Show SLOW TO comprehend it was ten years after appomattox before some of the people of missouri found out that the war was over it was more than that after jefferson daviss requiem was sung before some of the abolitionists of new england realized that he was dead and it is only lately that congressmen have stopped waving the bloody shirt but missouri and the rural regions of new england were not in as close touch with the world through railroads telegraphs and newspapers as they are now or the occurrences of the day would have been sooner grasped by their inhabitants of congressmen it may be said that they would have ceased flourishing the sanguinary emblem long before they did had their honesty equalled equal led their intelligence there are newspaper writers in utah who are slower to learn than were the guerillas guerrillas gu erillas of missouri or the antislavery anti slavery enthusiasts of new england either this is true or they must be classed with the congressmen referred to periodically these writers pretend to see signs in the political sky which portend things most direful dimly through the fumes of a heated imagination they fancy they discern the vague but awful outlines of a vast spectral figure indescribable yet terrible in form with name church spelled out in mystical and gigantic characters right across its back the havoc about to be wrought by this dreadful creature is appalling and the patriotic spirits of those who see the vision are perturbed beyond measure among the things this vast and indescribable specter is about to do are the wiping out of the present political parties in this state the resurrection and rehabilitation of the old parties with all their old time strength and enmity the subjugation of the state to the rule of a hierarchy the transposition of ensign peak and antelope island and several other achievements equally feasible and shocking reference to some matter connected with politics somewhere in this state made by some prominent churchman or esp especially by the news has the effect of unveiling to the gaze of these writers this monstrous apparition and they immediately proceed to inflict upon the suffering public long inane and unintelligible descriptions description of what vv hat they say day they see for half a dozen years this sort of thing has been going on and it is time to cease it if the editorial fraternity of our fair youn state is to escape the charge of cf embracing more than its prop proportion of imbeciles imbe ciles the utter senselessness of f much that appears in some of our local cotem clotem por aries arles upon this subject comprises one of the most discouraging cal problems that confront the apte el of our commonwealth A speet specter erX si to Is raised today only enly to be laid nl row suspicions are expressed only to be exploded as soon as an answer to tham can be printed settled bonfi 1 l dence is prevented X i i to these people might be suggested that their hindsight is better th ban 5 their foresight the former bein being 9 tim the more valuable should be more 0 often used they have written acres A rubbish about what the mo monnett 1 church was about to do and about v what would result from utterances h its leading men respecting tOL they have filled their columns with profuse predictions concerning what would result from expressions that 1 l have appeared in the editorial 0 v dumns of the news yet they cannot calt point out the first single instance va fist v which their predictions have been filled they cannot find a solitary ary in iii stance in which their charges against the leaders of the mormon church against this paper or their pro agn of results that would their policy have been verified tija tte t record shows that without fall th abw eff s have been not only false prophets ba abst also false accusers with certainty time has vindicated abir sa a men and measures they have OB posed and almost always the vt cation has come so swiftly that it lay wonderful they could not have tora S seen it t |