Show GC Q I 1 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER wednesday slay nay 29 IT is plainly manifest maniff st that a few scheming unscrupulous demagogues have been endeavoring to make it appear and to have the appearance go forth to influence congress and the public throughout the nation that republican ism is a signal fa failure ilare that the iron rule of tyranny is far superior that it is a dangerous experiment to endow american citizens with their inalienable rights to choose their own rulers and to have bave a representative voice in regard to the disposition of their own sa oney demanded from them in the shape of 0 taxes that Is ia the object of that lying petition which was submitted to and approved by certain officials who are noted not for their republicanism their love of liberty and equal rights but for their unscrupulous endeavors to establish in this great republic a virtual reign of tyranny and irresponsible exercise of authority not only unknown to the law but unknown in the civilized world that petition it Is ia sufficiently evident is a fraud a deliberately designed fraud so far as it pur purports ports to be a reflection of the sentiments of many who appear as signers some whose names aro are appended to the petition according to their own testimony tes tim y never did sign it never authorized ithe the use of their names to it and others never knew the contents of the petition this last named clasy class there is reason to apprehend are very numerous it is highly probable that the large majority of those whose names accompanist the petition never knew the nature of the petition further than that it was a petition against the admission of utah as a state and no doubt eloquence and sophistry were abundant to portray to those whose signatures were solicited what a dreadful bloodcurdling blood curdling foul soui harrowing hea ens falling catastrophe it would be if the state of deseret should become an accomplished fact it is more than likely that the bulk of the signatures were obtained simply under the understanding that it would be a capital thing for the community to be run a few years longer as a territorial dependency by such immaculate and law abiding christian gentlemen as a majority of our present local federal official lre are especially the j judiciary u and the quondam prosecuting attorneys a class of beings who have lately received the flattest possible souli snubbing bing blog for their grossly illegal course or their known leanings lean leau ings inge lu la favor of that course by the highest legal authority in the land some of said igeal local federal officials it is no injustice to them to say would be doing far more for the interests of the public welfare if they were repairing roads with ferruginous orua ments appended to their accles than by disgracing their official positions by ha harassing the people with illegal procedure or irritating them with concoct ing or sanctioning truculent and malignant petitions or the fraudulent obtaining of signatures thereto and of then with all tiie the devout piety of an incorrigible sending petition dand jand names to congress as the voluntary indignant heart bursting sentiments of the abject slave women of utah bah I 1 if wo mob were to haz hazard ird our guess we should say that a miserable caucus of a few ambitious malign malig nants ants hatched that petition presented it or rather tather blank paper for signatures to disaffected and other people under false pretense sand secured the signatures of A number of persons many of whom had had bad they known the real nature of the scurrilous document would have lost their right hands eie ere suffering them to trace a letter commendatory of such a lying li bellous production liquor legislation does not appear to work well in lowell lawell 4 massachusetts the past year 2042 arrests were made there for drunken nebs items and liquor bad been sold bold in over places to in defiance or of law to bay esy nothing of places paces where it had been disposed of clandestinely the clergy of lowell were astonished at these results and they spent one sunday recently in preaching against the vice of drunkenness STRIKES here strikes there strikes every everywhere where one of the latest heard of is the strike of the girls the servant girls or helps just as you please of dundee dandee scotland and this is what they demand a half holiday every week a free sunday every fortnight and more limited working hours from six in the morning till ten at night if not two hours less than that the girls also propose some bome organization whereby the servants can learn the character and dispositions of distresses mistresses mi stresses previous to engagement it has been further unanimously agreed that if a mistress compels a servant to wear a flag something worn on the head the mistress ought to pay for it these bonny maidens of bonnie dundee nun nan deell have formed a trades union and at a meeting it was proposed to adopt the rules of the amalgamated engineers which gratitude only would cause to conduce to the increase of amalgamated eng engineers iners those families who would not concede the demands of the girls were threatened with cold victuals on sundays although one considerate maid was willing to throw in potatoes hot WENDEL PHILLIPS tells the reform league in new york that the coming presidential election will prove a sort of kilkenny cat fight concern that whether grant or greeley or whoever else is elected this is the last time the republican and democratic parties as such will take part in a presidential canvass that whichever party succeeds both will adje gjein in the effort proving once more that nothing is more terrible than a victory except a defeat that whether the cincinnati convention falls or triumphs um p it has scatter d forever the reau republican b ife a 11 and democratic parties killed both that the presidential canvass of 1876 will turn on new questions the condition of the working classes the loj ustice done them by law finance privileged corporations and trade an injustice which la is the root of po poverty vety prostitution intemperance and crime generally 4 tile THE new now york herald of of may 16 indulges in a two an a d half aha lf columbi dmn i dubie duble double leaded leader on the indirect damage claims and nearly fills up the rest of the page with exhortatory commens and sensational and somewhat inflammatory equips and suggestions apparently put forth as feelers and also for the purpose eif eit if the public pulse beats favorably of firling firing the national heart to a hot potatoe rejection of the british propositions for settling the alabama controversy the herald says bays the those propositions concerning the constructive or indirect claims are unreasonable that thai the americans have reason justice and the best of the argument on their side but that they weaken before the superior boldness of the english statesmen that the british government have been driven into their opposition to the american case by political necessity knowing that the indirect claims have been made a proper sublett for arbitration through the remis remissness ness of the british high commissioners that england sought the treaty which was never wholly acceptable to the americans that through the timidity and incapacity of american diplomats the american government is put on the defensive instead of being on the agres sive the question brought before the senate is thus put shall we accept or reject a supplemental rule to be embodied as one of the articles of the treaty of washington which after setting betting forth the contentions of england first that the indirect claims presented in our cabe case were not included in the treaty and second s should not be admitted in principle as am growing out of the acts committed by the anglo an glo gio confederate con federate privateers priva and after agreeing on both sides that this principle shall govern future similar cases declares that in consideration thereof the president of the united states by and with the advice and consent bf the senate the thereof consents that he will make no claim on the part of the united states in respect of indirect losses as afore aforesaid sall sali before the tribunal of arbitration at geneva the herald urges that no deliberation should be required for the rejection of the above disgraceful and humiliating proposition but says that influences are at work to induce the tion to yield to it if that some trading americans americana are willing for mercenary considerations to sacrifice the honor of the nation that wall street cla da mors for the concession to prevent the simultaneous downfall of the treaty and the market as also are the claimants of direct damages who have swelled their claims to cover coyer lobby expenses and commercial fossils and charlatans the herald claims that the destruction of the treaty of washington would only momentarily depress the market value of american securities and would not lead to war that president grant will not yield that the people of the states care nothing forthe for the trealy treaty or for english threats but much for the national honor and self respect and demand the immediate and unconditional rejection of the english proposal that secretary fish and not President Grant is responsible for the formers former suggestions that president grant wished to have the consideration and advice of the senate on the subject As a supporter of the administration up to this point the herald assures president grant that concession would be destruction that the nation trembles for its honor that 99 of the people would blush with bhame shame at concession and calls on him to withdraw and reject the supplemental treaty and on friends and opponents in the senate to advise buch such a course in the heralds desperate attempt to bolster tip this unsatisfactory business that paper in true whipper in style calls upon various senators including chanbler knowing him to be e especial ly not over fond of the british to oppose concession and menaces all who may advise such a thing with publicity of their the heralds policy evidently is whether you have done right or wrong stick to it irma MUCH talk has hat been indulged in concerning the reported opposition of the principal citizens of this community and the community at large to the development of the mineral interests of the orty those who inveigh against the citizens upon this account consist chiefly of two cl classes asses asies the misinformed or ignorant and the malignant intriguers intrigue rs who willfully misrepresent la in the ordinary run of things what does mineral development mean it means giving the reins to those who thirst for gold it means a frantic rush to some big thing and real olor diggings where if hogs do not run about with knives already in their throats gold and silver can be had bad by the it maans means the hasty abandonment or of all steady and productive business and a mad helter heiter pell mell hurrah for hell race to the land of auriferous or promis it means the production of nothing but the expenditure of at least one dollar for every dollar of precious metal found in the earth it means the destruction of peace and good order the abandonment of principle pio pie the wreck of morais morals and the and dissipation of communities it means the stimulation of trade to a high degree of feverish un healthfulness it means the setting up of a standard for the riotous rallying of the most lawless and most desperate classes in the whole nation nadon it means putting a premium upon the insane hurry burry to get rich niome dome people may see in these things desirable results we must confess that we do not we have conversed with persons of intelligence experience extensive observation and high public Pta station tion who are not prejudiced against mineral development and their views coincide with ours that it is to the best beat In interests teresta of a community to encourage first and most strongly those branches of business which are productive regular steady legitimate and of immediate and every day utility in preference to encouraging the wild rush after gold and silver the reckless chase after glittering minerals to us ic ii appears of the nature of a libel upon the best human buman nature to say that the presence of gold or silver in the earth is the most powerful and effective inducement to the settlement of any region that is in any wise capable of sustaining human life by soil culture and other productive pursuits again this great hullabaloo is about gold and silver oue seldom if ever hears of any hue and cry over the discovery of iron and coal minerals far more corn commonly mouly and extensively useful tb than an et eleber tb er gold or silver it dfcia Is true we did hear a little teapot tempest over the ogden tin discoveries but all that haa has subsided into serenia serenity now and nuy blodys sleep is ia disturbed on that matter for our own part we never could see bee why a community of people be the same bame more moro or less should neglect their proper business and run ruek wild after a few ounces of gold or silver or tin of any kind scarce as aa deposits of those metals are when that community can make iteelia itself a thousand times more comfortable by developing the agricultural manufacturing and commercial facilities of the country the two former of which articles of undeniable and general utility and the latter aids in their economic collection preservation and distribution gold and silver ruined spain and mexico the same means is contributing much to the present prevailing bauch ment of the united states and it is beginning to work its accustomed evils in the german empire flushed with the french indemnity spoils we blame no one for wishing to see utah escape these evils or be afflicted with them as lightly as possible of the two it Is ia infinitely better for any community to plow and sow and reap and mow to handle the saw the hammer and the file and to engage in legitimate commerce than to run recklessly after either gold or silver mines En Ea glands greatness manifestly arose and depends not upon the insane rush after gold mines but upon the steady enterprising energetic and soulful development of her agricultural manufacturing fac turing and commercial facilities we are net of the class who believe belleve aba agriculture alone will make any people rich unless their wants are exceedingly simple and few but agriculture is the foundation of the solid s prosperity of a nation and manufactures fac tures and commerce are ate also essential to a high degree of prosperity mining that is for the precious metals na etala etnia comes last it can be very well done without and it is ever a business dangerous to the steady solid permanent prosperity of any nation if the man who makes two spears of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor then the man who makes acres of grass and grain and tind fruit and timber and tons of flesh grow whore where none grew grow before must be much more of a public benefactor and just such public benefactors have the members of this community at large been bean it is therefore sheer impertinence for any one to bring against them the flippant charge that they have not encouraged mineral development that is the furious demoralizing scramble after gold and silver deposits it is by no means demonstrated that the man who spends five dollars in digging half a dollars worth of gold or silver out of the earth is much of a public benefactor thereby however when a community have properly developed their agricultural manufacturing and commercial faelli tipsie they really need a little gold and silver we never heard a sensible man oppose the proposition for such a community to develop their gold and silver mining resources if they have any even though a dollars worth of the precious 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