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Show We doubt if the Tribune is either j very truthful or very wise in its article of yesterday under the caption "The Takfcd Truth." It complains that tbs outside counties have for years btjt n looting Salt Lake in the interests of the schools. Let Salt Lake give to the outside out-side counties the wealth she has accumulate! ac-cumulate! by the fact that Bhe has been for so many years the political capital, the religious center, the school center ana the ccmmercnl center of the territory and the outside counties will pay the taxes without a murmur. The article is unwise in this that it is liable to crystalize the feeling of chagrin cha-grin and make it permanent. Whereas had the Salt Lake papers been less exacting, more mild a nd temperate, the thing would have worn off after a while and the outside men would have been more liberal in the future. You Bhould not make a man mad if you want him on your side. According to the Tribune's Washington Wash-ington dispatches yesterday, the Mormon Mor-mon church has completed its purchase of three millions of acres of land in a body in Mexico. We have no meanB at hand to determine the truth or falsity fals-ity of the report, but it iB a gigantic scheme if true. We know something of the region named and can say that no more eligible region- for a ' great colony could be found. The only very serious objection would be the doubtful doubt-ful and unstable government, subject as it is to periodical revolutions etc. But with twenty thousand colonists the Mormons will be abundantly able to take care of themselves. All honor to Judge Bradley for excluding ex-cluding the ladies from the court room during the trial of the Pollard-Brecken-ridge case. The word is a misnomer we think. Surely no real lady would voluntarily listen to the salacious particulars par-ticulars of the illicit loves of euch a pair as those two seem to be by the testimony already in. It is bad enough for men to resort to such places from prurient curiosity, but it is wholly wrong for women to do so. We sincerely sin-cerely trust that the courts of the whole country will follow the example of Judge Bradley in matters of this kind. It really seems that the rebellion in Brazil is over at last. It has been a tame affair all over. There has been lots of talk but not enough fighting to wear tbe rust off the arms of the belli-gerants. belli-gerants. We make a different lick when we rebel in this country, but after all we doubt if the Brazilian plan is not the best. At all events there is less suffering and less waste of time in their plan. Does this surrender surren-der end it definitely? We doubt it. Because public sentiment or rather a preverted public taste demands tbe publication of the unclean testimony in unclean cases in our courts, is no reason that the papers should gratify it. No amount of money will induce us to publish scandalous matter to the detriment of public morals. No paper is justified in pandering to the perverted per-verted taste of a single class which desires that soit of mental pablum to the demoralization of the remainder of its readers or the public. The Standard beats all for lengthy editorials. One grows tired at a mere glance at the editorial page. Alneit there is meat there. The seigniorage eubject is vastly interesting in-teresting the Benate, just at present. Why not pass the measure and be done with it? Speaking of lengthy editorials the Sun has caught the infection from the Standard, we suppose. Da Gama isn't half as much of a hero as he has been rated, it seems, Tennyson on Spring. We have the word of Alfred Tennyson Tenny-son for it that in the spring the young man's fancies lightly turn to thoughts of love. It is singular that the great laureate omitted to mention the fact that it is in the snrinc that si rnnsidpr- aole portion of the human race turn to taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Probably nothing but the difficulty of finding a good rhyme for that invaluable remedy deterred him. Certain it is that the old-time domestic remedies are generally gener-ally discarded in favor of the standard blood purifier, Hood's Sarsaparilla, which has attained the greatest popularity popu-larity all over the country as the favorite favor-ite Spring Medicine. It purifies the blood and gives nerve, mental, bodily and digestive strength. |