Show DR SPURGEON EXAGGERATES The Rev Dr William Spurgeon of ot England who has been preaching in Salt Lake Tor several weeks has a ten tendency tendency dency doncy to exaggeration that Is not un uncommon common to pulpit orators In In a talk Tuesday Tues night he relieved his system of some remarks that had apparently been disturbing it almost ever since e his arrival in the United States The re remarks remarks remarks I marks took the form of criticism of American manners morals and cus customs customs customs toms a favorite method some foreign foreigners ers use by way of payment for cour courtesies extended to them by b Americans Dr Spurgeon Sp told old of a murder trial he attended in fn Mississippi He criticised criticised the judge for not wearing a cap and gown and for listening to a man who came to converse with him on the i i bench He continues Then the swearing of the jury bo be bogan bogan began gan I had time to stay to see only nine but of all an the ragamuffins I ever eer saw in my life they were wera the type Why I leave the life of or of my m 3 collie dog in the hands of a crowd like that We wonder If Dr Spurgeon ever walked through any of the poorer dis districts of ot London If he ever did he saw countless types of humanity beside which those Mississippi jurors how however ever disreputable they may have been would have seemed seem d Intellectual giants And we do not believe the plans were disreputable either They have a habit ll in the south houth of f securing se very vory fino men for jury service Those that Dr Spurgeon Spurgean saw may not have been fashionably dressed but It Is rea reasonably reasonably reasonably certain that they th y were his peers in intelligence and his betters in courtesy Another wild exaggeration was Dr Spurgeons statement that that when he came to this country he found all the women working their jaws chewing gum as ae hard as they could c uld The shorter and an I uglier word so often re referred erred to and sometimes used by Mr Ir Roosevelt would seem to tobe be about bout the only answer to this assertion Every American knows it Is not true Dr Spurgeon himself must know it Is not true There were other exaggerations to state the case as mildly as possible In talk but a discussion of at then them seems seams futile The good doctor is now wending his fussy way towards San Francisco where he will doubtless Indulge himself In more of the same sort of talk and peddle more of his pamphlets |