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Show TKRKIT0R1AL TOPICS. A correspondent of the Provo Dis-patch, Dis-patch, signing himself "A Mormon Democrat" writes feelingly about "that lerrilde instrument, the rhnreli lath ', and in agony cries lout: "Free men! If we are free men why in the name, of seventeen seven-teen devils don't they let us remain free?" A Tal k City Miner man gave a tramp 15 cents the, other night because his best girl was with him when the tramp hit him, and I hen rushed off and wrote a thrco "stick" article under the caption: "Misplaced Conlidenocl How a Miner man was recently victimized by sharper." sharp-er." The editor of the Logan NlUiott gets complimentary when he refers to his rival and says: "There is one Cod-like virtuo about the editor of the Journal, and that is, he is no respector of persons." per-sons." The editor of tho ProYO Enquirer is something of a humorist. The following follow-ing is about as good as anything wo have recently seen: Financially Provo is dead, and unless something can be done to instill new life in trade with the opening of spring, the city will receive a setback that it will l.-ike n good deal to rSCOVSf from. We have I n putting mi ini'tropolitiui airs a:nl are paying heavy taxes in support of electric lights anil water works, while the actual business of the city has increased but very little. Today our business men fear fuilure unless some united stand is taken for new enterprises. We must get them; and we have the resources here that will prove great inducements to numerous manufsc-turini: manufsc-turini: interests. Let us get together and talk up something. "Talk up something" is good. "Whisky won this election" shrieks the republican organ at Provo. The Ogden Standard pays its compliments com-pliments to the democratic legislature as follows: Utah home industry has been sold out by the democratic legislature. Alter all that has been dono and said to secure the c stsblishment of a l.eet sugar factory at Lehi, the dominant party has stabbed with a traitorous knife that, the largest and most promising of Utah's home manufactures. man-ufactures. And they have done it because they aro more loal to th" partisan dictum of the liosses than they are tn I'tah. Rather than nbatoonej.it or tittle of democracy's stnpid prejudices unci Insane In-sane theories, they would see the territory offered up as a burnt sacrtlice. Tiie sugar works at Lehi cost $500,r0 1, From present indication., that investment will be a total loss, nncl with t hat loss to individual", I'tah will lose incalculably more. But the voters of I'tah will not forget the men who preferred party to country. s Alas, the poor Miner at Park City! Listen to its tale of woe: "The Miner has for several d:i; been the ict im l the tongue of slander, and that without a vestagc of reason." Tho Ogden Standard calls "liar" with tho case and frequency of a big bully. |