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Show Observer s Observationa I 1. I observe that, tho Deseret News of I Saturday, April -1. in giving n brief nc- count of a long list of principal events occurring in ls"7 nnd 1S5S omitled entirely en-tirely niiv mention of the Mountain Meadow "incident, in which a large number of Mormons,, headed by John D. Lee. massacred in cold blood "121 de-fonseless de-fonseless men, women and children. This wns in August of ISoT. That tho Uescrct News failed also to mention Iho fact that Brighunr A'oung supplied the Indians with nrms and ammunition am-munition in lS.r7 to light Johnston's army with. And that these arms and ; anui'iunitiriu woro forwarded to the In- j dians in boxes ' marked aH groceries, meats, etc. That according to a recent decision I of Salt Lake City's court, it is not ' gambling to drop" 50 cents' worth of checks into a slot machine aud draw ) out a 5-cent cigar. f That according to Governor Cutler Ihe Salt Palnce is keeping up most of Ihe supply necessary to run the girls' re-I form school. j That. Lent is about, over nnd tho ' dance hnlls aro preparing for the rush. That it takes only three lessons, ac cording to one advertisement, to lit a ! boy or a girl for the dance hull. That it is nothing to steal diamonds or rob banks. It is the poor cuss who steals a ham or a sack ol flour to keep . his family from starving that gels it in the nock," so to speak. Thnt shop-lifters, holdups and day- I light and night robbers are reaping a i rich harvest this spring. That tho motto adopt od by tho baseball base-ball fans for this season is "damn the i umpire." j That the Uepublican party in Chicago has caught Sip with the " Democratic partv on tho liquor question and is cry mg f personal liberty." Whcro now is tho party of reform? That lirighain If. Hobcrtp has been playing the pnrrot again by talking too d "d ranch. That the prophet, seer and rcvelator and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in nil of his temperance talk neersaid a word aboul , ''rl'H stopping the sale of liquor at the churcb I jtplj'H drug store saloon on Main street. j That "tho church" hasn't, said any i" M p IH thing about refusing to accept tithing I )t'H from the Saltair saloon this season. . 'j PH |