CLOSE OF THE VOLUME. the sugar crop in the United States ing with the justice the pleasing duty will prove an expensive and a difficult of reading to the English public over performance. Every ounce must be Sir William Gordon Cumming's subjected to a test, or else frauds will shoulder, a moral lecture on gambling be perpetrated on the government. It The people of England have cause will require a large number of inspec- to regret that such a duty was not left tors to carry out the provisions of the at this critical moment to such a juslaw, but then if it brings cheap sugar tice. A few simple words, properly and a sufficiency in home production, chosen-such words as an honest counthe expense will not be entirely lost. try squire would be most likely to use— The bounty system was long since would have been the slogan of a revodesire to preserve a record of the lead-adopted in France and in other Euro-lution. There being no Prince of THIS number closes the forty-second volume of THE DESERET WEEKLY. It is the oldest public journal in the Rocky Mountains. In its new form, arranged specially for binding, it is a great favorite, especially with people who live in districts where a daily paper cannot reach them by daily mail. And those who read the daily but ing events and enlightened thought of the times as well as important items of Church history, regard the DESERET WEEKLY as invaluable. We appreciate the favor with which our efforts are received by the reading public, and hope to make the WEEKLY still more attractive and worthy of the widespread support it is receiving. And we trust our agents and the leading men in all the settlements of Utah, as well as our friends abroad, will continue to aid in the spread of intelligence and the promulgation of eternal truth, by extending the circulation of the official organ of the Church, the old, reliable and faithful champion of the people, the DESERET WEEKLY NEWS. THE SUGAR BOUNTY. THE McKinley law provides for the payment of a bounty to American sugar producers, under certain stated conditions. Two cents per pound will be paid by the government to the producer of an article which shows a test of 90 degrees by the polariscope, and for the article which tests between 80 and 90 degrees, a bounty of 14 cents per pound will be paid. pean countries and it seems to have PROSPECTIVE TAXATION. Wales in the question, he would have spoken the sentiments of the people and his words instead of being hissed, as were Lord Coleridge's, would have gone "ringing down the ages." The difficulty in Lord Colridge's situation was not the justice but the dilemma of the case. There was a prince in the transaction. On the one side was the prestige of royalty, and on the other was the sentiments of the English masses against the gambling shame in general and royal gambling in particular. Before him, in an as THE City Council on Tuesday, June 9 voted for further large expenditures of the people's money. In addition to the payment of bills amounting to close upon $19,000, it was decided to issue new bonds which, in the aggregate, will amount to the snug sum of $350,sembly of his countrymen, was the 000. Of this $150,000 is to be for pay-index of English character and repuing and guttering in districts one to five, and the rest-$200,000-for general improvements. The Council also created three new offices, namely, two inspectors of cement work, and one inspector of brick work, on Parley's Canyon conduit. Each of these is to draw a salary of $125 a month, thus increasing the pay roll $375 a month. It is evident that the "Liberal" Council is entitled to the name, if liberality in running the city in debt gives it that qualification. The limit of legal indebtedness at this rate will soon be reached, and the benefit of the congressional bar to municipal extravagance will be strikingly apparent. The taxes of the future promise to be a pressing reminder of the glories of The opening of the sugar bounty season takes place about July the 1st, consequently the Internal Revenue Bureau is making preparations to carry the law into effect. Weights "Liberal” rule. and graduated glass flasks are being prepared by the chemist of the bureau to be used for making the required tests. ROYALTY AND BACCARAT. tation, and in it he could read a universal cry of shame upon the gambler. At his elbow was the gambler himself, personated by the heir to the English throne, and surrounded by a group of the leading aristocracy of the realm. Himself an aristocrat and a member of a succession of judicial whitewashers of the throne, which had withstood the rebuffs of centuries of progression, what was my Lord Justice to do? He was truly in a tight place. He yielded to his traditions instead of the people, as usual, and after practically instructing the jury to find against Sir William Gordon Cumming, he proceeded to apologize for the Prince of Wales; and thereupon the audience hissed. While the result of the trial upon Cumming will be disastrous, the effect upon the gambling disgrace, which so LORD COLERIDGE was in a tight far as the public were concerned was It is estimated that within one year place June 9th. His delemma, we the main question at issue, will be fully from July 1st the Treasury Department will venture to say, was as justly per- as paralyzing as though the whole will pay to citizens of the United States plexing as any that ever befuddled the gambling outfit who took part in the between $12,000,000 and $15,000,000 as brain of a British Lord Chief Justice. Tranby Croft scandal had been punbounty for sugar raising. Most of this If the case upon which he was to in-ished for slandering Cumming. sum will go to Louisiana, where cane struct the jury had been the simple In the public mind the question sugar is produced. Kansas, Nebraska, one of deciding whether Sir William whether Cumming cheated or did not Iowa, California and Utah will re- Gordon Cumming had forfeited his cheat will cut but a small figure. The ceive a proportion of the bounty, claim to England's respect and con- fact is too thoroughly appreciated, that though the sugar in these places is fidence through being caught cheating gambling is a cheat, for the genproduced from beets and sorghum at baccarat an ordinary magistrate eral public to make any nice cane. The New England States and a could have presided at the trial with distinctions as to details. The scandfew of the Northwestern States where all the dignity and soberness and alous interpolation of Lord Coleridge, sugar is produced from maple sap, legal discreation required. In that that he "could not imagine how any will also receive a due portion of the case the average English jury harm could be done to the monarchy, bounty. would have dismissed the business to the Prince, or to anyone else" by The work of testing and inspecting without retiring from their seats, leav-this affair at Wilson's resort, will not count. On that matter public opinion is irrevocably fixed. The sympathy shown for Cumming should not be mistaken for any sanc A "SMALL" MAN AND BIG THE Ogden State bank has begun ments for the improvement of our city school system. This plan is considered the best and easiest that can be de vised for the purpose. Prejudice against tion of his conduct. The hisses in suit against S. M. Preshaw for the pay- taxation ought to give way before the ment of a note of $1000, endorsed by court were undoubtedly expressions needs of educational facilities. Itisto of disgust, that he probably the nobl. Mr. Preshaw for Rev. Sam Small.be hoped that the voters will go to the est Englishman of them all, should be the scapegoat for the whole disreput This statement of fact does not har polls to-morrow and show their inter monize well with the blustering tele-est in the matter of education for their able crowd. The London Times is grams that Small has been sending children by voting "Bonds, Yes.” clear and emphatic on this point. Speaking of Cumming's signing the agreement to cease card playing, that paper says: across the continent from Canada to been keeping the wires hot for a month in his frantic effort to convince the The vote should be very much larger than at the last attempt at an election for school bonds, because the question then in doubt a8 to the validity of the election has been settled by the Supreme Court, and this election will be conducted under the law as interpreted by the court. "We almost wish, for the sake of Eng-public that he was the honest man and lish society, that the Prince of Wales had the board of trustees of the "Utah Unialso signed a declaration that he would versity" were the defamers. A subnever touch a card again." stantial backing for this cyclone of bad odor would be for Small to send his draft to liquidate this thousand dollars of which he seems to be deliberately robbing the widow of the late Mr. Preshaw and his widowed daughter. Committee of the People's Party,at the Will he do it? The Chronicle's indignation at the verdict is so unmanageable that in speaking of the effort to whitewash the Prince it falls almost into raving. It says of Cumming: There is nothing incredible in his signing the document on the strength of the statement from Wales' 'cringing minions' dooming him to a fate worse than death in order to save what Wales is pleased to call his honor." The paper flatly accuses the Prince of Wales of violating the pledge of secrecy and calis upon the authorities to indict Sir William Gordon Cumming for the criminal offense of cheating. It declares: SCHOOL BONDS ELECTION. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. meeting held in this city on June 10th, virtually settles the question of the dissolution of the entire party. The reasons set forth in the preamble On Friday, June 12, the election to adopted, why the People's party need decide whether school bonds shall be no longer exist, we believe will recom issued by the Board of Education was mend themselves to the people in every held at Independence Hall, 19 w. county and that the various commit. Third South street, Salt Lake City.tees therein will take immediate steps The polls will be opened one hour after to act in conformity to the resolution sunrise and close at sunset. Registered of the territorial committee. voters will have an opportunity to cast their ballots for or against the issuance of the bonds. Resident taxpayers who are not registered voters ought, in justice, to have votes on this question which affects their property interests. pounded by signing a compact, or We think they have also a right under "If they do not, the public will know what to think,and if the Duke of Cambridge shrinks from his duty in regard to the military offense it is to be hoped parliament will not prove pusillanimous." The Chronicle finally asks what steps will be taken to vindicate justice in a crime which the Prince of Wales com. whether the infamous scandal will be hushed up forever. The Standard, though a little less "earnest" in its mode of telling it, is quite as severe. It says: "The defendants and their friends have tarnished their reputation even if the plaintiff did come out worst. It is not to be lightly forgotten that the Prince of Wales instigated the game and carried the apparatus about with him." the law to do so. However that may The bonds proposed are to be for the the sum of $600,000, bearing five per cent. interest per annum, redeemable in twenty years. They are not to be The entire affair is disgraceful to the issued all at once, but as occasion may British aristocracy and exceedingly require. All that property holders will damaging to the prospects of the heir be taxed to pay the interest and to the British throne. As to Sir Wil- to form a sinking fund for the redempiiam Gordon Cumming he may be sub-tion of the bonds, will amount to about jected to much greater indignities than he has yet suffered from his falling. But before he can be cashiered his case must be fully investigated, and he will have ample opportunity to defend himself from the charge brought against him. If the latest dispatches are correct he has not lost either his bride or the good feelings of the British public. He was married to his fiancee and retains a host of friends. The People's party has done a good work in Utah. It has been the means of disseminating information on political questions. It has educated many newly arrived settlers in the Constitution and genius of our country and prepared them for intelli gent citizenship. It has caused discussion on the science of civil govern ment in general and the rights of the people in the Territories in particular. It has maintained good and economical government, municipal, county and territorial. It has fought against schemes for the enthrallment of the majority for the enrichment and profit of the minority. It has accomplished its mission and it now voluntarily disbands and retires with honor. The gentlemen who have stood at the head of the party have served one-tenth of one per cent. on their it faithfully, devotedly and without taxable property, annually. This is pay. The names of John Sharp, estimated on present valuations of John R. Winder and Franklin S. property, and on the basis of the im- Richards, who were in succession its mediate issuance of all the bonds. But as the property valuation is likely to increase through the growth of the city, and all the bonds will not be is sued at once, the tax to pay off the interest and redeem the principal will probably be less than the small amourt named. Chairmen, have by their skilful and energetic management of its affaire made their names historic. Others in the territorial and county and precinct committees have worked with corresponding vigor and zeal,and are entitled to their mead of praise and the confi dence and gratitude of the people who have reaped the benefit of their The money to be raised is sorely Arkansas was admitted to the Union needed for school sites, buildings, ap-gratuitous labors. June 15, 1836. paratus, furniture and other require- The People's party has been called he Church party. There may have een some show of excuse for this heuse it was almost entirely composed people of one religious faith. But if y the term is meant a party having r its object the dominance of one urch above another, or the introducon or maintenance of ecclesiastical uthority in the affairs of state, then e claim is untrue and the term is a isnomer. insincerity on the part of the people. heterogeneous race elements, though THE CANADIAN PREMIER. He put down an insurrection in the Northwest, hanged the leader, and yet held his popularity with FrenchCanadians. He handled the controversy relating to the Jesuits' estate with such skill and diplomacy that he ALL that is mortal of the famous had their property restored to them, Canadian statesman, Sir John Mac- and yet retained his Orange and Con'The People's party never sought to donald, was today consigned to the servative following. When the exeprive any other party or any indi- cold and silent tomb. For forty years cited condition of religious feeling in idual of rights which it claimed for he has been one of the most striking Canada is considered, a similar course sown members. It was the champion characters of British America and, in a would have wrecked any statesman civil and political liberty within certain sense, of the whole North who followed it in Britain or in Amerihe lines of constitutional law. American continent. His political ca but the man who accomplished it. demanded local self-government career is essentially the history of Can-In fact, he made this very case contribute ompatible with lawful national au- ada, speaking of it as a colony or coun- to his fame and popularity. His hority. It supported the principles of try. One of his greatest achievements quality before the law and the free was that of 1867, when the scattered, xercise of the suffrage by every citi- independent, and in some cases hostile en not condemned as criminal by provinces, were federated into egal process. It united various politi- great commonwealth. To him also al elements for a common purpose, must be attributed the credit of sucnd that was the good of the whole cessfully accomplishing the junction of eople and the elevation of Utah into the Atlantic with the Pacific, by the he power and dignity rights to which Canadian Pacific railroad. he is entitled. one "national" policy 88 regards the United States might be said to commence in 1878, when, on its wings, he sailed into office. This policy he has upheld ever since, and was the uncompromising foe of annexation and even of reciprocity in trade. Although at one time when he found the sentiment for reciprocity was too strong to be put down, he took it up. But he did it in such a way that he placed his opponents in a false position without compromising himself. Sir John Alexander Macdonald was If the party lines which divide citi- born in 1815, according to some authorens in other parts of the Union had ities in Glascow, Scotland, according een fairly drawn here, the People's to others in Canada. He was educated arty would long ago have ceased to at the Royal Grammar school, KingsHis successor will have to be a man xist. It contained both Democrats ton, and admitted to the bar in 1835. as phenomenal in politics as was Sir nd Republicans of pronounced char During his adolescence, and even in his John. A statesman pure and simple cter. But while there was a faction young manhood he inclined to Liberal will not do. The provincial legislaombined for the purpose of depriving views and was not averse to annexa- tures are largely Liberal, yet there is eople of the common rights of tion. He first came into public notice the anamolous condition of a Conservitizens, which permitted no break in by his defense of a freebooter, named ative government in power. ts ranks, the continuance of the Peo- Schultz, who, with a party of men, Sir Charles Tupper, Sir John Thomple's party was a political necessity, undertook to revolutionize Canada. son or Sir Hector Longevin succeed at and its diverse elements had to remain The man was hanged, but young the rudder of a ministry as did Sir John? ogether for mutual protection and in Macdonald established a reputation That is very doubtful. The questions act for political existence. for oratory and ability as a pleader on which Macdonald made political among the foremost at the Canadian capital, are those on which either of the gentlemen mentioned would make a dismal failure. But a better day has dawned for Jtah and a brighter prospect opens to ts people. Influential men, both Democrats and Republicans, have ome out from the faction which hreatened the political life of the najority of our citizens and have delared their hostility to the chief object f that illiberal combination. They are eady to welcome the people of Utah, egardless of religious opinion, int heir respective organizations. And hey are determined to bury the old ssues and work for living objects. The People's party will now meet hem in this spirit. Some of its former nembers will go one way, some the >ther, "according to their individual preferences." They are not bound to either course. They are not directed in this matter, except to go honestly in the way they think to be right. bar. Would In He went to Parliament from Kingston in 1844 as a Conservative. Ever Sir John was a man of small stature. since he has been one of the most His height was five feet seven inches, active and aggressive gladiators in the and weight, about 160 pounds. political arena of Canada. Whether he facial appearance he closely resembled can be classed as a statesman in the Disraeli, and in his political methods true acceptation of the term is open to some persons also trace a resemblance. debate. But as far as expediency in Canada will find it difficult to fill his statecraft is concerned, he was certain-place. And unless a man of resource, ly a master. To his fertility of resource, was added a sagacity and shrewdness of mind that made him almost at once a political prophet and general. His main object always seemed to be to keep in power, and because of this he was viewed more as a party politician that as a political philosopher. originality and ability is found for the post, it will not be all smooth sailing for Conservatives in Canada. OFFICIAL FOLLY AND BRUTALITY. A UNIQUE spectacle of official monstrosity was witnessed at the Omaha police station a few days ago. A little girl seven years old, charged by an old man with stealing fifty dollars, had been arrested upon warrant for grand larceny, and placed in one of the criminal cells of the city Now that he is removed from the arena his actions may be criticaliy analyzed. His federation scheme was The result cannot fail to be beneficial something more than party work, and if the Democrats and Republicans who to him is universally attributed its achave initiated this movement are true complishment. For purposes of nato their avowals. There will be notional government he joined the most jail. a It is said a great many people came the irrigation problem of the West for the Territory for investment in large to see this exhibition of a baby be-the people concerned and the amounts, does not stagger the inhind the bars. Some felt angry about law-makers of the nation to ventors of the falsehood a particle. of old it and inquired into the motives of the have an intelligent conception Thecertainty that their obstruction and police who effected the arrest. Strange of its significance. It has been before wild rumors will have the effect which to say, the particular officer who per- Congress for several sessions as a lead-they pretend to deplore, makes no difformed the grand act was not on ing question and steps have been ference to their daily alarms. They the grounds to receive the taken in a half-hearted way to ascer- have their own schemes to work out, plaudits of the people, but was tain the duty of the government in the and, keeping them in view, they are found by a newspaper man, when he premises. We believe the conditions utterly reckless as to the consequence explained that all he knew about the are now thoroughly ripe for the move- to others. affair was that the warrant given him ment proposed, and if carried out to the for the child's arrest read like all extent and in the spirit anticipated, it others: "You are hereby commanded will result in developments of vast to bring the said Allie Shuster into magnitude and importance, and in setcourt before the police judge of said tling finally upon the proper methods court." He did think a little strangely to be pursued in the reclamation of the of the matter but the law commanded immense tracts of arid lands of the and as a servant of the people his only West. duty was to obey. What a sense of confidence and security this statement of the case must have awakened in the bosoms of the law and order loving people of Omaha! How their souls must have swelled within them in the presence of this almost preternatural exhibition of official fidelity! We would not presume to speak in such a case for the citizens of Omaha. The law-worshiping class there may have a more exalted idea of official duty than is common to general humanity. But there are people who are tolerably civilized that would look upon the officer or officers responsible for this action as having about as clear a sense of civilization or the duties of his office as a muzzled grizzly. That Salt Lake City is the proper place for the holding of such a congress, will be conceded without argument. The people of Utah were the first in this country to experiment upon irrigation systematically and to any great extent, and with their success came the reclamation of millions of acres of desert land which without irrigation was utterly worthless to mankind. Besides being the pioneers in the irrigation experiment, under their system there has been no monopoly of the water available by foreign corporations. Why the obliteration strifes, the forsaking of narrow ruts, and the organization of American citizens under the great national par ties, for the advancement of the Territory upon new issues and broader ground, should be likely to injure business or be harmful to any praiseworthy interest, would be hard to es tablish in a mind free from intense prejudice. And what about the known facts Is it true that "Liberal” rule bas been for the prosperity of trade, or the promotion of social order, or the increase of commercial confidence? If so, give us the figures and the indications. Is it not true that ever since the triumph of fraud at the polls in this city, and the establishment of the ring "Liberal" regime, the sales of real estate instead of increasing, as predictThe people owning the ed, have fallen off to a marked extent land have organized canal companies Is it not true that taxes have enor among themselves. By their own ously increased, that new offices have labor the water has been taken out, been created and that public money and distributed upon a just system of has been squandered, while corres division. The land claims the water ponding improvements are conspier with which it is irrigated. ous by their absence? Is it not true also that crime has increased and that social evils have steadily flourished? As reported, the case so well begun in point of legal formality, was carried out on the same brutal plan, and the But the work now to be done in the child was kept in the criminal's cage line of irrigation is upon a more adunder the gaze of the curious crowd vanced system than any yet attill its mother was notified and secured tempted. There is very little of the the required bail for its release. This natural flow of the mountain streams is altogether a most flagrant example that has not been appropriated for the of official stupidity. It is season in which it is needed. The exposition of the doctrine of question now, therefore, falls upon the official non-discretion carried to a monstrous extremity. The idea that a servant of the law has no human discretion in the discharge of his duty is theoretically preposterous, and executed against women and children is purely brutal. an methods to be pursued in husbanding A Can any sound reason be offered for the continuance of a faction the chief purpose of which, apart from finding lucrative offices for its supporters, is the disfranchisement of those who dissent from its purposes and its methods? The claim that business is being injured by the movement to promote political advancement and the association of all classes as Democrats or Republicans, is as absurd as the crazy prognostications of horror and misrule, to result from the destruction of "Liberal” influence and the establishment of local government under the power of Republicanism or Democracy. Let not the comparatively recent settler be deceived. All history and precedent, with the proverbial timidity of capital, go to refute the theory that AN IRRIGATION CONGRESS. IN occordance with a resolution DON'T BE DECEIVED. adopted by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce on the 4th inst., Governor DESPERATE attempt is being Thomas has issued a call for an irriga-made, under "Liberal" ring auspices, tion congress to be held in this city to make it appear that the marshalling the settlement of local feuds, and the September 15th, 16th and 17th. An of our citizens under the respective association of former antagonists invitation is extended to the several political party banners, is injuring upon the platforms of the states and territories of the West to business and will prevent the influx of great national parties, with the send 30 delegates each. capital. The impudence of this at- peace it will bring to the Territory will tempt is only equalled by its men- injure material interests. If they dacity. are any guide at all they give the ashas now been sufficient discussion of The fact that money is coming into 'surance that the movement now in We regard the project as one of vast importance just at this period. There progress will do more to promote con- places over which the United States heads of horses, causing runaways or at fidence, to attract capital and to per- have jurisdiction, except the District least frightening women and children manently build up Utah than any step of Columbia. who are taking a buggy ride. After that can be taken by its citizens. The Edmunds act of 1882 states dis- dark they start up from unexpected While the unrest, misrepresentation, tinctly that its provisions in reference places and bark at pedestrians, and in fanaticism and bitterness manifested to the two offenses named are for "a many places make night hideous and in and provoked by this so-called Territory or other place over which sleep impossible by their discordant "Liberal" faction, if persisted in will the United States have exclusive howlings. keep this Territory in the background, jurisdiction." The Edmunds-Tucker We do not know what the civic and cause the very name of Utah to act of 1887 is declared by its title to be authorities can do more than continue signify contention, disorder, bigotry an amendment to the act of 1862, to enforce the city ordinance in relaand bitterness, alike subversive of which also relates to "a Territory of tion to dogs, unless some more strinsocial order, business interests and po- the United States or other place over gent measures can be devised to prolitical freedom. which the United States have exclus-tect the public. But respectable citiive jurisdiction." Parts of each of zens can show a little more regard for these statutes relate specially to Utah. the comfort of their neighbors and the But in every section of this kind the public generally, by getting rid of Territory of Utah is specifically men- some useless curs that infest the city, tioned. and by housing and chaining up more valuable dogs at night. IS IT "FUNNY BUSINESS?" THE increased registration in this city would be matter for congratulation if it were a true indication of an If the clauses in the Edmundsincrease in the population and of polit- Tucker act not specially applicable to ical interest among the citizens. Doubt-Utah, do not include the District of less both of these causes have contributed to the results. But we are inclined to the belief that in addition to them, what is called "funny business" has been resorted to for the purpose of swelling the registration lists. The net increase foots up 2,350 names. The largest increase is in the Second Precinct which furnishes 966 additional voters. There may possibly be nothing wrong in all this. But it is something that ought to be investigated. It would be interesting, and perhaps profitable, to find out whether all these newly registered names have owners who have resided in this city and Territory for the periods required by law. It will be remembered that the largest proportion of the names of persons who, it appeared, had no legal right to vote at the last municipal election, were found on the list of the Second Precinct. There are indications that work similar to that performed then is in progress now, manipulated by the same wire-pulling fingers, and with expectation of a similar reward. We advise both Republicans and Democrats who want a fair deal, to make diligent investigation of this matter. And we warn every person who thinks he can figure in the fashion we have hinted at, that this time he will find out it is in reality no "funny business." AN INCONSISTENT RULING. THE Chief Justice of Arizona, if the dispatches received are correct, has made a singular ruling. Perhaps when the full account of the matter before him is published, it will explain the reasons for his opinion. He decides that the laws of Congress in relation to polygamy and unlawful cohabitation, relate to all the Territories and It will be a matter of regret if the public have to take the matter into their own hands, and shoot down the howling and yelping dogs that form such a formidable nuisance. This would be perhaps in violation of a city ordinance, and would be, therefore, to be deplored. Columbia, then they do not include Therefore if the laws passed upon by the Arizona Chief Justice apply to any other place than Utah, they take in the District of Columbia. Such parts of them as do not relate to that district do not apply to Arizona. We are aware that a court in the District decided that the Edmunds-Tucker act does not apply to that district but that does not affect our argument. If the judge had simply decided that the disputed clauses were in force in Arizona without making reference to the District of Columbia, he might possibly have been right. But in exempting the latter and including the former he was clearly and inconsistently wrong. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE THE alleged central committee o the Republican party in this Territory, that is a bare majority of a body claiming that position, have met and formu lated some resolutions which they issue for the guidance of Republicans in Utah. Mr. Arthur Brown was the only committeeman present who voted against the resolutions and this he did with a vigorous protest, which, with the resolutions, will be found in another part of this paper. The gist of this action is that the "Liberal” party—what is left of it, does not want to disband. The gentlemen composing the committee take a "Liberal" not a Republican stand. It is in the interest of the "Liberal" faction that they ask Republicans to remain within its ranks, and plead with those who have doserted them to return. "Don't leave us," is the plea to those Republicans who still linger in the "Liberal" corral; "Come back," is the wail to those who have escaped. As to the old bugaboos about "polygamy" and "Church and State," they are too stale to notice; and we should A NUISANCE TO BE ABATED. THE Complaint of an old citizen, to which we give place today, is a very common one. There are too many dogs in town. The tax remedy does not meet the disorder. It is no comfort to a person assailed by a ferocious or vociferous canine that he has a think both Republicans and Demonumbered collar on. Dogs bound over crats, however "Liberal" in their fences, or jump up from the side-walk views, would be tired of them and too and act as though they would eat up sensible to be disturbed by them. They the passer by. are nothing but Goodwinisms, and a In the day time they bite at the few years will demonstrate their base |