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Show AN UNJUST POSITION. The New York Sun, in a recent article, arti-cle, takes ground against some bills before be-fore Congress to grant land in aid of the construction of canals, for irrigating irrigat-ing purposes, in Utab, for the reason that the proposed corporators are Mormons! Mor-mons! This is a most unjust and on-fair on-fair position. Here have the Mormons been engaged for nearly twenty-four years cutting canals and irrigating ditcher, at a cost of millions without receiving any public encouragement, and because it is proposed to grant aid in land to bring water out of some of the rivers on to bench land otherwise unprofitable, an! rendered necessary by increasing population, the Sun raises a protest, simply because the corporators corpora-tors are of those who have spent so much in cutting canals and digging water ditches as a work of sheer necessity ne-cessity to obtain subsistence. Probably the Sun is prepared to tell what the present value of the land proposed to be irrigated is to the government. gov-ernment. It has probably cast a glance of S'iit-light over the Weber bench or the Bear -river plateau, and can tell how many people would be willing to purchase homesteads in either place without water being brought to them. If it has not, we can tell it, that Government Gov-ernment would make a good bargain by selling most of the land referred to, as it is to-day, at hall'-a-dollar an acre ; and buyers would think it a tolerably high price to pay for uncultivatable sand ridges. Some eastern journalists would gain more extended views by spending a few Weeks traveling in the west. As it is, they -eem to think that all the land in the west is "covered with bright green grasH, and only need the plow of the husbandman to be turned into it, that heavy crops may be gathered. If they tried it they would know better. Had the Sun. opposed these measures meas-ures on the ground that it was time I and grants by Congress should cease, we would have said nothing about it, though Utah might juitly claim a share ,till, having done so much to make the public domain valuable and received so little for it But we cannot but characterize charac-terize the ground on which the opposition oppo-sition is based, as flagrantly unjust and unworthy of a journal of the iriflu:u:o and aocoiuVI intelligence enjoyed by ho .V'ii. . |