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Show A Blast from Abroad. The appended forcible article is from the licscue, a Sacramento, Cal., temperance weekly. The Jiesat$ has been slightly misinformed in regard to his Honor, Chief Justice McKean declaring all restrictions upon vice illegal; and although the article ii perliaps too severe on Judge McKean who is personally opposed to in-temperance in-temperance we republish it for the numerous truthful and telling pointi which arc made : Our report from Salt Lake Lodge says Unit city has forty -threo 3aloons in full blast. -i,000 ladies petitioned the City Council to grant no licenses, and the Council would willingly accede ac-cede to their desire, but Judue Mc Kean, who has the power to inrlict luiu and .debauchery and Sunday gambling hells upon the people against their will, improves his opportunities op-portunities by declaring all restrictions restric-tions upon vice illegal. The friends of morality and temperance in Utah will have to wait patiently till they can bid more money than their adversaries ad-versaries before they can hope to succeed in suppressing the infernal system of vice and scoundrelism which the Federal pensioners are trying try-ing to substitute for the polygamy which so shocks their sweet tender consciences. There is a law in China which, while it pronounces the most dire penalties lor violence or rebellion I against the chief mandarin of a city or village, yet excuses the people when they have been so terribly outraged out-raged by the injustice and dishonesty ot that officer, that they ri:c in their desperation and bite him lo deaih. We almost regret the Constitution of the I'uitod States has omitted milking milk-ing some such merciful provision as this by which the people of the Territories Ter-ritories could hope tor relief from the atrocious wrongs done taem by the leeches scut to prey upon them. |