Show editorials 1 communicated THE BUTTER QUESTION aU ESTION MANY families have no doubt found during the tile last month that butter is a very I 1 important item of domestic economy not only on account of its ita price but also of its quality during the winter months and u up to the midd middle leof of february the article was quite plentiful and low in price wh when benall all ali at once the supply ceased as though there had been a cow convention ven tion and as a consequence a unanimous resolution to supply sti no more butter until prices advanced however amid the plenty of winter it was a matter mattei of regret that so small a proportion of the butter made hereabouts could be considered first class there was a backof laek lack of aroma of freshness of uniformity and sweetness which is testimony to igno rance or carelessness in tile manufacture fact pre pro sueh such as is unknown i in any other department of hom horn industry A A few years ago the stock of butter in the hands of a dealer in this city had bad accumulated until it was deemed desirable to ship it west as there was no home homo market for it this car load of butter had been pur pure chased mainly for twenty five cents per pound and probably some of it for more when it reached tile tiie seaboard it was with di difficulty that the dealers in san francisco could be e persuaded that it was the product of milk at all finally it wm was sold as grease for a bit a pound ard and at the very E same ame time california butter was selling in this city for half a dollar per pound whether this general poorness of so necessary an article is due to ignorance to lack of cleanliness to the need of good milk houses or the a am smallness allness of the number of aws kept by one person and consequent long jong time b between churning is not always tobo tobe known but there is one difficulty or oversight oversight h should be realized by every maker ofed of butter ater and that wat ii j af i i butter ia is made to keep any lenth length len th of time the r salt alt that Is ia mixed with it should be as pure as possible the most of our local supply is very inferior thatis that is it contains portions of mineral element that are unfavorable to the making of good butter and mineral ahat that when mixed wile will prevent even the very best of butter from keeping any an y length of time much of our salt is gathered after solar evaporation from the sloughs or hollows on the shores of the salt lake this accumulation is shovelled shovel led and carted then ground just as found in those places crystals of salt of alums alum powder of com pina tion particularly below tho the surface of salt deposit this latter article being in greater or ies lea abundance in a five ten or nifty fifty pound aek ack sack as accident may determine when in large proportion from tile tilo moment of mixing chemical action commences in the buttery compound until the nipe delicate flavor vanishes and in lieu thereof we have a greasy soapy salvey alvey product as disagreeable as it is is abundant the remedy for this is of course to use the best pu purified rifled salt the cost is a little more but the probabilities are that by mixing good god salt in good hutter butter it could be laid away in kegs pails or jars when prices are lo low wand and in III times of advance i put upon the market et so as to avoid th ape e fluctuations which in one season run from the extrom extremes eg of ten and nifty fifty cents where the quality of butter is poor from frow lack of intelligence or facilities for its manufacture abood remedy would bethe beahe be bej bea the he organization of orea creameries Crea meries merles in most of our settlements provided with suitable buildings churns ice talent etc to this point tile Llie milk of a district could be brought once or twice a d dayas vans might be determined weighing in every lot and giving quality C by test of lactometer then E those ose con eon contributing tri trl buting receiving in exchange butter when desirable desir ablo abio or cheese during or after certain months mouthy in the season and so by union removing the stigma of an uneatable and creation and giving instead uniform uniformity m ity and sweetness to the exclusion 0 n also of imported butter lutter or its co counterfeit oleomargarine and also stimulating a now suppressed demand so enhancing the market price and blessing ln all concerned I 1 first arst cleanliness in keeping keepin and feeding stock then cleanliness jn in milking cleanliness in the dairy dalry clean salt then good sweet clean butter buttel that will keep from yea year r to year or export without stigma and without reproach try this man fan manners ners and farmers wives and daughters try eries erlea leading men inthe settlement settlements and if to days prices are nathl not high enough in a poorly sup bup supplied supplied glied market a good article for the ta table tabie ae for family use will nearly always command its own figure THE ofa ota CLAUSE USE OF AIL all THE I 1 TROUBLE tile TIIE op opponents anent of of mormonism v in i utah tre the i a as they are called have no de desire sire to persecute tile the lints saints ints all that ta tey ey sk skis is that the laws of the ibe united states shall be enforced enforce d there in the same fair earnest manner as in other por persona of 0 thi thia this free coi col country artry Antry 11 the above is extracted from an article in the american a very able philadelphia journal but Is sadly in the dark on the subject of utah lairs affairs af we vve do not care at present to follow it through a mass amass of misconceptions put forth in its columns on this subject apt AV I 1 III notice the stat stav statement emert emeit we have quoted beca because tise many people who are not acquainted with the facts in the case may entertain a similar opinion if tile motive that prompts the enemies of mormonism in iu utah is not persecution what can t truthfully be called the situation is simply this the latter day saints believe in a religion which they proclaim to 0 be of divine origin it comes in contact with the views of tile the orthodox c christian sects as well a as 9 those of agnostics and infidels eidels its c hief chief feature of objection is its claim to divine revelation this excites the ire of the sectarian believer and of the scoffing ua unbeliever elever olever Henc hence ethe the enmity continually manifest and the singular combination of jarring sectaries sect anies aries and bitter skeptics working together against the I 1 I 1 Mor mormon innovation then there are a few scheming persons who hope for a new now dior mormon exodus a repetition af pf f the fligh flight t of the saints en masse before a hostile power invoked by persistent misrepresentation leaving the rich fields and pleasant 1 eilien eillen ts here heren n prey to the persecutors persecutor A few fow others have baye offices lere u under the government by which the they y mako their living anti and being in tear fear of admission as a Stat state ewhen when their occupation would be rone gone e they join in the hue and cry against the tite mon cormons mormons Mor mons and help heip to keep heep up the excitement by repeating the slanders which the public have heard so i often that it is not at all surprising they are generally believed but it must not liot be thought that the class elass called gentiles Gen tilea iscom is com eom posed entirely of these elements therease Ther there eare eane are many ladies and gentle gentl men here who if asked to give th their thein I 1 wr candid opinion about all the poise that is made on this suba subject cc t guld guid QU 14 say was entirely u lica 11 e and one of the greal great greatest A s t b of the age ago know that tha t there is no part of the united staten where ere there is more peace order liberty ilbery and honest and economical ah an ahad ad ministration of local public annire than in much abuse abused dUtah under the file influence of the mormons cormons Mor mons but the pretext under which the anti antl mormon schemers proceed is that bu bugbear bubear 1 bear bean to the popular mind polygamy with this cry they can always raise naise raise naise an excitement and bring a pres pressure sure sute to bearon bear on congress and the administration but how does this really affect them simply not at all they am are not required to practice it they are not required to mix socially with those who do practice it it works no injury to them whatever Indeed into other peoples peopled doni donl domestic estie estle afflic 1 r with a view to making a di disturbance n ce they would know noth nothing inglat at all concerning ce ning riling it supposing that some mormon marries marrien a plural plum wife contrary to the law of the united states and they learn of the fact why should this stir up their bile and make them as mad as a set of exasperated hornets why is this hot rebellion against the law of the united states it is ail an infraction of the law for which a penalty is provided consequent upon conviction and there are marshals and attorneys and judges and j brors all anxious to convict why not leave this tilis matter bothem to them and if the law luw is broken let the officers of the jaw law the law vindicate 1 1 tha ther american says say all that they aak ask is that the Jaws of the united states shall he be pipa the same samel manner as in other 1 eions of this that is where the great mistake comes in in what they want is the very veny coppo r site bite of this if that was all they desired there would be no excitement over the question it is the mormons cormons Mor mons fisli who ask but that whatnot pot mot not the persons persona who mako make mafie the disturbance the demand js that extraordinary measures a shall hal bal be adopted with the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 foreign to tile the Ameri amerl american amerlean cati catl me iod lod W of enforcing the law they wish either cither to abolish jury trials altogether in polygamy cases case or to so conduct them that the accused shall be tried by those who are axe prejudice against bemand him and ea eager enger ger to con condemn denin him they want the ordinary rules ruiey pf af evidence set aside and abid the established principle reve reversed reed which considers a prisoner innocent nt until hela heia he is proven guilty and to seu set up in its place the presumption that he be ia is guilty unless hp proves that he is is innocent why the Ainee american can has actually adopted this inal infamous amous policy itself and advises that if a man is known to cohabit t with two or more women the presumption shall be that hn bo is guilty of polygamy and that cite tiie burden of df proof ahall shall rest upon him to establish his hig innocence Is this the manner in which the law is enforced in other portions of this free cou country nUrY if TO 80 it is diews to us Vs we view it as an utter subversion of or the rules of 61 jurisprudence in force all over oven the union if this tills is not in the nature of persecution lution we Ve fali fail to see how the term could be better applied arrest a 11 mormon under suspicion or having the reputation of living with more wives than one place him before a hostile court and a hostile jury consider him guilty unless he proves his hia innocence no cence and what possible chance would he have for escape could this J be consistently called a trial by jury would this be ili in accor danee dante w with ith the manner of enforcing the law in any other part of the united states it really seems as though the spirit sp of persecution enters the heart of all who undertake to oppose the latter day saints whatever their motive may ma y be and while the abst astounding asto widing untruths un truths fihs ihs are aier placed before the public as expositions of mormon doctrines and doings the vilest oppression tile the most unjust pro proceedings ice iee edings the extreme of bf anti american methods methodi are suggested as asi pret pretended endea ended means to bring the mormons cormons Mor mons into harmony with american institutions the american has refuted itself let the two sentences we have quoted be placed in j the claim of the first will be seen to be false by reading the second see fee cond let the law of 1862 0 if it must be made a EL holby hobby for anti antl mormons cormons to ride on to the devil be bel enforced 1 in I the same ma manner mannen n ner nen as other laws of the united states without persecution without it out mallee malice wee without sectary sec sectarian tarl a n bias without packed c junes urles uries without playing into the t re hands ha ads of the prosecution efi tion without assuming guilt from popular rumon rumor r without hatred of the church to which the accused accused accuse 4 belongs entering into the rase aase case ina the diffin difficulty alty with which it is the thallon to surround the Mormon question will be at an end the whole trouble 1 is s with tile tiie villains llaina yi who want to instead of prosecute VI all and d 13 to establish respect for one law b by r violating and trampling upon others if the american will take the pains to in the it will nind find this to be the gist of the whole e matter THE CHRISTEN t v dom BOM F 4 i FOR fou some time past the most thoughtful of the religious teachers in this thia country have been under wide ir much concern atthe at the decline M in 1 re legious sentiment as evidenced by the nonattendance non nop attendance of the masses at places of public worship the new york suns sun a few weeks ago showed by reliable figures that fully half ti h million of the population of new york of an age to attend church are regularly absent from any religious service se rv iee ice on 0 n sunday S un day it has been shown that these absentees are not merely the dissolute and degraded people eople who defy the rules of morality y and scoff at principle principle and duty but ut the reputable e intelligent industrious arious and law abiding the respectable and well to do rev dr bellows admits this and also that in all the good qualities mentioned those who refrain from attel attending abing ading public worship will cam compare favorably avith with those who goto go to church and an d listen mothe to the ministers he eio is sa so much concerned over this that he asks whether the indications are not going is so steadily declining that it will eventually y fail fall lito into disuse altogether iii in chicago the same apathy exists as in ne new york rev dr goodwin has lias taken pains like dr bellows to gather statistics on this subject and he linds that the ma bority of the people regularly keep away from the churches the methodists have one third of thel their r pews vacant every sunday it is a very little ketter letter with the ba baptiste and the episcopalians ians lans and th tile e con haye have more moro u unoccupied sittings than any other denomination the protestant clUr churches ches of chicago have to together ether ethen about gs but only two thirds of filled he says even eveh if ir wo we add the attendants on the more more frequented itoman looman catholic churches we should probably find that less than a quarter perila pi not more than a fifth of the half a million inhabitants of Chi chicago cad cao are churchgoers church goers new england the home of the Puritans the crad cradle leof of religion in the united states is smitten with this reil rell religious ious lous blight equally gitil wit the gre great gt mares of population aal ani no business vacant seats are commow common every sunday e even eli ell in the rum rural meeting houses wilile the population has lias been steadily increasing the church attendance has fias ben been ly decreasing the boston boswa watchman watch man maA refers to this condition b of affairs as the extreme frigidity of the reli reil religious hiou 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