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Show FLOUNDERING. Our morning contemporary, the Trllmit', hail better study up on local questions and on Mornionisni before it indulges in any more column articles on them. In its issue of Sunday inornilig the editor devotes his leader to the decadence of Mormonism, with the elegant caption "A Squeal from Mormon Propagandists." And somebody some-body having evidently loaned him ft copy of ft periodical published in riano,llls.,with the title Tin: Ti lie IMIcr-Jhi'j IMIcr-Jhi'j SiduW lla til'l, he eagerly seizes it to find out what people abroad think of Utah Mormonism. He was not aware that the said JleruM was somewhat some-what opposed to Utah Mormonism, but finding a couple of letters that were deemed suitable one written from Yarmouth, Xova Scotia, under Augusts, by a G. T. Chute; and nn-other, nn-other, dated Aecrington, Lancashire, Eng., July 2:!rd, written by J. NY. Chatburn he ponders on the lamentations lamen-tations therein containcd.at their lack of success, and in his own chaste lan guage characterizes them as a sqcal which he attributes to " Brighani's missionaries." If the gentleman had only consulted his thoroughly spiritualized brother editor of the Tribune- h:a,l, r, . or lstt'kr. T. lln'w , whichever may be tho most acceptable, accepta-ble, he would never have floundered so ludicrously. Kead up, neighbor, if you consider the subject worth ponderous pon-derous editorials. As it is, Mormonism Mormon-ism has died so often and so much this way, that few people who arc in- formed on the subject pay any atten-i atten-i tion to such lucubrations. |