| Show AH ati exhibition OF AND FOLLY ox ON saturday evening nn an old oid soldier I 1 from ohio made an exhibIt exhibition lon ion of ignorance and folly in this city which wa straly deplorable A serenade tendered tended to him and other visitors by the galiant gallant commander of fort douglas drew draw a crowd in front of the walker house when the ohioan came forward and after being introduced trod by the governor made a speech which at first elicited great applause when ho he spoke of his brave compatriots iame lame wars ways war he struck a responsive chord in the public breast and his words were greeted with cheers sut nut when he descended to attack the ehe people who were listening to kl him im and ana make statements that any child ought to know were untrue his aud audience lenee lence a street crowd abruptly informed him that he lied this thia was waa rough and perhaps unjust for the probability is that he bad had ad been studded stuffed with the rubbish dilt gilt that he uttered by persons persona who ought to be ashamed ol of themselves for playing such tricks upon travel ers but they have become so accustomed cus tomed to telling absurd untruths un truths about mormon affairs that repeating those stories has become natural to them whenever they meet the tho uninformed tour to list whoever told gen grosvenor Gro avenor that labor is ia poorly paid here that the people hrenov are not allowed to ribe rise above the condition of slaves and that the country here Is ia owned excle by t denty wenty five or thirty men grossly deceived him and ands to use the blunt language of tho the crowd on saturday night they are ciara ars ara the generals Gene raPs folly wag was in repeating the stuff poured into his hla ears carb in that public manner without investigation every man ot of experience and intelligence knows that there are two sides to a question and that a strong part izan Is not apt to give both sides or present his own views view a impartially if general grosvenor had taken the pains to td find out facts he would have learned that oneff one of the reasons why manufacturing interests have not flourished better in utah is because of the high price of labor jabor that skilled mechanics command very high wages that common labor ciata ccata much bueg more in utah than in ohio that there are more people in utah in proportion to the populations owning their own houses and landh than anywhere eise else ill ili the united states that there are aro scarcely any large farms farma in the territory Teni tory but the land is divided up into small parcels so that the many and not the few may have aca a stake in the country that this distribution of material wealth has of necessity the result of making the masses measurably independent and thus liberty loving and actually free these are the facts and therefore it was waa only natural that the generals Gane rals rais untruthful assertions should meet with the rough re spouse response that greeted them while the epithet applied rightly belonged to those who bad had deceived him bim if general grosvenor would woula know the reason reabon why salt ball lake cithia not as large aa denver he can learn very easily there aro nrc many causes that might t be mentioned but one of the chiet chie f la Is the promulgation of falsehoods like ilke those which in tery very y bad taste ho he uttered on batur satur saturday ay night Tho the whole country lim had been een den deceived capital has been feared and kept away the In intrigue trIggers rs and adventurers who are continually lying so as to keep utah from becoming a state have bee be tiland enand are the barriers in the way of the material progress of the city and territory and aud ahila lis iio denver has beena been concentrate ratel the chief emm efm morts lorts of capital brought to colorado utah means and labon labor have been diffut diffused ed over its arable surface surfaces and aud many floura flourishing shing towns and cities outside af pf df bait salt lit t lake city 91 glye give te r at A 1 i s 1 l nod wod MU f 4 S f i is v T fl t t evidence of the tho thrift and pro grexa of the people but bat there Is ia another ano ther difference differ enca enco between this city and denver which the general did not mention it Is ia the crime intemperance licentious ness nebb disorder and all the elements peculiar to christian centres bentres of population which flourish nourish and abound in the capital capita but are simply incidents here the accompaniments and concomitants of gentile civilization the speaker thought t he be waa was talking to just such a class of people as were described to hicso much un der the thumb of their leaders as to submit to quick rep udia tion of the imputation that they were Bl slaves aves surprised and nettled him and his insinuation that they were blackguards black guards for hurling burling back his bib false statements did not give a evidence v that his hib breeding was bet ter tor te r than theirs when the general attempts egelin again to address the populace here or else where we respectfully gest that be bespeak speak on subjects that he knows something about and however credulous he may be to stories told him by old companions that he be careful about repeating them until they are substantiated by boy reliable evidence |
