Show DULL TISIEs rI t Last year and the present one will always al-ways be remembered as a period of dull mess in business matters in Utah a pen f mvnicTr no Improvements t wer I yj made to speak of especially in Sal Lake City and as often as this period o fi stagnation m the growth of Salt Lake 1 Ofty and the deveJopment of the natural oj resources of the Territory is spoken of I just as aften Will the memory of the cliquj of wrpet baggers who have I catt3id it p be execrated It will be uielebs for ° the Utah carpetbaggers to undertake the removal of the responsi r bihty of this stagnation in Utahs de velopmenttei other shoulders To th m rt the responsibility belongs and the y will lorevee carry it These political j adventurers came to Utah under the appointment the general governmen 4V j to udmmtster the laws They found our Y Territory a goodly pasture glorious glor-ious prospect to them for their hopes I J were nearly blighted Receiving an appointment ap-pointment to a Federal position in the Territories is the last round in the political po-litical l ladder and if the wornout political scrub is kicked from that hit hi-t career is ended as a politician Right here we should note an exception JTfie Presidents under the comcc impression im-pression that in Utah there was IR religiopolitical question difficult to understand and solve have in some instances though very rarely sought out men that were a hitle above the average of the class of the political I hacks usually sent to the Tecritprigg But f0r the most part men who accept I Jlederal appointments in the Territories i are oa their last political legs This class of men coming to Utah and < knowing the prejudice that existed against tht Mormon peope in conse quenos of their religion conceived the idea keeping Utah open as long as r they could for themselvesand then be queatM it as legacy to their class To accomplish this end they and their organ > or-gan have villainously misrepresented the Actions and sentiments of the peo pie ehave ruined them in the good opinion of their fellow men robbed themef their good name and have created such a prejudice against the pecpie of this fair land that it has be comepossible to get through Congress special in their nature most infamous in-famous laws which either castinto vile prisons or drive into exile thepromi nent iasn of the community the men who < wesre the leading minds in the Territory Ter-ritory who built up the country who I furnished employment for the laborers ad who were the brains of every enterprise en-terprise as wed as the purs Not being able to prosecute their enterprises I enter-prises the growth of our city stops The TOhels of business enterprise are clogged and upontire Mormon people isthrown the blame of thi stagnation by the antiMormons when in fact it is the result of their own fiendish work I Well buteouldnt the Mormons obviate all the dHSculties by surrendering the I points at issue Possibly they could so far as business matters are con erned but to bow down at the feet of political adYenturers and quietly surrender to infamous laws enacted at their BUg jgestion would be a calamity that not no-t disasterJiaw < iTer great in material business bus-iness affairs could possibly equal Though enterprise shOuld die to that i estent that not another store should be started or another farm opened or another canal constructed though the buildings in ossr cities should crumble t3 ruins and the farms be reconquered by the sage brash let the people take that course that shall preserve their selfrespect 2fo set of adventurers however impudent 1 im-pudent they may be have a right to enter A community and arbitrarily undertake un-dertake to alter their timehonored institutions especially when their uj welcome innovations would enter the I precincts the family for the purpose of I destroying its associations If social errors exist it is the right of the community com-munity where they exist to correct them Every needed reformation to be effectual must be made by the community commun-ity itself Cruel laws enacted under false impri ssions on the part of the legislature cant be expected to accomplish ac-complish much in the direction of bringing about a reformation Laws to be effectual must have the support of the people where they are to operate if they dont have it they will never answer the end for which they were created There is one more point made emphatic em-phatic by the dull times ofthe present i and that ia thc Gentile portion of the population cant push the Territory r I VA P i ririateti into the current cf material prosperity without the assMame ol the prominent Mormon populatioh Y < t ic has been sid j that it waj jtlie Gentiles that TUjrmshed all the i bf L ms t and push and jnerpy of Utah |