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Show i party when the qnestion of disbanding came up. As it result of the existence of thin sentiment thorn was sin tore rojoielng among tho mormon people when polygamy polyg-amy was renounced, a'.id it was felt again whim the people's p,rty, through iu authorized representatives, au-nounced au-nounced that the orgnii.allou no longer had grounds for its msinlemtnoH and that it should be dissolved. It follows in both rase that no backward step run be taken. Hie church, with all its 1 power, could not reestablish polygamy if it desired to, simply 1 i-eause it eollld ' not overrido thu rpi li'iti of il ni people. Tho mormon Ion lers could tot pet the peoplH to act s ,i politloil unit iirfaiti, if tlniy so desired, Mimply be-.cause be-.cause ih poopl'j do not want to j have such a condition w up itgniu. It is inits;tdu tha', it tho l ler;t! lender i-hould huc-ceed huc-ceed in gnllieriu'' nil the gentile to-gel to-gel hr in an attack upon tho mormon church, th niemheM of that church could bu rallied under their old banner; but not othcrw'aq. The parties are or-Cauitd; or-Cauitd; thu gentiles who have joined tbem will continue la tho good work thai they have begun, and the division of the mormons must remain a fixture for all titiin. Now, there aro very few liberals who do not admit that the work beinj done throughout this territory by the repre tentative!) of the two great parties it of the greatest usefulness. There are few democratic or rejuililican liberals who would want the work to stop. They are hoping for tho tu"ces of a movement move-ment in which they have not suliicienl courage to take part. Of course there are tome who would rejoice iu a return to old conditions, but they are hopeless. hope-less. Tiik Times appeals to all those who admit the login of the position taken by the divisionisu, and it syt to them: "Yes, gentlemen; tha logic of thi caso it on our side; and it goes to I f fir to the root of the matter that no i ground is leu for any man to continue to ttand upon in tho opposition ranks. You cannot, in reason, admit tho soundness of tbe reasons for division and at the same time permit yourselves your-selves to continue as stumbling blocks to the good work because of any dogged determination to cling to tome strain of former feelings." THE I.IHilO OP THE HUTIll. "The login is all on your side," remarked re-marked a liberal to a divisionist the other day, "but I don't trust them," (tho mormons.) The logic of the situation situa-tion certainly is on the side of division on national party lines. Men are usually us-ually governed by logic, but in this case there aro many who insist on relegating relegat-ing reason to the rear and taking their stand upon an intangible something thnt is nothing moro than tha lingering effect of the antagonism that was engendered en-gendered during the long contest between be-tween the mormons aud the gentiles. Gsutlemeu, the logio of this controversy contro-versy is against tho position of the liberal lib-eral party. No man will deny that every reason has existed why the mormon mor-mon people should desiro to abandon old conteulions aud disband the people's party. No man will deny that this has been done. The only question is, "Has it been done in good faith?" Tus Times has not been able to hear of a singls sound argument againstthe existeticeof good faith. We all kuow that it it to their interest and to the interest of the territory for them to be in good faith in this matter. We ail know that they fully and frankly declare the irrevocable irrevoc-able nature of the step that they have taken. As a matter cf fact, there is not a line, not a suggestion of evidence to support the charge that bad faith exists. It is well to keep some things in mind in considering the matter. Who is tbe'e in t'i's territory wtn dues not ku jw .thai a.i ovoi n hcliiiiny; majority of Ui'1 y uire-r e'.em ii of iha mormon?, with a very l"'gJ propnrtiou of the oldpr element ele-ment who have earnestly desired to see the old church controversy done away with so that they might take their stands on party lines in rational politics: poli-tics: They wearied of the unnatural conditions that prevailed; they desired to be like the people of other states and territories; and they were glad to embrace em-brace the opportunity to escape from their peculiar position when it was presented. There were two influences at work in the church for a long time prior to the renunciation of polygamy; one was that of the laws of their country, coun-try, and tha other was the pressure from within the organization, and wo may well doubt which was the stronger. This same pressure from within made itself felt in the councils of the people's |