Show OBI AH 1 the TW explains in se issue the reason why we dont got get the mails it is not wells fargo aco ca it seems that is to blame not a bit of itt it is ib abo government that is in faulta just listen to this reasonable and lucid explanation for a moment and see how low the alien advocate of the big monopoly clears up the mystery from the advent of the people into this thia territory up to the present time the manner in which the mails have been bea carried from froin the east has always been anno annoying ing to the public I 1 there home have been brief periods of time now and again when the mails were carried carrica within schedule time but nich euch r bave havi been the rare exceptions except ionis and ananos not th erule A agrest great dedlof deal of the annoy ane arising from arreg irregularity ul arity has been chai charged ged to a purpose in the government and we believe there has been a good gobil deal of foundation for the charge but we are it at the same time disposed to think that much of the annoyance was due to red tape ism routine and the wayn kayin which tangs are arc managed in Wai washington hington without the government being directly involved in it the government in a general way has never been ed with affection for the mormons cormons Mor mons and anything that tb athas has ever been done for the people of this territory has always been like tooth pulling a painful operation to those tho most interested if mail facilities were granted it was never done with the view of accommodating the mormons cormons Mor mons it was either ceded from a pressure that could no longer be safely resisted or with a view 0 of meeting the demands of other citizens citizen of the united states elsewhere who could not well be sevea served without our coming in for a share of the accommodation when bids were invited the usual jobbing landed safely the contracts in the hands hana of persons who had no interest in the territory and management afterwards protected the contractor anany in any abase or negligence that on ensued A little over ten years ago the contract for carrying the eastern mail was awarded to one of our citizens and immediately after he was notified of the acceptance of his bid the road was stocked abathe and the mail carri carried edin in a manner that was not only highly creditable to all engaged but was worthy of odthe the Frea greatest test praise of course something lud had to be trumped up and one thing was to follow another till finally the mails were withheld on we jhb eastern frontier from the mormon contractor cori tractor to afford old bold buchanan the leisure to make an ass of himself and after his tools hai had time to rifle the letters at i fort bridger the remnant of the mails A year or more old reach the persons addressed there is where tho the trouble is the government dont like the mormons cormons Mor mons and the editor of the telegraph believes it dont and because it dont the people of california oreon oregon ore on nevada p washington territory idaho montana and arizona whom it does docs like very much on an account of their good conduct as citizens and their innate loyalty must be deprived of their mail matter matter in order to spite the mormons cormons Mor mons that is iq a new view of the case to its we wc hope the government wont always keep mad macl at the saints and thus deprive a couple of million or so ao of tolerable fair plugs of citizens of mail facilities because it has got its back up against sixty or seventy thousand saints of doubtful lo 10 loyalty y alty in zion whom it stands in awe of this is a new wrinkle why you t tell ell us of this before we have been growling gro ivling at wells fargo co until we have succeeded in raising a storm about its ears cars that wont be allayed right away it buy 61 that paper in time to do any good the great majority of the people think it is the overland stage and express company that is ia to blame we dislike aisuke somewhat to be exhibit mg old sores but respectfully suggest that ten tea year yea ro old matters about the mails might with prudence bo be allowed to remain undisturbed we have some recollection of the reasons why the mail contract of heber 0 kimball was summarily sum marAy put an end to by the post office department about ten years ago and we have been told some of the reasons rea sonis why tho the editor of the was summarily removed as postmaster here a few years since we have no debt that he feels sore bore against the government and we dont wonder that his second effort to screen wells fargo ax co from the censure it so justly deserves and it is ia so BO lavishly getting throughout the he country should be a spiteful thrust at the government although ishad it had to go back ten tell years to get a start A reversible 7 boquet is the latest lates t noT olty d a lit |