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Show j Utah, to the effect that "a union with mormons in national politics will prostrate pros-trate values and turn over the real estate es-tate of bait Lake City into the hands of its former owners." Jo this morning's issue we have the following: "However much some men in Utah may foul themselves, the people outside understand un-derstand the spirit of the mormon power exactly." Now, the very lai thing that a tenderfoot has to learn in Utah, according accord-ing to our supposition, is the 'spirit of the mormon power.' When that is well understood we opina that the citizen citi-zen is qualiliud to act intelligently in tlx pre teut emergency. Hut the Tribune Trib-une says that those non-residents who i h.ive never seen the mountains 'understand 'under-stand the spi.it of the mormon power exactly.' " Here is II. C. Ltrr, president of the real estate exchange, and a host of ot'er prominent realty men who feel as-wred tout a seit'enient of Utah troubles under tho present auspices would give streriRth and buoyancy to real entile. that it would also encourage immigration and a large inllux of foreign for-eign c.'pital, and that it is a positive public injury to have sent abroad daily such Improbable and dolorous vaticinations vaticina-tions as furnish the warp and woof of the Tribune the past few weeks. We are loth to accuse the Tribune of chicanery and demagogry, but in this morning's issue we have a floating specimen spe-cimen that betokens a very bonanza of political desperation and financial cbar-latinism. cbar-latinism. It has discovered that "There ha hueri a tiirhtaninor tin in thai lauttwn weeks, and all that has relieved the pressure has been the belief outside of here that this madness would soon pass by, aud that the liberals would retain the control of the city." Only recently, when the people's party par-ty journals were inveighing againut the liberal management, and giving as evidence evi-dence the unmarketableness of the city bonds, tho Tribune was extremely fertile fer-tile in tho reasons for such a state of things, and it quoted especially the general stringency of the money market proceeding from a variety of causes. Just now, however, when it suits its policy to stir up fears and apprehensions apprehen-sions in our midst, it emphasizes the continuing stringency, and ascribes it to the current movent of many citizens in the interest of peace and harmony. In one breath It tells us that recent comers are incapable judges, even several sev-eral yesrs of residence will not sullico to form an opinion; in the next it quotes the opinion of some absolute abso-lute foreigner against the business judgement and trained insight of a score of Sait Lake investors who possess pos-sess and represent millions that are at stake in -the city. The Times Is disposed dis-posed to have its readers understand to what a di.zy hight the Tribune is building its liabel tower of inconsistencies incon-sistencies and c.DUadictions. Alien testimony the testimony of men who have never seen the country is all good and solid, provided it strengthens the Tribune's position; otherwise it is good for nothing, unless you have lived in Utah twenty years; and even then it is simply lunacy if you happen to disagree dis-agree with this redoubtable journalistic champion of a liberalism that is now ablo to maintain only a stats of suspended sus-pended animation. 1 THE JAMS lAltD TKIBUNE. What a precious jewel of inconsistency inconsist-ency is the Salt Lake Tribune. It rings endless charges in the stale chestnut that in order to comprehend the Utah situation, and act intelligently in the present crisis, a preliminary and in-despeusible in-despeusible qualitication is a residence iu Utah extending from the reptilian age 1oin 10 the present time; otherwise other-wise the only safe thing to do is to accept ac-cept no opinion rot countersigned and guaranteed by the Tribune. If any newcomer happens to entertain opinions opin-ions adverse to those of the Tribune the stereotyped response is that'-he has not resided very long in Utah." For once we find a region where only fossils and mossbacks are to stand above par. Anon we find this same monument of integrity, thu Tribune quoting the sentiments sen-timents of non-residents; men who have never been within a thousand miles of |