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Show ing out that opinion. When the treaty shall become fully effective after July 1st of next year, Cuba will no doubt, become one of our important markets for the products of the farm. Natural conditions favor such a result but the Spanish tariff, amounting to $9 a barrel, bar-rel, has kept American flour out. The reciprocit3" policy opens the doors and this country will realize the greatest benefits from it, This will be accomplished accom-plished without the sacrifice or injury of any American interest, the new law simply compelling the removal of discriminating dis-criminating tariffs as the price of the retention of advantageous facilities for trade with this country. On, no! The Times has not abandoned aban-doned the claim that the Tribune originated orig-inated the story which it put in print concerning this paper. We are fair enough to admit the possibility of some careless statement having reached the ears of that paper, but we claim that the story as published was fabricated in the Tribune office. If the Tribune has any reputable authority for the story, let it produce the same. The Times is ready to forfeit $100 to any charitable institution upon the production of any man of character who will father the abominable lie and relieve the Tribune of the odium of it. The Times started in to claim that the selfish marplots who undertook to betray the liberal party into the hands of the church were the equals of the heroes of Thermopylae. It now abandons that claim. Tte Tribunr. The Times knows of no "selfish marplots" mar-plots" who have undertaken to betray the liberal party or any other party into the hands of the church. It knows of a large number of honorable, patriotic gentlemen who have sought and who are seeking seek-ing to preserve Utah from the calamity of democratic domination. Jt has compared these men to the heroes of Thermopylae and it has not abandoned aband-oned that comparison. The Tribune thought it demolished it in calling attention at-tention to the fact that the ancient Spartan Spar-tan band were all slain. The death of that bod" of men did not change the spirit of their purpose nor dim their glery. They performed a grand service and the world has not ceased praising prais-ing them. So will it be with the memory of the distinguished men who have led this movement in Utah. Long after they shall have passed away; when a million or more of people within the lines of what is now the territory ter-ritory of Utah shall be in the enjoyment of undisturbed peace and matchless prosperity, the deeds of those leaders who stood in the pass and prevented a large portion of the population from being overwhelmed hy an enslaving host, will be a theme of common praise. An officer of the agricultural department depart-ment was ordered to attend the recent state fair in Louisiana for the purpose of securing information regarding the products of the fields of the state. He was astonished to find that there were no such exhibits. The state experiment station had a small display, but beyond that there was nothing. The papers of the state naturally feel that the condition condi-tion of things was a disgrace, and they are calling on the farmers to know why they took so little interest in the fair. Louisiana is suffering from a dearth of enterprise and a surplus of bourbon politics. When it shall cut down the latter it will come to experience a greater measure of the former. New Yokk merchants have received orders for 300,000 barrels of flour for shipment to Cuba in anticipation of the reduction of duty after "January 1st. It has been held that the exports of breadstuff to that country would be enormously en-ormously increased under the reciprocity reciproc-ity treaty and events are already bear- |