Show E editorials D I 1 T 0 ru MORMON enterprise AND aggression tian chicago incer inter ocean la Is much exercised exorcised over the extension of mormon influence into rado new mexico and arizona complains that the MOM mormon 1011 loll church 19 manifests an aggressive and hostile spirit toward our bur institutions tut ions lons an aud and dargues argues as follows rhe the fact that the spirit of mormonism is enterprising and aggressive reaching out always after power and guided by shrewdness and cunning makes it no mean antagonist tag onist in these territories that are to become states As the amor mons mona encourage an alien element in our civilization and sink all considerations for the state in loy alty to their peculiar religious eya tem they must be resisted as other alien elements have been resisted and conquered Is it a crime for a church to be enterprising in spirit it if so all the ecclesiastical organizations in christendom that show any signs of activity must be condemned has not the so ao called mormon church as much right to proselyte as any other religious body are nob not its numbers equally entitled with the votaries vot arles aries of any of the numerous sects to settle in any part of the united states that suits them provided they do not violate the rights of others Is mormonism any more aggressive sive than 19 methodism many of the live preachers of the latter boast oft ott of the he aggressive nature and methods of their society and consider it a sign of force and vigor and ia a far reaching out after power look at the efforts and success of the methodists and the catholics in this direction and see where lies the greatest danger on this account if any there be the gathering of the saints from the various nations of the earth is part of the work required of the elders of thI thib this church and as its believe without doubt is a commandment to them from the almighty they not only preach tho the gospel of spiritual salvation but also of temporal redemption to the struggling laborers of the old world and oy ty enterprise point the way and assiat assist those who embrace the faith to emigrate to the newly opened regions 0 of the rocky bocky mountains thus the territories above named are becoming settled by a hardworking thrifty and peace loving class of citizens who make the very best beat kind of matel matei material ial lal for a stable and weal wealth th producing g population andrare and are the kind of human ele ments menta necessary to the development of the pastoral past orais orals agricultural and manufacturing interests of those incipient states our aggressiveness is merely of the argumentative didactic prose lating order in an other th e r respect we have ever been en on tue the t defensive we do not attack any person J community or government we assail what we believe to be e error as we have the right to do and in the tho exercise of this right we have been lire the objects of thee theW raffi of oun our C doctrinal opponents with whom all the physical and unlawful 11 aggression 21 that has marked our bur course from the beginning has originated we make no war on men or the rights of men m en wo ve ao do not think it is necessary for ua ui to submit without resistance to those who make war upon us and upon our rights and such resistance cannot properly be called aggression gres sion neither oither either do wo we encourage an alien element in oui our our civilization on ort tho the contrary wa we endeavor to convert all the alien element of our gathered converts into material for the support of the government to make them citizens of our common country and interested components of its political institutions if there is any among us it is the fault not of the mon mormons cormons Mor mons but of their enemies who interpose every possible barrier in the tho way of the naturalization of mormon applicants for citizenship and even try to procure the disfranchisement of those already endowed with its rights and privileges what is the nature of the resistance which the inter ocean intimates must bs be exercised erched ex towards the cormons mormons Mor mons by the surrounding territories we have no reason reabon to object against anything of that character that la its lawful and right but those who accuse ua us of ag aggressiveness gos si veness aro are the first to assume an atti attitude tudo of hostility or to stir up others to attack us no one has ever been able to show wherein we have violated tho the rights lights of athars why then should they incite violence toward ours we are branded with the epithet of lawless but it has never been shown that we have broken any law save one and that thata a statute framed intentionally against an integral part of our religious creed but under abe pre tence of forcing us to abandon that parl part of our oar falth faith the law hab has been beeri frequently broken by our enemies and even now the inter ocean while complaining of our aggressiveness si veness 1 hostility and support of an 1 ilen alien llen lien element is la covertly advising these very things in our neighbors to prevent our extension into and settlement of surrounding territories which are in pressing Dg need of just sucha sueh such a population as its we are providing them with to resist and conquer conque woun boun lour people or their settlement sett Fett lement upon the public domain under the land bawa of the united states would be not only aggressive but an alien element in our civilization forthe fon for the genius of lions is favorable to colonization and the convere conversion iori fori of the wilderness into habitable places and our government seeks to aid andani port the prospective or actual citizen in the acquisition of a permanent homestead especially in the desert regions of the great west and we remind the inter ocean that the institutions laws constitution and government of this country are our bourband Band and not the private property of any party sect or paper and if fair play was given and all journalistic and priestly misrepresentations were discarded the mormons cormons Mor mons could establish quite as good a record for loyalty order peace subordination to good government and submission to constitutional enact ennet enactment menU as any gom pom community rel rei reile relie lelous lous loas secular or in the united states not excepting the aggressive par party y of which that paper ia Is BO so radical a representative meteorological THE value of scientific meteor meteorological olo I 1 observations and rec ree records la Is becoming com ingmore more and more apparent with every year a experience the united states have the honor of faking the lead in ihla branch brandh of useful knowledge and the benefits which have resulted especially to the shipping interest interests 93 are very great it la Is gratifying to know that other nations are alive alve to the importance of a regular s system batern of observations similar to those established by our signal service I 1 and that scientific men in the leading cities of the world are operating cooperating co for general advantage the permanent c committee of the vienna meteorological congress have just paid the united states the hah hig h compliment of recommending to a proposed second congress the adoption throughout the world of a plan for exchanged of data for simultaneous weather maps or other purposes similar to one first organized for the united states by general myer the chiet signal officer in 1873 and which has been continuously pursued by the signal service to this day the features of this exchange as set on foot by the united states are as follows the signal office of the united states asks alli aili countries to make and record daily on land and sea one simultaneous weather observation at the exact same instant of time 2nd and the united states then exchanges with each country sepa separately r making an especial request of each to establish such exchange ard 3rd each country sends to the united states every fifteen days its own observations all are thus received by the united states state ath the signal office of the united states then collates and prints all its own incident coincident co observations included and returns in this shape to every regular observer who has sent continuously a single report the reports gathered from whole northern hemisphere hof for 0 one no report sent regularly by any regular observer any where on ship or shore bhore he receives and these surround alid arid cover nearly the northern hemisphere it has been the theory of the chief signal officer that with witha buch such information so widely diffused a great deal of work will be dong dona by separate observers in every country which will beof use to all but which woh the tho solitary observer alono could never think of undertaking unless the data have been thus laid down before him the united states need the data for themselves and they help besides an international international union of brains as well as hands for nearly six years this exchange originated and conducted by the signal SerVI service of the united states has been perfectly successful almost every civilized nation north of the equator has taken part in it it has made possible for the first time in the history of the world the preparation of a daily dally simultaneous map of the northern hemisphere at washington this also is scent to each observer and has probably advanced the study of practical meteorology as far as any one undertaking in the last century the DESERET NEWS publishes daily reports of the temperature ani and state of the weather from a dozen points of observation along a strip of country reaching from iowa to california with full meteorological te dakaj data furnished by sergeant craig of the signal service corps U ri 6 A UTAH CERITE WE havo have noticed in several papers the he following item taken from the scientific american in relation to utah mineral wax t the tithe great deposit of mineral wax or native paraffin e lately discovered in 8 southern 0 athern utah is described by rr professor lofessor J E clayton clay ton of bf salt lake city as occupying an area of 60 ralles miles long by 20 0 feet thick it contains mon mow or 01 lebs leaa clay in seams and layers but this is readily read fhy fly Jy eliminated by malting it is quite black in the tho mass maea but the sections are translucent the quantity is bald eald to be enormous BO so great indeed that it cannot be controlled by any individual or company but must prove a source of wealth to whole communities professor henry wurtz pronounces the min eral to be and baya saya that it differs from by being insoluble in ether and otherwise professor J J newberry ands finds the in ons one brought by him from we utah aa to be true and bim aim similar in ali all respects except color to that from a true melting at 60 C and being soluble in ether aa As to iho the tho origin and geological relations of this remarkable bed of which so far oar 7 as is known is without parallel iu iii quantity in the world and la Is as us much of a wonder as our basins of petroleum professor chewberry new Hew berry cannot speak with any confidence until he lias haa visited the locality where it occurs as be he hopes to do in a few weeks he suspects however that it will be found to be an evolved production the distillation of beds of cretaceous lignite and the residue of a petroleum unusually ilch rich in the euba tance here referred to was described in this paper about two years ago and was waa found in the neighborhood of spanish fork utah county professor barfoot curator of the derezet museum has experimented with it and has found it soluble in sulphide bi of carbon he las aas hab has had bad in his bis possession for a long time a varnish made of this irwan wax in solution he says it is not the same as in it its pa proportions of carbon and hydrogen nor is it exactly like any of the mineral carbo hydrides and therefore considers it proper to give it a local name with his usual modesty he suggests Utah cerite as the title of this peculiar substance he says it can be utilized for the same purposes for which gutta percha and are used with which it can be amalgamated in any proportion and believes it can be manufactured into varnishes cements ise ac A specimen of wax as well as the varnish made from frona it can be been seen at the museum utah is destined to make a big mark in the world with her mineral treasures and every year gives demonstration ion lon that she is not only rich in most of the precious and valuable metals and earths but possessed of mineral deposits unique in character that only await ane skill of the artisan tobe into use to swell the commercial importance andade and add to the general wealth of the future state of deseret PROGRESS or WE learn with pleasure that mulberry trees are boing planted this season beason in large numbers in diff different erent places this thia Ind indicates leate a that an interest has been awakened in the territory on the silk question sericulture can certainly be made a profitable branch laranch of industry in utah the climate Is not only adapted to the raising of the tree whose leaves form the beet beat food for thel Ellk bilk silkworm worm but also to the growth and health of the industrious I 1 little spinners themselves tham selves ives A z damp atmosphere is death to these valuable insects and freau frequent ent thu thunder ilder lader storms are also dibo injurious if not fatal to them Ut ahlis dry and air alz Is especially suited bulted to them and the raising of eggs for the market to say nothing of the production and manufacture of the ibe raw material if followed follo wed with proper care and attention can be made madd a very remunerative business until tha the foundation is well laid for thib this industry it la Is useless to talk to capital capitalists letb lets about investing mon money ey in it an abundance of trees for feeding the worm must be bd first produced and then proof of the profits of egg raising being furnish famish ed men ol 01 means may be induced to td embark in the business on a large scale worthy of the opportunities which this region Rf affords fords after planting the cuttings or young trees some attention is laje xe quiren to keep the soil sufficiently damp around the roots when cold weather comes they should be pro from frost but after the second winter has passed they will be sufficiently thrifty to withstand the rigor of the climate and go on to td p perfection the ladles ladies are taking considerable in interest teresi in sericulture andily and it appears as is though the establish ment and success of this important industry will depend principally on their exertions sister eliza eilza JL R snows efforts alln this diorec tion are well known the president of the young ladies ladles society of ar m n g n ade preparations for fo r the t h q p planting 1 a 1 of a thousand trees t this hii seas seaf season ion mrs robinson of the same bame same place raised a considerable quantity of silk at president youngs farm last year and yesterday morning sister zina D young who is very energetic in this matter brought over from cache valley five and a half pounds of silk reeled by mrs paul yaul cardon of logan to be worked up by the iha ina machinery chinery at brigham city great interest is being taken in this matter in utah county and in a few days a small work on sericulture floriculture containing instructions in regard to the best methods for this locality will be published by bro daniel grave of provo who is BOW now in this city elty lecturing leo lea turing tuning on the subject we vve hope our friends who are engaged in this th 19 business will continue i their labors and not be discouraged by the obstacles which always lie in the gathof path of new undertakings success awaits them in the noe noi not distant future and the |