Show N6 CONFIDENCE 1VIIATEVE11 If the interview between Governor West and Apostle Lorenzo Snow at the Penitentiary on Thursday last accomplished accom-plished nothing else wo are clad it gave the venerable prisoner an opportunity of expressing the sentiments of himself and his people in relation to Zane and Dickson The course pursued by these men and others of their kind in their official career in Utah has been such as to fully warrant and justify the opinion formed of them by the victims of their spite and hatred Representing a government which claims to be the greatest and most magnanimous on earth they have evinced a narrowness of soul and cruelty of disposition worthy only of savages Professing to love liberty they have practiced tyranny in its pettiest forms appointed administra tors of justice they have used their power as a means of oppression the supposed exemplars of fairness and impartiality they have allowed favont sn and prejudice to control their official actions pretended foes of vice and immorality they have permitted it to run riot and even taken pains to shield it from punishment when the culprits were not Mormons representatives represen-tatives of law and order they have twisted and trampled on law and tu rued order in to chaos in their mad zeal to obliterate Monncnism the boasted and boasting exponents of Christian ivilization which is only superior to heathenism in the inculcation and practice prac-tice principles among the greatest which are mercy truth and charity they have made their names synonyms of cruelty trickery injustice and oppression op-pression Such are not the men to inspire COB fidepce in any one Men must be true to their professions and to the principles princi-ples they claim to representbefore they are entitled to either confidence er respect Such sentiments are reserved for men like Governor West and President Presi-dent Cleveland who are evidently actuated actu-ated by kind motives and a desire to solve the Mormon problem in a humane hu-mane and ChristiAn like manner not forcreaures with hearts of Masse and principles of indiarubber like Zane and Dickson in whom the Mormon Mor-mon people as Apostle Snow d clsr scan s-can have no cpafideaee aterer |