Show ED editorials IT OR I 1 A L S WHY aloi mcmurrin WAS AVAS RE MOVED 6 A bli bil disappearance of y young oun macmur hin fin i tin in as we expected has caused a great many surmises and considerable discussion cus sion but the general opinion appears P rs to be that he has done a wise thing in heeding the advice of his personal friends our observation of the matter was taken with a view to the public good we thought more of the community than of the individual we still take the same position but Put there Is a great deal to be said in support ot the side his friends have taken on this question it Is very evident that the intention was and Is if possible to make mcmurrin bear the brunt of the legal consequences of that encounter in the dark alley which resulted in his being shot nearly to death the protection enciu encouragement ru gement and applause accorded cordea ac to collin for shooting him down and the stornes stories set on foot to prejudice the public against him indicate beyond question the purpose to acquit collin of erl crl crime me and fasten the blame upon his victim how much chance has lui lri at present for a fair investigation and adjudication of the case the lessons lesson of the past year are not calculated to give any uny mon Mor mormon mons accused of an at offense against the taw law aw an assurance of anything but conviction no matter what ithe the evidence when grand juryman jurymen are discharged and their places filled with more pliant persons because they will not hot indict to order when trial juries are carefully picked feromone from one classow class of the community and with a view to the exclusion of all who are of the same class as the accused when the strongest evidence for the defense Is I ignored nored or abused and add the thie flimsiest flims iest testimony for the prosecution lg Is counted as sufficient ta convict when the anti antl mormon animus of every off lelal official connected with the courts Is so palpably exhibited and verdicts can be predicted with unerring certainty before any evidence Is adduced if the creed ot the defendant Is known what encouragement has an accused mormon to submit himself to the tha tender mercies of the law and who can blame him severely it he avoids legal jeopardy while it is within his power to do ff so notwithstanding the dan dangerous erous condition of young mcmurrin as certified to by the surgeon and testified to by his f friends there appear appears to have been a determination to bring him dut out of his sick room by legal process groces tind and force the issue contemplated before he was in fit condition to meet it all the agencies to make him the off offender ender in place of the creature who shot him twice through the bowels were in the hands of those who have manifested a disposition to do so eis wis his f friends thought the risk of removing him from his home to a quiet retreat until convalescence was less than the danger of repeated intrusions of deputy marshals with the probabilities bili ties already described they considered that whitt whatever ever might be the effect of this courso course on the community the comin community unity could take care of itself and would not be in the position of canger danger to which the individual was exposed ased so they urged his removal and ec he reluctantly consented we a hope be he will be able to remain in privacy undisturbed until he Is physically 17 able to meet the issue squarely fifth with wt some 0 me probability of a fair and full fuli ltv investigation esti estl gation gatlon in this desire we believe we shall be joined by br nine h tenths of the people of this Teril terii territory tory MINERAL OUTPUT FOR tile THE YEAR I 1 THE mineral output of utah ulah for the year yeara 1883 1885 QZ was encouraging to those engaged in that branch of human industry that goes by the name of mining the chief profits are reaped of course byjoe capitalist and speculator but the laborer gets a share of the benefits and the producer of food to sustain the workmen 1 and the merchant who furnishes the various needed supplies each obtains no small part of the profits which accrue from successful cessa ul mining enterprise according to the calef carefully hll bli 1 prepared are re report ort of of wells fargo YS co co of business in this city mr air J E dooly is the jt clent manager the thie total output for the year was ibs lbs unrefined lead at an export value of 1 line silver gozs export value fine geld oid old gozs export value OGO 60 total value taking the mint salvation val of the pe precious cious clous metals and others at their seaboard value the total value of the product for 1885 will reach this is an increase over previous years and shows that the reputation of utah as a mining region is not ill founded he the capabilities of this territory have only commenced to be under stood and there are resources in these gand grand old mountains yet to be developed et of which the world has had ha not dreamed not only in the metals called precious will utah yet be found to excel but in mineral we westhof 1 I h of great value aluc to commerce aad and manufactures of f such richness and diversity that the world will wonder at their vastness and ind varni variety ety the developments of the lear near f future will show that the resources lesof of utah like her people thou though gh videly widely talked about have been little comprehended HOW MORMONISM IS TREMBLING tae tar cincinnati times temes star of december says A dispatch from salt lake lakato today to day brings the information that mormon ism sm trembles on the verge of a bottomless les ies cesspit spit pit the saints realize the situation and are in despair dispatches from salt lake to the eastern press are about as reliable as news cil ell clipped ped from Gul livers travels IF il the times star stay editor had been in this city on christmas eve when that dispatch was sent be he would have thought the only despairs despair the mormons cormons Mor mons were in was how to get et home witt wity all th thy 3 goodies with wh which they were loaded down for christmas and if there was any trembling 9 72 in Mornion dom dow iu it was with jov loy ful tul anticipation on the verges verge verse of bf as prosperous and pleasant a I christmas day as was ever siept in he the old world or the new mormonism iball is all ali right thank you and la Is being extensively advertised as a prep for the great change to the verzell verse of which thu the whole world is pressing if there is any trembling in mormonism it is the thrill tariu of aroused with which it is animated kindled into fresh vicor by the assault 8 of its enemies mormonism will give a good account of iosef when that bottomless pit engulfs its despairing malig ners EXILE HEARD FROM ENGLISH ELECTION AFFAIRS I 1 CHURCH abuse ABUSES BRADLAUGH IN parliament hydrophobia DRO bro PHOBiA SKATING GLADSTONE nErLiE replie II TO ETC wic liverpool LivER rodL england dec 12 1885 editor debret dds des eret aws novas I 1 the chief topie tople in I 1 countree is for some weeks past has been tue TUB GENERAL ELECTION there has been more excitement over it than has stirred the british public out of its habitual complacency for many years the addition of so much new elem clem elemen ent tinto linto the active portion alon of the body politic made the issue quite doubtful over two millions exercised for the first time the elective tr anchise franchise naturally it might have have been expected that the newly enfranchised voters would sup support aup pors the party that endowed them with tile the suffrage but the average agricultural laborer has hag not much of a head for politics and THE larso PARSON IN ANE THE MASTER wield a potent influence over the bucolic mind what little there is of it above bacon bacca and beer this power was exercised to the largest extent one of tho the loudest cries of the campaign was the church is in danger the conservatives raised thia to the highest notes lle ile the lie utterances of the liberal leaders on disestablishment lish ment were quoted and misquoted wrested and distorted and worked over in a way that would have delighted the soul soui of the liberal organ or an of salt lake ake city if it has buch such a thing within its anatomy gladstone waa pictured as a church smashing mashing mashi mashl ng monster mo uster even high church dignitaries resorted to abuse of the G 0 31 for the purpose of gaining votes for the tories the Aren archdeacon deacon of taunton told the people of Somerset shire if you vou are content to cheer a man who prefers political and party y his bis duty to his country a and bd his god you may as well weil cheer the devil where such words as these would not answer the purpose and where employers could not coerce the laborers I 1 BRIBERY wag was ein aloyed of course that could dould nul nut bd be dune doue openly this is how the thing was worked A clergyman of the church of england calls on the wife of a voter lie ile remarks in a syrup an fn tone how ill III your dour child Is looking k mrs it requires two or three month in the hr country 11 the reply reilly ts Is 1 I 1 bov luv guv that but cannot afford it at the response is oh 1 I can arrange that for you yon and if I 1 had known it before would have been pleased to ta doit dolt d it but I 1 will take the first opportunity nit to see that the child goes the E poor mother Is impressed with the kindness of the clergyman nand and thanks him with great warmth V the clercy man seizes his opportunity addin adding 11 one good turn u rn deserves another now awant I 1 want you to do me a favor lamin I 1 am interested esteAn ter te in mr the conservative candidate has your husband voted if not I 1 want vant him to vote tor for my friend of course the end is accomplished and the conservatives count another plumper if this is not bribery in law it Is in spirit and Is only a sampie sample of DODGES to which churchmen have resorted the blanket season beason set in prematurely that is the gift of blankets to the poor usual jn many parishes at christmas was advanced to no and tory votes were notoriously exchanged forbel for oed coverings in some places th rustics were made to believe that it the liberals were elected the communion plate in the churches would be melted down and the churchyards where the dead are interred be ploughed sloughed hed up pu pulpits p ts were turned into political stumps a and n sermons were preached against liberal candidates there Is cawse CAUSE FOR FEAR amon among g the clerical advocates of the shameful traffic la in church hur livings the cruel imposition of enforced tithes the sinecures sine cures which enable lazy parsons to live lux luxuriously x u r 0 u s y as a reward for doing bothin nothing th the e 1 in n justice of state support of a chruch y from which hosts of the citizen citizens ns dissent and other I 1 FLAGRANT T ABUSES render tender so probable that its approaching shadow terrifies the hireling clergy As a sample of these tithe impositions there is the case of st helens heiens parish Bishop gate london where a vestry cestr tie tte meeting was had aad to protest against the scandalous rate the parish had to pay to the rector ri clor the rey rev J B deane an annual tax of 2300 although there was only one service weekly in the parish church on the sunday morning the rector lived at bath and during the many years of if his incumbency had never done any kind of duty in ift the thu church it was urged in excuse that the venerable rector was blind take the case of LL church living at wimbish in essex three years ago it was put u up at auction but as only evo was tid bid for it and more was wanted it was withdrawn withdrawn at the auction it was announced that there is no rectory house no required nor any duty whatever on the pait part of the hol hoi derot the living 11 the same has been true of it for years and the law regulating these juat matters vers verb Is s such that any buyer of the rectory of wimbish could institute any clergyman however disreputable his character might be in spite of and aud in defiance of all the bishops in there altia the living is 19 worth a year net another Is the church of bayfield in the county of norfolk where there is lb nb church so jio house or glebe no services performed and only about fortar souls to betaken betoken be taken care or of the curate of an adjoining parish jarish ia Is paid 99 20 0 a year jear to todo do the visiting the average net income is a year tear the upset price Is too no wonder that the supporters of this state of things excia exclaim im ANYTHING TO BEAT BRAT GLADST but the liberal chief was elected in IN Mid lid iid lothian by a rousing rna ina majority arity ills his vote was against for mr chas dalrymple dairymple US his tory opponent HI hl election was greeted with uproarious rious exultation in id the metropolis the newspaper offices in fleet street and the strand were besieged by thousands eacer eager to read the bulletins baie bUie tins the announcement no of the victory nearly two hours after midnight on nov was the signal for the wildest enthusiasm the effects of tile the ci clerical canvass however and of the work of highborn ladies ladles who engaged enraged in the world work were evident in the ie result uit the liberal majority Is NOT sufficient to run the house without the support of the Parnel lites and this cives gives that small faction the long irish chance to make up the balance of powen power and turn the scale for either elther party that will offer the hest heat terms for irish liberation until parliament meets the eleventh under queen victoria no one c can an say a with certainty which party will wil I 1 ruly rule ruie e the nhe roost it is understood that mr air gladstone favors a measure for a certain ta tain tain lu amount of irish in independence e end ac while lord sails salisbury bury is vac vacillating lloita between a boid bold stroke to outdo the tile lib of the liberals or a decided stand to sustain the integrity of the empire and coerce ireland into sub mission ini int sign in support of and lu lii opposition to ism teeth and toenails toe nails gladstone certainly desires to vault again into powers and ana he can do so with the aid of pannell rannell and his party art if the liberals will only unite ath t their belr chief on some bomb plan plau ian lan that will placate carneu but there are ard many men 1 in the liberal ranks who cannot swallow an irish parliament and others who while favorable toa mild measure will not endorse the policy thal thai that will aiono alone satisfy the irish partain part yin Commons the altogether g r it is a very pretty fight and the odds are not very beky great on either side but some measure of justice to down trod den erin seems elms probable and all au f friendson friend sot the oppressed oppress sd will rejoice at her deliverance among the incidents of the opening of parliament will be another attempt of ot in BRADLAU GIf to obtain his li seat beat ile ho announces his expectation of representing his bis constituents the borough of northampton famous for its shoe making operatives and freethinking free thinking doctrines andea and expresses his determination to introduce uce measures of reform in the land laws the full enfranchisement of women and tae t ie abolition of religious oaths the present oath cyst system em Is certainly WON a farce alarce a and d a simple affirmation would be I 1 just anub as binding I 1 and much more consistent in a mixed assembly of christians of different sects jews and noa not a few actual thou though 1 I unprofessed inn ind dels JC 11 i from the honse house of coin commons moni moul to mab MAD DOGS I 1 may seeta a wide leap but those wha wh have seen thyi former when country members are hooting hoeting at an opposition speaker will not think chew them BO so widely removed from the latter There appears to be a general |