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Show LYI.IO SENSATIONALISM. The sensationally-inclined journals will never tire in their prophesies of forthcoming disasters and tragedies in Utah. We do not recollect a year during the latt quarter of a century when tin-Be buzzrdi of ill npute have not been laden to the full with their croaking predictions of startling start-ling events in this territory. No crime has been too diabolical, and no tct too silly to fasten upon tho " Mormons," Mor-mons," and Brigham Young has probably been credited with' more dialKjH-m than any living or dead man. One day, according to the reporters, re-porters, ho is counselling wholesale massacre, and the next we hear of him committing an act of petty theft upon some of bis followers. He has been conspiring with the overland railway companies to regulate affairs at Washington, and baa succeeded as fully as he could wish. To avert some dreaded calamity he has deposited de-posited the bulk of his money in the Bank of England. One writer describes des-cribes him as being more despotic and powerful in his grvsp upon tae territory than ever, and another represents rep-resents him as fast loosing his influence in-fluence and hold upon the people. Some affect to think that nothing less than fire and sword will render the "Mormons" a law-abiding community, com-munity, while others are BatUfied that the death of the president of the church will be followed by & general break-up of tli religious institution and the people. There seems likely to be no end to these prognostications, and scarcely a day passes that they are not repeated with seniational ! variations. An ordinary business meeting in which differences of opinion opin-ion are expressed that would not be regarded as worthy of remark elsewhere, else-where, is magnified into a tremendous tremen-dous aflair.promismg toresult.accord-ibg toresult.accord-ibg to the Sau Francisco Post, in the lollowing coup : Thu prophet is at open war with his leading Mien, nd it need occasion no surprise if we aoon h-ar fit B tigham's abdic ition and Mt-alihy flight to Aurop to i-pond the balanco ot hid days in the enjoyment i the enormoui wealth that thy iiuip icily oi his lilbe-paying dupes has enabled him lo ac umiuate in tut bank of hr.jrlftn-1, waere ho is reputed to be Uie third iirfiett depositor. Before we have time to recover our senses we are informed by a newspaper news-paper agent that Brigham Young has pub;icly incited the Indians to resist the United States troops, and visions of the massacred victims of Camp Douglas flit before our eyes. 1 This would render our people incon solable, but for the interpretation which the San Francisco Chronicle is good enough to give the story: iirighan? Young sees his fubric melt-H melt-H away; tho houest men and virtuous Wi'Uit-n of hi- faith are seceding, and he is just beginning to realize tho fr 111 lies a-ness a-ness of a struggle against the Intelligence ot the age. lie sees the gentiles thronging throng-ing around him; he experiences the re pr-i3 ve pewor of the government in its military, iu couns, and in the more r.g omus administration of the law. Still resoluU;, still defiant, there is only lett 10 hiui the opportunity of impotent menace-Ti menace-Ti e annual conference just closed has ntlbrdod him the occasion to defy the 31'Ttimmcnt by threatening an alliance between Mormon and Indians, and in his own rugtji-d ar.d audacious language inciting them " te resist the United 8Ltes trovorument aDd ki.l all ihn dimmi States troops sent against them." ThL-is ThL-is Hndtubtudly the chattering passion of an eld man in his dotage, and may be overlo -ked, or at leint regarded as but ( the inane ravings of a fcebie frame and rifii-avinc intellee:: at the same time ill' may nut be fui gotten that by assassinations assassina-tions and bio. dy ambuscades the .Mormon .Mor-mon lead era have takt-n many valuable lives and provo-ed the government to repressive re-pressive m-asuivs that ost the nation maf y million?. With the loss of Br g-haui g-haui Young from the presidency of the riai 11 ts we hope to see a prompt solution of this ilortnon problem. It hia treasonable treas-onable and hostile purpoie shah descend t j some younger leader, it will be the duty of the government to ouppreJs tbt-brood tbt-brood by supping uion the nest before anoihar genoratiou of traitors is hatched OUL We may now breathe easier. Th dreaded calamity is at least postponed post-poned for a season. The Indians will probably pay no attention to the advise of .the lying reporters to resist the United States government bd d kill off the soldiers. The Chronicle has settled the policy of the govern-, ment, and no danger exists here just at present. If, however, the aspect of affairs Bhould change, and any of the remarkable and bloody occurrences occur-rences so boldly predicted become imminent, the Herald will not hesi-tato hesi-tato to inform its readers in season to enable tliom to escape by rail before the fight actually commences. We expect soon to see the statement state-ment that the visit of General Crook, the great Indian fighter, to Salt Lake city, was brought about by a telegram irom President Grant, ordering him to investigate this Indian story, and prepare to give any audacious red men a dose of his Arizona phyaic.and that the general went to Camp Douglas Doug-las expecting to see that camp besieged be-sieged by hostile Utes, figuring in the war dance and brandishing their tomahawks in anticipation of their scalpular trophies. There is nothing too ridiculous K-r these sensation-mongers sensation-mongers to retail; but we might suggest, sug-gest, as most of their inventions have proved visionary and false, that they now hold up a tittle white until something some-thing happens here really worthy of their eloquent indignation. This ' territory is much like any other part of the United States, with the exception, probably, that the laws are better observed here than in some communities. The people as a general rule mind their own business; busi-ness; there is a marked absence of social scandal, and sobriety and a general regard for religious observances obser-vances prevail. These characteristics do not generally exist either in a bad or a slavish community, unless the theories of modern civilization are at fault. |