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Show The venerable and smiable old gentlemen, who compose the Uintah and Uncompahgre commission,are described des-cribed as too etherially frail for the duties before them at this season of the year. They had betier stick close to Fort DuChesne until the balmy winds of May have disposed of the deep snows and other inclemencies of the region and season. What does it matter to a few hundreds of intending settlers, or to the interests of Utah or the Indians, so that the comfort of three old pets of the government is assured. as-sured. Truly is this government rapidly becoming fatherly, if it i3 losing los-ing in efficiency. The government cannot can-not afford to continually fly in the face of the west in the contemptuous way that it has been doing for two years. The Tribune complains that the commission's clerical force is kept busy compiling facts and data for use by the democratic party next summer in the fierce campaign impending. We are sure, we are very glad that they are, because we hope to see the democracy dem-ocracy triumphant in the next strug-gle.and strug-gle.and want to see played every legitimate legiti-mate and honest card which will innure to that end. But we do not hesitate to Eay that the Tribune ia falsifying when it says the commission as public servants, are doing anything more tor one party than for the other. The Springer bill, (Cleveland's) was defeated on Thursday, and a sigh of relief re-lief has gone through the country. Of course It is always painful to us to see BchiBm in the democratic party, but perhaps Mr. Cleveland is beginning to find out that he is not the party. We are glad of it. If he were, this nation would have, ere this, been irretrievably irretrieva-bly cold standard. In point of fact it is gold etandard already, but we trust not irretrievably so. Now we suppose that the call for an extra e ession will sarelv be made. This is a complete break away from the president by the democ-Ats in congress. The breach can never be healed. It remains to be seen which will survive, the president or the party. We think the party safe, TriERE is one thing that Mr. Cleveland Cleve-land can't say, and that ib, that his party is ungrateful. . Even after they knew that he was irretrievably gold standard, they stood by him and even gave him a second term, when the party is really and truly bimetallic. He has only himself to thank. Cleveland Cleve-land with all of his great abilities is not greater than his party. A suspicion sus-picion of this has, by this time, probably, prob-ably, crept through the presidential wool, also. The Herald though averse to prohibition pro-hibition in the constitution, thinks better of local option. The local option op-tion we favor is individual. If the individual in-dividual elects to take a drink he's going go-ing to do It, either by fair, open purchase, pur-chase, or he will scheme to get it at the back door of of a drug store, or pay Borne dishonest doctor to write a preemption. pre-emption. ' This is a big question and it cannot be settled in this epigrammatic epigram-matic fashion. The more rigidly the churcheB (all churches) abstain from politics the more efficient as churches they will be, and politics will be the gainer. You can't mix God and mammon up in that way and accomplish anything good for the gospel of peace. We truEt our reverend friends In Salt Lake will read this brief paragraph and recall ecclesi-aelical ecclesi-aelical history since the days when the church was first established. The wretch Lynch, who accomplished the ruin or the Karren girl, was found guilty and will be sentenced on the 20th. He should go up for twenty years. Thb poor, poor cuckoosl What is to be said of tbem now? Where can they safely roost now since the presidential presi-dential defeat has overtaken them? Now, we trust that Mr. Carlisle's boast that there is plenty of money for all purposes, will be made good. |