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Show " WHAT IT MEANT." In the Ogden News of Saturday we find an article referring to recent utterances of the Democrat, from which we quote the following extract : A few days ago the News quoted approvingly approv-ingly from the Salt Lake Democbat, that "There must be . crisis in affairs here, and all good citizens should do what they can to hasten it." This expression of the Democrat Demo-crat has been maliciously and wrongly construed con-strued to mean that citizens should commit overt aots and precipitate an armed conflict. Of course, such was not the meaning, and only a knave or a fool would so construe it. The News construes the Democrat's expression ex-pression to mean that the laws are inadequate inade-quate to meet the exigency which has arisen here and to successfully maintain the supremacy su-premacy of the Federal Government. The Neics is correct. The Democrat meant to say just what it did say, neither more nor less, and no honest or clearheaded clear-headed person could construe the language lan-guage otherwise than as the News has done. The man who would seek to rouse the passions of either party here so as to lead them to "commit overt acts and precipitate pre-cipitate an armed conflict," could be looked upon only as an enemy of the people, and should be scourged out of the community. The Democrat has unfalteringly stood by the law in the past ; it will continue to do so in the future. During the past twelve months it has sought to make clear to the masses here that continued violations of the law could only result in bringing to them discomfiture and sorrow, and to avoid that they have been- entreated en-treated to cease their fool-hardy persistence persist-ence in practices which are abhorred of the American people, and to place themselves them-selves within the laws of the land. If they will not voluntarily do that, then must they be made to do it. Whoso violates the law and will not be warned or drawn with kindness and patience from that which is evil to themselves and others, must goon and take the consequences. conse-quences. It is apparent to all who have made a study of the situation here, that "existing laws are inadequate to meet the exigences of the case." ' That being so, there ts only one thing to do, and that is to ask for and counsel the enactment by Congress Con-gress of such measures as will give us the relief we need. Men cannot live in a community without taking a dividend of its prosperity and of its adversity, therefore, there-fore, both for the sake of the misguided people of the Mormon Church and for our own sake, we desire to see such measures enacted as will forever settle the trouble with which we are now afflicted. |