Show EDITO R THE methodists BLUSHING since the days of john wesley the tile methodists have got get proud and pursy and as is the way with poor pharisaical human nature when it gets high and lifted linned up they thank god they are not as other I 1 men are nor even as these 14 mormon a yea verily and especially not as these mormons cormons Mor mons and this ai h how the methodist chews it 11 it t is enough to make maue us usall all ali ba blush ush for shame to be compelled to confess that the house of represent Re representatives presen ta has all this session tolerated the presence of a polygamist delegates elder eider cannon were he living in in any one of the states would be arrested and tried for bigamy in washington he helps to make laws jaws for the whole people he was bold enough to say last week that poly gamy could only be put down by reason this is in some sort a de defiance glance flance of the coercive power of our courts it is enough to make modern methodists all blush for shame to think that anybody in these degenerate de gen days should have llave domestic relations relation n 9 similar amilar to those or of abraham and isaac and jacob and other old prophets and men of god and ancient israel generally and more especially that thao any such body should help to make laws for the whole people anybody who makes hold hoid to walk in the foot steps of father abraham and help to make laws for the whole of the people evidently ought to be crucified in the opinion of the our pharisaical contemporary however is rather too hot and hasty or it would remember that a territorial delegate has nothing whatever to do with making laws for the whole people not even for the people of his own territory so the blushes and indignation 0 of the methodist are waited on that point nor is our high minded and li aughty and self righteous contemporary any more happy on another point of its objections wherein it says that mr cannons boldness in declaring that the marriage customs in utah can only be put down by byi reason is in some sort a defiance de flance of the coercive power of our courts how so does the methodist mean to say that the coercive power of our courts is exercised unreasonably notia cotla not in accordance with reason I 1 if it is so exercised ought it not to be defied denied yea and put down also Is the methodist so very anxious to have othe the coercive power of our courts ax exercised irrationally J as to consider any one who presumes to think and argue in favor of rational procedure a criminal guilty of contempt and even of treason icso if so wo we dont agree with the method methodist we believe in rational courts rational procedure and a reasonable antagonism only to error or crime real or presumed the following couplet we h have havo ave avo seen credited to charles wesley vesey freedom and reason make us ua men take these away what are we then we suppose we should then be methodists judging by the line of arguments adopted as above by the methodist we aa cant i nt be converted to methodism of that strait laced irrational type tylie whether the courts like it or not COMET II 11 OF 1874 tim THE papers have a new comet to talk about it was first discovered by M coggia coggin at marseilles april 17 last it is approaching the earth 1 and increasing in brightness ats maximum beauty and brightness brighon i ess it is announced may be seen on the 3rd ard of august an exchange says right bight under the polar star may now be seen at midnight with the naked eye or better still with a good opera glass a small hazy light about as large ngn agn as a horse chest nut with a brighter brig liter point or of light on one edge of it IL this insignificant affair Js is a very good sized comet never seen before that any one knows of and which is approaching pro aching us rapidity p H i i ito 1 I 1 f professor lewis smith in a letter dated june 10 12 to the tile Rc rochester liester ilester democrat says it is approaching both the sun bun and earth eartle with a constantly accelerated perihelion nearest the sun and perigee penn peni geo gee nearest eit the earth about the of august U it is now how situated at 1 k an fn in the morning directly beneath the polar olar tar star and about twenty Pole degrees grees from it and is just visible to the naked eye with a glass it can be seen as a ii hazy azy nebulous mass with a bright point a little to the side odo through my telescope of bourand one half inches aperture six feet focus it presents a tall tail filling the whole field with a low power of thirty six so directly towards us is it moving it seems al almost to stand still its slight deviation from it gi giving vin an apparent motion toward beta ursa majoris it is now visible all night but will soon be only in the early hours of evening setting in the northwest if at the time of its nearest approach to the earth the moon shou should ar d be absent we may expect from present indications to be treated with a display which may rival the transit of venus in popular raswell as well weli as in scientific interest the comet will be brightest on the evening of august 3 being then times as aa bright as at the time of discovery while now it is only five and one half times as bright and as the moan moon will be absent it will be subjected to spectroscopic analysis under circumstances more favorable than may occur again in many years it will then be about five degrees from dena bola the brightest star in leo VIGILANCE AND LYNCH A LETTER from vinita indian territory in the st louis kepul lican ican says a vigilance committee has lately been organized in that territory extending to kansas for the purpose of ridding the country of bands of outlaws who defy the authorities steal horses and depredate generally upon property within a short time john blythe john friend young cochran dick goddard and two others have been lynched seventeen other desperadoes are aro on the list of the committee most of whom it is said will be ordered ordered out of the country while joe queen and joe morgan will be killed on sight PRIZES foa FOR VIRTUE in france they actually award prizes forvis for virtue perhaps the only country countr v where such a thing is done no we must not forget the awarding of the dunmow dunkow flitch in england to the marbled couple coupie who have never had a connubial quarrel says an exchange A paris letter says the faithful servant cesarine who remained with mile mlle deselee all her life and nursed her up to the moment of her death has just been given one of the prizes for virtue we dont hear or of prizes being given for virtue in this country whether the reason is that virtue Is not sufficiently in demand or that virtue is considered to be sufficiently its own reward we leave for others to th say FINANCIER fisan FINAN CIERING LING JEWS the omaha herald has the following upon hebrew capacity for financial business the jews in every nation cope with the worlds financiers the famous rothschild roth Both family have been the bankers of the most powerful nations and have often held their fata in the palms of their hands but in the higher walks of statesmanship they are not less eminent and powerful disraeli in england gambetta in prance pranee castellar in spain and lasker lasher iu in germany are four jews who have made themselves the most powerful men in the four most powerful governments of f europe NEWSPAPER enterprise itji is stated s that the london times has private cable and hud telegraph wire connecting the office of that paper with paris it is further said that the proprietors etona elora 1 of the times are 9 I 1 it I 1 I 1 lii n i considering a scheme for directly connecting their office with every great business centre in the world of course that includes salt lake PROPHETIC VOICES prophetic voices concerning ameria ameriba Ame zlia riia A monograph by charles charies sumner leea reea lee fe Shep shephard hard bard preston lee shephard and dillingham new york received through awyers Dw this is a work of nearly pages beautifully printed on good thick paper with a steel portrait of the author and bound in cloth As its title indicates it is ig a collection of things prophetic which have been said of america and its progress and destiny by sagacious and ta farseeing r persons in both hemispheres going as far back as seneca and strabo and coming down as late as cobden and alaman aluman some of the prophetic ideas and language advanced are rather obscure but others are curious and striking and more than one have become household words A few brief extracts will probably be interesting to our readers seneca in his chorus to medea talks of cc ultima thule bacon terms the passage A prophecy of the discovery of america and archbishop whately translates it thus there shall come a time in later ages when ocean shall relax his chains and a vast continent appear and a pilot shall find new worlds and thule shall be no more earths bound seneca was born about 61 B C strabo in his geography said there may be in the same tem zone two and indeed more inhabited lands land especially s ally aily nearest the parallel of sye chinse hi lim rim or athens I 1 prolonged into the atlantic ocean strabo died about 24 B D C who died in 1487 in his maggiore talks of the daring mariner going far oer der the western wave far beyond old limits limit sAnd saud and says men shall descry another hemisphere A s at our antipodes are cities states and thronged thron ged hil hii divined of yore but see the sun speeds on his western path to glad slad the nations with expected light sir thomas browne who died in 1682 published a tract in which he said that america will be the seat of the fifth empire now we come to the famous poem concerning america of bishop berkeley A da D 1726 to whom pope ascribed chevery every virtue under heaven we quote the first and last stanzas the muse mute disgusted at an age and cume elimo barren dairen ot of every glorious theme in distant lauds lands now walts waln a better time producing subjects worthy fame westward the cc courso course urso urse of empire takes its way the crt ert four acts already past lafirth A fifth shall shail close the drama with the day times noblest offspring Is the last samuel sewall 1727 writes some remarkable thin things thins 0 s the rhe english nation in showing kindness to fo the aboriginal natives of america may inny possibly loly show kindness to israelites unaware instead of being branded for slaves with hot irons in the face and arms and driven by scores in mortal chains they shall wear the name of god iu their forehead sand they shall be delivered into the glorious god clorious Sl od orious liberty of the children of new jerusalem will not straiten and enfeeble but wonderfully dilate and invigorate christianity in the several quarters of the world in asia in africa iu in europe aua ana and in america and one that has been born or but liem in america more than three score eyears year it may be pardonable for him to as ask why may not that be the place of new jerusalem of all the parts of the world which do from this charter entitle themselves to the government or of christ americas americans plea piea in my opinion is the strongest may it not with more or equal strength be argued now jerusalem la is not the same with jerusalem but hs as Jeru jerusalem calem salem was to the westward of babylon so new jerusalem alani must be to the westward of rome to avoid disturbance in the order 0 of f mysteries 1 lift up your J head bead oye oye Oyo 1 gates gatei 1 1 1 1 1 02 1 of Columbina Columbi and bo be ye lift dupye everlasting doors and tile the ring wing of glory shall como in justice sewall bewall also adduces learned mr nicholas fuller J 11 who would have it believed that america was first peopled aby oby by the posterity of our great grent gran grandfather d father japheth several persons prophetically spoke of the separation of america from european government the establishment of independent governments ern ments on this continent and its superior advance in knowledge and power also the general prevalence of the english language john adams 1780 wrote and said many things eon con concerning berning the future greatness of america among them the following to jen Jefre nerson jennerson our pure virtuous public spirit sprit ed federative republic will last for ever govern the globe and introduce the perfection of man this last prophecy means the ul and irretrievable defeat and overthrow of the political demagogue and anti antl mormon on crusader classes the abbe raynal 1770 wrote perhaps then it will be seen that america is favorable to genius to the creative creame arts of peace anti and society A new olympus an arcadia an athens a new greece will produce on the continent or in the archipelago which surrounds it homers es and especially ally perhaps another newton will arise in the new britain it Is ia from english america do not doubt that will shoot forth the first ray my of the sciences if they are to appear at last under a sky so long clouded by singular contrast with the ancient world where the arts passed from the south towards the north in the new now we shall witness the north enlighten the south let the english clear the land purify the air change the climate cl im ate meliorate nature a new universe will proceed from their hands for the glory and happiness of humanity break the knot which binds ancient britain to the new soon the northern colonies alone will have more power than they possessed in union with the mother country this great continent enfranchised from all compact with europe will be free in all its movements the new now hemisphere must do de baeli itself some day from the old this great dismemberment is prepared in europe by the fermentation and the shock of our opinions by the overthrow of our rights which created our courage by the luxury of our courts and the wretchedness of our fields by the hate enduring forever between between the cowards who possess all and the robust even the virtuous who have nothing more to lose iose than life it is prepared in america by the growth of population of agriculture of industry and of intelligence all moves to that scission bishop jonathan shipley 1773 in a discourse said the colonies coloni es of north america have not only taken root and acquired strength but seem beem hastening with an accelerated progress to such ii a powerful state as may introduce a new now and important change in human affairs 11 it is difficult even to imagine to what height of improvement Improve men t their discoveries may extend I 1 and perhaps they may make as considerable advances in the arts of civil government and the conduct of life may they not possibly be more successful than their mother country has been in preserving that reverence and authority which are due to the laws to those who make aud and to those who wilo execute thom them may not a method be invented u of f procuring some tolerable share of the comforts of life to those inferior infer or useful ranks of men to whose industry we are indebted for the whole time and discipline may discover some means to correct the extreme inequalities of condition between the rich and the poor so dan dangerous grous to the innocence and happiness of both 11 how ow slowly in all countries the principles of natural justice which are so evidently necessary in private nire ilfe have been admitted into the administration or of public affairs A time I 1 doubt not will come in the progressive improvement of human affairs when the checks cheeks and restraints we lay on the industry of our fellow subjects and the jealousies we con conceive e cei cli ve at their pros proa perd peri ty will be c considered as the deflects of a mistaken policy prejudicial to all parties but chiefly to ourselves the success they the colonies in managing wite ng their own af afra lairs irs have met with ought to be to us a memorable |