Show T SHARP PRACTICE it has been repeatedly said baid in the taberna cle and bowery that thit there could be found among the inhabitants of utah persons who could favorably compare with other others s eise else w ere lere whether it might be in pure and holy lives ilves or in the meanest rascality and we ye most assuredly belleve believe it in the preeminence ot of the latter we na make ke no allusion to outa outs ders we are simply looking cooly a f that cl cirss class aa who ho don the livery of the lord lorato to serve the devil in 12 no humiliation and degradation naia raia ra dation tion seem seen too low to stoop to once that bueb buch characters get their eyes fastened on a gol goi golien 1 en dollar let them but catch a glimpse 0 of the idol and they a ara are re after it with all the earnestness of which their magnanimous souls soui are capable we have seen this community as a enss inis mabs mass struggling fop foi or years to raise itself above the abec obligation of dependence upon those whose sole business has been to profit by the necessities of tb e people and ana we have encouraged cou raged and prided ourselves in the hope that th day of deliverance from such grind liz i lif if bondage was dawning upon us and we chall rot not abandon that hope for we see men aad and women growing in wisdom whoever would woud be free must themselves strike the blow Is a truism as applicable to moral and ecial social life as to political and national exis es tence arid and that we can gradual bursting of the chains that have bound bounri us and therefore are c contented on tented with our progress in the m st of all ail this we keep an eye upon our friends aud aad shut not the other upon the abe operations of that distinguished class of genay for whose special edification we dipped our pea this morning we are glad to gee see t nem b h at work it is read men man we have occasionally felt sore when we we have witnessed the operate operations on 1 3 of strangers aang us ano made business busi busl nesa and speculation the llie profession potes p sion of ott their beir lives drawing froda froso we lue p pie their tta ti earned property for tor gew gaw at prices ranging fron from a h I 1 inbred to a thousand peir peer cent above eta cia C is bad tad then weri than the consolation that t hat tho the re iiii iiii between the grain producer yos ros u alk ali awa fin nin clr man cir was waa much am after afler of choicer bof boi cand rand and it if the former choose to be simple nouga enough to squander his bla labor for nothing we certainly could content ourselves ours elres eires with hula huia j ming ning the old adage fool and lils bis money are soon parted boutwe but we own that we have not felt quite so amiable when relationship and circumstances have been different of strangers we bad but little reason to expect more than they have done they came here for gold and that only and blinded by it they have sought it and andr ilung lung slung to it with the tenacity 1 of desperation to its idol and in their haste to be too rich have lost the prize within their grasp of those who have claimed to be our brethren we had reason to expect other operations but with most of them we think the people have been disappointed in short we hardly see aoe where the difference has been it looks terribly like bix six of the one oae and halt half a dozen of the bother mother it really takes some courage to look around and see ee what some men are doing We would rather that our eyes fell not upon thel their thein r works it is painful to witness the dodging and 1 whipping the devil round the stump that some gome men engage in daily in n main street we are doubtful it sven aver many men go into inton efto A 1 arl ail lam lav fc v a gin sin gln with perfect satisfaction to themselves they are either dissatisfied with their own or with the d deception pt ot otheral it mavera matera little uttie what the ahe business busi busl hess bess is what t the transaction trans artio n it seems to corrode and eat like a can ker how few ther there are among the many who now drive fito into main blain streit street who could have possibly thought in a past portion of their lives I 1 that they wera ware capable of that waith is now a daily daly daiy practice 1 leis INS still far from being a pleasant taBi bual business riess to some but they deed need not beal heal tata the end of the matter is I 1 the same the fluttering of their conscience is 13 but the golden opportunity of worse men to buy and sell bell them we pity the mad man man there who has a conscience cob science to trouble him bim be needs I 1 pity but the misery that it causes him may yet t be big salvation the cormorant that b becomes com e s the stepping stone between such much persons and add utter atte r abandonment and a whole com anu fau ays unity aya s wants and sense of self preservation j simply for a few cents is unworthy ora ota seconds thought thou bt ile he has played him bim sef ii out and is as worthless iii in his big own n estimation as I 1 in that of others ile he is salt without aavo sav orand rand knows it he hab has got there and draws delight from the misery of like socie society ty and seeks for it he hope bope in his godana god and can well amford afford to loose his faith in I 1 his brethren and in humania humanity y there is is nothing eft eft for him but to feast on the perishable ind and he knows th end thereof other er men of another 0 would shudder to hear bear a word of unfaithfulness w whispered against them abusi amuse us by their hide and seek operations that kind of da 0 god 0 devil 1 bus ness but w we e leave them alone for a season they are ony only injurious to themselves 18 it is with different feelings however that we view yiew the sharp grattice grac tice of some amongas among us who unblushingly gouge the uhe needy and dependent pell peli dent for illustration when camp camf floyd was waa broken up and bacon that bad cost coat the government Gri a scandalously M h figaire fig nire was old sold 8 by the ton at threele three il fourths 0 1 ui tes teb of a cent pet per pound some merchants purchased extensively and when one am among ting them seeking to give the people the advantage of that very easy purchase retailed that flame same ba bacon con again at 5 per lbs ibs in tula WIN oli dij he ws pounced upon and beset by b Y others of the profession ji 0 fes sion as it i h be e bad committed an unpardonable dona blesin sin that wo undid and grieved their ejaculate bouls souls finally one firm succeed succeeded ee and bought up all the bacon at per hundred un and retailed it to their brethren and and sisters at 35 cents a pound mark y ye e read era the first merchant who soli sola the bacon to I 1 tho tha thapa poon or at five cents a pound is to day and j was waa ahn an unbeliever tle the thi thirty arty fire five cent merchants vt we e expect would hayr babeno baveno 10 objection to preach in the tabernacle abd and t snivel and pray on the corners of tha the streets I 1 i shame on or them today to day we see a merch werch ant adt unloading his trains and fixing his goods ati price prices rational to what they have been for i 1 some tinie time back and the sama same class of ml ul i tures are around him reaby ready to pick up what they bencan can grab at the ha ba has fixed for retail to the public these men are our breth lent ren kotord I 1 deliver dellver us from friends some dribbling in merchants er chants 4 how av many we know knoer not aware i that th alithe the efforts of the people baw haw b been to ilyo live een within tuyu own resources and to wear ameir their own hoine home boine baun b have avs aye been engaging persons person here shere ind and th there ere are to purchase as if for their own on me use cotton yarn at 6 per bunch and bring it aitto to them while their remorseless paws pass it out again at every price from 7 to 10 per bunch it is none of our business at the present time at what prices men sell to each other and we care wry vry little about it but blat this gouging c ani and and nibbling desi deserves ives exposure and ro foolish olish i will be the people who do not let thebe these e miser f ables alles severely alone and leave them to the obscurity their altti eness deserves enough erid eaid |