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Show XX mPERISHABLE KECOBD. This city has n history which is Imperishable. I lis ako unalterable. Ko matter what efforts n3' bo made to change lis character, they will prove unsuccessful. To6"many dead witnesses have left behind tbem their testimony concerning the chief city or the Itter-day Saints, and too -many living' ones haTt a personal per-sonal knowledge of its founding, growth and past character, to admit of any substitution of Action for fact respecting any material feature nt Urn litKtnrV- The tongue that would slander the memory of Its founders will be forever for-ever effectually belied by the monuments monu-ments they have left behind them, erected by their own hands, In tbe then unwitting attestation of the now recogniied truth, that they possessed characteristics which will make any people great. The outlook, out-look, from a moral and religious standpoint, which looms up before this city at the present time, is so dark that, in order to relieve its e-Ioomlress when csntrnftetl with former conditions here, there is a determination In certain quarters to paint the past as black as possible. But all such efforts to forestall or molify the contrast between conditions con-ditions under former administrations administra-tions of the municipal government of tblsclty and those which are forcing themselves into prominence under the present regime, will prove abortive. A certain cnM In the divine economy is to be accomplished, accom-plished, and that result can be best attained by means cf a striking antithesis between the past and future fu-ture of tho principal city of the Mormon" people. Attempts to soften the opposltes by representing that vice and crlmo formerly flour. IsheJTiere, will be utterly unavailing. unavail-ing. They will but serve to draw clossrhltcntion to the glaring difference. differ-ence. WiUfa graphic distinctness that will impress all beholders and serve as an object lesson, to the wholo world, the distinction be-twetn be-twetn tbe "Mormons" and their defamtrs will yet be appropriately portrayed, and the long delayed vindication of tho former, in tbe esteem cf mankind, brought about. |