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Show IIVl.VO IN Til K PAST. The Ti.mks fears that there is danger of a revival hero of that old New Kng-land Kng-land custom under which aged women were drowned or burned ou the chargo of" witchcraft. This fear U not an aiarnting one, but it is quite as reasonable reason-able as that which tha Tribuue euter-taius euter-taius regarding tho inornioiis. The ancestors of some of the geutleuieu who ia trembling in their boots be-cau.se be-cau.se ill things that were done at Nauvoo fifty .years ago, were concerned in the persecutions that were carried on iu N'c'-v Holland in the. early days. TLetc is 6;.ch a tiling as carrying .peculation to a't extreme and it tho Tribune, has nut dotio so in its hsue of iodjy, we must eouli ss that we are mi-able mi-able to judge of tho ridiculous. It actually ac-tually quotes a document alleged to have been issued by some women of tho mormon church in ibil; and this is dune in support of the assertion that the younger generation of the mormon people who hold the boards today are practicing deception noon the people of this city. If that is sound argument then we mint look for a revival of reli- g.ous prosecution, of witch burning, of slavery, and of everything else that has been btir.ed by tho advance of tho years, simply beeauso there is evidence in the musty records of earlier generation that people once toieraled them aud believed in thein. It was very hard for some of those people of the olden lime to believe that any change could come in the steins that they had supported, and it is, just so, very hard now for some of our liberal lib-eral friends to rea'.i.o that the conditions condi-tions which surrounded them in tho past have disappeared and given place to a healthy order of things, such as they themselves desired when they set out upou their early campaigns and whicli they would readily have accepted if it had been established before be-fore they had become incased in the shells that now bind them. 'J'iikTimi.s will mako this proposition: proposi-tion: if at some date, say tifteeu years ago, a change should have come in a night establishing the conditions that now exist, it would have unquestioning!)-accepted. If w hile men ulept the world could have been carried forward to the present time; if the liberals had awakened and found the old leaders of the opposition gone; if they had found young men at the holm anxious to have old animosities forgotten; if they had opened their eyes in euch a city and such a territory as we have today w ith its constantly increasing infusion of new blood; if they bad found that polygamy had been abandoued and that its abandonment was believed everywhere to have beeu in entire good faith iu short, if they could have walked forth aud found that iu a single sleep they had been transported into a now era, finding themselves iu the midst o! a busy, progressive population, popula-tion, all classes of which were inspired ' by the highest aspirations of American citizeusfiip, they would have said "Our work is finished; fin-ished; we can now devote ourselves to advancing the interests of this great territory w ith the proud conscious that we can-soon make it the most prosperous prosper-ous and the most populous section in tho west." The Timks dees not impugn tho motives mo-tives of the men who are lighting the change that has taken place, but it docs say that they have become so bound up iu past conditions that they now attempt at-tempt to live in the past iustead of in the present; aud this is very clearly thowu by the Tribune's Xauvoo illustration. |