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Show . . excuse to keep up a hue and cry for the love of it. Gentile dweller In the clefts of these grand mountains and within their shadows along these fortile valleys hare come to be, attached to their homes as to no other place. They harbor no ill-will against the "honest in heart" of their Mormon neighbors, and will gladly co-operate with them upon the high ground of loyalty to the republic re-public and devotion td the best interests of Utah. THE MISTAKE OF KATE FIELD; Kate Field, the irrepressible and piquant "I," in her "Washington" .of tho 15th instant, says: "I would take Givernor Thomas' word and that of the Utah Commission 'for a thousand pounds.' I would not believe Wilford Woodruff and his twelve apostles under bath." They' (press and pub-lie) pub-lie) "at once assume that honest Governor Gov-ernor Thomas and the Utah Commission Commis-sion are liars and proclaim to the world that polygamy is abolished." But, on sober second thought, the govornorsays over the wires to the Now York Independent: Inde-pendent: "If the action taken by tho Mormons was not taken in good faith, still the result, so far as polygamy is concerned, is the same. It has been burie'd, never to be resurrected." Further, Fur-ther, the governor says: "The Gentiles Gen-tiles rejoico that the contest begun so many years ago against polygamy has finally triumphed: for they belieVe that never again will polygamy flourish ou American soil; that it is. practically speaking, finally repressed." - These truthful words of the governor will cause Kate Field, the ever true and faithful friend of Utah, to put on her thinking cap, and in the seclusion of her sanctum, her speaking face will be a study., "Et tu Brute!" will find expression ex-pression in lip and eye. if hot in so many words. And yot no one will rejoice re-joice more than Kato Field to know and feel that the accursed system has received re-ceived its death blow. That it is a great point gained her womanly heart and logical mind will have to admit. She will be quick to understand that travel, business and social intercourse, increasing with the passing days, material ma-terial interest and constantly increasing friction of mind with mind, are rapidly wearing away the barriers which have divided the more Intelligent portion of the opposing parties In Utah. Life is too short to engage in fighting substance and shadow from the cradle to the grave. Those who, in Utah, have labored through tho long and dreary polygamous night are quick to see the signs of coming day, and seek no flimsy |