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Show i assurances of good faith; we have the extraneous evidence that they are acting act-ing in good faith wo have everything that could be asked for, whilo the Tribune Trib-une and its follow ing have only tho unsupported un-supported assertion that the mormons intend to play false and secure absolute control to themselves. Let reasoning men follow this subject sub-ject out to its legitimate conclusions. Reason leads to party division; buncombe bun-combe is the only support of liberal unity. And let us auk the Tribune who would be the real losers if the morniom should undeitake to carry out such a programme as it credits cred-its to them. We must remember that wu are not living iu 117, in lHoo, in is;,7, in nor in any other dead year, under tho conditions of that year, but iu the year under conditions which would mean disaster to the mormons mor-mons If its people should undertake to car ry out any such perfidious plan. The mormons would be tho chief aulTerers and, let us assure the Tribune, that they are too wise not to know it. TUIC TUIISl NK'S KT.NI-nY. The Tribunn continues to assort that statehood is to be immediately secured lor Utah and that the state is to be under the control of the mormons in iti every department if party division be main- tained. This is the beginning and the end cf its argument against party division, ami it drums away at it until gome- people who do not try to do their own thinking actually believe that wo are confronted by such dangers as it paints. Now- we have the assertion of the Tribune that it is the purpise of the mormons to secure statehood state-hood for Utah and then to unite in placing tho government in the hands oi tho church. W hy is that assertion as-sertion made? Simply because something some-thing is needed to rally the old liberal feeling. Tho Tribune knows that po-lygamy po-lygamy has been renounced in good faith, and that the people's party has been dissolved in good faith, but a word indicative of its knowledge would plunge the liberal party to ruin. Tho people are rapidly accepting the manifest mani-fest evidences of good faith on the part of the mormons, aud the only hope left for the organ of the liberal party is to set up this scarecrow and ring the changes ca it in the hope of arousing the fears of oue class aud of stirring up the prejudices of another, so that the liberal ranks can be maintained. main-tained. Opposed to the assertion of that paper pa-per we have the solemn statements cf the mormon people that, as churchmen, they are out of politics and that no attempt at-tempt will ever be made to set up a mormon government here; we have their earnest assurances of absolute pood faith; and in addition we havo a mass of circumstantial nvidonce showing that they are giucere. The outside public knows that it is to the best interest of the church to keep entirely out of politics, aud there is a preat accumulation of evidence wbich goes to show that the mormon people are of that same opinion themselves. In ihort, we have the reasons why the rliormons should have done what ias b!en done; w have th evidence ihowing that they are alive to the argency of those reasons; we lave the acts of good faith tm their part; we have their |