Show i WIZEN WILEN lill TIlE THE CRUEL WAR WAIt IS OVER O g Back In the sixties when the count country was sated rated with strife men would woul promise themselves cs de desired conditions women would plan to make I long deferred visits and Imd children would believe belie a all hap happ ss might come comet t- t tand and mill cruel Is oven t t i remain with them when them when the war over ovel Jr r 1 l t j lof of the s must must be be beI I In the e of good men mel and women of of Utah now no We c are arc told that this has been une of f tho most bitter campaigns through which the the 1 state has ever e pa passed There net netIe need be Ie no apology for the firmness of or the opposition put up by Republicans l because the fierceness of the assault made upon Utah upon the party part of Lincoln and Grant of or Garfield McKinley and Roosevelt made a strong defense necessary And such a defense has been made I But Dut after a all we are arc here in Utah for good things and no not 1 for Cor bad No o matter who the person J if possessed of an any m merit as a man or any hope os DS a woman peace pence and not strife is the better condition And tomorrow I this cruel war will firth be over O We e will be citizens again not combatants The good of Utah In a all Its interests must bo tho the ruling consideration of every cry one I In the success of the Republican party part we read the best of or orthis x t this bettered condition With fth that result securely I attained we do Ho not believe the tho church question will wm ever again aln be injected into the politics of Utah And with Irh that element clement of or contention silenced we c do not believe there willbe will willbo bo bl an any subject of or dI dissension which can seriously ly disturb the lime tranquillity of our state or embarrass In im any degree the progress less of our people to that happy of or achievement which will be for Cor tho the condition of united effort and common j I 5 best of c M cd J one r The Th I question will not again be Injected Int into politics b because because causo the J lesson lesson- will have J aia been i. i It will have ha passed Into a proverb pro that y r each Individual is a voter and that it Js Is Co folly to drive e voters out of of a apolitical apolitical political 1 party The rIle effect of the Kearns campaign in this county will be recognized as nothing le less s nor more moro than the complete arraying of or the I Mormon church on one sl side e and all the non non- non Mormons on the other oCher If 1 Kearns Keams and hips hl p party could be successful In this campaign the bitterest of or fraternal warfare would bo ho precipitated upon this community and its disastrous effects would not pass pals awa away for tor twenty years cars But Du in the latter Jatter days when the thc cruel cluel war is is' over members of or that ih church will be he accorded tho the same ame ll rights as ns the rest est of tho the citizenry They y t. t f will m not bo be entitled to any more will not be granted an any more anti an and we do not be believe le e the they will ask for any more J If the they do they will accomplish what now seems tho the most Impolitic thing that could be done something done something almost as Impolitic as the Kearns effort in the present campaign They will by such action seek to tomake make their religion the basis of or special political privilege privilege and I 1 they arc are no more moro going to get special privilege because o of or their religion than 7 1 privilege b because of ot their theil they are arc going to be deprived of political religion great Y h block tP fo th thc l rs of f t the tho ho sta tc will wll l. b r ved h. c-h. I t t d t J SI p I fo M o much time conjuring conjuring- up reasons ca oos for fOI hating haling each other ether Utah Is ono of or tho the older states of the nation The mere circumstance of Its admission slon to the Union having occurred ten years ago aso docs does not b by any means settle the matter Utah Is older than an any of or the other mountain states Jt Jl has tho the anta ad advantage o of or Colorado and of or Idaho and of Montana and the r Dakotas It is vastly better circumstanced than is Nevada or the territories to the south Only the coast states of the far West rest have an advantage and there arc are reasons wh why Utah ma may find compensating advantages In other I conditions J J I J When hen the cruel war is over the thc attention of or the people wI will be directed 1 f hi Into luto to legitimate channels HO so that the tho advantage of age ago ma may be felt In tho the c- c J more rapid development of the resources that nature has lavished in these hills and valleys valleyS' Men will quit making politics a n. business am and ote e I l Ar v i them themselves to some of or the moro more useful activities of or life Th The p people ople of or the 1 S state tato will quit telling Easterners Eastern rs that this Is the land of oJ the he traitor the a l. l perjurer and the tho polygamist People will tell len to the world the very fair fall truth i i about t Utah And people elsewhere finding we wo aro arc In happy accord with k i. i c each ch other here will be glad to cast their lot with with a n. people so united in a Yr will because the region so cease public sentiment will not permit the tho gt state tc to bo be slandered for the private advantaging of or an any one I Farms will multiply in number and tho U products will find a a. ready and a profitable market In the tho cities now an and old that will adorn the thc state stale The rho mines wJ will be multiplied In number and vastly fn Increased In their productivity i Tho The population will increase and it ft will bo ho of or tho the modern truly American V kind which believes In a man attending to his own business The ago ot or the 1 5 state the tho conservative character of Its citizenship will tell teIl Peace 0 good I 5 feeling at home good hood name namo abroad prosperity and happiness will be he the i certain blessings which await the proper settlement of ot what un American malcontents calling themselves Americans have levied as a cruel war warIn warI I 1 In Utah And the tho blessing of Heaven will rest upon the tho wise men who make mal the the achievement of or peace a certain ln award for the tho state |