Show 4 LARGE IONTIUCT The following is from the editorial I columns of the New York Commeicfal Ad vcjtiscr It is interesting chiefly displaying display-ing the ignorance of our Gotham contemporary contem-porary as to the ability and power of our downthestreet neighbor The C A doesnt know that the FrEd having declared de-clared that President ELIOT Captain JOHN CODJIAN and others are ignoramuses etc the matter is at onco and for all time settled and further controversnry is barred We can assure tho New York and Boston editors that It is worse than butting their heads against a stone wall to attempt to dispute a statement state-ment which the power press in the basement base-ment sends thundering down the age irough the columns of our neighbor Here is what the Advertiser has the audacity to remark Tho Salt Lake Tribune has taken a large contract con-tract in its attempt to prove that the editors of the New York Commercial Adeerlittr and of the Boston Transcript President ELIOT Rev Dr ELLIS and Captain JOHN CODMAN are a syndicate syndi-cate of ignoramuses and liars What these newspapers and these writers have done has been to assert that inasmuch as tho Mormon church has authoritatively forbidden its members to practice polygamy any longer and has solemnly counselled them to be obedIent obe-dIent to the laws of tho United States in the future there is now no reason why the people of Utah should not bo entitled to a probationary probation-ary self government leaving statehood out of their reach until they have proven their sincerity erity in abandoning the twin relic of barbarism barbar-ism The simple truth is that the Salt Lake ribune has lost its point d appui While po Iygamy existed it had a football to kick and now that the wind is all out of it it is forced to beat against nothing endeavoring at the same time to make something out of it It has killed the goose that laid its golden eggs and still it Hacks the dead goose That journal is the organ of the federal officeholders in Utah and naturally it is not disposed to see the power alien away from its clientage and surrendered to the people Hinc illic lachrymas 1 |