Show 4 l1ht MURRAY A 3IOR3IOX 3IISSIOXARY It seems now to be universally admitted tL t ad-mitted as a general principle in j o ¼ i history that whenever a people or I nation devote their whole energies b in one direction they are sure to 1Tw make a rapid growtn in that direction 1L direc-tion and attain to a certain degree of perfection but this growth is i II always short lived and rapid decay Is the certain consequ uce Numerous tii Nu-merous instances might be cited a from history in proof of this proposition propo-sition Nature also affords illustrations illustra-tions as in the hothouse plant I which has every favorable condition t of growth and few obstacles to remove re-move in the way of vegetative progress 1 j pro-gress but such a plant is weak and i i11nI the first rough wind or chill air it qI cornea in contact with is sure to iJ ifp produ its destruction S > a people i ii must have enough of this oppositicn to make them strong and hardy Ii The more tho opposition the W stronger will become their power of 7j rI3lt resistance The stone breaking I l1 away from is parent cliff is rou hand i1 h-and sharp cornered but after a season h it sea-son of battering and grinding from tUi the rude contact with its neighbors it comes out smooth and rounded A peoples contact with opposing I forces is the very thing ttey need to i r wear off the crude excrescences I J which are certain to grow out and p 1 remain unless this beneficial force l j is brought to bear upon them i In the administration of public j t affairs when officers have everything every-thing their own way and all confidence I t con-fidence is reposed in them by all j 1i I parties they are sure to grow careless care-less and in many cases dishonest but when they know that there is a censorship placed over them they I Vil will grow more attentive to their i j duties and at least will take special I pains not to be guilty of any flagrant I li I flag-rant wrong There is nothing like I keeping alive a public spirit How I often has this been illustrated here J i i ll at our elections Where there is but i one ticket in the field and the other I party make no effort toward the performance of their duties as members I mem-bers of a republican common wealth I rd how lax do we become in our voting i I I vot-ing Twothirds of ua stay at i 4 J home and very often we go farther 4 then that even forgetting that there 4 was iny election at all until we take up the paper the next morning I lii morn-ing One great good that the so called Liberal party has done that i is when they attempt to do any dU thin at all has been to awaken a i w greater u interest in matters of public I pub-lic concern to Induce the selection 1 of better officer and to make those jy f 1 officers more efficient la the performance JfP per-formance of their duties L1 This constant clash of opinions o and interests is sure to bring about I t h in the end the very best results 4 re-sults Not only Is this true t i in regard to science but it is ii equally applicable to political institutions In-stitutions and in no case more than i in the latter will its beneficial results i4 re-sults be more apparent We would i 1 I I be Eorry for the Peoples party if 1I I i j L J L their opponents should cease their I warfare for any leogth of time We i I say in all sincerity let them go on j I if in the good work even though the I consequences may be the reverse of I what we desire The fact that it is so however Is our consolation and I solace So in the senseless cry against the Mormon people their enemies are i doing more for them than they ever would do for themselves by their 1 1L1t own unaided efforts Governor Murray z Mur-ray in his own peculiar way is accomplishing I id ac-complishing more for the dissemination iFi dissemi-nation of the principles of Mormonism I Mormon-ism than a dozen of their best I miealonaries could under any circumstances I 4 cir-cumstances He is giving the people 1ii peo-ple here a national notorietJ which iw t will find Its way into thejnost remote I 4i re-mote corner of the country into the 1st hut of the most ignorant peasant Ji An interest an excitement even I has been and doubtless will be t aroused to know something of these Lf t i remarkable Mormons that ie if t fr Governor Murrays untiring efforts i Itt It-t fl are to be crowned with succes The worso this notoriety the better bet-ter it will be for the Mormon cause by eating so much more interest and excitement The Governor in his eaaer ess to perform this service t > the entire satIsfaction satIs-faction of the Mormon Choichf ba often allowed himself to be carried beyond all bound 0 truth as in al his statements interviews and public papers When these are not sufficient for his purposes he takes advantage of the fabrications of others as the Bishop West sermon But we are assured a forgiving and Cnrstian people will overlook all such errors ascribing them only to an excess of zeal in a righteous cause A case so apposite occurs to us illustrating what has gone before When through the efforts of Murray and his colaboren ± here a great wave of antiMormon excitement Inundated the whole country from ocean to ocean a missionary mis-sionary in the Southern States made in the short space of two weeks in one small county no less than sixty converts whereas before this time though he had labored months in the same field he wag unable to get together ene ugh people peo-ple to listen to him When people hear 0 the astounding stories of I wickedness degradation vice and crime said to be prevalent here end on closer examination find they are not rso bad after all their sympathies are at once aroused in r vcr of a people so misrepresented and maligned ma-ligned In Germany a Mormon missionary mission-ary is not allowed to preach unless under the severest regulations and limilations so that very little prone lyting has ever been done in that part of the world but seeing the I predicament in which the church was placed Secretary Evarts of this Government comes nobly to the relief He fends a circular to the German government not lauding laud-ing to the skies the good qualities of tho Mormon people for what would the German people care for that Would they even take the least nofce of it No Mr Evar sis s-is too good politician for that He pursues the opposite course knowIng know-Ing the Jove of mankind scandal and how much more they delight In the bad qualities of their feJlow beings be-ings than in their good He takes occasion to berate the Mormons soundly and brand them as felons Just as his keen foresight anticipated anticipa-ted these circulars were printed and posted up in every public place of the Empire Now all that the missionary mis-sionary has to do is to inform any one he meets that he is a Mormon and immediately he is plied with a thousand questions on his religion and the people he represents be makes converts whether he tries or no How much gratitude is due for such disinterested and unselfish service All the Mormon gold collected in the past ten years in the shapa of tithing however judiciously judici-ously expended could never have accomplishd one tenth so much Though we are assured that Mr Evarts was actuated by the best of motive and that he was without the least hope of receiving a reward re-ward in the form of worldIv onn1a 01 0 still we are at a ossto know why the Tribune did not sound I the alarm Mormon gold Bat though In a somewhat more limited sphere we must bear in mind that journal Is working to the same unselfish un-selfish end During the past four years Governor Gover-nor Murray has performed this missionary mis-sionary work with more success than any of his predecessors and if r the powers that be gee fit to renew his appointment so that we hall have the horrible jlncubua to bear for another period of four years surely the Mormon people will have little J reason to complain for no one judging judg-ing from the past will be more willing wil-ling or eager to serve them thoagb of courseit must be done in his own peculiar way In conclusloa I Brother Murray let us say in your own forcible language Push on push on push on |