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Show TfiE Tribune, for the purpose of holding hold-ing its liberal following together, pro-ft pro-ft .-'8js to believe that polygamy is still an issue before the people of this territory, terri-tory, Jt should explain why it v.'a.s that it pronounced it dead in October last. At that time it did not seem possible pos-sible that tho paper would so soon bo left iu the rear. It could speak real convictions then, but now the truth leaves it in the ditch. On the 7th of October, the day after tho manifesto was issued, it said: "Look upon it from anv standpoint. : this is a mighty advance, aud tho ultimata ulti-mata result cau only ho the final death of polygamy in the I7nited States. The church will never again dare to openly endorse the system unless it be on somo wild island or mainland where no laws of civilization interpose to prevent. So, in any event, whether intended to bo so or "not, it means the tinal end to polygamy." Nothing has occurred since October to cast any doubt upon the sincerity of the church In tho matter-, people of all classes, wilh virtual unanimity, have come to the conclusbti that, polygamy is (lend beyond all possibility possi-bility of resuscitation; but to serve its present purpose the Tribune finds that it must galvanize the corpse. In thisjit goes farther than the church to which it is so bitterly opposed ever wont for it is not rocorded that the Mormon church ever claimed the power of bringing the dead to life. j The strike of the briekmakors in I Denver has ended, and (he men have gone back to work. It was the inevitable inevit-able result, and is th same way that all strikes for higher wages end when there is a greater supply of labor thau thcro is demand for it. Labor organizations persist in beiiif? unphuosophical in not recognizing t h it labor is just as much a commodity as is wheat or cotton. The brick manufacturers could get men at lower waiios than the members cf tho union would consent to work for, and so the coulliet wits started. After the men who had been thrown out of employment em-ployment found their families were suilerintt for the nercs-iarioa of life they did just what every othor man who has a heart iu his br.ast would do they went back to work. It ws the bast and the ouly thing for them to do. The incident serves to emphasize the demand that some way should be fou nd to prevent pre-vent oue class from taking unwarranted advantage of the necciSiUes of another. The Tribune is badly mixed up over the functious of aUnihd Slates marshal mar-shal in a state. It draws nu imaginary case of a polyxamist being arretted by the marshal and beinjr carried before a slats court for trial. If Ttah should be admitted with the power of arrest for polygamy left in the bauds of the roar-J roar-J sha't, the cases would be tried in the federal court under regulations as strict as thoso that now prevail. This sug-gosU sug-gosU that if such an arrangement could be made it would probably be readily accepted by the people of the territory. The mor mons have no desire to re-establish polygamy, aud if the subject could bo left under federal authority the bng-a-boo would be removed to the entire satisfaction of all classes. |