Show AN UNEXPECTED CONFESSION CONFESS07 The News last night closed an editorial edi-torial on the progress o Utah with the following unique confession Unfortunately Utah hns In the past been handicapped somewhat by the ugl tatJona of bigoted zealots who havo not tltJons hesitated to Injuro her business Interests for their own sclilsh purposea by making nil kinds of absurd and false representations representa-tions Figuratively speaking she hail been ions with u number of cartoonists cnscr to mnko a living by selling canon tUrefl of fair Utah to the rest of the world But conditions are changing nd I tho State nnd tho people arc becoming known for what they are And there IH no reason why the future of Utah should not bo In every respect most glorious The I resources are here and the people arc here too to make the best UHU of thoMt development resources In n steady sound nnd natural I The News doubtless refers to the years when In Ita blgotry > It denounced de-nounced the proposition of building I sewer or even sprinkling the streets hero when In answer to a plea to adopt reasonable sanitary precautions to save the lives of the little children i advised tho people to rmrsue the even tonor of their ways that 1C l n child was smitten with disease to call In the elders and have them administer to It that then If It recovered It was well if It died It was still well I I was at the time when the bigot of the Ndus dally denounced the Christian Chris-tian churches when the schoolhouses were hovels when the property Gentiles Gen-tiles was taxed just ono hundred percent per-cent more than that of Mormons when devout paints declared to the world that ours was n Government temporal as well a spiritual and that saints were not bound by manmade laws which were usurpations The caricatures referred re-ferred to by the News were those made by itself when It portrayed the saints In Utah as having always been devoted Americans entirely subject to the sovereignty sov-ereignty of the Great Republic and when lc portrayed every man who in slated that the laws should be obeyed j I as a wouldbe plunderer who had nOI i higher purpose than to rob the men who settled this region of their hardly earned treasures t There is one error In the extract The people are becoming known as a people who have changed their practices if not their beliefs during the past twenty years as a people who would fight for the old flag now though of yore they trailed it In the dust and on one b memorable anniversary lowered It to mlfmast to show their hatred of a Government that demanded obedience to Its laws by the people under Its protection ection Then there Is no reason why the future of Utah should not be in every respect most glorious unless It be In the further bigotry of the organ which pretends to be their organ and run by divine direction With that removed here would scarcely bo a cloud In the soft skies of Utah |