Show wybe enterprise 11 OX ON XON son INTER COURSE OUR oun contemporary the territorial rial en ter prise published at Virg virginia inick city nevada thinks president young has not shown his usual sagacity in coun couri the people not to patronize tho those s 0 who come in here from abroad with goods it says one would suppose that the near approach to completion odthe pacific railroad and the opening of the great central region occupied by the mormons cormons to outside civilization liza tion would tend to draw that people out of the shell of their sectarian exclusiveness and excite a cosmopolitan spirit of business intercourse with tho the gentiles it seems however that the very reverse of this is the effect the mormons cormons have become more intolerant of encroachment and have t through the great power of the church entered upon a awell well defined policy of this is a course which in the opinion of the enterprise is injudicious and must it thinks culminate in the building up of a rival to salt lake before long the enterprise thinks there is great danger dinger to the peculiar system of the mormons cormons Mor mons iu in the new order of things thines hort dortly ly to be introduced by the great grat influx of outside population but it thinks also that the mere refusal of the saints to maintain business intercourse with the carpet will oili only tend to precipitate hostilities it says A wise ruler would have advised his people to bend to circumstances which they could got control and to take advantage of the commercial current about to set in their direction if a ruler had no other object in view than to make his people and city a commercial people and centre he might do as tb they ey say but the latter day saints h have ave no such aim to mak make e mon mone eyan yand d to have flourishing times are very good gabut they are not the chief ends ot of man or the only objects to be sought after salt lake city was not founded utah territory was not settled for such objects alone we came here to enjoy freedom and peace to build up cities in which righteousness could dwell and the vi vices ces ees of pseudo civilization could not flourish so far we have been tolerably successful i but we are now told that all this must be changed the railroad is coming 0 through and we and our religion are to be wiped out so sey sty men in our midst whom we have patronized in view of thi this would it not be folly in president youn young and the people to sit down su pine lynnd liand await the threatened overthrow without making a single exertion t acerb it if we were to do so we would deserve such a fate we are told from all sides that when the railroad is completed we must go under however much wp we may doubt the ability of those who thus talk to carry out their project wo we can not doubt their earnestness earnestne Qs and determination det ermina ermiDa fion tion vion tion but we say the completion of the railroad will have no such effect as they anticipate they doubtless will do all in their power to make their threats v true we must do all we can to have them fail if they have the right of planning and attacking we have equally the right of having recourse to a policy of defense and who can blame us if we use every legitimate means in our power to make our defense a uca uc i cess cees fulone there have been some of our cont contemporaries em por aries who have looked upon t this b is movement of ours as persecution of the outsiders ll 11 the enterprise conveys a hint to that effect it says with all ali a liberal beral disposition on the part of the mormons cormons towards such outside capit capital aud energy as are willing to turn their at to the commercial advantages of brigham youngs capital that city would have an important future but if those who v wish ish to settle thero there are to be persecuted ted they will find some other point from which the montana and idaho trade can be carried on 12 how our action can he be construed into persecution we can not discover we always supposed that every citizen had the constitutional right to trade with whom he pleased so long as he did not deal in contraband articles it is certainly a new application of the word persecution to say a man is persecuted because people will not buy hla hia w wares lares when he offers them for sale this ta talk taik of persecution reminds us of the fable which the arabs repeat of a miller who was one day awakened by having the nose noso of a camel thrust into the window of a room where be was sleeping it is very cold out here said the camel 1 I only want to get my nose in the i miller granted his request after aw awhile lille the camel asked that he might get his neck in and then he gained permission to have his forefeet fore feet in the room and so little by little crowded in his whole hody body the miller found his rude companion was now becoming exceedingly troublesome for the room was not large enough for both when he complained to the camel he received for answer if you do not like it you may leave as for myself I 1 shall stay where I 1 am |