Show A mormon with two wives and i fourteen children was found in provo utah recently living in a hut with one room baltimore sun it is a cold day when they cant find something startling to tell about the cormons mormons Mor mons the above is as new to the people of provo as in baltimore but the difference is that here all know that it is a lie herb many may have believed it ane way that the district court a provo has been grinding out divorces of lato has brought up the old question Is marriage a failure it certainly has been in a number of cases in the first judicial district of utah THE tribune is nothing if not radical its life has been made apol extreme opposition to everything not in strict accord with its intense hatred it deals with all topics much as it does with the mormon question of course tho craven sheet fights the protest against mormon dis while the more mod orate liberal papers favor the petition the das of such intensely rad seal articles as the tribune delights dinst ore pa news devoted a lengthy editorial last sunday to tho question of franchising disfranchising dis the mor mons after bringing up many logical points it closes by saying an view of all the facts is not the united states liable to do a great wrong to these people br wholesale disfranchisement simply because they are mor mons As before stated it is bot true that all cormons mormons are there is a distinction with the latter alie law cannot deal too effectually but to juniah a whole people because of their belief or because of the culpability of a part is certainly not harmony cither with the letter or spirit of our organic law MAY LIBERALS of provo will sign the petition against franchising disfranchising dis the cormons mormons Mor mons not ft few have expressed themselves in strong arma against tho CULLOM bill and one or two have given their private opinion in quite a way denouncing the tribune petition favoring the passage of tho bill THE MOVE to keep ont mormon immigrants under the contract labor laws of the united states is ona of the most foolish schemes yet ang anything to get rid of the cormons mormons Mor mons whether it be the law or not PRESIDENT EGBERTS of lake forest university illinois recently ae livered a lecture before the presbyterian general assembly at saratoga in which he summed up some of the evils which are threatening the nation as follows even new england which in many respects is the most favored part of our country is threatened by an avalanche of the church the middle states are threatened with a tidal wave of immigrants from europe the majority of whom wound gladly wash away alie landmarks of the puritans if not all religion the country is standing aghast before the rising cloud of ignorance and immortality among the freedmen of the south threatens to overspread our political sky with gloom the northwest is trembling on top of a volcano that may at any moment shake into pieces its proudest political and religions fabrics the southwest is groaning under the domination of home and the wah satch mountains are li to dabin their bosom a fetid pool that threatens to devastate the contiguous states and territories the pacific coast is threatened with heathenism infidelity intellectual tel aad practical is striving to overthrow our protestant christianity it has the tongue of the orator and the ear of the populace it is becoming every day more and more resolute formidable and boastful what but christs gospel power of god unto salvation can meet lucli threatening evils ans city council has decided to cover the whole of the factory race running across center street this will be an improvement much needed to the street now if tho sprinklers lers could be brought out there would be another much needed improvement supplied the dust on the street is simply awful A LARGE number of schoolbook school book companies have formed a trust which begins to look serious in tion it is even intimated that the states should publish their own text books and have nothing to do these firms that have a monopoly of the trade of the country |