remove the thistles and stones, let me with the paper was a job office that It may be quite interesting to a turn and water the soil, for we have did printing for the city and re- certain class of minds to rake up alno rain here, and then I will transplant the Western product as you ceived payment therefor as from most forgotten affairs, in order to wish. Believe me, no one would be other customers; that these transac-fling mud and cast insinuations at better pleased than I with the success tions were done in a business way, one who may be unable to recall of the experiment." Such is the Sultan, says Vambery, painted without in open council, and the particulars particulars, and thus secure an opprejudice." were published; that the grand jury portunity for unresisted slander. in 1876 investigated the whole mat- Dut only mean and paltry souls find ter and found nothing against pleasure in such pastime, and we which they could proceed except to leave the subject as one that, it is mention it in their report. now evident, was intended as a personal assault, and therefore unnecessary to be noticed furtheir in the DESERET NEWS. A FINAL ANSWER. We are under the necessity of referring once more to a very stale One thing which the Tribune did chestnut which the "Liberal" or- not think it worth while to mengan, with its accustomed "enter- tion we may as well allude to. prise," for the lack of something That is, the Junction paid dividends new and interesting, has raked out to the stockholders up to the date of the cold ashes of the past. A mentioned, of 65 per cent. altoweek ago we replied to some ques-gether on the amount invested. But tions put by that paper to the DES- of course that was a trifle that did ERET NEWS. They were in refer- not come in the line of what was ence to the Ogden Junction and the wanted by that very ingenuous orOgden City Council in the year 1876. gan. Its report says: We were asked to affirm or deny certain statements alleged to have been made by "a gentleman” to the Tribune. We denied. This morning we are attacked in common Tribune fashion, not because there was anything in our reply that was untrue, for we are told, "of course that is in one sense true," but because it did not suit the purpose in view in asking the questions. urer. "The NEWS makes a denial through its editorial columns, though the matter in controversy does not seem to involve that paper, but its editor." If that is so, why did it commence the attack in this way: 66 A gentleman brings us an item which we would like to submit to the DESERET NEWS for confirmation or denial.” Again it says: "The Tribune does not make a state ment that it does not believe true; STREET RAILROAD COMPLICATIONS THE decision rendered Dec. 18th by His Honor Judge Zane, in the case of certain property owners and residents on First Street against the two railroad companies running electric cars on that thoroughfare was emirently proper in its principal point-that there should be only one track operated. This conclusion is reached on the grounds that the street is not sufficiently wide to admit of two lines without obstructing and rendering dangerous ordinary traffic, thus invading the public easement, and seriously depreciating the value of property in that locality. Reference is made to a reproduction of the Ogden City Council In our opinion the learned judge records in a previous issue of the This would be news to the people did not point out the remedy. He Tribune, and what the Ogden Junc- of Salt Lake if any sane persons seemed to think that it consisted in tion drew from the city treasury. could be found who would believe compelling both companies to Close examination of that report it. That paper has been convicted use one track, one set of overshows that not one statement in our times without number of wilfully-head wires and, of course, one reply is contradicted, and nothing is ing. It has never been known to source of electric power. This adduced that was not known to the make a fair, square retraction, no would only increase the danger citizens of Ogden at the time and matter how plainly and certainly it which he very clearly pointed out approved by the public. And all has been shown to be in the wrong. as now existing. The remedy lies the financial transactions brought | Usually, when driven into a corner, in the right of using the street for forth with a flourish were duly pub-it tries to crawl out, in the most railroad transit purposes being limitlished in the columns of the Ogden sneaking manner, and squirts ed to one company. Junction, as reports of City Council venom and falsehood worse than its Suppose that both companies minutes and in the quarterly official | original calumny. should use the one track and overreports of the Auditor and Treas- We repeat, "there was no busi-head contrivances from the Eagle ness connected with the junction Gate north to First, and up First to The simple facts are that Ogden company's affairs that was not A Street, what would be the probCity, on the building of the Utah straightforward, square and open, able situation? The answer is clear. Central Railroad, invested in one and there was no need for conceal- In order to supply the public needs of the bonds of that road; that sub-ment of any of its transactions;" for service by the respective lines in sequently, when a paper was started and the same may be said of the acts the localities east of A Street, it will in that city, the bond was sold and of the City Council during the same be necessary to run the cars with at the proceeds invested in the period. least as great frequency as now. capital stock of that paper, Now as to the Assessor and Col- Demands are already being which became the official organ of lector: It is well known that the full made for an increased service, the city; that in both instances it amount of the year's taxes was to diminish it would be a source of was deemed for the public interest charged up to him, under the old inconvenience to the people. Hence to so invest these funds; that law, and he was required to settle at the car traffic over the single track it was endorsed by the public; that a certain date. It was evident to would be at least equal to what now when the capital stock of the com- the Council at the time that he was goes over both. This would involve pany was increased for building unfortunate but honest, and his note the danger of cars of the respective purposes and enlargement of the was taken for part of his dues which companies meeting on the single paper, all the stockholders made a we believe he paid in full. There track. This liability would be infurther pro rata investment, the was no embezzlement, no defalcation city with the rest; that connected nor any loss to the city. creased by the fact that the employes would be under separate con trol. A meeting of cars on the steep the Council, on last Tuesday night, This is no mere imaginary hypothesis. It is common when cars are ascending a heavy grade for the packing to blow out, and at least one instance has occurred of a car running away through the brake failing to act. An incident of that kind transpired a considerable time since on the Twenty-first Ward line, on the grade which ascends northward where the track leaves South Temple Street. IDAHO SENATORSHIP. Union. other. as will be decided betweeu them by we should lot, will serve only till the 3rd of the other two Senators are Republicans and perhaps will answer the purpose in view. Both Sharp and McConnell have a good reputation for ability, force and understanding of national affairs as well as of the needs of their own State, and we hope to hear that they made a good record during the brief term that remains of the present Congress. THE "SO-CALLED HOSTILES." THE following is an Omaha World-Herald special from Pine Ridge, dated the 16th: "Yesterday the so-called hostile party of about 1000 people came in leaving in the Bad Lands about 125 lodges, part of whose occupants are genuinely hostile. The negotiators also came in saying they were glad to get away with their lives and that they would go out no more. The hostiles had drawn a line saying that the first man who crossed that line would be killed. In the afternoon an Indian woman and three little girls, who had been of the party which came in, came here and told her story. She was a that they had left Rosebud Agency Rosebud Agency woman and said because the police came to them at night and told them the troops were coming and would be on them before morning and for them to get away as quick as they could. She said they fled that night and started for this agency. When they got as far as Wounded Knee they were told by people from this agency that the troops They then turned and fled to the Bad from this place were coming on them. Lands. The mistake in this business lies next in the granting of franchises over | Senator the same streets to different com- Thus three senatorships were open panies. The City Council has pur-simultaneously for aspirants, a new sued a most unpardonable course in thing we believe in any State of the this direction. The First Street matter can, in our opinion, only be By an arrangement entered into remedied by restricting its use to between the Republicans, as anone company. Perhaps this can be nounced in our dispatches last evendone without a great deal of loss or ing, the choice was made to fall The negotiators from this agency are going out to them and assuring trouble, providing one company is upon Shoup, McConnell and Du- them of safety. They tried to get granted a franchise on some other bois. Shoup is from the South, Mc-away from there to come in, but the street not now occupied by a rail- Connell from the North. So the of young men, particularly those who hostile party, composed principally road that will suit their purpose as promise made to the North was ful-had committed the raids, tried to prewell as the one now used. This filled wtthout doing damage to the veut them. They shot and killed some of their horses which were could be arranged by the company chances of Dubois, who is also from standing in harness hitched to their retaining the use of First Street the South. The two Senators, wagons. One of them laid the butt bearing their equitable proportion Shoup and McConnell, will go at end of his gun on her uncle's shoulder and fired it off, and that he was of the expense entailed by the once to Congress, and one of them, deaf from the shock. She said that relinquishment of the the hostiles had a place of refuge which they believed was impregnable. It was surrounded by cliffs on every side, and there was only one way in or out, and this pass was narrow and guarded by young men. All the older men of the party wanted to come in, but were prevented by the young still there, and who were trying to get men. Some of the party who were away, were making rope ladders to scale the cliffs secretly in their efforts to get out. She said that they were in a starving condition, having no coffee, sugar, flour or of vegetables any description nothing but meat; that those who had been wanting to come in had lived on the pieces of meat thrown away by she said that she pitied the head man. those who had committed the raids. She knew he would give up and come in if the young men would let him. He had his two wives and fourteen children with him. There was also some resentment mingled with pity for him in the position in which he 'He said that when the troops surfound himself, for she said bitterly, rounded us, 'I will let loose the Street might, C think, suit the Salt Lake City Company, as they could reach Sixth Street without losing much of their present patronage by that route. The grade is, we believe, at least as easy as that of First. March, 1891, and the other will be The City Council are pursuing a policy in the granting of franchises that beats the record of any city in the world. In the face of the pend- We expressed the opinion, some ing suits growing out of the grant-time ago, that in spite of all coming of these rights to several com- binations and prejudices against panies and the great annoyance him, Dubois would be elected. We to the pubiic growing out knew something of his methods and of the situation, they stili also of the means at his command. keep on the same course. As an Republican politics, in the language instance of this, in the face of the of Senator Ingalls, means "get fact that one company-The Salt there." Dubois "got there." He Lake City-held a franchise for a cannot be useful to his party in the double track on North Main Street, Senate in the manner desired, but The Territorial school tax for the year. Thus, the property holders will have paid the tax but they will have no returns, their proportion of the school moneys will go to help those districts that have complied with the law. Church schools were designed to be thunder and the winds to destroy schools regulated by law. to me, the best thing to do with the tiary, just as they do white men who do similar things where they would receive the necessary discipline and be taught trades. So far they have taken no human life. It would not be right to punish the whole band, for the women and children would be made to suffer more than the actual perpetrators. "I think this affair could be more easily settled if Governor Thayer would keep off the cowboys and militia, and something could be done to stop the lies that are sent to the papers about fights that never occurred. I am sure that the military are able to cope with the situation," KILLING OF SITTING BULL. THE Cmaha World Herald has the following just and pertinent article on this subject: "Somebody is responstble for the death of Sitting Bull and the other Indians killed at the same time. "The killing was only a part of the unwarranted severity and oppression that the United States is now inflicting on the Indians. "Somebody is responsible. Not those, merely, who did the killing. Nor those merely who ordered the military to the scene of the so-called trouble. Not those who misjudged the danger and called for troops. Nor even those who annually cheat, rob and despoil the miserable red men through Indian rings. Not one of these alone, but altogether, forming as they do, our so-called "system," are responsible for the unhappy death of Sitting Bull. "The killing of Sitting Bull at this time is not an ordinary crime, because it may precipitate more bloodshed out of desperation and revenge. "There seems to be no end to the blunders, crimes and atrocities into which the government is led in the treatment of the Indians. "It is time for a change." Another thing to be remembered is this: All local special taxes for the maintenance of a district school must be levied in the district before the 31st of December in each year, and within ten days after such levy certified returns of the per cent. levied must be certified to the county clerk and the county assessor. Of course, if circumstances permitted, it would be better if the children of the Latter-day Saints could attend schools from the beginning in which the doctrines and spirit and ordinances of the gospel are taught. But under the laws of the Territory a general tax is levied for the support of district schools, and If there has been opposition to the these must be open to the children of persons not of our faith as well as district schools, whether in the of those who are members of the form of resistance to a necessary Church. They are and must of local tax, or because such schools necessity be common schools. Those are secular and religion cannot be who pay the taxes must receive the taught therein, or because Church benefit of the taxes, no matter what schools are established near by or may be their religion or lack of contemplated, this opposition ought religion. Therefore no particular to be withdrawn in view of the facts creed or tenets can be legally taught we have here presented. in the district schools. But the children of each denomination can be taught religion in the Sunday Schools, by private instruction, and by such other means and methods as each church provides, and this should be done so as not to interfere with the district schools in any way. Morality may and we believe Schoolhouses of sufficient capacity, with the proper appurtenances and conveniences, ought to be found in all the school districts of this Territory. Where they do not exist, that is a mark of lack of progress and refinement. The old buildings adequate for by-gone days are not suited for present requirements, and our friends should be up with the times and see to it that every necessary facility for the education of the young is provided. They should rather be filled with emulation, and desirous of having just as good buildings and schools as any of their neighbors, than to be careless or obstructive or niggardly in relation to this important matter. The district schools should be supported and encouraged for The Church schools, at present at the young children, religious least, are intended to be of a grade tuition being provided for them between the district schools and the in the primaries, and the University or College institutions. Sunday Schools, and by such other They are to be established wherever arrangements as can be made suitpracticable, so as not to come in the able and convenient, without hinway of the maintenance of the dis-dering the district schools. Aud trict schools. And if anyone from these the older and advanced CHURCH SCHOOLS AND DISTRICT imagines to the contrary he has pupils can be placed in the Church SCHOOLS. made a mistake. schools, where they can receive It is very important that local further religious as well as secular We are informed that in some of taxes in the respective districts, for training, and thus the purpose in the country school districts there the maintenance of a school or view will be achieved, harmony is either opposition or negligence in schools in each district, where it has will prevail between all branches of relation to the district schools. If not already been attended to, shall the educational system, and ignorthis is so it is wrong, and the wrong be at once assessed. If a district ance will not be allowed to hold should be remedied at once. It school is not maintained in sway in any part of the Territory. probably arises from a misunder-any particular district for at standing. least twenty weeks during the The establishment of schools un- school year preceding unless it is der the direction of the Church was a newly formed district-it will not not intended to interfere with receive its apportionment of the BENJAMIN BRIGHT, of South Weber, and Josephine Earl, of this city, were united in matrimony today by Judge Laney. "JUGGLERY AND GAMMON." THE eastern papers still make notices of the utterances on the "Mormon" question of "President" Sam Small, as he now delights to style himself. He informs us that, of sent to prepare the way for the various With all their faults, with all their hatre! towards Jesus, it must be said to their credit that they took hardly any part in the .cruel condemnation and death of the Lord. The honor of this must be laid utterly to the priests of that age. "The proclamation The Pharisees were no friends of the the Mormons that they will obey priests, who were presided over by the United States laws and drop a Sadducee, appointed by the Ropolygamy, is a delusion and a snare, mans. They had, therefore, a double mere jugglery and gammon." He The lack of the voice of inspira- cause for hating the priests. These uses other and similar elegant ex- tion among the Jews had resulted reverends of the Jews had, besides, pressions which show that he is as in their breaking up into numerous through their avarice, defiled the coarse as he is ignorant. This Small factions. The Pharisees were the temple by introducing traveling religious mendicant know-leading sect at the time. Not only branches of business therein for nothing whatever of "Mormonism" were they in a majority, but they their own profit, and it is known or the "Mormons," except what were held in high repute among the that this was one of the points of may have been told him during a common people. The members of quarrel between the Pharisees and few days' sojourn at Ogden, and his this sect professed to be eminently Sadducees. When our Lord sources of information were not of a holy and pious. Their name is cleansed the temple, his act was, no kind likely to convey the unadulter- probably derived from the Hebrew doubt, endorsed by the Pharisees ated truth. But Small permits his word "pharash" meaning "sepa- and the majority of the people. imagination to play a large part in rated," and was applied to them be- But it gained for Him the deadly his utterances, and being so well cause they held themselves to be hatred of the priests, and they swore acquainted with "jugglery and above everybody else. They are to take his life, although they had gammon" in his adventures for the often noted in the New Testament to be somewhat cautious about their pious purpose of gathering money, as they came in contact with our proceedings, just on account of the he naturally attributes to others the Lord, and they received from Him opposition among the people. And motives and the sentiments by the severest rebukes. And well they they probably could not have sucdeserved those rebukes from Him, ceeded in their dark deed, had they who could see how far they in reality not had the assistance of the Roman were from what they professed to be. It is known that they treated not only strangers, but the poor and the unlearned among their own people as an "accursed" mob, unworthy of the mercy of God; they were strict observers of the Sabbath as far as the ceremonial law which he is prompted himself. A8 a dealer in religious "jugglery and gammon" "President" Sam Small is a notorious wholesale merchant. THE JEWISH NATION AT THE THE religious condition of the Jews, at the time of the first advent of our Lord, was one of spiritual was concerned, while they had confusion. It resembled, in many respects, our own age and gave, in its state of corruption, evidence of the necessity of the appearance of a Savior before the whole economy had passed beyond the possibility of salvation. power. As long as our Lord wandered about in Palestine, His most bitter opponents were the Pharisees; but it is not known that they attempted to assassinate Him. As soon as He had defie the priests, these turned against Him and murdered Him. was We have mentioned the Saducees. no idea of worshiping God in This sect was not so numerous as the spirit and in truth; they took oaths, Pharisees, but many of the wealthibut held that they were not bound est Jews belonged to them. The by them, if there had been a men- origin of them is traced back to tal reservation to the contrary; they about 250 years hefore Christ, to a accounted their evil desires of no president of the Sanhedrim, named importance; nor did they feel con- Sochæus. He taught that man For a period of almost four hun- demned for indulging in avarice should serve God from a purely disdred years, from the days of Mala- and extortion, so long as they paid interested feeling and not in order chi, there had been no inspired a little tithing of mint and anise to gain any reward or to avoid any prophet among the people. They and cummin and other equally punishment. This doctrine had gathered up the ancient insignificant herbs: in the words of later perverted into a denial of the sacred manuscripts and counted a modern divine, they thought existence of eternal rewards and every letter, every iota, therein, they could justify their stealing of a punishments as well as of the existbut the true meaning of the Word goose by giving the intestines to the ence of the spirit after the death of was hidden to them. They had, Lord; their whole religion consisted the body. And from this, there notwithstanding their adherence to in outward ceremonies. Mosheim was only another step to the denial the letter of the Law, strayed so far observes that their whole system of the existence of everything away as to have forgotten Him who was founded on hypocrisy. Yet, spiritual, also of God, and of the gave it. And so, when the time they had such an influence over resurrection. came for God again to reveal Him- the people that they were Having arrived at these views, self, they did not recognize His able to exercise some influ- they had necessarily to deny the voice. He did not find any of the ence on the direction of the authenticity of the Scriptures, priests, who had charge of the public affairs. And they did this. sanctuary and of the sacred things, leading the blind mass on to destrucwilling or worthy to be His mes- tion. For to their fanaticism is to senger, but He had to commission be traced the events that led to the one whose voice was heard in the last desolation of Jerusalem and the wilderness. And this messenger, overthrow of the Jewish polity. as they did, excepting the five books of Moses. But these they adhered to merely as a code of civil laws, for the political guidance of the people. Strange to say, even the Saddu the time of Christ. was entirely broken up. Thus cast adrift, they were free to enter into other combinations, while the shock of the recent catastrophe would naturally turn their thoughts into new channels. of the Christians, who had migrated At the same time the nearer proximity to Perea during the war, would bring them into close contact with the new ences as they had never been subfaith and subject them to its influjected before. But, whatever may be the explanation, the fact seems certain, that after the destruction of Jerusalem the Christian body was largely reinforced from their ranks. The JudaizChristians, which hitherto had been ing tendencies among the Hebrew wholly Pharisaic, are henceforth largely Essene." cees looked forward to the coming guidance through revelation. Their of a Messiah, a king with the power chief error was spiritualizing the of David and the oriental splendor | Scriptures, whereby they arrived at of Solomon. Christ came, contrary the most startling conclusions. For to their expectations and was conse- instance, they thought it sinful to quently rejected by them. kill an animal and had, consequentThis sect, a lot of infidels, beldly, to reject the law relating to sac the power among the Jews at rifices. In their observance of the It is difficult Sabbath they went so far as to even to measure the depth of spiritual suspend the natural functions of the degradation into which the people body, sitting immovable in one had gradually sunk since the voice place all the day. They abhorred of the last prophet had been silenced to enter into marriage relations and in death. But some idea thereof were bound by oaths to the strictest may be formed by reflecting on the cœlibacy. No worldly employment fact that Annas and Caiaphas, both was entered into by their members infidels s'ained with numerous except agriculture. crimes, posed as the high priests of When anybody wished to be ad-attracted the attention of the clearJehovah, and dared to approach the mitted to the order, he had to stand seeing eyes of the Apostles and they sanctuary, carrying the emblems of a three years' probation. Then he hastened in their teachings, by the atoning blood, which they had to swear that he would keep all Word and by letters, to counteract mocked and ridiculed in their the rules of the order, among which it. But it grew. It developed into hearts. How could God hold com- was one that he should touch no Gnosticism and gradually, almanion with such abominable hy-food but such as had been provided though steadily combated, perpocrites, who denied His existence? by the sect. There were various meated the whole system, until No more than He can communicate with the divines of our age who deny the necessity of revelation. The Essenes were a sect less known than either of the two first mentioned. The very name seems to be a puzzle to philologists, there being about as many theories as there are authors upon the subject. A probable derivation is from the Hebrew word chasha, to be silent, referring to the oaths of secresy whereby the members were bound together. ablutions to be performed. Neander considers the Essenes a body of pious men who had with drawn from the body of the people in order to cultivate their desire for something better than the political and religious strifes that broke the nation up and prevented the acceptable worship of God. Be this as it may, it is certain that we never hear of the Essenes having raised their voice against Christ or perse cuted His followers. In the history of our Lord and of the history of the Church for the first quarter of a century, Essenism seems to have of the Jews from Babylon. Only, had no influence whatever Christianity. The learned Doctor Lightfoot traces their origin to the same source as that of the Pharisees, viz., to a desire of exclusiveness from the Gentile element, which prevailed in Palestine at the time of the return upon It is all the more remarkable, therefore, to see, that, later, the doctrines of this order should come This influence which at first appeared only of small importance the apostacy was accomplished and Papacy developed. A sect of less importance than any of these were the Herodians, who seem to have been more a political than a religious party. They were the followers of Herod and favored the Romans in every particular. They insisted on the people paying taxes to the foreigners and adopting heathen customs and even idolatrous practices. They were properly apostates, but they had great in fluence at the time of Christ. The Samaritans were a mixture been left in the country after the inof foreigners and Israelites, who had vasion of the Assyrians. They had many idolatrous practices, although they imitated to some extend the worship of the Jews at Jerusalem. They are the only sect from that time that has been preserved to the present day, there being yet in Nabulus, the ancient Sichem, a small community of 150 souls left. They own a synagogue and an anthe the Essenes carried this further forming the brotherhood had been carried home with some of the Jews from the extreme East where they must have come in contact with many, to Judaism ments. this subject Lightfoot says: "Even as early as the year 58, when St. Paul wrote to the Romans, we detect practices in the Christian community of the metropolis, which may Pentateuch. The Gallileans were a small sect who were the direct opponents of the Herodians, inasmuch as they foreign ele- possibly have been due to Essene in- refused to pay taxes to a foreign It can be said of the Essenes that they were in a measure free from both the bypocrisy of the Pharisees and the immorality of the Sadducees. They laid very little stress on the ceremonial law and made moral conduct the great requisite for membership of their order. But at the same time they fell into many errors, as all people are sure to do, when they have no Divine government, declaring that they owed God alone their tribute. fluences ('One believeth that he may |