Show the contrast mankind arc very prone to repine pino over the good old d anys ays syne and while scoring up their pre present ant ills and misfortunes nes to seink I 1 h ne jhc thc world is daily t getting 41 worse wor send and then their own particular lots more grievous rons to bear at some rome frightful murder marder which startles a community cam there bo be those thase to raise their li hands ands in holy horror borror and shout phout my eyes I 1 this world coming to tc if a chap gets ni hi erry crry over ills his cups and reels through the streets it ii Is set get down in some mens tablets as a striking eri evidence dence that this world is sadly 6 degenerating z i aerating we have ind induced eced sen seen some ord old beldame bellame while gazing n on ona a youthful party parly dancing D on the preen green roll up lip her eyes devoutly shake shah c lugubriously her mob cap ind and ec exclaim claim such things were ivere not allowed owed in my young days day truly this is getting geto tinn to be a sad sad world for ourselves ourse ives a careful carel lal reading of history and a noting of events has about convinced us that humanity as a general thing ix inoff not degenerating as fast as some follis folks would fain have ht ive us tas believe and that on the whole aj we are neither much better nor worse than I 1 on our i fathers before us mankind is pretty much t theace ll 11 n me all 0 over er the world and it requires a considerable C q n sid erable deree degree de ree of pharisaical hypocrisy icy foy for I 1 any one community to claim all the alie virtue awl ami all the enlightenment enmen t and all the morality i tant upon the earth but what we wel were e goin going g t to say was that it a ale pleasant u sant phase of human nature winch which is eternally grumbling grumble n 9 akabe at the present dreading the future aral bewailing the low loss of the bl blessings ewings of the depar t e a p t I 1 enow rax epil fining our remarks to the community ni SY in we happen to bl be wo we think we can see much improvement in the present over the pal pa pt and many blessings which have of late been showered sh upon them despite the of those abo insist on making an unpleasant pleasant Hn contrast between now and then the wi we kaew tw or r three thre dissatisfied souls who are eternally railing a at tile the soldiers s and who have probably bably worked tbt ms e I 1 v es into tho the pleasant beef that the afore aforesaid R soldiers have been the baier of ef the territory Turri teny and the curse of tile the people without pausing p just now to inquire into the motives which impel such belief or at least its eipl expression letus let us look for a moment at a t few patent facts for F or years had the people toiled by lay day and grayed by night in uncomplaining poverty the produce of their farms had neither market hor hgr ho r outlet and saving tile the few more highly faro red pinit be abc mass it was a hard hah matter t tk ek tout a klemb le exists existence enee now prosperity rosto sw afes q all over aver t taw lahd money which w wit once at ca is id plenty moil men who a few years s ainee e as they were re in poverty now rejoice rejo ic in arr ample competence for and j families our oar merchants are arc driving a thriving trade riad from its normous enormous profits are arc building attify edifices e for their stores their number i is s more than four fourfold fold increased their ir stocks are larger and more varied ever every y article of comfort rort and abid luxury is brought to our marts mar ts I 1 ad 11 d there ther e w is money enough enoi lh 0 scattered among the th e people to justify these importations or they would not hot be made all things speak jn in terms of the present prosperity of 0 f tw t ia people peoli of utah and are in klig 0 CM i iya tt tu to the condition of al cairs two years 01 o rev ivin en one year ye ar ago ag o last year at tins this thile for 11 instance with bilt tan m ordinary harvest in prospect barley sold soli on our streets at from froin 80 ets CL to 1 per bushel tp to hay pt it brings reat readily lily fi fro tu 4 50 to 5 with a most bountiful ila harvest vea awaiting the fanea fa nef I 1 scythes last year floia wag a drug iii m the ile ni market aka at 4 per cwt to adny it is is vath til and A all other products produce of ali e farm rate high atis wt rot clain aing too misch to te bay that the in atah has bas either eitel r directly dire atly or indirectly makaily to this state of things they have a home market for many of tile wt of utah which was before wanting they have k a spirit anion anio ng all claws abe ef the community they have pointed olit and andare are develon developing the mineral wealth of tile the country long lon hidden either by inertia or 0 by c commiel uwel 1 T TIN 1 W people themselves Tu inspired byth by the e in tf of common sense are awaking M to nei new pursuits pursuit sand and a new life 75 11 miner fiut industrious arious and worthy men of all occupations are ff bocking hither to dwell among our mountains arul and toil in tho the valleys ca lloys tile the farmer gets repaid for his toil not because of church edicts r ar com combinations bi nations to raise prices or depreciate currency but because all over this broad world the laws of supply at and id demand regulate the prices and tho course of trade perhaps it is true that a year or two ago main street was wai a little chore quiet 1 and wore a more sober hue bile ina anda a sabbath stillness reigned throughout the week yet we to do not regret the change and nl seo see in much itch in it for the people to be thankful for we are not on the whole whale much worse than we were then while the great mass are happier more comfortable and a nd more prosperous verily the good time Is coming comeil 11 |