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Show A rioiniori Statesman. The following interesting rello has been bunded us for publication by one of our subscribers. It 1ms evidently been taken from tho Deseret News, but of what ditto wo have no means of knowing. It will no doubt bo of interest inter-est to many of our readers: "The Old Hook of the Nineteenth Ccn-tury" Ccn-tury" Is the title of a volume published by the author, Thomas Alnge-Dcvere, nt Orcenpolnt, Now York, In 1SS2. It contains many sayings of noted men not previously published, or If printed not generally known. The compiler wns once nssoclatecdltcr of the Irish World, and has made a very interesting and valuable collection of striking sentences sen-tences on a variety of topics. Among them Is the following which will be of interest to a great many readers of the News, It is headed, UA Mormon Statesman:" States-man:" "Joseph Smith wns tho Mormon candidate can-didate for President in 1814. Thus he wrote; 'As soon ns tho greater National cyils could be remedied, so that slnv- ery could not occupy one-half of the United Stales, for speculation, competition, compe-tition, prodigality nnd Jkbhly capital and so that enormous salaries, stipends, fees, perqusltcs, patronages and tho wages of spiritual wickedness in "ermine "er-mine and luce," could not swallow up forty or fifty millions of public revenue I would use all honorable means to bring tho wages of tho mechanics and farmers up and tho sularies of public servants' down; increnso labor and money mon-ey by judicious tariff, and ndvlso the people, who are tho only soverigns of the soil, to petition Congress to pass it unlfbrm land law that the air, tho water nnd tho laud of tho "Asylum of the Oppressed" might be freo to freemen! " 'With considerations of the highest regard for unadulterated freedom, " 'I havo the honor to ho vonr obedient obedi-ent servant, JOSEPH SMITH,' " |