Show THE OLD AND THE NEW YEAR ere we sha shall 11 again addi address ess our readers the old 0 rd year will have passed away I 1 and the now born 1865 will be upon us nearly twenty ye years ars have been buried in the past since these valleys first resound ed with the advancing steps of the first setti settlers eks through toil and hardship plenty and starvation peace and rebellion happiness aud and sorrow alternating with leach other has the desert emerged from ba K t prosperity but of till all the alie revolving fing years not one has been so BO llla marked red r ed in its results anthe well being of utah as that which is passing awai away Ch change illige improvement euid progress are marked m dilall on all sides and it id the utah of today is is no more what it was one short year ago than ilian light is unto darkness in ili the city the transformation lias has been not net merely remarkable alid apparent but truly wonderful A spirit of miten enterprise I 1 ariso lias has taken firm hold on oil till all class classes e s of people the slow plodding routine of yore c lias given place to activity arid and true life the people seem to have roused from a ion long g time lethargy and at last to bo be awake gigantic mercantile structures have taken the place aiace of the one tory story std acobes adobes obet of former years the market has bits been enlarged and its long line of stalls would do credit to a larger place mercantile houses havo have trebled in number while Nak bakeries eries shops book stores periodical stands and the thousand and one one places the a accompaniments u compani ments of civil iced communities heretofore unknown in these parts kave have multiplied on all hands wo we have not space to enumerate a tithe of the improvements which nive taken place but it 4 i apparent a tc change hange has come oer the spirit of tm the dreams 29 of the entire community real estate i has advanced an hundred and in ill some in two and three li hundred andred parc percent ili and as ag a whole the people are aro prosperous beyond any fornier former period in their history so long ong as the absurd and iu MossiNe doctrine of isolation gover governed lied F eo long iong did the people feel the burtrens bur of their situ situation adoll in constrained poverty and voluntary oppression now that alie outer world wo rid begins to ini mingle with them bringing hither capital enterprise energy liberality and the spi progress surely there are none so blind and callous calfous tw not to see arid and appreciate the beneficent benefice nit results vio people whatever the leaders ulay may say begin to suspect that the 11 devil is ia not so black as ao he is painted that 1 lievore rg 11 in joe smith and brigham young ungodly gentiles are not such lieas ts of proy prey as they haw ixon told liero is at k least wt a little virtue virtu outside of zion mid and that some 99 good may come out ot of nazareth while wo we note with gratification the iner increased eAsed prosperity of the people and their material materi ul advancement during tile the year which is waning waiting I 1 every lover of humanity must e still awe a at t all alie advancement in intelligence which marks ake lir present eisent from froin the past the alie tire are indeed falling from tire tile eyes of thy alv blinded from froin delusion ther their quickened minds and enlightened egan to discover the heresies her lier esiC esies which have so BO long bound thera them do down they are c each dy picking the wheat ali agui oll the ella chaff ff nm while they will winding cling even with fanatical ardor to the gaoa in ikc their i rye eun ai giba 8 surely ag a tile the gun atin dissipate darkness and contact mae them to reject tle eulae of their bulso teacher the AWU dabu ot of new life lays broken upon utah wid the rising s sun in of progress iw li liberality berul ity christiani chrid christianity tiani ay iy and enlightenment is mounting rapidly to the in ili vain do trembling anti and stricken hands beek to avert its ite ugwa r might flight with lilore than ordinary confidence and we wish our readers uw whole hopu a C happy new yew |