Show IT WILL GROW The little child watching its mother plant here and there tiny seeds in the flower garden and told that they will 1 spring up and blossom into forms of beauty and fragrance by and by is filled f with ambition also to train vegetable life I I Begging a few seeds it has a flower pot or a warm corner in the earthy beds set I r II apart for its experiment and with reverent rever-ent hands covers the silent germ beneath the soil It takes but a day to show the i difference between the selfpoised mother I and the impatient child for the former 1 waits for the influence of the warm sun and of the early and the latter rain while the child eagerly and with ever increasing disappointment digs up the sensitive seed to see if it has begun to grow I In politics there are few who are not children We plant the seed of truth and are impatient and disappointed if it does not grow into a great tree within the compass of a day We present a line of i I I justice and the mind trained partisan L I ship hesitates or rejects it altogether I 1 That which is honest and right does not come into the world amidst the majestic reverberations of artillery and accepted with hurrahs but lies like the seed in the earth to come forth to life in the set I time II timeHow many years of fierce contest has Utah seen how much of reproach and I i anger how much of hatred and illwill how much of falsehood and indecency I has been set before the people A highly flavored dish indeed has been offered i them for food compared to which the plain bread of truth is tasteless There is I hardly a corporals guard to prefer the quiet of conscious rectitude to the excitement 11 excite-ment of contending wrong 4 First the seeds of truth must be buried in the dark and silent earth There is i strife above and around it but heaven nourishes the tiny speck because in it there is the promise and potency of the j great and beautiful plant The seed dies I but dies preparatory to immortality it I is hid but only to prepare to come forth I in beauty it grows slowly that it may g pw strongly I This journal has planted the seed of I 1 charity it has judged men kindly and i I thus ij i will doubtless continue to do I I Shall we be childish now and dig up the i seed to see if it has begun to sprout Will men revolutionize all their ways and habits of thought on the instant because I a better way is presented Have those who are politically right in Utah broken off all their sins Did they I 1 grow to a correct understanding of polit j1J I ical principles in a week If a poisonous 51 1J1 tree has forty years in which to send Ii 1 down its roots and spread out its branches will it be expected that a rival 1 1 will grow up and overshadow it in a day l i Let us be patient for patience is Godlike God-like Let us be firm for they who are 1h right can not afford to be blown about by I H every wind The pressure of radicalism is an ignoble pressure Let us not disappoint I j dis-appoint those who have waited all these years for light and peace As we said on I ii j Monday so let us close the anxious week I Though the battle be so long that our I children and not ourselves shall celebrate j cele-brate the end still because this way is 1 I the way of justice we must turn neither T to the right or to the left but set our mk I I j toward the J faces sun 1 1 ij j I |