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Show It is perfectly plain that the Tribune is switching from Virginia City and California to the Sun and New York. Well, it is a fact that Dana is a rich mine of sarcasm and deviltry, but there is no i resemblance of good obituary material about him. Alas, he seems to think of almost everything other than dying; eo just where the Tribune's Tri-bune's interest comes in we fail to sec. Just now the Sun is interested in Governor Gov-ernor Stone of Missouri and the Se-dalia Se-dalia poet, The Tribune tries hard to catch on, but misses its hold at every I attempt. The Tribune is hardly up to Missouri politics the fact is, few of us are. Governor Stone loves Cleveland, but doeB cot seriously object to free silver, either. Here is the complication. A contemporary makes but a lame defense of repeal in its issue of the 17th. The question is if the purchase of 4,500.000 ounces of silver per mouth would have the effect to lower the price of the metal. The purchase law and other makeshifts kept up the price from '73 to tha repeal, but what is to keep up the pnee now? We are of those honest but thick headed men who believ that a half loaf is better than no bread. Neither cb we want to die to realize. The remonetization of silver i3 a necessity to the west. All intervening legislation and argument is deceptive, misleading ana a makeshift. make-shift. Nothing will do any good save the full restoration of silver. The Splatterblotch has been record-hunting record-hunting again, this time to New Mexico. Mex-ico. It finds in the president of the council at Salt Lake o'-e who knew the editor vf TuE DisPATcn when he edited ed-ited the New Mexican which was a howling republican paper. Tne latter is a pure,unadulterated lie out of whole c oth. The New Mexican was owned at the time by the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. It had no poli-t',.js. poli-t',.js. Was perhaps the most independent independ-ent paper in the United States. Tie Splatterblotch had better try it again, liad its present charge been true, how or in what way would its own situa-ation situa-ation be improved? The Mitchell's are holdin r the boari b now, at least iu Florida. Governor Mitchell on one end of the plank is rather too heavv for Charley Mitchell and Jim Corbett oa the other. But just why these worthies should not be allowed co beat each other to death, we confeES, we cannot see. The governor gover-nor would do well to stand aside, give them plenty of sea-room and let the mill go on. The proposition to tax mortgages doesn't seem to be very acceptable to our Utah legislature. We are borrowers, borrow-ers, not lenders. The only trouble is, firing a tax at the lenders would be to drive them out of the territory. The Standard declines to sink to the level of the democratic press in Ogden, even for the purposes of argument. Oh! The democratic press there must be pretty low to produce this sad effect. The only relief for the over crowded labor market is more money and the revival of demand for manfactured products, which that condition will create. Whekkver you find masonry active and flourishing you find a liberal, to'-erant to'-erant law-abiding and prosperous community. com-munity. The Standard wonders that any republican re-publican refuses to tax mortgages. Wonders will never cease. Dick Bland would run the government govern-ment on 6ilver, not bonds. Silver Dick is a brick. The deep snows in the mountains giyeoromise of a big crop in Utah next summer, |