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Show Till: BRAND OF Tilt: CHURCH. Not long since there was a very general gen-eral movement throughout t he territory in favor of division on national party lines. With it there was a distinct understanding that tho question of statehood was not to be taken upitt the present time. The leaders of lioth republican re-publican and democratic parties gave repeated assurances' that they did not want statehood just yet; that they would make no efforts to obtain it. They have proven false to their promises, prom-ises, Tarty division has not yet become an assured fact, but already tho democrat demo-crat ie leaders in this "jty have prepared a bill for practical statehood for Utah, and through the mormon delegate have secured its introduction in congress. Tun Tivtl-s has always been opposed to immediate statehood. The mormon question needs more working out; needs to be mellowed by time; needs a gentile majority that can on a pinch givo it nn everlasting quietus. To this alleged democratic, measure we ore unalterably opposed. It is n frond, a trick. It bears on its face the brand of the church, and is about tho most transparent scheme the church ever tried to work on the national government. There never was such a thing as an honest attempt al division on national party lines in Utah. Tin: Timks once thought there was, but 1 his 1 i 1 1 proves directly tho contrary. It is draWB Qp with tho f aruo skill autl OBDBitlg that has ho often air lint batllerl tho national povernment in its (loaliiigs with Utah. ib demamls statehood while professing to want nothing of tho kind. The Mormon church has always been most fcrtilo in rssouroes common to the conlidenco operator. Many of US, however, how-ever, hail hoped, since issuance of tho manifesto and the dissolution of the people's party, that its profession of reform was sincere, and a considerable number of non-mormons have been credulous enough to believe so, even following tho evidence to tho contrary afforded by tho trickery aud duplicity that cropped out so prominently promi-nently at tho eleclioa of last, August. This new trick for statehood, however, has completely tilled the measure of ev-idenco ev-idenco of utterly bad faith, so much so indeed that it has slopped Oyer sufficiently suffi-ciently for a blind man to seo it, autl, The Times will havo nono of it. |