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Show MISTAKEN RANTING. The denunciations in the Tabernacle last Saturday Sat-urday of newspapers and preachers who had sought to trace the supposed crime of Hooper Young to Mormon teachings, were too violent to be effective. The tirade of Ben Rich, especially, was so extreme ex-treme that the reading of it awakens a thought that Rich himself felt a little uneasy on the subject. sub-ject. Sensible people, when they hear of the perpetration perpe-tration of a crime like that charged upon Hooper Young, hold it as true that it was the work of a degenerate; of a mind perverted through some cause not to be explained by any natural course of reasoning. Had Hooper Young been born with a club-foot or withered limb, he would have been a subject of pity. As it was, the deformity was in his brain, and the only mistake made with him was that he was not long ago restrained and. placed where he could do no harm. In point of fact, we think it would have been better if the whole matter had been eliminated from the Conference services; for the violent methods adopted to denounce such as have ascribed the crime to Mormon teachings, provokes, pro-vokes, in ten thousand minds, a feeling that Rich, for some reason, feels sensitive on the subject. His wonder that no Gentile who knows how things are and have been here, has not risen up to speak a word in defense of the Church and people, was inconsiderate; for those who know understand that hip, definition of blood atonement is not the proper one in this atmosphere; that, in the estimation of his creed, apostacy is a far more heinous crime than plain murder. They remember the attack on i " HH ? ! , t"! Then, it was not in real good taste for Bishop IiJ'mH Smith to insist that the blood of Joseph and Hyrum j fH are still crying for vengeance, as of old; for the I ;. tl k double reason that his words emphasize the belief ' 'It jfl that the old secret oath to avenge the murders of ' i !, '. '' those two men is still a part of the creed, and, ' tgH further, because the church claims to be the j f 5 l9 "Church of Jesus Christ." 'Where in the life, acts i V f, 'H or words of the Master is a precedent for such ' 3 -''9 undying venom? There is plenty of it in the Old j yi fjl Testament; where can it be found in the New? C ' '"JIM For its effect on the outside world, in our judg- ;, p jH ment, the ranting in the Tabernacle over the agi- ; j'i , jfjfl tation of the murder in New York might much j l 1, H better have been suppressed. i j ? ' 'HH |