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Show honest, feerles, manly spirit which Hod intended fur His representative representa-tive men. Such ns they, were never known to shrink under such circumstances?, even though t lie whole world turned against them. That's? the kind of material Columbus, Colum-bus, the old rciWiners and the Bibliean martyrs were made of. Sum k ok or k misled exchanges are. wu arc surry to say, commenting on a show of corruption (boodleism, extravagance, ex-travagance, etc.) among the members mem-bers of our City Council. Any unbiased un-biased person who knows these gentleman, or understands the present pre-sent situation of tilings injlirigham, will honestly testify that all such representations are rank falsehoods, published and promulgated to bolster up a weak, shaky cause or an unwise stand. The men who are guilty of or instrumental in spreading such damaging stories against our quiet, peaceful city and its honest, careful, frugal officers arc no more worthy of the support and confidence of our citizens than the thick-headed mule deserves fond caressing and a big feed of grain right on fop of his breaking your leg with a savage, revengeful kick of his angry hoof. It is really to be regretted that these injurious stories have been sent out. But there is no use denying the fact that they have gone forth and the responsible parties are only too well know. Our city, her citizens and particularly our slandered representatives rep-resentatives may be forced to put up with this unmerited abuse for a time, but it won't be for long, if each mini acts the part of a good citizen by leaving the outfit we refer to severely alone. A nra spmjdoe; a tremendous explosion ex-plosion and now you find them flat as pancakes, groveling about, vainly vain-ly hunting for an opening so they can crawl in out of sight and pull the hole in after them. The mole hiij, did hibor with all its might; and lo! an itching louse did come forth. If we are going to have so many epecial requisitions for Ogden U. S. MarshalsjWouldn't itbe a wise and economical act to offer one of the best of these generally pretty good fellows sufficient inducements to Bettle down permanently among . us? A CENSP8 BULLETIN sllOWS that there are now confined in the penitentiaries peni-tentiaries of this country 45,233 persons. You would catch about the very same number of persons by suddenly sud-denly raising up a high wall around the city of Salt Lake. The newspapers in all parts of Utah are complimenting the Brig-ham Brig-ham City girls on their commendable commen-dable step of banding together to protect and aid each other against the rather too fast young men. We hope this thing won't be dropped, but that a strong. thorough organizationwill shortly be effected. It seems that the dozens of little men, who have for years past trained faithfully and conscientiously conscienti-ously under Big-thumb-Box, are just beginning to open their eyes to the error of their way, and are one by one filing out from beneath the shadow of the Big-thumb as fast as they can possibly shake off the old spell. Not long ago an unlucky wife in Ogden gave birth to triplets; three little girls. The event so worried and disconcerted the vchicken-hearted husband that he immediately 'lit out" for parts unknown. un-known. The poor woman is now eking out a miserable existence for hersolf and babes by tramping around exhibiting her unusual production for so much a peep. A uv:te scamp in an Eastern town began extensively advertising as follows: "Send me 50 cents and I will send you the most vulgar book ever printed." It took like wildfire. Thousands of bad people sent in their money. The postal authorities suppressed the "fake," however, for they found him sending out stacks upon stacks of a cheap edition of the Bible. What's to be the next terribly wise step of the local Daniels who have hold of the halter of the ''safety" society? Ye gods have a care; your ways may clash with the desires de-sires of our modern Solomons and they'll turn in and forthwith hang a 1,000 chain of expense about your neck, or, perchance, get you : on their hook and run you through their one-dollar-and-fifty-cent filter with the hopes of squeezing n ; nckct supply of blood (lucre) out of you. j Few men akk courageous enough to stand by their honest convic- lions in the face of a sen Her or public censure. Ex. We don't believe that. There are thousands of true men; men endowed with the free, bold, fnink, |