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Show JUSTLY ASTONISHED. This morning's Herald says: "Tho Herald is astonished to learn that a misconstruction mis-construction has been placed upon some of the language used in an article in these columns last Saturday morning, speaking of Bishop Sharp's case." The Herald is very properly astonished that a misconstruction miscon-struction has been placed upon some of tho language used iiiks article of Saturday Satur-day morning. That"a misconstruction should be placed upon the Herald's language lan-guage does not astonish us so much as j the fact that any construction at all could be placed upon it. As we read and re-read the article to discover the i opinion of the Herald upon a question I which was agitating the entire Territory, I the conclusion that its language was i mild and blissful, without object or ar gument, such as a lisping balx might i have readily comprehended, came in vol- untarily and irresistibly into our mind. ; The mild and non-commital language of the Herald on Saturday morning in regard to the Sharp caBe was only surpassed in manner by its article of Sunday morning ; on the same question. The 7raW ' article of Sunday morning on the Sharp ; case was probably the most jwwerful, j eloquent and convincing piece of writing . that ever appeared on the editorial page ! i of that paper. It was clear, correct and convincing; in fact it was a pure white : article, pure and white as the robes 6l , the angels-when they hymn forth theii matins in praise of their Maker. It spoke of Bishop Sharp's case, a case- the most important of its kind that has yet occurred , in Utah, in this language : -"After all, when one for a moment frees his mind from the social, religious and political : turmoil and strife that, like the poor, are always with us here in Utah, and contemplates con-templates the situation and surroundings and prospects coolly and intelligently, he cannot help the feeling that it is 'good to be here?'" If we do not misconstrue the Herald's language we should say that such is tho case exactly. Perhaps no more intelligent and incisive sentence was ever written concerning the Utah question and Bishop Sharp's attitude in relation thereto, than the above from the Herald. That judgment on the Sharp case is not of time but of eternity, if Car-lyle Car-lyle is correct when he says that speech is of time, but silence is of eternity. |