Show reflections lit la the convention Conventi oR which assembled in the city on monday baat seventeen counties were le prevented twenty seven of the delegates delegate biah hail from this city and a majority of the lie convention is composed of members from suit salt L lake utah and cache counties we recognize recognise se the leading men as bishops elders and apostles of the church and so far as we know mot most of the dele delegates are arc church dignitaries they represent therefore the church org organization I 1 i rather than the people and it is presumable sni that the dicta of the church leaders wh who 0 assume to speak of inspiration and with the authority of Je jehovah bovall as to the price of wheat and concerning other temporalities ties I 1 will be implicitly followed having refused perm assion for our reporter to be present and lay before the people he abe transactions tr of ibis quasi popular convention the masses mu must 4 be content with the state santo menta made by the favo favored rei newspapers as to what takes place unless indeed some more I 1 liberal delegate will give us tho the points it would have been preferable and more satisfactory for us to have bave printed a all and fair report epert from our own authorized and res pons ble reporter but ag the controllers of the conclave have bare seen proper to exemplify their et tines of mind and bigotry of disposition we wa rely on n other sources for informs tion t 1 I I 1 i among the unrecorded items of monday proceedings wu we amend am end tho the official report reper tas as published in the app apparent arent organ of the con ve by that bio T B H sten honie of great salt lake city ed EA of tile the telegraph and libecap liberal Libe raP corres lent of the sacramento union was pro poked M chaplain of the convention and been chloeen by acclamation but that he pleaded p exempt exemption im on the ground of dilim elder jos joe young was thereupon selected ted to pray for while the convention is preying upon the people the convention is ie a clars claps convention composed of farmers and alt although bough hey they seem determined to regulate the price of breadstuff a are heedless of f the requirements of any other class aiwas remarked by one of the number the price of labor tile the great stumbling block of their movement will regulate itself oh ob yi ya take care of the rich man and let the lord take fake care of the poor A very happy way or of smothering the difficulty and lodging dodging the isue issue if one only has faith said one or of the elders in the tabernacle last sunday some people tire are afraid the poor will suffer from froin the these sp high prices of flour but who ever heard of anybody starving starring in utah the iral arti will take care or of his own A most katpy i idith truly and perhaps a consolation four for the at stomachs of the litti litton alones cs who cry in rain for bread I 1 but how bow comes it that tho jord tj 1 rd cannot take equal care of the eiph farmer rr tow how is it that this convention is called to t force up tip the price of wheat whon when the lord wem we speak with due reverence for his high name has in the bountiful harvest of this ibis clr yc 11 stamped all over the face of our prolific valley the seat of hypocrisy hypo y on oa the eternal cry of 0 famine fl famine 4 out upon uch such hypocrisy hyp ocr aay say we what it is ie to affect to speak in the name of a be benign providence while plotting U to extort 11 1 erm the lowly famine prices in a season of boundless bound less plenty but these thes e shrewd are again changing their base first the object t 0 of the convention was announced to be to C establish t a gold currency and repudiate lincoln 1 askins as the national 3 No Y teare 1 are facetiously nn and vulgarly ailed by sati adf a e or of the Pl anointed the mere inere t I 1 L ar f the fact that there is ia no gold in ro tow country knocked the bottom out efi art that I 1 I 1 cry ww was I 1 at chort crops and famine and an urgent necessity for husband iut grain and raising raining the price As the earth greano with a wonderful harvest harvat aud brings joy to every farmers fAr mera heart beart wa the fielack smile with unwonted crops the hypie hopee artty of cheery thy cry chaw no longer b concealed now we ire are told tbt anti tn ti is lanot not hocker flour shall ball im be wd for sl 12 W ww or 50 0 VU ba we ou our r bre 2 lv up tip against a pay of scarcity 41 w J admitting what noner can now deny deiy that the crops amr are far beyond our present wants wanta the leaders toll tell tho the people that they aliey must withheld from tile the market their pram grain lest leat in sooth sometime hereafter the crops may be less leas plentiful the last excuse excuse is taken from them an and the simple statement of the position now ass assumed timed is sufficient to condemn this whole movement doca oce not every man ask himself though lie he may not dare to whisper the query to liis his neighbor C who is it that will profit by those high prices who will sell flour to the stranger at exorbitant rates who will accumulate vast ast bins of surplus wheat to sell to the poor the needy the passer by I 1 who exa exacts its at the mill the toll inking in kind for grinding and who own the mills and every mill site throughout the territory who will receive a tenth of every crop and who will stil sell st il it at enormous prices while the farmer with his surplus holds on oil till prices recede ind necessity compels him to sell for a mere song ong meantime while thousands tho wands of hard bard earned dollars flow into the treas treasury tiry of the favored and scheming in few the laborer tile the il mechanic lechanic the poor itar r in every vocation must pay the convention price for his flour flou or do without it as many must the people begin to ask these questions question 9 and heart speaks to heart and thought 0 to thought r let abe thc con bention ven tion under the guidance of effes ils wily manipulators pula pu latora tors beware how they longer trifle with questions which begin already to td wi dermine faith 51 inthe in jn the ban language L of the immortal ciel cicero many an oppressed denizen of these vales repeats how ion long oh cataline Cata linc how long |