormon people to reflect tm the fact that more than G,(M),000 people, I in fact all Ciiristetidom . believe just as t! lis paper does. A man should c n-sider n-sider his ways, lest they be wrong, whin all the civilized nations unite in assuring assur-ing that he is in ei lor. The people ol' this nation w id never consent to hae Uvah ruled by any church, no matter wh..t one, nor will it ever tohrate pol ygainx. And it must be sure that they are in good faith forever laid aside b -fore it wi 1 risk Utah in the possess n ol its own politicals vreignity. It r.li take some lime to effect a 'ud and rk-cis've rk-cis've understanding, but the b"Sl ' is :o settle the question right and th'lii it will stay settled. , Yes, it "stmplv opposes ccrlain practices," prac-tices," when it knows those pracjs have been forever abandoned. Tie plain truth is that they thought there wns still enough of the carpet bag element ele-ment left in the territory to keep !he light going. It has discovered its mistake mis-take and is gradually getting itself down to that point where it will say, " We doubt; d your sincerity, but we doubt no longer. We now believe the time has come to give up the old tight, and now we will pull together." Which of course will mean, "We are whipped. At tin- outset we lost our sword and didn't know it, and have been slashing away all the time with nothing but the seabboul.and now that has all gone to smash. Please let us in with vou. that we may not stai ye completely." Well, when that time comes, which is near at hand, tlie generous and forgiving for-giving spirit that Americanism inspires will impel us all, Mormon, Jew and Gentile. Democrats and Republicans, to say, "We forgive you and forget all past offenses. Come along and do the best you can to help roll on the mighty car of progress." |