Show AN ANT appropriate ACTION IN providing for the closing of all liquor saloons tomorrow to morrow the mayor and city council have acted with commendable prudence the step has not been b een taken because anybody believes there is dang danger er of an outbreak of the character which the anti antl mormon n I 1 clique of this city have so vigorously foment edIt is barely possible poss bie ble however that some of oatha tha class who have been invited through the salt lake tribune to come in from the tile mining camps on the occasion for tor the purpose of forcing a bloody conflict may respond to the call in lif that event tuey they might succeed in creating a few street brawls and thus dhus disturb the quiet of the city but as tile the main source ut their inspiration is shut off by the action of the authorities of the municipality the prospect of the occurrence of incidents even of anat comparatively insignificant character will be largely removed althou although h no sane person apprehends any danger of an outbreak the bottom having lallen fallen out oat of the anti antl mor imor mon on plot it is always better to be on ike sate sale side of every question through the lying misrepresentations sent out f from roin this city by the conspirators lodges of the G A K R in the surrounding region have issued orders providing for the distribution of arms aad and ammunition and calling on them to be in readiness to move upon this city at short notice of course the whole thing will be a fizzle and these organized mobs which have been incited to come here and inaugurate scenes of blood will probably not put in an appearance if they did they would be hard pushed to find somebody to fight and in the event of their advent their courage won would ad cool down in the absence of something with which to temporary insanity these facts form additional reasons for the action of the municipal author it aties es it must be considered also that governor murray acting as the conduit of the anti antl corroon I 1 clique has called upon the militar y authorities for foras as as istance in the event of an outbreak which he and those who sit behind him pulling the gubernatorial strings string gs to cause him to jump when they want hl him in to hoped to be able to create the military appealed to th the e C chief III ili e f magistrate tj a gi strate of the ria tia catlon cation tion and he in turn issued an au execl tive five order to that portion of the army irmy located in the platte division to be iu in readiness to interfere iu in the proposed manufactured crisis if after all this exhibition of high recognition the authorities ties of the locality where it was intended by the appealers to the powers that be to work up the outbreak should have treated the whole matter with indifference in falling to notice it by any preventive movement they might have been accused of showing contempt to this great nation their apathy might have been construed into an insult to the constituted federal authorities of the territory and country and made the occasion of another call through the tribune for ex confederate soldiers and members generally of the G A it 11 to flock nock to our beautiful city and spread deatti and destruction it might vet vel shocked thel tender susceptibilities of the alleged kentucky defaulter and constituted a reason for general howards making an application to president Vl cleveland eveland for re from the other military divisions nobody will be hurt by the closing of the saloons if anybody should desire kireto to get intoxicated and is stopped f from rom exercising that prerogative dative of the truly loyal american citizens he w will ii I 1 not only be prevented from becoming a nuisance to his sober ly disposed neighbors but he himself will be heavier in pocket and clearer in head as a consequence the action of the mayor and city council counci will of course not sit serenely upon the liquor dealers but they have no reason reasor to blame the municipal authorities on that score they have to thank the ally disposed agitators aalta aaita gors tors who made their action necessary we look upon the position of the city authorities in this light if it any disturbance should possibly arise it would be largely caused by the anti mormon patriots putting themselves outside of a copious quantity of whisky whisks whisk in case of such a development the local authorities would be indirectly I 1 responsible if they did not exercise their prerogative in suppressing the traffic of the article articie which would be the main cause of the row |