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Show I A HEALTHY INDICATION. The worst enemies that any community can have are prejudice and bigotry, these vices retard progress and development and engender en-gender hatred and bitterness and cause communities to waste and dissipate dis-sipate energy in useless wrangles and quarrels. This community has had more than its share of encounters with those enemies. At times there has prevailed a feeling among non-Mormons that whatever a non-Mormon did must be right, on the other hand the feeling has existed ex-isted among the Mormons that whatever a Mormon did must be defended de-fended because he necessarily was right, and we say that it is a healthy sign when men measure men according to their deeds and lives and not by their superstitions and. beliefs. An almost unheard of incident occurred a few days ago in this city when the Rev. Dr. Goshen arraigned and criticised the American party administration for mis-conduct in administering the affairs of the city. Not that we are glad because he pointed out the faults of that administration, not that we believe that the present city administration admin-istration is, necessarily, more corrupt than other administrations have been, that is not our point. We are simply pleased that there is a spirit of broadmindedness and liberality existing and flourishing here that makes it possible for a non-Mormon minister to publicly criticise the conduct of the non-Mormon administration and whether he is justified or not is a matter with which we arc not just now concerned. con-cerned. It is more of this spirit of freedom and liberality that we want to see developed here. We should measure men by their deeds, by their conduct, especially public officials, and if they are wrong, if they are guilty of malfeasance in office then they are public enemies regardless of what church they belong to or whether they do not belong to any church. Our interests after all are all very much alike. If we are going to be robbed or deprived of any right it is no easier to bear the injury just because the' man or men committing the crime claim to have belonged be-longed to the same church with us. |