Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-11-23 | Page 6 | Its Rotten Gall

ITS EOTTEN GALL. On Monday evoning the Dcsoret News contained an editorial articlo on the late Count Tolstoi, and among other things which it said of him was the following: And when wc contemplate his philosophy, phil-osophy, his ideal brotherhood of man which appears to be a kind of Christian-anarchistic Christian-anarchistic community, and his conception concep-tion of the plan of salvation, we cannot but picture to ourselves how much greater great-er ho would have been had he known the, truth as revealed In this age through the prophet Joseph. That is certainly one of the News's masterpieces of impudent assumption. Count Tolstoi is far more widely tc-nowned tc-nowned than -is .Tosoph Smith. There is scarcely a nook in tho wholo civilized world whero some, if not all, of the inhabitants in-habitants have rend or heard of Tolstoi, Tol-stoi, whilo Joseph Smith and his work aro known only in a comparatively narrow nar-row limit. Tho great Bussian was of fine intelligence and broad education, while Joseph Smith was -an admittedly ignorant man; and yet tho News would havo had tho former bow to the assumed as-sumed superiority of the latter. But the silly drivel of the church organ or-gan is altogether characteristic, since it approves tho stupid and blasphemous teaching of its masters that Joseph Smith is equal to the Sa'ior of the world, Truly "wo aro a peculiar people."