Show correspondence MEMORANDA MESA editor deseret news it being now some months since you have received any collected coU acted news from I 1 ai mesa esa I 1 t thought ought that a few bis is gar garden en ot of flowers and fruit and of j general progress as well as of the alth and comfort or otherwise of its inhabitants would be of passing interest to many of your re apers A WORD OP OF appreciation if you will pardon a digression from above text I 1 wish to observe that as a coustant coa stant reader ctr 0 your journal I 1 1 look upon it as a true exponent of religious T liberty and do most assuredly and heartily agree with the sentiments contained coutair ped therein which breath forth a heroic remonstrance against the powers that are twisting and torturing out of all shape the true meaning of enactments i in n order to persecute to the fullest and foulest extent a people guilty in the eyes of the creator of no crime save that of doin doing his commands accor according diug to their consciences no fouler stain can oe be found on the pages of history or in the records of the laws of nations written or traditional even though we narrowly scrutinize them down the stream of centuries and away into the dim light of barbaric ages than the penal laws of our country against an industrious and law abing portion of her citizens known as members of the of jesus christ of latter day saints and that too in the full blaze of the enlightened nineteenth century but say these sticklers klers we are not enforcing laws against belief or creed but against a what is deemed a social cri crime oe admitted that polygamy is a crime against society and looked upon as such by the christian world yet it must be borne in mind tw that professing mor mons look it and have been taught it from childhoods years as a divine command as strictly to be observed and upheld as they uphold the command thou not steal looking at it in this light as a fixed artile of their creed they might as aa well try to blow back a hurricane with their breath as to force the people of the mormon faith to give up their cherished convictions nAtions co by the application of penal laws and the stand that the iE DESERET SERET NEWS is now taking 9 is wl waging a just war in favor of the first and most potent principle of human freedom not now fought for the first time on american Ame ritan soil that will be duly appreciated precia ted in the years to come by every lover lover of the freedom freedo idof of conscience no matter at what shrine he may worship PROMISE OF ABUNDANCE the people of mesa tempe and lehi are so alm ithe writer knows in the of health if not ot 01 great worldly prosperity the warm season has once more set in and ana it comes harvesting which will test the i toughness of our young men to the full capacity it is admitted that the harvest will be a bountiful one and all indications point to a reduction in it will also be a plentiful fruit season unless the stray end arl of a cyclone should pay us a passing visit arid add blow our ripening fruit into a 8 neighboring territory our honey also promises a large yield RAILROAD again and we hope for the last time is the railroad confidently broken spoken of as au an accomplished fact A AH i the plant of a narrow gaa gauge e is now said to belant be e iu in tucson and quite a number of miles of track already laid this new road will take in the mineral belt of the globe and pinal final and thence down the salt river valley touching at mesa tempe and Pho phoenix anix and connecting with the southern at maricopa maricola Mari copa POR FOR DUMPLING DUST the long talked of grist mill to be erected between plesa and lehi lebi is about to be a reality and this is an enterprise ter prise of no doubtful nature an enterprise ter prise which will greatly add to the stability and prosperity of the stake the members of of this stake have all that is necessary to make the mill a success plenty of df land water and elbow grease and to back this up a steam thresher lately parch purchased by lewis peterson of this t s village |