Show Not But the Goodwin's makes a pretense this week of attacking Reed The paper has a perfect right to attack the senator if it thinks the public interest and what it believes to be faults in a public official require it to do But it does not wage its war on Senator Smoot it is the Mormon church that it really and it is so blind as not to perceive that such an attack gives Smoot strength in his own party every time it is In describing the nominating speech by State Senator the abandoned editorial writer of the it makes the following did the senator undertake to have the President by baptized for a baker's doze no for Theodore in kingdom that arming he might renew Ins arguments against race This thought is suggested by the well known fact that no one has ever done anything that heard anything we that the President has not sought to try it was the contract merely to have a baptisms to ave lest that the President old Dutch Reformed creed as he lived prove insufficient on the final balancing of the was the bargain simply to put the Theodore of the United States in accord with the Theodore of in in the pursuit of the President should enter the dominions of that dusky descendant of old man in his was something of a trump can anyone conscientiously maintain that this is an attack on Senator Is it not rather an attack outright on the most spiritual ceremonies of the Mormon The evident venom of Editor Goodwin against the church of which Smoot is a is' but poorly concealed under this disguise the pretense of assailing Here it is the most sacred ordinances of a devout people that this covert de-famer of religious observances seeks to besmirch with clumsy and witless It is vain to pretend that Reed Smoot is the real object of such a thinly veiled assault on the rites and symbols of We are informed that the particular ordinances thus assailed by Goodwin are matters' of Temple ritual and that they relate wholly to the future life and have refer-once only to the other They are not obtruded upon the attention of any they cannot be said to cause even the slightest annoyance to the subtlest feelings of the most sensitive and hypercritical among for they are entirely removed and are not intended the vulgar Yet this ghoulish editor of Goodwin's Weekly seeks to drag forth these these surely innocent and harmless before the view of every and to trample in the mud these expressions of piety and zeal that are engaged in by the most devout of the Mormon people for the as they of their dead relatives and It is these temple ordinances that he tries to drag forth and gloat over with coarse ridicule while pretending to attack Reed If the of Goodwin's Weekly sup-Poses that this is or if he dreams that he can make intelli- gent people believe attack on the Utah he imagines the nJ a cat that prefers to claws on the most deW ery of a drawing J can find no other ft so no other delectable to hig taste dearest religious sentim people then we say any A readers- who may countenance such disgusting f are either as j and as he I or they have but little 3 of propriety and What do Christian j think of these attempts to p J fane the sacred ordinances of- What shame tie t followers of the Sot God must feel when a this jesting blasphemy of i j which many good people l loyal citizens here regard a ji j inmost center of religions sera Should not at least this among the their faith be left entirely especially by those who k nothing of its import and by those who knowing its w do not believe in When Charley Owen I himself in the endowment 1 and undertook to parade to I garments before the 1 the decency of American hood and womanhood shocked that even this bank was compelled by tag lawyers to Goods details are the literary sion of the same ridiculous Are there none clients whose sense of will induce Goodwin stop this ridicule of the He sacraments or to add to it lar ridicule of the dress a of Sisters of the baptismal practices or the plate-pa or the robes Episcopal to vindicate his pretense and JI |