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Show The DeEeret News of the 5th had a thoughtful, timely and able article on the modern drama. We should like to see the broad catholicity of that article spread oyer a wide territory. We agree most heartily with the declaration declara-tion that while there is much that is harmful, low, coarse, profane and demoralizing de-moralizing in the modem drama, yet there is much that is good. We should taboo the bad and accept the good. In other words, make the distinction between be-tween good aud bad. It is, however, with the drama as it i? with journalism. journal-ism. Dramatists cater for the public, deal in the goods that will sell. The newspapers are blamed with publishing publish-ing sensational matter, divorce tiials, etc. The reasons are plainly diecerna-able. diecerna-able. The sensational papers grow rich, while the journals which are conservative, con-servative, pure in morals and truthful fail. After all, the old commercial law of demand and supply obtains in the state, in the newspaper sanctums as well as in the workshops and stores of the people. If moralists and religionists religion-ists would elevate both the drama and journalism, they must commence at the hearthstones of the people; plant there a higher order of morals, a purer taste and be assured both the stage and the press will see to it, that their wares are in strict accord with .the demand. de-mand. This same principle applies also to the liquor trade. If there were no demand there would be no shops to supply it. Lessen or destroy the de mand, and the bars will disappear like frost work before the advancing rays of the sun. TnE Tribune is far too bitter upon the the dead -Blackburn. One's bitter hatred of another mortal should pull up at the grave's side should stop with the world should not be sent after the departed to the other shore. And who then is this Tribune that to it is given the office of judge.of executioner in the case of poor Blackburn ? Its article on Sunday morning is shameful. After reading it, one has less respect for his kind and more for the doe who whines and laments over the grave of his master,' mas-ter,' Poor human nature despicable human hu-man nature, which pursues beyond the j grave. While times are doll in Utah yet they compare favorably with those of any etate in the nation, or more particularly partic-ularly in the west. The Mercur and TIckville low grade gold camps will set thingp off in the spring in good shape. Money is now coming in rapidly for the active development of these new camps and as soon as the enows ef winter are gone we look for big things. Utabis the most fortunate of the western west-ern states. Tex degrees below zero is a pretty live winter temperature. That is the point the mercury reached on Saturday morning the 6th in the good city of Provo. We can almost seethe shiver of our good friends the McFarland boys, editors of the Victoria . (Tex) Daily Times, when reading this brief paragraph. para-graph. Poor benighted boys who have never seen a minute of healthy winter weather in all their lives. Guover Cleveland can turn 'em out, democrats, but when it comes to republicans he i3 a little slow, as all will admit. It seems, however, as though we are to have a coyple of important im-portant changes in federal offices here in Provo v ery soon . Democratic victories in the west, since the repeal of the Sherman act, do not gather in clusters. The fact is they do not group themselves at all, for want of numbers. Free silver is the remedy. . . . I Gov. Lewellinq of Kansas would like to cancel the Lease he h as on hand or trade it off for a mortgage. Anything, Any-thing, Lord, to be quit of the troublesome trouble-some thing. A straight tip. There is gold at Crooked Creek near Buenavista, Colorado, Colo-rado, but far more at Camp Floyd, Utah. |