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Show WHAT WAS THE GOOD OF IT? I can't soe any particular good in tho Harper's Har-per's Weekly article comparing the present city government to that which preceded itto tho detriment of tho latter. I suppose I fought the Arrierioan party, in my htitriblo way, as earnestly an'd as hoifGstly as afiy man could, but it was tho regularly 'ctod government of tho people of this city, and it did a heap more good than, harm. There were blowholes in it, of course. That always is to be expected when passion elects tho officers. And there was more passion than politics back of every man chosen on the American Ameri-can party side though tho six years of its dominance domi-nance in Salt Lake. But against tho defects, please observe the good men and true who devoted themselves to the public service and lost money and time in tho doing of it? What do you suppose Ezra Thompson got out of it aside from abuse? How many dollars do you reckon would represent tho sacrifice John Bransford made? The test, after all, is: Would wo undo the work of that party? Not the bad alone, but the good and tho bad together. Of course not. Some people make tho mistake now of saying say-ing it wasn't an anti-Mormon party. That is folly. It was all of that all tho time. But that doesn't mean it had no good men, did no good work, loft nothing which citizens of Salt Lake may be thankful for. I don't caro to see tho fight repeated. Pray God it never may be repeated. But it would be just as well to let sleeping dogs lie. It would bo "just as well to go on together, now that wo are past tho day of division on delicate lines, and go forward with what wo have. Go forward for-ward thankful that we have the best paved, the cleanest, tho best builded, the best located, tho richest city of its size west of tho Mississippi and tho one city with resources beyond the measure of any community under the shining sun. Because the country is back of it. Because Be-cause tho people are here and all round about it. And because tho good God made its destiny imperial and certain from tho very foundations of the world. i |