Show EXDELEGATE GEORGE AINSLIE of Idaho is in Washington saying mean things about the Mormons and pleading for the passage of the admission bill It is said that he has received 750 for this service the money having been raised by Republican statehood state-hood boomers The gentleman may try to satisfy his conscience by saying to himself that he is working as an attorney for a fee but that will not do No fee can compen sate a man for doing that which he does not believe to be right nor can any money make ingratitude right It is not so long ago that he or anybody else up there has forgotten it that Mr GEORGE AINsLna vas hand and glove with the Mormons of Idaho He used to visit them in their towns and at their homes and solicit their votes Twice they elected him to Congress where he served them quite as faithfully as he did his other constituents To now go back on his former professions and associations for a few paltry I dollars and turn against the best friends he ever had in the territory shows neither gratitude nor political wisdom wis-dom for those ho abuses causelessly will necessarily be alienated for all time while those who use him now cannot respect him THE HERALD has liked Mr AINSLIE and it regrets the mistake that he is making mak-ing As the years roll round and he finds himself standing alone he will realize that he committed the error of his life when he wasnt true to himself and without cause turned against those who had been his honest conscientious and true friends better friends in fact than he was to himself him-self |