| Show affected WITH phantasmagoria MA thic anti imor thormon on speculators are indicating that their minds are filled with anticipatory schemes their condition in this respect is a vivid illustration of counting chickens before they they are seeking to catch the shallow with word paintings of fanciful pictures of what this city will become after its government shall pass inko their bands di drafts abts are already on paper of cf propositions for planting rows of trees and shrubbery down the middle of our magnificently wide streets and removing the footpaths foot fout paths a distance frtiz the private fences to a location near the middle of tile ne thoroughfares avs deais beans of sewerage are also already constructed ted on tool foolscap semp and under the caps aps of the schemers gehew rs in fact in their minds eye this already fair town is transformed by a utopian political process into an elysium that would nil tile the agart of we tue most extreme poetic theorist with ecstasy to the practical business man such rubbish is light airy and unsubstantial as chaff he sees through the fanciful tog fog fat contracts and plentiful opportunities for pilfering the municipal treasury expenditures tures enormously in excess of resources burdensome tax taxation avion ruin robbery and perplexity he sees also that in the event of the consummation of the desires of the plotters there would be a scramble lor for office and opportunity that would caute the realization of the fanciful elysium to turn out a literal pandemonium all solid men would fong for an honest administration conducted with economy and prudence a conservative public financial policy invariably giving the greatest satisfaction to the community in which it obtains no matter what phase of the anti Mor mormon question is scar scanned ined it will be found to turn in one solitary direction that of an insignificant ant majority grasping after the opportunity to govern control and despoil the majority this is the kernel of the nut ane objective point of all the efforts that are made under the hypocritical pretension of et seeking to uphold the institutions of the country which they are practically seeking to annihilate so tar far as relates boutah to utah so far as this city and territory are concerned it will be well enough so long ions as the conspirators govern it merely in their dreams and imaginations should it ever become a reality however it will be a sorry day lor for all classes for it would not alone be the intended victims who would suffer no considerable portion ol of any community can be placed under a ban without the balance being more or orless less similarly affected this piece of philosophy has been demonstrated rated too often to be susceptible of being successfully sf ally controvert ed |
