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Show NO OCCASION FOR ALARM. The organ of the immaculate ruler of all the Mormons has worked itself into a tension of great alarm over what it appears to believe an incipient rebellion, or an organized revolt against the church and the Utah Light & Railway company, All this phantasmagoria is produced in the vivid brain cells of the News editor by the fact that certain of the populace have exhibited great hostility hos-tility toward the granting of the prospective franchise fran-chise to the lighting and railroad monopoly. The I 111 IB, - I!,.- t.ll.i.. ., -.( ! I.lfll.ll I! ! I. ..... I. 'HraS&l&P church organ need not be so terrified. The people Hmraf are not going to make an armed assault upon the KEmsIm church or uproot the plant of the Deseret News. jflrcliilf' They are not going to make a Savastopol of the Hil&ll Temple Square or launch a besieging army HmhI against the prehistoric Bee Hive which surmounts JIHSkbI the earthly temple of the great high priest of the flEnuH Mormons. The apostle editor should calm him- IHSffii self, and not allow terror to envelop him when HHHB no sable clouted villain pursueth. The spectres 'hHBhI of Nauvoo and the ghouls of Jackson county are 'flHwlS no longer speeding upon the wind generated by WHBE the flaps of his fleeing frock coat. In other flMofli words, to use his own expression, everything 9hBB looks hopeful in Israel. HHB At the same time there should be a lesson to the BHEh apostle in the unfriendly demonstration of tax 'YflHB payers toward the proposed usurpation by the monopoly of whose unjust cause it is the hysteri- 'B cal and hectic champion. No violent demonstra- B tion is contemplated or has ever been thought of, H but why should the organ of a numerically great H church be the ardent exponent of an attempted H theft which causes a natural and righteous in- H dignation? The sacred editor who shrieks at wH all people who incur his displeasure as being wHl "enemies" of the church should be a little more Sl reluctant to arouse their just indignation. Let the great apolojgist for the church ponder upon that phase of the situation for a few hours. In he meantime, as stated before, he should 1 calm himself. The non-Mormon tax payers of 1 the city are not Danites nor are they Avenging Angels, arid however wrathful the people may fll rightfully feel, there is no immediate danger of H the desecration of the sanctum of the Utah Light H & Railway Company or of the pillaging of the H ever sacred Deseret News. H |
