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Show The Champion Blyers. According Accord-ing to tho closest calculation that we have been able to mako, from tho data furnished by the "ring" organs in their opposition to Utah's admission as a itate, the Mormons have, during the past seven months, expended five hundred hun-dred and forty nine millions eight hundred and thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty-three cents, in purchasing papers, politicians, congressmen and the public generally to speak out in their behalf. Where they got all this money way be a secret to some, but it is a very simple matter when understood. under-stood. Away up somewhere in the mountains there is a mine which the anti-Mormons havn't yet discovered this must be so for it was printed in ; newspaper once: and in this mint Mexican silver dollars and I'nitec States double eaglet are to be had foi the shovelling up. Of course, if ti were known that we had told this U anybody our precious lives would be ir danger; but we trust to the secrecy o our readers and the public general! -tt m:iv be that we obtained the hint oi this mine from Monte Christo's grotto but that's neither here nor there Armed with such inexhaustible funds the Mormons commenced buyin; up They beat the Central I'jcitie railroai at the hist ivp, as they nunaged tt buy up the Sacra memo in to Thcx they accomplished what the entire ad ministration party had failed to tb ii buying up the Cincinnati tt'va Hut why to', low this thing of buy irg journals further. It must hav; cost an immense suu, but is every body sees, it was done. How mucl went to members of eongre?.-, ani h.iT7 much weat to the thousands whi up to being touched by this Midas heap had borne ths loftiest character for incorruptibility aad hon?r. we can not say; but one thing is plain: i ; :hb is; the way the Mormons spem their hidden treasures they w:il sooi be is poor as before their wonderiq mice was diiciTernl. This U easily proved, f,r if they hd k pt the hundreds hun-dreds of mi.Joni atid th'.'U-i.id- of dullari q iietly 1 iid away out of Cm: SUn-Lih8, Vfil.ll lli'l oJi uioo hundred and .fii'y fo'ir d.Miri and eighty-three uenia they might have bouirht the en-lire en-lire anti-Mormon "rin." of Utah, eari:t-bas, deadhead railroad pas.-e.-and all. We say, therefore, they don't know h'j'.v to -;...rj.l money to advantage, ad-vantage, and iubmit the a!xve as evidence. evi-dence. KverybuJy knows, or ou;;hi to know, at about how much the mein'oers of tho "ring" value themselves them-selves and their influence, takTi in detail de-tail or in a body. |