The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-04-04

became SO strong that they would re-
sist and at last exert political force
and influence. How miserable, des
picable were formerly our lower courts;
how ignorant, corruptible and partial
the judges and juries; how many hon
est and industrious people were,
through the vulgar avarice and bold
fraud of externally respectable
scoundrels, reduced to misery, unable
to resist, recover or retaliate; how
many crimes, including murders, re-
main to this day unayenged! Espec-
tally, what tyranny and cruelty has
been exercised by regulators and
vigilance committees, presumably
established for the maintenance of
public order. What frauds have been
practiced with false money, with paper
currencies and fraudulent titles. One
need but remember the bloody fights
of the fire companies, the election
riots in all large cities, the public and
barefaced trade in votes, the shameless
frauds in election returns, the brutal
manner in which men of opposing
political views used to combat each
other in the press and on the rOstrum.
What used to be the rule in this res
pect has fortunately become the excen-
ton, although the receptions are yet
too numerous. Formerly, fanatically
religious one-sidedness (bigotry) would
render difficult all sOciability, and
where there was an attempt at the
latter, it soon degenerated into coarse
brutality and ended in bloodshed.
mo, indeed" the Illinois journal
adds, ''we have made immense pro-
gress in civilization; we have become
decidedly cosmopolitan. The sporadic
eruptions of brutality, traceabIe back
ward to former conditions of laxity
and unrestrained brutality, are becom-
ing more and more scarce, and we are
rapidly approaching a healthier state
of public morals"
True, our great q may ISL rs well
avow my firm conyicii0n-ihe only)
American philosopher Ralph Waldo
Emerson, takes another view OF it.
more tinctured with the pesslmism of
Ecclesiaste5. For in his admirable
essay ION SeIf-Reliance, he saws.
without mincing matters: Society
never advances. 1t recedes as fast on
one side rs it gains on the other. It's
progress is only apparent like the
workers OF treadmill. 1t undergoes
continual changes; it is barbarous, it
is civilized, it is christianzed, it is
rich, it is scientific; but this change is
not ameiJration. For everything that
is given something is taken; society
acquires new arts and loses old in
stincts. But we have the American
poets word for it, that
Were star quenced on high,
+, For ages would its light,
Still travelling downward from the SIX.
Shine on our mortal sight
Hence we will believe, if not in the
Millerite Millennium, at least in
reasonably improved, 'cetuse visibIy
improving condition Of oar surround
ings.
Hopes bright star shall light us
from dimmesl distance. Even though
March with us in Provo Valley goes
out like a lion land very ugly and
roaring one at that, we hope that
April will bring rs something better
and brighter, anyway after the Con
ference" storm. When our grey lands
have discharged all their lachty
NOSE greys and Il clear azure vaults
itself over our emerald landscape we
shall forget the rude blasts of the ifIh
act of very real Winter Nights
Dream which is blistering at Our
doors and rafting around our
chimneys.
Until then let the CHEEKY fire crackIe
in the hearth and the old fplts dry or
the rug beside. LEO HAEFELI