| Show PHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THE METHODIST university judge dusenberry is reported to have said some very hard things in tb cham her of commerce a few nighia ago when that august bc dy discussed THE pro and cou wo regret that the judge has so far dropped from the dignity of a gentleman as to indulge in the use of such slang phrases that might have been pardonable in provo thirty years ago we leave him to shoulder and strap upon his own back the thing mohawk and the mephitis Meph ites americana and shout youre another until he is hoarse and wo will quietly let him enjoy the benefits of his allusions tho gudme by his manner of expression has lost in his own estimation and in the estimation of the community his equipoise and had suddenly plunged into deep water and like the a genus of when alarmed begins to discharge a densely black substance dis coloring the water behind which it endeavors to hide itself entirely from view THE ENQUIRER by its erudition saw what u leep laid project was being perpetrated pet rated upon numbers of the mormon clerch to induce them to aid iu the erection of a university under the auspices of the methodist per and it very properly and earnestly opposed it believing that every member of the church not already attracted in its favor would endorse our action the chamber of commerce composed of cormons mormons and aou were induced to bring the matter prominently before the citizens oe brovo and the judge was one 0 the foremost fore moat in alvn eating the construction of the said university ver sity the objections raised by the to such a scheme was no e signed to tightly draw the purse strings of alie methodist treasury and thereby place an obstruction in the way of their investing a half a million of money for that purpose but in a legitimate manner check members of the mormon church from participating in it and direct their material efforts in promoting their own cause this is the height of our offending and for this some of our friends wish to convey the idea that this journal is opposed to material advancement we the methodists como on with your half a million to the catholics come on with your half a million to the presbyterians rians come on with your half a million invest it in utah and develop tho resources of this mountain region we say to the mormon community combine your efforts and found at least one educational institution in utah and make it the highest seat of learning in the rocky mountains that it shall not be necessary for our young men or young ladies to go east to graduate in the higher branches we ought to lift the brigham academy up to the highest plane of normal training and give it a capacity to turn out at least from fifty to cne hundred normal graduates every year we shall continue to advocate the combination of mormon capital to build up their own church institutions and leave our methodist friends to freely appropriate prop their funds as they chose if in pursuing this policy we meet with opposition from the outside element we cannot help it united we stand divided we fall every latter day saint can pee the fallacy of division in alie charch and the direful consequences that will undoubtedly follow |
