Show r NOT A GOOD BEGINNING mr edward partridge the newly ap of the be utah stake delivered jils initial address to his flock nock on sunday in the provo tabernacle this the adal address Ss took rather it a broad scope I 1 as was wall quite mite natural tinder the circum s lances and yet it I 1 was more ample so tar far as our report of it goes upon the conling constitutional election than tens altogether appropriate espe especially c filly as regards some ot of its statements bents for In on tile the point of the dealing by the convention with woman suffrage Burtra ee president partridge said if he Is reported correctly that the majority felt in lionor honor bound to grant the suffrage extension but that there were a few who treated lightly platform pled pledges es now how IA i are convinced that those who voted for separate submission of the woman suffrage proposition and these are the few president partridge must have bad in mind had fully as grave an apar appreciation c of the binding bindig fri forces 0 of their party pledges as delegate partridge had and they are not entitled to be held iii up to alighting remarks like I 1 Is especially at a presumably religious function where it was impossible tor for them or their friends to reply even I 1 it f they AV were ce pre present jent but to assal assail them in this wa way y at such a time lit in their ab senca genes Is yet more indefensible on this point av wel e think president partridge made a mistake president partridge continued his talk in this line lie by urging his people to vote for the constitution and pointing out hint though many of our own people iiii T in oppose it ho be hoped the latter day saints will realize the im statehood and not fear the rise of 0 taxes through self govern mert io fo r with state late government will come public lands ani and other revenues to hol help pala aid us bear governmental expenses ow while we agree that the constitution ought to be adopted defective ewt aa lt may be even though taxes must lill increased by its ratification we want to see ec Us its adoption urged on legitimate ground gro we W have bave no liall dea what other reven revenues to preal president partridge may have in view few that will ild ald us in bearing the add additional burdens of 0 state government but Is nothing of the kind to be people will have to pay all the themselves and so BO tar far from any help from other revenues I 1 learge surn sum that the redoval GOver government rim ent has hitherto paid toward territory alf expenses will now flow be cut oft off the other oilier revenues will work the conti ory N way we shall lose not gain by them equally fallacious Is the idea that the public bands III be available for the hi ot of timing epling tile the mm burdens on the co contrary U arary tho these se public lands ore ebirt served I 1 f for r sp specific and de fined Tun niso the grant of them ira im posca POLLS obal nylons nt lons it does docs not relieve public win alin have to care for thelie alic einda canelo lia nl them in the interest otibe L 0 o objects for which they hey are av ia taw hi tort I 1 tory is or such ell in its if tax labount kar oi t ei n never benolis one penny duj R I 1 it 1 in will III aw r I 1 iut wl to murli ex an ammi in 16 tile 1110 1 lands to lie best beat advant advah aSi tigI and the lie proceeds I 1 over 1 r t alq 0 o hal I 1 r urt funds for malch aich they 0 vil prop 1 0 o ll 11 ar partridge t r ald go further suggett suggest fl ci thil I 1 I 1 u ur or contile frie in the co chuven ure 1 lt lei N had a rancorous spirit find and whit wine me ot of them showed a disposition IO SILlon I 1 accord to the mormon morl mori rc 1 I 1 cothers did not but intimated they NY ly re rc acting the pert part of hypocrites tl T r it la rather it rasping statement to it ike ko and yet ill calvent pari gadt adv that obnoxious gentile suspicion abc recognition that lie ho warned the people in veiled buslon alluN lu slon lon to beware I 1 oe at the low law meaning no doubt the law agalli pt polygamy poly camy this warning was wo tin no doubt considered by president partridge to bo be well timed or op lie would not have conald ored it worth ahila to give elvo it but laying tit tin cause tor for that warning upon ti a rancorous ou gentile spirit was hii riot not wise or time lv IV if there was no occasion for or that warning he h have given ll it no matter what rancor might charge if 1 there was occasion occa ilon to give it the warning should riot not have been founded on any such ouch petty pica as aa hostile rancor but should have come 80 solemnly from tile the heart of the leader ot of that section of oc the people so an something both needful and earnest in their hii own n interest we ve cannot say that president rait ridge well in hie a administration dinini and commend to him tile hie old political maxim dont talk |