Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-27 | Page 4 | Pulled Him Out

PULLED HIM OUT. Despite tho indignntion which Con gropsman Unwell has aroused in Utnh,' he is. not to bo allowed to sink into oblivion. President Smith docs not assent as-sent to tho extermination of IIowcll; and thcreforo Apostle Reed Smoot, as political prime minister of tho church, must pull Howell out of tho miry slough and set him on foot again as a political favorite. Elder Howell has had a painful experience ex-perience during tho ten days just past. Jlohas learned that thoro is no divinity which doth hedgo a Congressman in Utah. Tho ward heelers have deridod him, and the ROcnllcd ''respectables" of his pnrty have condemned him to t,he nethermost regions. It is only in his ecclesiastical capacity that ho retains the general respect; and hereafter ho, like Apostle Smoot, will probably insist upon his church title of ''elder''' whenever when-ever ho engages in political controversy, controver-sy, so that rospoct may attach to him for tho name oven when his actions deserve nothing but contempt. If a burned child dreads the fire, how much moro must- an elder dread the slimy pool into which he plunged him-sou him-sou head first?