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Show CHURCH ORGAN DECEPTIONS. In another column of The Tribune is printed a communication, sigucd " Bishop Bish-op Smith," which should hr read with Interest by all classes of people, of whatever religious or political faith. It deals with the character of Joseph Smith, a the founder of Mormonism, as it appeared to the critical observation if one who came into personal contact with the man during the height of his career. On last. Snturdfiy evening tho Deseret News published an editorial article and a full-page, illustrated compilation, in both of which the first Mormon prophet j was deified beyond oil human reach. In the lalter, the News followed its usual custom (wlicnover g!orif3'ing Joseph Smith) of pretending to quote from Hon. ilosiah Quiuc.v. iu which he is purported to have said that Joseph Smith would some time possiblj" be losignatrd as the ono American who had "exerted the most powerful influence influ-ence upon tho destinies of his couutrj'-nign." couutrj'-nign." Bui, pursuing its other habit, the church organ failed to print all that Josiah Quiue.3' said concerning the prophet. Our correspondent reviews tho Quin-cy Quin-cy matter in its entirety, and he discovers dis-covers thai tho tentative conclusion of the distinguished iuterviewer of the prophet was hy no means as creditable to him us the News would have us to believe; it was h3pothetical and speculative, specu-lative, not actual or final. Josiah Quinc.y found an unblushing charlatan and impostor, who was not ashamed to utilize cultivated power over dupes to impress upon them his personal sanctity sanc-tity and to secure from his followers unquestioning un-questioning obedience. He saw a man who was enamored of milita.ry power to the furtherance of pretensions to diviuo appointment. Ho discovered one who did not hesitate to trade upon the pub lic curiosity to see pretended sacred relics for the purpose of gathering in quarter-dollars. Ho talked with a man who was ambitious lo first rule tho United States, nnd then to dominate the whole world,' being un particular as lo tho methods 1)3' which ho should gain these ends. lie found a proponent of pob'gamy who vaguoly hinted that this barbaric practice was a delicate morsel of virtuous Christian sentiment, compared with what might follow it in tho future. Mr. Quinc.y .came into contact with an aggressive, unscrupulous, unscrupu-lous, ambitious, domineering, resourceful resource-ful man, whom he seems to have been at a loss to definitely classify wheth-er wheth-er as genius or madman or imbecile. And aa to "tho powerful influence" which Joseph Smith was probably to exercise upon tho people neither tho Deseret News nor The Tribune is at liberty to conclude that Mr. Ouincy meant that this "influence" was to be for good or for evil; nor was Mr. Quincy prepared to sa.y that it would in fact survive at all; he only suggested sug-gested what might bo if it did survive. The insufficiency, and the total unfairness, un-fairness, of the News's quotation from Josiah Quinej, bring to mind the fact that on Saturday, May 30th, the Deseret Des-eret News printed a full-page, illustrated illus-trated article in exaltation of tho lato President Brigham Young. Tho man who would refuse to give propor credit to the great Mormon leader for his achievements would not be honest in his adherence to the facts. And the man who would credit to Mr. Young that which was accomplished hy others would likewise bo disregardful of the truth. But what the News sought to do in the article referred to was to show b3' the utterances of its former leader that he never spoke ono word that was dislo3'al to county'; that was not subvorsivo of the rights of the people; peo-ple; that was not in usurpation of unjust un-just power; that was not of the highest moral tone; or that was in any vtay reprehensible rep-rehensible from a Christian point of view. For the purpose of making the desired presentation, the church organ reproduced a series of seventeen pretended pre-tended quotations from sermons of Brigham Young. And therein is whero the News resorted to its customar3" evasion, concealment, and hypocris'. The Tribune took pains to look up these sermons iu tho Journal of Discourses. Tt found that the News had, in each and everr instance, butchered these sermons to complete unrecognition, except ex-cept in spots. The alterations were so numerous that it would roquire four pages of The Tribune to point them all out by paralleling the actual with the pretended. The numerous decep- lions assumed many forms, but thn M II most faVoroironc waV tg take a feH ( words from one sentence and join'. lbcffi to portions of other sentences, formiuo a totally misleading "composition. 'The 1 News selected from ono sentence, v.'hiich V begun to show symptoms' of a desire to i I haug tiC l'rosi(i,.nl of the Unite f State?, hooked it onto another, which I I professed love for God and fealty tnf IS righl.ioiiH government, and called it"an'f) V expression of loyalty lo the Nation. f i1 quoted to show Mr. Young's benevolent 1 I consideration' for tho benighted Indian 1 I arid omitted the part in which ho of- f I fcred to give any of t he brethren whe i j desired to do so a mission to go out li ' j and kill off the red man. And so it f . wenl on, without oven the courtesy of an asterisk, in either case, to show that f there had been omissions. '1 'j. Sn that, if yon see a pretended quo t tation in the Deseret News, get yom reference and look it up and discover f! that the church orgau is wholly aud ir- I redecmabry dishonest. |