Show AN exhibition OF FOLLY IT does not dot matter much what the salt lake ames aimes has haa to say now on any question its influence counts for very little in either party but it openly charges the church with a fraud and a 41 trick in the preparation of the utah bill and says it bears bean on its it face we th ebrani brand of the church J probably the throes wants to attract a little notice by these absurd and stupid assertion 9 and we are work lag ing into its hands bands in say log 14 anything about it but we would like the tones to tell us the church brand is what is the baoe facell of this bill and how other folks amu an discover the mark also where the fr fraud audo and the trick are to be found we do not think any liberal un low lose he be is a lunatic wih seriously avow hid bb belief belief that the Mor mormon monS church its lt leaders or its people had anything to do with this proposition it was trained framed io in secret and was sprung upon us all unexpectedly the times professes to believe that the church is working for statehood if that is the gage ase why should the church favor a measure like this which would indefinitely postpone the admission of utah the times says it demands statehood while professing to want nothing of the kind what does the church or t f e bill the church has said nothing about statehood it has not demanded it nor said it 16 does not want tt does the bill say anything about statehood tate bood not a word does it provide for statehood in any degree not at all does it make any pretense of not wanting statehood there is not hot au an intimation in it of the kind the fact to is the bill entirely lacks the very tory element that the times aa alleges is HB essence the power of congress over aver utah to i by this bill left intact and tie hie territory remains a Terr tty to all intents and purposes with no local sovereignty and subject to the national government as much as ever the whole times article in a batch of nonsense it is consummate ignorance or something vastly worse worm it the writer will read fead the bill carefully and grasp its provisions just as they are he cannot fail to see what a mess men he has maje made of the matter in his leader of thursday evening |