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Show There is a segment of the social circle here which has earnestly and anxiously looked forward to the work to be accomplished by ex-Senator Dubois on the lecture platform as an aid to the so-called American cause, the potency of which aid would be .instantly and .irresistibly felt. By this time such people must begin tJ realize how painfully true it is that hope deferred makcth the heart sick. ' The realization from the Idahoan's fulminations arc, if anything at all, as evanescent and unsubstantial as the vaporous mass composing a comet's com-et's tail. True, wc have not been "favored" with a full report, or even a comprehensive synopsis of his speech, although it would not have been much trouble to those concerned to have attended to this, for it (he has and needs but one) was partly if not wholly composed in this neighborhood; neigh-borhood; and except as to the matter of form has been read many times in the editorial columns of the Salt Lake Tribune, which paper alone provides the public with an occasional notification noti-fication that Dubois is doing anything any-thing at all. Such a mention was made on Tuesday morning last, when under glaring headlines the reading public were jostled with a jagged and disconnected summary of what the mushroom statesman of the Gem State said at a qertain Wauthena Chautauqua, near St. Joseph, Mo., a . short time previously. Talk about H threshing out old straw 1 "Mormon H rule is autocratic and absolute;" H "church and state arc united;" "the H church is a political and commercial H institution;" "Federal laws must be H had to stamp out polygamy and un- H lawful cohabitation," etc., etc. The B wonder is (hat he omitted from H his string of rhetorical gems that H somewhat du)lcd but stil, (shining H jewel, the "twin relic of barbarism'" H perhaps, however, the omission was H not his but the press agent's. H Seriously, Mr. Dubois is not mak- H iug good on his lecture tour. He H started in with a great flourish of H trumpets. No knight on entering M the tournament for a royal joust was H more hilariously touted. His work was H to be the inception of a new campaign jH against the "entrenched menace of M the WIcst," whose tentacles are al- VM leged to have already grasped its sur- IH roundings and to be spreading fur- H thcr under the stimulus of mistaken M tolerance and half-hearted opposition. M This campaign was to be one that M would rouse up slumbering national H opinion and create anew a determined M opposition to "ecclesiastical lawless- 'M ness and absolutism." such as came ,H nearly convulsing the land when the fl Know-nothings threw off all simula- H tion and came into the political arc- H na, boldly with a cry of "Down with ,H the Catholic's!" But no such result fl has followed or, from appearances, is .H imminent. Why? Because, however, 'H sensitive the American people may 'H Ijc. arc to threatened charges tn H their fixed and settled national prin- B ciplcs, however alert they may be to j'H repel and if need be to stamp out in- II sidftpus practices alnd .mischievous J I methods, they yet require to be fl shown And Dubois is not causing II them to sec any different from what EH they have been seeing or hearing il anything at variance with what has II been dinned into unwilling years un- ifl til repetition has become not only 1 1 stale, flat and unprofitable, but well 1 1 nigh intolerable. I Thene is one gratifyiing feature 1 in connection with the ex-senator's lecture course: The Chautauqua is fi able to and does pay liberally, no 1 matter what kind of a tale of woe Ji may proceed from the box office; and unquestionably he has been and still 1 is needing the money. S |