| Show THE legislature RE OF THE STATE OP 1 to all whom it mav may concern concerns by virtue of the authority in me vested as president of the convention which framed and adopted the of the proposed state of deseret and in pursuance of sec see 10 article 17 of said constitution I 1 requiring me in cabe case or of the ratification thereof by the people to convene the legislature atthe at the city hall in salt oske nake city on the juist fuat thursday of april 1872 for the purpose of electing united states senators I 1 do hereby convene the members of the legislature elected under said constitution at the place above indicated on thursday the ath da day y 0 of f april next nest at 12 m 1 dated this day of march XI A 1 1872 at salt lake city utah E M BARNUM Pr president Ident of th the e convention THE present rather lengthy sp spell ellof of floo aloo weather has been very favorable to farming and gardening operations and it all who own or intend to cultivate farms and gardens are not improving the time they should begin todo to do so without delay and cont continue I 1 nue in well weli ell doing as long as necessary there has been an excellent time for putting in grain and it is a good thin thing g too for vie we rean eean hear hean that much of the fall sown wheat has been winter killed insomuch that the feeling is growing that the best beat and surest way to raise a fair crop is ia to plow in the fall and sow the grain as early as possible in the spring the season geason for tree planting though not oot yet over is fast advA advancing neing and the sooner that business is accod accomplished the tha better for the future thrift of the triem trees grasshoppers have in past seasons made sad bad havoc with the trees but hut planting should not decline on that account for last season drouth except ed was favorable and in many parts of the territory heavy crops of fruit were raised the present season so farna narna we 1 e have seen there is ig excellent for fruit apricots plums peaches apples pears all seem to be richly freighted with blossom buds even very small trees nor have we heard beard much of grasshoppers eggs this bearon so that there is every prospect thus tuua far of excellent chopa crops of various kinds hinds the coming summer and fall which we certainly hope will be realized as we wa have geen seen seen been enough of grasshoppers for a long time to come in past years when few trees of lange ihrie sl size ze were here many of our citizens planted their lots and orchards with trees very thickly too thickly for cultivation it when they had grown a few years to dig over a largo orchard or lot is hardly to bo be thought of and to plow it is difficult afia unsatisfactory where the trees aie ale are planted so closely A better plan pian Is ia to plant them in rows rowa the rows rowa not nearer than khan two rods apart and to trim the trees clear at the bottom so that animals and plow can te be run as aa near to the rows as asis is desirable and thus the cultivation be kept up and various hoed hood crops be grown grow n between the rows to advantage as unless the tha soil boll is deep and rich alch trees do much better with cultivation aud and hoed crops than when grass clover elover oi or lucern are grown between the rows or among the trees if the soil is ia deep rich and light the case may be d different erent it is ia pleasant to witness the growing Inte interest reit of the tile community in regard to the tlde cultivation of flowering and other ornamental ern plants and shrubs and this interest will doubtless increase as the community shall advance in material pro prosperity and the taste for the bulbe fostered foat ered and developed by opportunity tunit and cultivation r ik onoe onon upon a time we are informed a certain character meeting with another character of a different stamp endeavored deavo red to seduce him from his integrity with the loaves and fishes bait but failed whereupon the tempter produced another inducement which was waa nothing moret mora nor less than the promised sitt sift of the various kingdoms 0 of r the world upon certain conditions 0 of f on bub aub b je tive nesson on tho the part of the reo rec receiver velver welver which offer was also declined similar seductive influences exist now and are ever and anit anon brought to bear upon those who endeavor to adape shape their conduct in accordance with principles elp cip lesof of righteousness isyou if you will do this thib thing ori oro or if you will do the other thing we will be your friends and will secure you yon certain favors and immunities you shall not be proscribed ostracized ostracised persecuted as you lave have been but shall be permitted to live in peace and shall be well thought of and respected by us ns worldly advantages and honors shall come to you abundantly only agree to give up thib thia that orthe or the other this is ia something like the tha substance lof lot what is very frequently foisted by the tempters upon the tuo the tho attention odthe of the mormons Mor mons 11 although generally glossed over oven with divers pretensions of piety loyalty loyally modesty and other things of thal that sort virtues cheaply assumed where they do not exist denever we Ve never hear these sophistical propositions without that scripture coming to our mind get thee behind me satan which is a very fitting place for all ali tempters political pr or religious and they generally assume the garb of either olther loyalty or piety like the ass in the liona skin if they would hold their tongues their assumed piety or loyalty might deceive many people but the moment they open their mouths i they put their ir cloven foot into them as a hibernian would say and their true character is at once patent to all every man Ae describes scribes his dwir own character as aa soon as he begins to talk and the more he talks the more he reveals the peculiarities ilari liari ties of his own character no honorable man would ever ask another man to relinquish a principle which he held to be true no advantage to co the cause of truth can be gained by sueh buch such a course sueh buch uch relinquish men not nop no make the truth false but would add another to the already too numerous evA evidences dences of the frailty of poor human nature there is no eko oko excellence elle elie n ce in a mans shrinking from ane the maintenance of his convictions of truth lruth there is no excellence in asking a man to do so the asker aaker is a briber nd toasted ti asked asted if ho he comply Is ia bribed aud aida beth are despised or at least pitied by every person possessed of integrity of character and by many not possessed of that quality neither the tempter nor the successfully tempted can either respect himself or command the intelligent respect of any man or woman whose respect is worth having it is not conducive to the welfare of any community to reduce any class of the community to a condition wherein they neither respect themselves nor are respected by others let a man be convinced that nobody respects him destroy his hia own self respect and und there is ia little hope of that man he has no means of lifting himself up out of the gulf of debasement and belo beio abasement into which he has hag fallen yet this is the tendency of all bribery this is tho very drift and ultimate purpose of all j invitations to the I 1 cormons mormons Mor mons to abandon the principles which they are thoroughly convinced are true and right A with the tempter a truckler to the enemy an apostate a traitor is despised even by his hla confederates and professed friends who for their own purposes temporarily colleague and affiliate with him but olle oile who IS ia true to hia hla conceptions and convictions convict lons ions of truth and who abides faithfully by hla hib principles through evil and through good report is ig admired by his friends and respected even by his bis enemies good men have failed in the tho hour of trial good men may fall but every man who does so tall tali writes his own weakness and condemn condemnation dion in living characters which tears teara cati catl not destroy every man mah has the privilege lege iego of making in large pirt part his own record but when onee onoe made it is utterly beyond his hla power to obliterate it it is is well weil always alwa niwa 9 to remember in regard to the dens deeds done in the body that the tho individual is before not after comm committal attal IT is not always possible and nud it is not always convenient to keep out olat of debt but it is an excellent thing to be perfectly solve solvent ut and thos thes individuals and communities who are reasonably prudent will do their best to be solvent always and in order that they may be will not run ran into debt unless ae ssi it t appears to be necessary or to say the least exceedingly advisable the rhe sacramento union min gives some jeremiad ical figures in regard to the stanla for debt manifested by california and the they are well worthy of perusal and a little little reflection by all who have at heart the welfare of thor respective community and the country at large bays says the union the state of california owes funded and i over the counties owe not less than tho the towns and cities probably the total state and municipal debt is not under this Is a great amount for so young a state with such meager public improvements and aggregating but 0 0 0 worth of taxable property it is nearly y 1 10 0 per cent of all we are worth on which interest runs as ceaselessly as the i currents in the ocean every day in tile the year r and every hour in the day most of iea tea it t is paid to foreign creditors who are bondholders bond holders the hard earning earn iuga of our farmers merchants and mechanics taken in taxes to pay ane the interest on these 25 go to new now york boston frank fort london hamburg and Brem ennever to return to bless us in twenty years even with the load we are now carrying on a nominal capital of twenty five millions from irom which we realize not mere than 70 cents on the doll dollar ar or our publio public debts will cost in interest alone not less than add the principal 25 and we shall have hav a as the sum paid foreigners for loans of no people can amord amora to pay so much for lor so little and yet et the mania for going in debt was never before so violent as now seven counties are anxious to issue their bonds to railway companies for five per cent of all their taxable property san francisco manifests a desire I 1 to go in debt for a visionary water works scheme which is too stupendous eldous for any city short of two million population and ten times her taxable wealth to seriously think of some of her speculative inhabitants would like to shoulder another debt of or for a bridge across the bay and she has a city hall hali hailon ballon on her hands which is likely to give her more at the very lowest estimate all foid told with her five per cent to the railway corporation 0 hsum mated the proposed debt increase in that one county cannot be covered by less than drawing an annual interest tax of for twenty to thirty years if the pro gressis ts of sacramento can have their own extravagant way this already sorely burdened ned city will in two years find herself staggering ag gering under an additional load of half a million for the items of nire olne department and water works los angeles san dego diego santa barbara san luls lula bals obispo san Bernard bernardino luo ino and one or two other counties are in a hurry to give their bonds to a railway company for some millions principal and interest and the swamp land corporation is keen keeli to issue mortgage bonds upon the authority of the state legislature egis tot to the e amount 0 not less ess thad than 00 drawing an annual interest of 4 to recapitulate we are pre se beatea seated te with this summary of existing and proposed debt state county city town and corporate all by authority ot of special state legislation EXISTING state stale 50 0 0 counties 11 0 0 municipalities proposed pro mo rosED san francisco Oo other counties and towns S swamp land corporation total the interest on this existing and anspro pro poised d aggregate gg regate regato will not le be less lesa than aj 7 per cont cent t pa per annica annum the yearly interest payments pa ay tho who bonds will noi nol not average above 80 cents in the market so that tho the debt would rep represent reent to us an actual cash capital of but and the interest paid would be nearly loper 10 per cent anthis on this cash capital the principal of the debt exceeds a third of all our taxable property this is a rich state it in natural resources but the polie policy v of runni brunni running so rapidly beyond our oar present means an ana and buckling these enormous debts debt 4 and mortgages upon posterity ought not to be encouraged it is ia not true that a national or state debt is ia a public blessing these cal debts keep up taxes to so high a standard as to make impossible for us ua to become a manufacturing people ag a long as they continue capital cannot succeed here permanently in any branch of manufactures fac tures when interest rates as aa high as 11 or 12 per cent and interest cannot rate lower than that where the tho taxes are from 3 to 5 per cent and constantly threatening increase that ia a a rather dismal outlook for the tho golden state and to weather it satisfactorily she will need an extensive development of her agricultural mining manufacturing and commercial interests the future will tell accurately whether the incurring of sueh such indebtedness debt edness Is ia good or bad statesmanship but certainly the present prospect r Is ia not very encouraging california is not the only state nor are her ber count counties les ies and towns the oni only 7 ones given to this 11 lania lanin mania manla for debt I 1 here is what the st joe mo herald says on a point like this it if there is a town in the united states which has haa cause for rejoicing it is that town which is out of debt that is the gondi condition tion of very few cities in ther the west and ind at the present rate of bond issues it is predict where they will stand in tho the year 1892 the new york tribune rather humorously ly indulges upon of this class three timos times three for the town which owes no molley money I 1 this is the town of hancock N H it has paid up everything war bills and all other bills and tiie tho stocks which it holds now defray all the municipal expenses at the last town meeting it was voted to raise the sum of opo dollar and it has been done without issuing any proposals for a loan this must be anex au extremely pleasant village to roside reside in always taking it for granted that it maintains good roads good schools and at least one good fire engine and a good and sufficient pound but for a real healthful sensation just contrast the doleful forebodings of the press presa of tho the debt burdened state of california saddled with a debt ot of niad and proposing to increase it to 1 with the jubilant peana of the press of affluent colorado rejoicing in a territorial surplus of and exacting no taxes of her cit eit citizens izinEr for this thia present year of the durrett financial record of the territory of colorado is ia the most moat brilliant of any territory or state in the union and is followed by those of utah and we believe of arizona among the territories and unless we are wrongly informed by those of michigan and iowa among the states if tho the evil and costly efforts of the mormon eating federal judiciary and their choir supporters be continued and encouraged cou raged by their superiors there is no telling how soon utah will be eunk into the slough of debt for the course those characters I 1 havo have lave lavo been pursuing is calca calculated to sink her in a very tow tew years not only into the dark abyss of 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