Show correspondence may 16 1802 EDITOR THE JOURNAL I 1 note in your last itsue that A republican reader lawfer while doing mo me the credit to believe my Yno motives tives are not bad nevertheless questions the wisdom ot of what I 1 have written I 1 think A republican reader header states elates his side of the te case fie ae fully as aa it can be put ife he recognizes that we ne haven have a class of citizens who no matter mailer what they do should be held above any public criticism this class are those holding ecclesiastical positions position and in his mind they are the members of the mormon church I 1 u want ant to rk aek him bim it if lie he believes the political utterances of rev n R G than whom few more inore narrow minded or bigot ted man lives should be above public criticism it to so lie he must many a time have taken great uni brago it at what tire the bews yews and other papers have said concerning that very narrow headed gentleman but why risk tho quotation tion A republican reader wants the right of ecclesiastics to discuss di politics without being criticised criticized reserved for members of his own church now kow I 1 do not think he be is right inasmuch is s these lese respected are subject to the same laws of heaven as tile krestof rest of the human family I 1 do not recognize that god places them thein so far above the common lierd herd of which ww ch I 1 one that they may say or do a as they please and still not lie criticized I 1 foel feel very confident that 1 A I Ee republican publican reader does docs nor noi observe or follow tire the precept he be has laid down where is is the latter day saint who can call state slate in in iiii his heart and before heaven that he has not at times asid and for what v hat lie he believed to be good some someone one hig higher h in church office than bim himself self if ne e all criticise criticism critic ise what is the use of being 11 BO Lt straight raight laced about public utterances politics is tile tho property of the public ic it it is not the property gogerty of the public why do men discuss fiscu iscu ca politics to tile the ibl every time a man publicly discue discusses Ses politics or meddles with politics lipics in a public sense lie he becomes to i that at extent a politician I 1 can imagine nothing more con cowardly ardly than for fora a man holding a religious office to break into a public campaign use his influence anti and then bolt back into his ecclesiastical roll ard claim that lie he should not be talked about because to discuss him is ia a 3 reflection on the religion it is not only cowardice but it shows that the man who nho does docs so go has forgotten the res peel due to religion and lias has made it a mere vehicle to carry out his personal desires arid and to protect crotee t him from tit the e legitimate consequences of his ow on it n acts those these are the men that debase and tiring bring religion into contempt and not the baym layman who grieved at what his has been done in regretful tones direct i atter attention tiOu to tire misuse of 0 a raci ed office and warns ill all against its ils pernicious abuse I 1 expressly stated that I 1 designed no reflection on the temple I 1 mentioned it at merely to show how holy associations hd had be been employed by cei ertain tain men to aid in securing a victory victor for the republican party As to the truth of which was stated I 1 was not sure of all that I 1 wrote bit ta want to call the attention of a licari reader who said lie he did not dot believe what I 1 wrote to the fact that not lot one has been denied no ilo not one bone what was published in those letters was waa true if the statement about that lady teaching a child that democrats killed the prophet Joseph is untrue I 1 am adi not responsible fur for the huntr untruth u th she herself told hat she had done to the workers in the temple and she told it in the temple and when I 1 siy say this aliis I 1 do not licit mean that politics are discussed in tint that sacred place though it is evident the subject is not wholly forbidden I 1 want to say sav 11 again Pain as I 1 said before that the is in men their sacred offices to becu o c political advantages a and n d no not t in c cullina cul u 11 lint i ni atte attention it t inn to the their i I 1 wrong doings bishop G L farroll farrell as aged and rid experienced a man as ho he is was as led into the trap of sh signing ning an article I 1 which appeared in the llie galimi Nali it denied nothing that thai was mid eaid and by a very sickly attempt at humor it really admitted the w hole cli arge no N one accuses ati bishop of writing the article but lie did lack sufficient judgment to hold his peace after having done clone a very unwise tiling thing the article signed by him is manifestly in the best vein of humorous literary work for which the be editor of the nation is so videll noted halt half of the infamous that hive have come to my hearing have not been told I 1 have learned some gome tiling things that i ere said to have influenced tire tin germans to vote tor for the hie publicans ill in fit lom logan that betray a depth of infamy I 1 could never believe to lo amon among gany any lat ter day saint and especially in the breast of tile the man that amplo employed ed it II 11 men can do all manner of wrong thins po politically liti cally and be secured f from rom an any kind ind c of responsibility to the people and tile the faith they have done the wrong to we should all know it no man mail can be dishonest in politics or do corrupt things in polities politics and I 1 be e honest and pure in all alf other iliin things this should not be lost siget ot of aix and if religion pure pare and undefiled dented un is 13 brought inta into contempt it is ih brought there by men whop profess to serve god most and ana yet who pursue dishonest was 8 under tile the impression that they can do as aa they please in politics N athing I 1 might mig lit say could do any harm to tire the temple or to our reli ion if the men employed in ift sacred offices so conduct themselves that a loo loe of all sacred thin things 9 is planted deep in the public te nothing that any individual can say will ivill find a permanent ur or trusting lodgment in the minds of the people hut but when the desirous ways of men laen holding ecclesiastical positions have been lieford the peo people PIO until antil the people have become too tact fiina familiar with them it is not difficult for many to believe all is not well viell the men who object to public reference to their public acts aro are men inen that have not done aliat they know to be liht for no man is afraid of a public discussion of tile the good things lie he has hag done after all is said and done clone t the lie beet way to end thia 14 for those that have ave forged church influence and followed improper impi oper ways to cease such int lyods it II bould bu be better if mr air ros loa eilcy kelley never again int intimated mated that lie had it revelation relating to politic for no inan knows better than lio lie that a revelation which is designed for the people at lai sc c would have coine tire church president arid and not through bemand lim and if lio bo had liall rich a lo love lalion it wag for liia use alon cand bedad he had no political nor religious right to employ it for the purpose ol of influencing ot liura arid and last of all lie had no right to bring up up such euch a subject at a meeting of 0 priests mr roskelley Roekel lev llev I knows stows lie did wrong and lie knows lie he jid did not pursue a course calculated to increase the eral respect for that sacred edifice where be is not only boniv religiously employed but through which lie secures this is true also of others it if tile the temple lias has been brought into politics it is ia by nothing I 1 ha hae e written but by the conduct ductoc of themen the men who have been unwise unwise enough to pursue such a course that the suspicion ot of tile the public is directed to that sacred spot pot one thing is 13 made clear its as a result of all this lira talk und and writing it isthan is that what lias has been written in try my letter la is true and that both logan and withfield mith field were carried by influenced that should receive the condemnation of every man who loves love our territory who esteems tile the honor of her people ind who desires the undefiled sanctity of the religion of it a majority of her people xu akl KIEL |