Show Disgracing the Catholics f From the A. P. A. Thomas pear According to a from that excellent Inter-Mountain e gland is troubled with scum-b papers like your difference being that the papers col-t and retail every vile Every absurd every mor-M bid story of minds corrupt and fanatical about the your Tribune tells the same falsehoods about the The following clipping was in 1 lie Inter-Mountain Catholic last Inert and Careless of the I have been credited by Horton with possessing an society going under the name of Apostolate of writes the Very Gilbert the f Catholic pity is j that such a-society should be only a figment of an adversary's What the press can do id has lately been shown in Barce-p lona and in In lona it was used in the interests of godlessness and anarchy it has covered a Catholic city the smoking ruins of desecrated churches and In by maliciously collecting and retailing every vile every absurd every morbid story of minds corrupt and fanatical the press has succeeded stifling the cry of horror and which these appalling and outrages on humanity and civilization naturally draw from every formally constructed Priests and Nuns the case both of France and f Spain the non-Catholic press of iT with a few honor- has deliberately opted and maintained a policy f silence or of misrepresentation J Catholic interests have been stake and our priests have been to barbarous lile you have the atheistic and of Press' in its true and I in full vitality and Catholics long are Catholics going to remain inert and When are they going to realize that what is used against them with such force and precision can be used for and most your Tribune has subjected Mormon presidents and apostles to while the non-Catholic press of Spain and this country have subjected priests and nuns to Catholics in you claim that the only reason yon started the so-called American party was because Mormon church was in The Deseret News comes back at your church by claiming that the Catholics are in with the following editorial on October Catholic leaders of the Latter-day Saints are by no means the only churchmen accused of mixing religion and The charges directed against them have less substance than similar charges against other church We art reminded of this by the fact that in France Catholic clergy are being criticized just now for attempting to make the catechism political It is charged that the catechumens are required to obligate themselves to vote only for candidates pledged to support clerical Just what to do about it puzzles the as it is by no means clear that such teaching violates the letter of the seems that the church program in France is the formation of Catholic party for the purpose of laboring for the restoration of the at the prevention of further encroachment upon prerogatives of the by the A exists in similar party It is a church party political The Catholic church has never given up its and it is the claim to supremacy most natural thing for it to maintain this position through governments and or through legislatures and political It is strange that the in Utah who claim to be so afraid of religious influence m polities are oblivious of the evidence of while they are directing their shafts against a church founded under the American flag and fighting ia the spirit of the first for equal rights and perfect freedom for all under the Martin your Tribune has stated many times that the Mormon church never or censures one of its members for immorality or overt acts on how about the the church to which Your Tribune excoriates the Mormons to cast reproach upon and injure while at the same time it will overlook or not censure the Catholics for the same or similar which shows conclusively that you are not or On October your Tribune had the following to say about Martin E. a Roman Catholic and a member of-your E. a sample of pure saloon man and typical representative of Democrats asks support of wives and daughters to vole for Presents himself as a paragon of the purity that prevails in the Democratic E. is a prize fight Martin E. as one of the largest saloon keepers in Salt was expected to wield an influence for the Democratic ticket among saloon E. Mulvey is the recognized head of the gambling and sporting fraternity of the Mar E. Mulvey 's political influence heretofore lias been confined to the neighborhood of Commercial street Victoria alley and Plum Martin E. Mulvey and his trusted lieutenants are going ahead stuff ballot boxes with a wad of ballots that never should have been permitted to be Tribune October E. Mulvey i's relying for election upon the vote which is distinctly classed as the vote of the votes of thieves and the lawless classes Without the support of that class his chances for election would not be worth the spending of a nickel Yet there is no lack of dirty coin in his He has been a member of the council and he did the no Ilia candidacy now bodes no good to the Salt Lake Tribune October war on Mulvey should be kept and going until the night of election It is a candidacy which all the people of the Fifth municipal ward should repudiate with loathing and the above statement in your Tribune is against a member of your own and it is as bad as anything you have said about he if you are and your anti-Mormon crusade is and you are working for a clean why don't you abuse and Bishop because he does not fire Martin Mulvey from the Catholic you are many times worse and meaner than Martin because you arc an ingrate and a traitor to the stale that conferred upon you the title of States Yours till next V. 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