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Show IT SEES GREEN. Our usually friendly contemporary, the Tooele Transcript, is just now seeing things green. Its comment on the assembling as-sembling of the April conference in this city is by no means in the tolerant and neighborly vein of its accustomed expressions. ex-pressions. Here is what it says about one feature of the conference gathering: gather-ing: The Salt Lake papers, admit that 25,000 visitors were in that city attending attend-ing conference. That means 10,000 visitors, that must have been In Salt Lake. City during the three days' meeting, which would nearly bo half of the present pres-ent population. ' These 10.000 people would leave no less than $250,000, and there is a possibility that that amount might be doubled, as the country merchants mer-chants generally leave their spring and summer trading until that time: then, does the country people wonder why the Salt Lake merchants would like to see general conferences held four' tlme3 a year, as Is done in tho other Stak-s of the Church. And where is a city In this wide world that the members of the Mormon Mor-mon Church are more abused than in Salt Lake City? The Salt Lake papers do not "'admit" "'ad-mit" tho things stated; they loudly rejoice and boast of them. The city is delighted to entertain these thousands of visitors, to supply their wants, to renew old friendships and take on new-ones, new-ones, and to give overy one the full value of his money aud an extensive variety of choice, in goods and materials nowhere else to be found. The final sentence in our Tooelo friend's article, however, wc most decidedly de-cidedly object to. "The members of the Mormon church" are not in the loast abused in Salt Lake City. No one oppresses them; no ono says u word against them. Our Tooele contemporary contempo-rary confuses the membership of the Mormon church with the law-breaking hierarchs. "We have been ' remonslrnt-iugJwith.the remonslrnt-iugJwith.the letter. and demanding. that they shall come-wTthiu--ihc- law,' tiratj v. th'05? shall lje, in fact as well as in j pret'enaej exemplary citizens, aud that : they '5haH censo robbing the community 1 in titho exactions without accounting for tho vast sums of monoy they absorb. ab-sorb. This is quite a 'different thing fjom abusing "the members of the Mormon church."' Tho avaricious, lecherous, lech-erous, adulterous, robbing, treasonable priesthood we hold to bo quite different persons, both in honesty and iu piety, from tho average membership of the Mormon church. The latter average fairly well in citizenship, loyalty, and decent methods of living. The hierarchs, hie-rarchs, however, are in altogether a different class. They toil not, noithcr do they spin; and yet. ihey absorb to themselves the fat of the land, and take for their own use, without in any way accounting for it, the incrcaso of the whole people. And we call upon our Tooele contemporary and upon the newspaper press of this region in general gen-eral to take note of the wide distinction distinc-tion that we make, and when they refer re-fer to anything in The Tribune, cither favorably or otherwise, wo wish them to note always that wc keep this broad and high distinction in mind a distinction dis-tinction between the rulers and the ruled, the robbers and tho robbed, the lawless aud tho law-abiding. And with this key to the situation fairly in mind, tho church press in general of all this region will make fewor mistakes. |