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Show development of the whole territory in the. immediate future is most promising. promis-ing. Denver is by no means certain of being the big city between the Missouri river aud tun l'acilic shores. Sharp sighted and wholly disinterested ob-servers, ob-servers, as you meet them uu the cars, und elsewhere, will attempt to fix no limits to the future greatness und growth of Utah territory; as viewed in tlie bright eleetrio ligtits of passing eveuts. t hat young man acts wisely today, who plants himself in that fair land where he may be so useful in upbuilding up-building the whole social and religious I structure, as well as in securing for himself a good homo in as tine a country coun-try as can be fouud on the western continent." con-tinent." Tub Times would only add that such an expression from such a man as Judge K.Meicr, published in a paper of such wide circulation as the Capital, will of itself more than repay .Salt Lake for the entire outlay incurred in providing for the congress aud entertaining enter-taining the delegates. AS SEEN ItV A VISITUIt. During the meeting of tho Irrigation rongieas, it was noticeable) that the delegates wero much interested in what is called "thu I'tah question, " and in almost every instance surprise, was expressed ex-pressed at tho tondition of things as developed by personal investigation, it being iu strong contraut witb the pro-judicial pro-judicial views entertained by the parties par-ties before their visit here. J'iiie Timks then expressed the opinion that tho meeting would result in great good in assisting to clear thu public vision; that the, delegates would return home with correct ideas and tell their neighbors and friends of what they had seen and learned. That such results are being realized, is shown by an interview with Jiulu'u Kmkky published in the Topeka (Uipial. Judge Kmkkt is woll remembered by all who attended the congress. 1)1 intellectual head mounted upon his slight frame, having attracted ' the notice of all visitors to tha hall. In his iuterview, lis says: "Polygamy is dead a thing of thu past. Io young man now thiuks of iver getting more thau one wife. Ho ady within the pale of the mormon ihurcii today ever looks forward to be-ng be-ng wedded to a man who already has t wiffl. Woman is not under a cloud today, in all Utah, from any causa arising out of a previous condition of things touching plural marriages. The mormon church accepts the inevitable and says so squarely and above board. The church aud state idea is gone. The old mormon parly has disbanded formally form-ally and for good, l'olittcs are dividing divid-ing on national lines. The mormon is left by his church free to vote as he likes. There are three parties just now, the democratic, republican and liberal parly. This latter is made up of the old opposers of the mormon power, and the men who are still adhering ad-hering to it do not yet see their way ciear to leave it aud join either t,ne of the national organizations. But things are all tending toward having but the two political parties we have ia the utatfs. It is uot pretended that thu rhurch of the Latter Day Saints today Is iu politics, in trade aud commerce, in ! social life, exercising a controlling supervision of the entire psople. both in the realm of conscience and the whole outer life of the individual citizen, citi-zen, as vras once tha case. What we call Americanism a kind of manly independence in-dependence free inquiry and self-assertion on the part of tho orthodox member of the church founded by the lathers of the territory, is everywhere neert, growing aud coming to the forefront, fore-front, i "The sources from which I gained these conclusions were afTorded me l,y meeting ail classes. I talked freely with mormon farmers and with gen-tiins, gen-tiins, with tha higher classes and tho lower classes as well. "1 asked questions freely of all people peo-ple I met, aud was in every instance most handsomely treated. I told them 1 was an inquirer and seeker after the truth of things that 1 cared nothing for bygoass ail that interested me were facts." it is evident that Judge Emery ask?d questions to good purpose, and he has arrived at the status of polygamy and all its attendant problems with the greatest accuracy, iia strikes the keynote key-note of tho situation when be shows that the practice of polygamy is not looked forward to nor desired by the young generation of church members. This is the final guaranty to the mind of the careful investigator that the practice will not be revived by the church, aud it is the kev to the entire problem. But Judge EsiEitr did not confine bis Investigations to "the Utah question." - lis looked iuto the material resources and advantages of tho territory, and conceived a high opinion of the possibilities possi-bilities of this section, as is shown by the following paragraph from his inter-j inter-j Tiaw in the Capital: "The coining greatuess and commercial commer-cial importance of Salt Lake, no man j "an set a limit to, at this hour; and the |