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Show nistion that such people will have or comprehend. Thore is no doubt that in most cases of professed liberalism In the count. districts, the influence of the Tribune is just as imperious and autocratic- as ever tho mormon priesthood priest-hood h;is been represented to be in tha past. In Utiih liberalism the Tribune has tho eminence to be a little imper-linn imper-linn in Imperii), and woe betido the recalcitrant re-calcitrant liberal that !;;is that kind of independence that puts him outside the traces. What is the meaning of the Tribune's oft-repeated assertion that tho new movement is "on tho wane;" that the "deluded enthusiasts" are coming back? There can be only one meaning to it; that is, that the business men of Salt Lake are appealed to by the Tribune from a purely mercenary rtandpj'nt; that 'l they are iii'iuiriLjj for i, not whether this moiomcnt is right and philanthropic and immure, but whether it is the winning card in respect to Lumbers. Fortunately, the rapidly increasing in-creasing host who have aud are joining with tho new movement renders the Tribune argument futiio. liut it is of the inmost importance to us, and Tub Tim;'..-; wishes to emphusie this point, that we advocate this movement be-cause be-cause i' is right and prudent good for tho citi.cn, the city aud the country. This movement expresses the noblest and best confidence in our fellow men and the utmost ruiiaucu in the salutary ii t : iv Ilillllt UUU Ui illlJCll Itllll yi 1I4I:.1IIC3. ITO believe in the rectifying inlluenco of knowledge, the elevating aud civilizing tendencies uf intelligence, the redeeming redeem-ing and unifying sllecls of brotherhood. brother-hood. We aim this new movement at the inauguration of a new regime of truth, fellowship and co-operation on the broad and equal pluuo of American citiMDihip. ON THIi WA.NK. Well may the Tribune console itself with the oft repeated announcement that "the cra.e for division is on the wane." It discovered yesterday morning morn-ing l.'iat those who havo "gone (:T"v-ere for last lail'scampaign, marked "doubtful," "doubt-ful," br that otherwise they aro ''newcomers." ''new-comers." Jt diverts ielf too, with the Assurance that they, tin seoedcrs, arc "coming hack;" th.it they now realize the fuli import of the conspiracy for statehood." It catches at a straw from Ogtlcn to the effect that a certa;n political politi-cal meeting meeting was slimly attended, attend-ed, that the movement is receding in that citv; and this on the testimony of some nameless gentlemnn from Ogdeu vho had volunteered these disclosures in an interview with the Tribune. It informs us too, that in f'e country districts dis-tricts the so-called libeials are joined in solid phalanx against ilivisioc; that they are rising up ia ona (fraud titlai wave of protest and admonition. Hunce it announnus thut the movement for division is "on the wano." It is fair to say that iu proportion to lh inflation and uusubstaDtiaiity of all thess assertions is tiio mi'.crupuious-ness mi'.crupuious-ness and falsity of the gpni'r.'il inference that the division movement is "ou the wan." Takn Aliinli, for instancH. An ftcr-urste report just sent in by Albeut Ti ni-F, cashier of the Manti bank, ami suveial other worker's, states that out of nearly 300 voters there are just thirteen thir-teen liberals loft, tha Lalancu being almost al-most equally divided between republicans republi-cans aud democrats. Last spring there vas a sidit in the people's pnrty at Manti, and the result was a laree accession acces-sion to the liberal element. Now oniy those aro left as liberals who are extremely ex-tremely cranky anil uncompromising. What is true of Manti will be found true of Pays.m, 1'roTo, Nephi and every other place where the new movement has been announced. The Salt Lake liborals may depend upon it that there are only two primary causes at work to perpetuate even the spectre of liberalism in tho country districts. dis-tricts. One is the iuveteracy and un-congeniality un-congeniality of old political grudgas and reiiious fetid3. These grow like ca.ikti and barnacles to a certain cla'ss of minils, ard no amount of ilitiiiiica-tion ilitiiiiica-tion or philanthroplo warmth cculd I mollify them. EspmdaHy is this the J case when taken in connection with the j second cause, the influence of the Tri- i buae, which is tbs only source of infer- j |