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Show LOST THEIR HEADS. The wild, impracticable and nonsensical non-sensical idea of presenting a '"living petition" to congress for general relief, re-lief, a petition numbering a hundred thousand we believe that was the original figure having entered the heads of a half loony horse trader in Ohio and his coadjutors and copyists elsewhere, the reckless and unstable masses, the loosely attached all over the laud begin to move, organize and threaten. The government takes no heed of the gathering etorm, although it is aware of the existence cf an inflamed in-flamed and angry condition in the public pub-lic mind. Great masses of men on the Pacific coast rush together to repair to Washington, taking no heed as to how they are to get there, how they are to live in trannit, or what they shall do when arrived. It is altogether the in-sanest in-sanest thing, without onegraiu of com-znonsense com-znonsense in it. Indeed its whole ex iBtence is a jibe on reason, yet in every place where its misshapen existence has been exhibited, it has found hu ndreds of sympathizers, aiders and abbettors not that alone, but active, determined aad desperate allies. But the zenith of i his Bortof phrensy was reached when last week the business men, professional profes-sional men, merchants and citizens of Ogden boldly marched out to the Davis county line, declaring that, there was and is no power on this continent or in this nation strong enough to stop the indubtrial armies from going nhere they will, as they will, and doing what they will, This goes a toss beyond the mellow madness of the midsummer's moon. In this last wonderful move we find men who ought to know better, but t'lere is one present, Hon. M. A. Bree-den, Bree-den, who lately presided over the up p?r house of our territorial legislature, from whom we had the right to expect better things. By this action he teacha us that every western state and territory has its Waite, just as Colorado Colo-rado ha?, and also that upon occasion our Waite can act as nonsensically as , ever did the Colorado article. The ex ecut.ive of Utah.her courts and officers, are straining every nerve to quiet the country and subdue this unwholesome and threatening reign of the mob and this eminent gentleman flings himself and his fortunes Into the revolutionary mobs and "vive la anarchie" rings loud and clear from his lips, quickening quicken-ing and renewing the hopes of the mob and paling the cheeks of the votaries of law and order. When the governor of Colorado called out the militia of his state to disperse the lawful officers engaged in subduing the Cripple Creek mobs, he performed an act no wohe than that of Breeden and the leading men in Ogden when they marched to the pavis county line to give countenance I ni . .mm nmn.i m ii urn ii ii mi i' iiffir lariiyinni vrnr to the wealers who were struggling with the U. S. officers in their lawful efforts to prevent this horde of malign influences from oveirunning and involving in-volving the entire territory. Ogden has lost its head and Breeden all chance for future promotion in the line of politics. |