OCR Text |
Show We believe that even the Tribune would adtuit that the best thing that could possibly happen for all the people of this territory would be the elimination elimina-tion of the church question from politics. poli-tics. This cannot bequestioued; neither can it be doubted that the time when party division must take place here can-uot can-uot be long staved off. The mormons, as a church and as citizens, have as much interest as any other class in bringing about a new order of things under which the people can devote themselves to forwarding the material interests of the territory. They sLpw theythat fully realize this, and reasoning reason-ing men among the gentile element cannot do less than take a similar step forward. Under the conditions that plainly exist, the Tribune's pictures of political maneuvers on tho part of the mormons are highly ridiculous. There area great many people here who profess pro-fess to be deeply concerned for the welfare wel-fare of Utah, but who insist on waving the bloody shirt iu a manuer that is highly injurious to the interests of the territory. They have fought mormons so long that they cannot or will not believe that there is nothing left for them to fight consistently, and they cannot can-not see that their old enemies are getting get-ting out far ahead of them in the path way of progress. |