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Show tONTMAIllCTS ITSfcX'. We must confess that we are utterly ut-terly unable to understand how a paper can indulge iu such glaring glar-ing inconsistencies as those which characterize thu Tribune iu its treatment of tho subject of pat ty organization. or-ganization. It is not so bud when il is Inconsistent with itself in different issues, but today it becomes so wild as to get on all sides of thu question in contiguous columns. It devotes one n..ll,...r. ... . . .-. t .. I i 1. .. a f'l.-,....., I... It'll ,11111 L V, j Itlllil IIUUB I .1,0 I.U cord" from which it deduces tha argument argu-ment that the mormons can nover chatigo, that they aro wedded to certain cer-tain ideas to which they will be loyal to the end of time. In another column It uses the following language: "Tho leaders of the saints are shrewd b- . .... ... tu.ao.gh to know that Uuless they can Itispend that suspension pretty soon, a mntiment will grow up among their own people that, after all, polygamy is not a good thing." Iu tiiis the paper virtually admits ill that is claimed by those who differ from it. If tho mormons, as it holds iu the other column, never could change. Utero could be no possibility of a sentiment senti-ment growing up against polygamy; hut they have changed, and tuu sentiment senti-ment has appeared. The Tribune admits ad-mits that bili'h a si'iitiiiient will come to the surface, and having admitted so much it cannot consistently refuse to recognize evidence evi-dence of its present existence. Tho fact is that the very influences which the Tt'ibunu claims must causo an abandonment of polygamy iu the minds of tha people have already done their work, aud it would be as impossible to revive it as to call tiie dead back to lifts. The church has abandoned it, the leaders lead-ers havo aiiaudouad it, the people have abandoned U: uud uffillu-r church nor people would ever desire, under any circumstances to attempt to re-establish It. The Tribune has uo other argument to use in its contest n::uiist party organization or-ganization here, aud ii is therefore a little surprising to iimt it arguing away Its own case. Hut liicu enlisted iu a desperate cause generally get themselves them-selves into contradictory positions, and our morning contemporary is no exception ex-ception to the rule. |