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Show H f TIIE'rtjf:"'H" AND PROHIBITION. H RECENTLY tho Dosoret News Iiiih B oxpoflfllteed a wonderful change of B hourt on the question of Prohibition. H ' HmelofAfp, for the puat your or two, B it ling bn conspicuously silent on B t,lis li)tin which n majority of the i people trf the state regard as nil important, im-portant, and which is nlon tho line i J of the t nftnts of tho Mormon Church, B which the News is supposed at nil B timou to represent and express; hut B fr tlie past few wooks the News has, MB npaent1v awoke from its lethargy B ant' wetninjfly has deckled to support B the rnu';e Whether this front is H morely a "dickey" that is donned for B nppearnnr-a take at this time and will B be laid to one side when the legisln- B ture assembles again and tho question B is once more up to the lawmakers (as B wag the ratio whon the logislnturo was B last in aesslon) or whether the change B t of front is siucore and lasting, only B time can prove. Wo hope thnt the B conversion i genuine and that the in- B fluenco of the organ of the Church B. may be with the citizens who are ln- E$ boring for the emancipation and up- Y? lifting of our fair state. B It has bean a matter of deep regret B nnd chagrin upon a considerable B.T portion of the Mormon poo)le, that mf the Daaeret News, the acknowledged fli organ of their Church, nt a timo when fl its influence could have won the day B for prohibition, closed up like a clam t,' nnd delivered the people into tho hands Bj of thoir enemies, notwithstanding tho B president of the church and many of B 1C other high ofllcinls were proclnim- B I '"I' l'lp'r loyalty to the cnusc. There B I has been an inconsistency here thnt B the people have been unablo to ox- U plain or understand, except upon the r hypothesis that "thoro was a Nigger m ' in the wood-pile, somewhere." M Wo trust thnt the colored gentleman J has now been discovered and removed, K . , -owwnntmhntnhocwsm'hencctortVno BlirV found on tho sido of teniprnnce, hon- Htg estv and progress. Bi Tho News truly says that tho fight i this year is going to be warm, nnd ' whilo we arc interested in learning B that the temporance forces aro orgnn- M ized and ready for the fray, tho only M , orgnniration and campaigning wo have h thus far observed Is on tho part of M i tho opponouts of prohibition, which is, m . certainly in strong evidence. B ' v In fact, tho opposition appears to B be so firmly entrenched nnd confident B' of carrying the day, that we aro dis- M posed to wonder if it is not all a pnrt B of the gnmc for the Dcserct News to B( hnvo lain low until tho opposition had B gnined tho mastery of tho situation B j and now mnkc a pretense at reslst- B:, ancc when it can avail nothing, or in B othur words, do no harm. ' Tho determined effort that is being K made to lionize Governor Spry, and j the ready way in which people j throughout tho state, and particularly Mr in the rural districts, arc disposed to B' swallow the pill that is fixed up for M them, doca not nugur well for the suc- B cess of prohibition. For with tho ox- flr - perionee of the past four years be- (fore us, we should know by this time that the Liquor interests and the so- i called business men of Salt Lako and HK Ogdcn who are opposing prohibition, B own Governor Spry, body nnd soul. Hr We had hs well look to nn iceberg for m our winter's supply of fuel ns to Gov- Hj crnor Spry for state-wide prohibition. H Yet it is evident thnt n supreme cf- H. fort is already under way to sccuro R" his nomination to succeed himself as B governor of tho state. R Wo trust that tho News speaks ad- B visably in relation to the organiza- B tion of the tempranco forces, but wc B fear it is merely a ruse to disarm the Hr frionds of the cause, who may bo lured B. into remaining inactive nnd depend Q'r ,upon,Uiv Deaeret Nows to mnko the fighrfor them. |