Show not nox SENTIMENT THE denver pap ors orb are having a great deal to E bay about tho the denver Y rio bio brande grande allread bali rali road rond and its connection lection with salt lake and ogden some bome sen Een sible remarks are made and some bome not so BO sensible it is 13 conceded that utah will by means of the new line obtain control ot of the grain and vegetable trade with western and southwestern south western colorado and perhaps of other branches bran chee cheb of business but the fear that the new road will dla dia criminate in freight for the special benefit of utah dealers and against the den derites ve rites appears to us ill III founded and unreasonable also the notion tha t f special efforts will be made in favor favo of the mormons cormons Mor monsY mons seems ts 0 us im groundless and absurd the denver tribune publishes the opinions of seviL sevie several ral rai merchants on the subject but editorially takes no stock in the complaint complaints against t the denver and bio rio grande which it declares 16 has been the best railroad friend colorado ha hab ever eter had bad the times timm however bays says that the bio eio Gran dedoes not look for any of the gentile trade ot of utah but is making diplomatic moves to secure the friendship of the mormons cormons Mor mons who naturally look to it as an ally against the union pact tic ile and the gentiles Gentl ies iea alleged to be qually opposed to polygamy poly gamy on ol of these diplomatic moves Js is mentioned namely giving its contracts for construction to mor mons the times shows very littie little know ledge of utah railroad history and very little common sense in regard to the tho sentiments of corporations what donny do any of them care about cr polygamy they are looking after profits we have no idea that the bio blo grande pe people ople opie either in letting out colstr construction uc tion tiou contracts or making overtures for trade on their road entertain any peculiar friendship for the amor mor mons rne or contemplate any dl di scrim in their navor favor and the union pacific which the timea times imagines to bo be hostile to the mon mormon church was built just as much by mormon labor jabot as the denver and bio eio grande it Is ia quite quits a mistake mi to suppose that there is either hostility on the part ot of the U P or oi alliance on the tho part ot of the B R 0 with the mormons cormons Mor mons in any way the whole affair is to be looked at from a business point of view and that alone competition in ih tho railroad ad line will no doubt prove RB as beneficial to utah as to other bee bec sections bons of the country the road which offers the beat facilities and rate to patrons will wili gain their trado one road will doubtless provo prove the more advantageous to bome some and buyers cand and the other road t 0 others there will be trade enough for all utah is bound to grow and advance in business of every hin kin hind kind d and whichever road gains gwins th the e greater patr patronage will obtain it ii on 0 n business principles into which mere sentiment will not enter it will bf be neither mormon nor 6 gentile distinctively it will be neither union pacific nor rio elo grande as aa a matter of or hostility there is room for both roads and traffic also and wo we wish them both success As for the colorado trade there are some natural advantages in favor of utah which the new road opens up and of which our business men if they are sharp will at once avail theme themselves elves there are others which the tho denver people pos possess sess foss and which they will not lse by way gay of the rio blo grande and that toad will no doubt act strictly on busl busi business nebb nesb principles and be us anxious to promote the tho denver trade as the ut bald lake trade looking upon all as ash heh that comes into its ita neti there thereca la no abee for jaloway jea louy all hll no need for fear |