Show editorials A DELUSION OF THE TIMES aa A on imported trees appS appeared ared in thursday evenings issue of the nelys NEWS and we publish another today to day on the same subject they direct attention to one of the follies of the people of utah notwithstanding all ail the advice given by oui our best men upon the suicidal policy of ignoring home productions and sustaining foreign grown and foreign made goods there is a disposition among the masses to purchase imports in preference to local products the foolish waste of money in buying trees raised in othe ithe east when better articles at a less price can be had at home is now very plain ain aln to 0 those ose w who d lave have been een duped u ay nine fine pictures of impossible fruits and glodi glowing effig representations by used solicitors thousands of dollars has been squandered red on worth less trees roots and vines th the 6 money has gone out of the territory and local nurseries are left with thrifty r acclimated and proven varieties ready leady to hand but which many ily of the victimized are now unable to purchase having already expended what they could spare in this direction 14 but this raises a question which diw our home nurserymen nurseryman nursery men seeds men ad oilier producers and dealers will do well nell to consider why is it that these professional drum drummers meni meng succeed sowell in disposing of their worthless goad goods while the sales of the genuine gennine are comparatively so small the answer is because the traveling salesmen and the eastern firms they represent take trouble and spend money in placing their wares before the tho public if our home dealers in avy any kinddt kind of home product grown or manufactured would use half balf the energy and enterprise of these sue suc successful imposers im posers upon public credulity du lity they would reap good profits while the people would be benefited nothing venture nothing have if our local dealers want large custom they must not be afraid to invest in the means of placing their goods before the public and in showing buyers how they can easily and expeditiously select what they need and get it delivered in handy shape take seed selling fon foe one small example catalogues cataloguer Catal from eastern terms show what seeds can be had for a certain price and in a given manner packages are put up plainly labeled and of easy transportation por pol tation by mail or otherwise and in a shape to catch the public eye the e seeds seed sare are properly assorted and cleaned and each variety can be kept separate and is easily known how much more likely they are to gain public patronage than if put up in scraps of paper illegibly penciled with the name of the tho article and mixed with chaff and refuse and perhaps ila lla ps a little sifting of different kinds to together gether home growers and find dealers may jeam learn man many y wrinkles from froni experienced men in the business and should be prompt to adopt every proper metho method dof of doing business in the best and most attractive and profitable manner this tilis will apply to tb all kinds of home productions if we ate aie to compete with importations we we must not be behind in anything right that is calculated to gain public patronage business methods are necessary to business success this disposition to gape at anything th ing from abroad and to imagine that it must be superior anything to prod produced aeed beed at home is very much to be deplored it takes the wind out of the sails of or our own craftsmen it depletes our icci loc ige il circulation money that should pass from hand to hand within the territory goes out to enrich foreign labor and foreign speculation workmen who would find employment if this means was kept at home remain in partial idleness to their own de trident and the impoverishment of the community outside enterprises are fostered while our own languish and other places afe aie are built up while ours linger along and our boys joys and girls find no remunerative occupation W my ay iy bonnet came all the way from paris this suit was made in ne new york nice shoes yes I 1 got them from philadelphia homemade home made cloth oh dear no it is en english lish goods Is irs that a provo shawl the idea what next why it earlie came direct from scotland bo so with all kinds of things that can be made in the territory of excellent quality and fine finish and of more durable texture some people feal feel actually insulted d if you imagine ome highly prized article tily have for or adornment is only home homo made they seem to think that the fact of its foreign origin is I 1 sufficient to place it in everybody estimation far above the level of home production this we regard as one of the tiie fala cles des of the times there are no doubt many things which as yet ive we cannot manufacture as ninel finel yas yaa they are turned out from froin first class lish ments abroad but we do puy purchase a large number of articles that are positively Ively inferior to those raised pr gr made tip up the ruinous delusion that they must be better bettor because obtained from the states or from europe home made madell ought to be among a community of brethren and sisters slaters a recommendation and something rather to be proud than ashamed ahamed of and every endeavor ought to be made by our own manufacturers to give to their goods the finish and appearance that are the chief attraction of many almost worthless foreign 0 made articles this great mistake of our peo people dle die often extend to the spheres of education school teachers are sometimes employed whose chief recommendation is that they are gentiles from some eastern academy they are imported and therefore ther elore must be superior to home graduates and S yet set et in nine cases out of ten they turn out to be as great humbugs humburgs as the tree drummers Th they eyare are aro not only foes to our faith but inferior a as scholars and teachers to many of our own graduates from normal schools raise and train our own teachers as well as grow and culli sivate our own trees and seeds we are doing so and it is a shame and disgrace to any school di district in this territory that ail an imported school teacher is employed by the tru trustees when home talent can be obtained one great advantage of codr our oun own i te teachers a chers is that we can leani leam all about their private character as well as their then abilities as instructors previous to placing our children under their care while in accepting the services of strangers we w take a leap in the dark and are under risks which we have no right or reason to incur experience does not always 11 mae fools wise but the many blunders that have been made in this tilis direction ought to be warning enough that imported school teachers are not necessarily better but are generally inferior both as to ability and to character to scores of young mell men and ladies raised and trained among our own people we hope to see at no distant date a turn turia in jn the tide of public opinion on these matters and that thai homemade will be a standing recommendation men dation to anything offered for public patronage to that end our wise men should labor and au our i local artists artisans educators and eap cap capitalists should bent their efforts while all should cultivate a dispose tion to Xe recognize cognize true worth it originates and to prefer pr er rather til than an depreciate anything an sti in g that is produced at home EFFECTS OF ANTI antl MANIA XANIA THE tj IF couri courier tr journal in its normal condition is an able paper a little extreme perhaps in its ita views but brilliant and keen in its style and well posted on public ass aff affairs hIrs kirs but under its ita present attack of anti cl mormon fever it is in a deplorable dep iori lori state and its delirium is truly pitiable here is a sample of its editorial ravings athe the new now president can in view of shewell the well weil known defiance of the federal laws in utah give the mor mons thirty days to hold a session of their legislature to make all their laws conform to those in use in christendom respecting marriage divorce adultery and fornication and if the mormons cormons refuse to comply let president garfield issue a proclamation abolishing polygamy the president has hag himself said lnor inor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government 11 such usurpation is continuous in utah the president says it can not be safely permitted lei JEI hla hia 13 duty u t then is apparent treating treat 1 byg this matter seriously serious Y where can the president find au an dhority for ordering the legislature of a territory to do anything ol the chief biag Alag magistrate istrate derives his official powers from the constitution and among them we fail fall to find any tiling thing resembling the authority which he is here d declared to hold bold the idea of a legislative body being ordered by the executive to enact certain measures measured and think of such a proceeding being advised by a democratic editor if an ecclesiastical jas organization as we freely admit cannot be sagely safely ermit ted to usurp in i the smallest legree degree the functions V and ild rid powers of the national government neither can the executive branch of the government be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of legislative bodies national or territorial the legislative assembly of utah is independent in its sphere its powers are derived from the organic act and extend to all rightful subjects of legislation 0 it cannot be coerced into the passage of laws by any power local or national congress claims to have supreme control over the territories but even supposing the claim to be constitutional that control can only be exercised in a lawful manner special legislation for the territories may be passed by Congress con gress gross but that body has nor no power to make a territorial legislature pass an act or repeal an act and the president has no power in this matter whatever he cannot make a law nor compel any one else to make a law but can only see that the laws are executed after they are made we venture to say that the writer of the aboyo above nonsense in the courier journal could not define dehne if required to do so the di merence difference be tween the laws of utah and those in use in christendom on the subjects to which ho be alludes and if there was any need forthe revl levmon ion lon 0 of our code which part of christendom must we choose for a model are the different states of the union harmonious in their laws on these points we think not there was a grea great t deal of russ fuss made some time ago about the criminal laws of utah and the legislature took special pains to get getup up a code that would suit the lawyers and the courts here the california code was adopted with but fi light slight alterations necessary to adopt its provisions to this territory and in in that shape it met with the approval of federal judges and leading members of the bar if this does not please the newspaper and other critics and carpers what will please them and if we abolish our new llew code and ado adopt t another shall we be any more likely than now to escape the tile censure of limae who brio want to do something desperate with the mormons cormons Mor mons of all the foolish recommendations and their name is legion for the settlement of the mormon question tile the courier journals is the most idiotic if the utah legislature does not pass certain laws as ordered by the president that dignitary is to abolish polygamy by proclamation i if presidential proclamations will abolish any real or imaginary evil of the times the executive ought el to have a special printing press for the publication of proclamations kept constantly at work if marriage can be stopped by aaion so can divorce if people can be prevented from consorting together in the marriage relation bya by a presidential edict so sa aney can from cohabitation without marriage 0 or r the form thereof the president better issue a proclamation against I 1 prostitution against infanticide against prenatal pre natal murder against intemperance against ecil tell each and every one of the prevalent vices of the age row dow now low mark it lt we do not class polygamy with these evils nor with either of them it is the very antipodes of their corruption 1 but it is denounced as an evil it is held hold up as to be put down and in mentioning aftin ita n this connection we do so merely from the stand standpoint in t of t its exl exi enemies enides and ask them 9 to be i just st a little consistent if the marriage of a lew jew mormons cormons Mor mons to mo moso mose e wives than one is an evil to be abolished by proclamation are there not much worse evils of far greater extent that should be treated in a similar manner mannet the courier journal makes two assertions for which it does not and can cannot not ofner offer the least particle of proof it is not the fashion to offer evidence when accusations are made against the morl mormons Mor Mori mons the usual way is to take certain falsehoods for admitted facts and then rave ra v e over them and advance irrational and suggestions for methods of treatment the defiance of the federal laws in a staple but groundless charge against the for lor mons 11 there is no such def defiance lahce lahee and there has not been neither has there been any of that usurpation which the courier journal says is continuous in utah of the ilee ecclesiastical o organization over the functions and powers of the national government that accusation Is simply absurd wherein does or can the mormon church usurp the functions of the government it simply attends to its own affairs and has hag not the power even if it had the disposition to do anything of the kind it as though those shares of moulton stock have completely mr watterson and converted him to the one man power doctrine A governor may fet aside the tiie popular vote a president may coerce a legislature can such ideas emar ate from a democratic brain unless it has been softened by silver stocks or upset by anti antl II dior mon mania we are pleased to see that the disease has not spread to all the zhe louisville papers the Post Pos though as much opposed to mormonism on principle as the courier journal is able to discuss the question rationally tio nally and to see the real bearings of the subject about which so much smoke has been raised in the luat of march 12 appears the following editorial which we commend to the perusal of the Murray ites whose object is to divert attention from the governors political crime by rabid onslaughts upon mormonism governor murrays Mur rays two organs in this city are still harping upon the campbell certificate and act as if the life of the governor the existence of morality and tiie tile the constitution of the united states were involved in the issue the Gov governor emor ebor must be vindicated our blessed church must be rescued from impending M peril this is simply nonsense the question is purely a legal one that aen gen murray violated the law is plain that he refused the certificate to the person having the largest number of votes and gave it to the person having the smallest number cannot be denied our blessed church has nothing to do with the campbell certificate there is nothing in the creed of any anti mormon church that requires the governor of a territory to do what the law prohibits his doing or to fail fall in doing what the law jaw requires him h im to do we make no apologies for the mormons cormons Mor mons we are simply standing on the legal question involved and maintain that if congress desire the suppression of mormonism mon ism it must be done in accordance with law and not in |