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Show Mr. Prout The Hospital Red Head. ! Kev. Mr. Prout haa an interesting letter in the Corinnn Record called forth by tho dastardly attacks of the , Tribune, upou the conduct of affairs ; at St. Mark's hospital. Because Mr. Prout would not accept aud sanction the communistic priuciplee and blackguardism black-guardism of the red-headed editor, tbe reverend gentlemen was subjected ' to vile abuse and throats, until be was induced to reeigu a position in which be bad gained general respect, aud where he was doing much good. His letter in the Record telld some important import-ant truths, beuce we nyr-dm:; portions por-tions of it: It is really not uncomplimentary to be openly and pcsouuiiy ttie object of depreciation in a newspaper which is unfaltering);' copious iu detraction. Of course, the "atroenus crime" alleged ttmt 1 am un old man and therefore failing in jur'gtnuut ruust pass lor what it is worth. I ahauld think a satirist must be hard run before he would resort to such a ty V of ridicule a style which o( it.--lt betrays a lack of the mnrnl ami gentle culture which should murk -tn uapirant for the piace uil tame of an intellectual critic au'l ; a censor of public moral. It is not for "age" to boast itself. It nevnr entered en-tered my bead mat I was old enough to claim any respect so far as mere 1 age is concerBei. Consequently, the hauler alluded to is harmless. And, indeed, tbe second point mad in the newsp per that I am hardly the man for any executive tuuetion in a hospital, because I had expressed very plain dislike of the whole tone and policy of the newspaper in ques tiou- can hardly be ol force unless it ia assumed that to criticise the paper is to be a traitor to tho interests of public charity, the dispensatory of re lief to the sick. It is true that no on who diflers from the Tribune i? fit to minister relief lo Bick people? Will tick people, miners and otheie, Ur-k the Tribune's permission to go to St. Mark's in distress? Yet the paper claims the institution ia thoroughly prepared and properly equipped tor its mission of charity and pity toward sick and poor and sutTenug public. Compare, for a moment, the foolish arrogance, this child an perciliousaeaa, with the treatment St. Mark's hospital baB received at the hands of the Mormons, who know perlectly well that not one of the coo ductors of it ia ol the Mormon faith from the superintendent down. I never read or bear a whisper ot com plaint from them, never a nolo of disapproval or of warning to Mormon people to keep away from St. Mark'e because it is not the outgrowth ol their church aud ayUem. But while the Tribune is totally intolerant ol the abaumed liharality of an "old man" toward Murm U3, they appear perlectly tolerant toward the Gentile uharaoter and administration and discipline of the institution.. I ask leavo to reler to the facts, assuming 'only lo apeak iu general. During neftrly three years ana a halt last pa it, the i;ity nuUiorities in Salt Lake city hare had nearly all ttie time as much as one - charity pationt, lor wbooe bmrd and medical treatment treat-ment tbey paul. At the usual rate for pay patients, $10 a week, this would amount to a little more than $500 aunully of which the city (Mormon) made St. Mark's hospital the dispenser in charity. Then still a little turther: I'heee patients so relieved re-lieved by the city were almost without eixceptiuu not Mormons, bulUenti es. , So that Lb ia Murmon charity, liberally v-iven through a Gentile (I should more properly say a Christian) boa pital, was also actually given to Gau tiles. Still a little further: Besides this class ot charity patients sent by I Mormon authorities and sustained, there has been a considerable Dumber Dum-ber of men directly of the Mormon faith subscribers who came to St. Mark's sick. I should suppose this element of our disbursement of relief would amount to one patieQt continually, continu-ally, and supposing the average number num-ber in the hospital through thwytar to have been twenty three, the Mormon elemantol St. Mark's patrouage wou;d Probably thai proportion of direct Mormon Mor-mon patronage haa beon given to St. Mark's hospital What Genlile institution insti-tution has acted as liberally toward ao exclusively Mormon iustitutiou? St. Mark's is a chanty in whose pros perity 1 believe all take a gratified interest, perhaps I might have said pride. 1 am free to bay, for myself, that this liberal, unconditional support sup-port of the people called Mormons is one of the btautiiul traits of its experience. ex-perience. Since there is bo much that is personal already involved in this communication, I will venture lo ask to be allowed another observation. It is this; I did not wait for the arrogance arro-gance which sought to dictate to me by a threat that ibe.intereate of the hospital would be compromised if I should be continued in my place, but resigned my office on the day before tbe truculent and vindictive insinuation insinua-tion appeared. "Wbat have I done that my enemy praises vtef" said an "old man" in olden limea. Conversely Con-versely would be not have congratulated congratu-lated himaelf if hia enemy bad said hard things ayumst him? One does not like lo be written against, but il it mutt ua, it ia better to be disparaged dispar-aged by a foe than by a friend. |