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Show ' IlKAVV ON TIIK OFFICIAL'S. " In an article by "lirick" Pomcry on i Utah affairs, published in . his Dtmo- evert, we liud the following which is rather plain talk: ; A visit of three wetks Jo that city a careful watching ol' faints and oin-, oin-, ners there an impartial observer, an energetic laker of items and searcher for information, wo are enabled to speak by the card. When gamblers, ; drunkards, government robbers, pecu lators, and speculators, open for any- :. tbini; that brings to them notoriety or pro tit, unwilling to endorse that which may bo honest, moral or industrious, commence crusades in behalf of the tho right, it is tile to say that other t than honest motives actuate them. We are not def-ndiug Momionisiu, polygamy, the civil, uncivil, or reliu'i-ous reliu'i-ous practices of ih.o living in Utah, liie Mormons need nodolciiae from us. As ciikeus, their wurk how for itself. ( i'Licy h.iv by woik well Le-un und perseveiin.-'ly ci.tLid in, made ot 1 lull n barren pLiin, a hmJ uf il-hi il-hi and bjauuiid farm?. Tiie people of I ub, Tcaitory aic moro civil, honest, hon-est, virluou-i and temperate than QWj of Washington, the seat of our-govcru- ' menu Tuey live by labor, ariTfrugal, industrious, economical, and kind to tho ycoi The government which, through its diuukcu, yamblirjg and " ; adulterous minions in Silt Lake city, ; is wariiu-j upoii the.s; peoide, cannot ; say as much. Tiue who are there proicig to do the Wuik of Chria-ti'iii--. aud movi-j ui-oa (!u principles of MoruiouK-ia, lacked by powerful couits, ligorouo laws and bristling bay-oucis, bay-oucis, ate themselves men notoriously 1 umvovdiy the eouUdeuee of a Christian ized, eiv;!iv:ed and respectable community. commu-nity. Tiicy are men who wander through i: it community dons wander lor bjnes uti wliich to chew, 'liu-y are men suiny of all the vices so demoralising in tlu'ir tcn-", tcn-", d e nci e s. T h cy are men who d raw their insidraiieu from intoxicating liquors; li-quors; who bold their caucasses in ihc interest ot' religion in saloons and places of dissipation; who lay their plans and draft their resolutions for the cneour- ( a cement of morality in houses of ill- '. Iam-e and in the company of prosti- . ttites, patronized only by the officers of the I inted Sta-es government, who claim to represent the interest of that religious element in tho country which refuses to tolerate that which it soil' admits ad-mits to. be religion! Salt La&e . |