Show r POINTS OF VIEW Everyone must pass his judgment in accordance with the view which he has obtained of a subject The worth of the judgment must depend upon the thoroughness thor-oughness of the view The views of everyone may be right so far as they go I but a partial view often gives an erroneous erron-eous impression The story of the knights who met upon the road and conversed con-versed about the statue which stood before them the one declaring that the shield upon the statues arm was made of silver while the other protested that it was of gold illustrates this Both were right so far as the view of each extended but the view of each was limited to one side of the question and a willingness to investigate the matter would have saved the sanguinary conflict which followed if the Federalists and Republicans of our early history had viewed the Constitution and the needs of the whole country from two sides alternately the country would never have known the fierce conflicts of days to follow and perhap3 the war of the Rebellion would never have been I the North and the South had calmly looked at the slave question either familiarizing fam-iliarizing itself with the views of the other secession might never have been known and many lives and much treasure treas-ure would thereby have been saved But it seems a part of human nature to see things from only one side and it may be that if mankind were endowed with this faculty they would not be mankind To view a question impartially and see it in the light of those who are opposed to us it would be necessary to know the secret workings of the heart to know the unuttered un-uttered longings of the soul It would be the power of seeing ourselves as others see us and that God has not vouchsafed to us But in political questions ques-tions it is necessary to take as many views of things as can be had and the greater number and the more various they are the more just will be the appreciation ap-preciation of the things viewed ¼ The wants of men are much the same but the methods of gratifying them are vastly different and the conflicts of men are more on account of their methods than of their measures In every campaign for political supremacy which the country sees the arguments too often and too largely consist of crimination and recrimination re-crimination while vital questions are sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought or are passed entirely unnoticed un-noticed Throughout the whole country there is perhaps no place where this is more promiently the case than here in Utah Between the two parties here the Mormon Mor-mon and the Gentile there exists a deadly dead-ly and each part views the other from this one point of enmity Is it to be wondered atthenthat these two parties entertain of each other the most erroneous i opinion To the average Mormon a Gentiles Gen-tiles sole desire is to persecute the Mormon people and to the average Gentile Gen-tile a Mormon is a peason who would kill every Gentile if not restrained by Government Govern-ment and troops To each party the other has attained the absolute in wickedness wicked-ness and all who belong to those parties are alike and without distinction other things have degrees but not so the wickedness wick-edness of these parties If a charge is made against a person of either party by the other he deemed guilty and if he be l in reality guilty of a crime charged against him and is so found by a jury of his countrymen the party to which he belongs will in a measure palliate palli-ate his crime while those who are hostile to him will claim that he was more guilty than he was found to be Perhaps an undue compassion will be given those who are cleared of the crime charged against them and heroes will be made of them merely on account of the accusation made against them The position of both parties here in regard to such matters is well told in the comments which the Earl of Clarendon makes upon those who had been connected with various disreputable dis-reputable doings just prior to the advent of Charles the First to the throne Hero are his words I A H L lUlU IUH reason is Clear for Besides that after the first storm there is some compassion compas-sion naturally attends men like to be in misery and besides the latitude of judping in those places whereby there is i room for kindness and affection and collateral considerations to inter pose to which this man contributes his malice that his wit all men what they please and moat upon hearsay with a kindS kind-S of uncharitable delijht of making the charge as heavy as may be odious generals that tho proofs seldom make good and then a man is no sooner found less guilty than he is suspected but he is concluded more mao csnt than he is and it is thought but a just reparation for the reproach that he deserved not to free him from the censure he de served The above very well describes our position po-sition in Utah and is it not time that both parties took a wider and justerview of things which so widely divide this community Would not be better for all if Mormons would admit that a man may be a Gentile and opposed to their views and still be an honest and upright citizen who desires no mans downfall because he is not in harmony with that mans political and religious views I Would it not be better for all if Gentiles would admit the same things I regarding a man who is a Mormon We have too long confounded individual men with the institutions to which they belong not recognizing that individually a man may be the very opposite of the institution to which he belongs Man is a tangible reality while ideas are an abstraction When these views become current among all classes in Utah the Mormon problem I will conclusion be very near a final and satisfactory IiI Ii i I |