| Show l t > orTii cAiioiiviss AND IllllO1S rhe altentloo l Io llal f Been called to two letters I which have lj bn given promlnnce In the mneton North Carolina Free loves Ordinarily i 1 the News doe not euro Id t give at ii tentlo to each slnlc comae tllOBi jl contained In the refer bl re-fer red to since they are manifestly i 0 aj nonorupu ella and untrue that rel1on it Ing people will not liellevc any part of them The crossness of their malicious lt ma-licious t ttle l marked I that any I I Intelligent person who elves the mil I tee thought will reeognizc Itntunce h But for the reason that It may be of i advantage to some people occasionally to call attention to such mlsstale 1 ments to show their Inaccuracy and g Inherent malice and that I reiteration b re-iteration r does not add the color of j truth we make mention of this occur I J renee j 1 One oC the eommunlrallon Ic I tram i Prof 11 B Lewis of Concord N C lie sajs Utah AriZona and Idaho are places where etery magistrate and I 3 L every officer u I a saint and where no I Gentile can acquire land or property 1 that a Mormon disdains science and l I I hygiene ° that children hne nor no-r 4 value but as prospectlto units In the I Church their lives are as eolorless and d Il Warns as the desert prairie that no phjslclnn presides nt their birth nod I f the birthchamber Is I no more cc eluded than the hogpen that legally l4 legal-ly they are outlaws ethically they are crslonnrj morally they are I I I rQiorioaO serially thy are brut politically po-litically they nr i anarchists historic ally conldred they hove not In n half century descried a line except to I chronicle their misdeeds In literature thy are as barren ns the s hor ot J their Dead Oral and that were n single IndlUdual to live In our midst North Carolina as n can 1 f < Istent Mormon we would certainly I lypch him as quickly as a rope and a t 9 tree could bo i found These quotations 1 quota-tions are only a rumple of 1rof 4 tnroie aenertionc an1 tIe Jnow I ri some few things about Mormons I I If Mr Lewis knows a thing about the Hormone he han not told It In his I 1 totter which never emanatd from n 1 source other than that of the vilest 4 nmong men No cIan man IK ever nllle tIe might be would ever pena I j uth pen-a communication And what toe 1 the Kingston Tree Pries editor think of I trts action In publishing the gross tibet I He cannot but know as a newspape man with the slightest knowledge of 1 national affairs that Mr Lewiss ai rertlon ore wholly untrue he I know that the national record of the Mor mon people contradicts every word of I It that of the three senator which Utah has had two of them are Gentiles Gen-tiles that of the four Ilepresenlalltcs In Congress during the post seven 1 years two have been aentllei that not 11 Mormon hoc i heel sent to Con I green trom elthr Idoho or Atlzonll j and he may not know It though It Is I a fact that the majority of the State I ufllclals In Utah are not Mormon but dentllis and that Idaho and ArUon are more pronounced In that dlrectlor Ho also ought to be aware of the tact that the educational facilities and ort or-t 0 10nllIhment In Utah Ilre 11 long way 1 superlor to North Carolina that the i work performed by Mormon KMera In that state li Idence of their Intellectu al and moral uperlorlt an conltnt Mormons And he ought to detent his own people from tho bonn Ilprlon p that they would be I so lost to honor and julle cc to to n common mobo efllllc hordo ot lynoirere The other letter referred to Is I from nv W W llajsnnd the headings to his communication Indicate sjmpathy with Its utterances on the tart of tho new paper It make many artlon I against the Uook at Mormon ono ot which la tint ltrvun llrst written IlS f 1 a novel by a 11ev Mr Hpauldlng a Presbyterian minister ol moor ivtry preacher In the United Stutti II with the educational acquirement > I 1 which Hot Dr Day appears to possess knows that the bpnuldlng story was exploded long since that the i original of that story lu I In the library of the Oberlin College Ohio and that there Is I not the slightest connection I between It and the Hook of Mormon t These facts all have been brought out by I nonMormons But to the credit of many denominational preachers In the Southern btates and elsewhere bIt b-It said they are not to fond of bearing fill u witness against their neighbor as net W Vf Clay BhowB himself to be Our Klneton cotemporar should recall re-call the adage that evil communlcn j tlons corruj good manners anC should purge Itself by presenting the truth about the Mormons of the un gleonrecn uteri tlaa marred It column In giving space to tho Lewis and nay s letters |
