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Show S AS TO IttMJIUIIIM Ul' Itt.M'HT. Ij E The Nl'.ws received yesterday a oopy PHl of tho resolutloua of respeel adopted H.' on March 2nd by tho 4Stli quorum of I'll Beventles, at Mautl, Hanpcte county.lu PJiu honor of one of tho lato president of HjK that quorum, I'.IJer J. O. A. Wrlbye, PK-n one clause being that they be furulshid jBtp tho preaa for publication. V aru PI E), compelled to deny tho request to pub- BB-,V Hah, audareln thlaluataucutho better Hft fortllled III that refusal becnuse I the late Jlrotlier Wclbyu was twrsonally a very warm frloud of ours, a staunch supporter of the Ntw, and a widely known and universally rtapicted cltliou us well as a faithful Latter-day Halnt; If wo could be Induced to print resolutions of respect (or any one, It would surely bo III a caso like this. Hut It Is a business thut once begun Ja never ended, aud 111 our own lutereet aa woll na lu that of I our readers, wn are o impelled to act our faces against It. J'.vrry faithful worker, whelhir In religious or eccul ir adalra, loaves a cap vt heu ho Is called ,i tu another sphere of action; and Ihv Kf desire of bla auovlatot to emphiislia &$ bla worth and to express aten'uut Hf their loss Is perhaps aa natural ai It la t universal. llunte It happens that fiLtfoolmatta niopt resolution of respect re-spect In honor of ft departed eonipjiilou; uisociatlons and aoclellea of every kind and all kinds do tho samu when 1 death makes an luruad iqioii their Hj J ranks; even fellow-workiuon deom It u $ approprlatu to adopt thla method of B j Unifying appreilatlou of a departed Kj comrade. Jlut for a nouspapcr to IH' I attempt to put Mali all such lestl- B' I mentals would obviously bo aa Im- H OBsltile aa It la Invldloua tor It t to consent to publish any of thi m. We Ifljf wish our frlcuda to understand, tin re Vlf f fore, that ou our part no oltVii-u is ll lutinded to them, and most certainly H J no detraction from the worth of tho !l dead, In the refusal to giro space Id rraolutlona of reipoot. We avail ourselves our-selves of the present fnorahIu oppor-Hp oppor-Hp tunlly of explaining this; tor, aa H!' already said, if wo van i-uforcu tho l W' rule In the caso of a man aa prominent, Hair as Influential, and personally aa do-IBfl do-IBfl serving of a tribute at our liauda as H Ilrother Welbye, the surviving urso. H clatrsand friends of les widely-known H I people will havu no occasion for com-J com-J I plaint.- |