| Show THE government BUILDING IT LOOKS as if those who compose the faction of I 1 liberals at work in washington seeking to prevail upon congress go co absorb the comans womans industrial du home in the proposed government building are getting in some effective work they have induced the iube committee to recommend an appropriation of one half the amount suggested by the senate committee this causes a commotion in the breasts of the other liberal JI faction opposed to the proposition of the economists who are grinding an axe on the sandstone of patriotism the parties antagonizing the no longer put forward ane pathetic plea that the placing of an extinguisher upon the womans comans industrial home would result in numerous I damaged reputations tat tati that point is evidently deemed too fine at this juncture as aa the present meagre occupancy of the institution is of itself a standing men ace to the reputations heretofore claimed to have been pickled in the juice of purity if it is necessary to preserve or give opportunity to repair those precious reputations it would be better to let the industrial home hame be annihilated so long as it stands with three women and six children as the whole complement of In inmates matts the reputations for truth and honesty of the parties who urged congress to appropriate the money to build it on the ground of urgent necessity are deeply shadowed if it were obliterated the vile falsehoods with which congress was stuffed would perhaps in time with their authors be forgotten while the he home stands it remains a grim witness against the perfidious schemers whose ulterior object was fortunately spoiled polled by subsequent prudential legislation this does not imply that we would for a moment favor the absorption of the institution in the proposed government building why could not the three women and nine children we understand this number to have been recently much reduced be boarded at one of the leading hotels at the expense pense of the government and the building devoted to some other purpose this course would certainly be profitable to Uncle Sam 12 why not ask congress to so change the law in relation to it that non no n cormons mormons would be admitted mormon people of all classes are noted for their character independence A great many other people are not so particular as they are on the score of receiving charitable support this change would doubtless soon fill the building but come to think of it a request of that kind made of congress would be a still deeper and wider reflection upon ertain 9 reputations which it to is necessary 0 sedulously guard from any standpoint the wo mans industrial home I 1 seems to be in the nature of a white elephant in its present status but as we said before so say we again it must not be absorbed in the proposed public bu building |
