| Show E editorials WHO STARTED THE STORY THE following 0 letter we clip from the bewis jewish times of november it is si signed 9 lied tied A resident of salt lake and gives the name of the autho author of the tife great untruth which has been circulated concerning the effects of the recent visit of moody and sankey to this city phe rhe the great religious 1 awakening has no existence except on the paper upon which the preacher wrote his exaggerations we know of permanent nonpermanent no impression made upon any one here by the a appeal of the evangelists and certai certainly nl the mormons cormons Mor mons as well as the hebrews of salt lake lako were unaffected by the emotionalism of the traveling revivalists reviva lists tt f cl have just arrived in san eran fran cisco dir direct ed from salt lake where I 1 am engaged in business in looking oven the daily papers I 1 saw an article from the capital of utah written by the rev wirt win barrows I 1 am personally acquainted with the gentleman and must politely differ with his estimation of the work mr moody is doing in salt lake it is preposterous formin fornin state that there is a ft great religious awakening among tho the jews gentiles and mormons cormons owing to the spiritual ministrations of mr air moody all classes go to hear him as they would any other man who had gained notoriety but beyond this I 1 saw no awakening except among the christians many of whom seemed to be moved by his excited appeals there are 25 jewish families in Salt SaIt Lake and a number of single men none stand mawn higher in the estimation of the public a at fladge large than they do and none are more nirm firm in their religious convictions vict ions they simply mind their own affairs and allow others to do the same mr barrows is the congregational gregat ional minister of salt lake and will bear witness to what I 1 12 say 1 RUSSIAN DISTRESS GREAT distress prevails in the dominions of the czar russia is face to face with the spectre of famine the failure of the harvests in so many districts has raised the price of bread and the laboring classes in the cities are the great su sufferers frerer black I 1 bread is the staple diet of the russian common bommon laborer and at the present rate of wages less than forty cents a day he can only get about enough bread for a small family to say nothing not liing of other expenses for food fuel and clothing the government has been appealed to for aid from many provinces but the responses are only in such a shape as to aid them for the next seed time tiffie the public taxes are high the manner of cultivating the soil is primitive much of the land jand is mortgaged and the interest in in times dines of failure is more than the product of the soil an annual foreclosure takes place which wrests many farms from the agriculturists and places them in the hands of moneyed speculators and thus the condition of the a agriculturists 0 is is made deplorable what with famine nihilism foreign complications and dissensions at the very head of the empire the russian bear has not much chance of sleepy hibernation during the winter of 80 81 mcf CW QUI quirles ries tIES ONE oxe 1 of the objections set forth against the book of mormon fo for r several years year was its reference to hiles horses honses and cattle in use amon among the a ancient c I 1 n t inhabitants of this continent As aam M charnay observes in his contribution trib ution to the december morth north Arhe american rican review it is generally agreed 0 that previous to the conquest there were neither oxen nor horses in iti america but on the landing of lehi and his family upon this great at country nephi nepal states U 17 band it car came ne to pass that we did find upon the land of promise as we journeyed in the wilderness that there were beasts in the forest of eye oye overy every ry kind kinq both the cow and the ox as and the horse and the goat and the wild goat and all ali manners of wild anima animals Is which wore wre for the use of men F bookoff book of or mol mon p 47 but it A als ais also aiso appears that these and other animals animals were in use on this land several centuries before the arrival of lehi for the colonists who settled here shortly after the dispersion from babel and who are called the Jared ites became rich in flocks and herds as we read in the book coether cf ether having all ali manner of fruit and of grain and of silks and of fine linen and of gold and of silver and of precious things and also all manner of cattle of oxen and cows and of sheep and of swine animals and 0 of goats and also many other animals w which were useful for the food of man and they also had horses and asses and there thero were elephant elephants and cur eloms and 11 ibid p in consequence of these and similar allusions in the book of mormon to animals which science with quite as much arrogance as it complains of in theology lim has pronounced unknown to american anti antl antiquity city the book which gives the only only ele eie clue cle to the ancient history of this continent has been repeatedly denounced as ira ica a clumsy imm ita posture 11 but the recent dico dleo discoveries veries verles of professor marsh demonstrate the existence of cattle and horses and also of the elephant the masto mast odion ollon the and other peculiar mammoth animals which we have no doubt were anciently named as related in the above quotation from ether and now charnay puzzled and astonished finds in the ruins of tula sixty nive five miles north of the city of mexico animal remains which upset the dogmas of the scientists and corroborate the conclusions of marsh as well vell as the statements in the book of mormon charnay says araug aug IS 18 recollected we collected a few ornaments na ments also some animal remains I 1 viz some ribs probably of the roebuck though on this point I 1 will not be positive not being a geologist so some me smalls small smail scapulas scapulars scap seap c ulas two t teeth a and nd stranger still two enormous hummer burner use uses much larger than the of the thel ox both of these bones are broken iol lol longitudinally as though to take bouc the marrow we found also the radius of an animal considerably larger than the horse aug 20 in ai another iother edifice there were found some bone samong them the gigantic tibia of a ruminant with the peri perl perineum neuin neurn attached could the animal have been geen a bison aug 21 here herc are the remains of unknown animals probably of mammoth domesticated by th at least used by them for food Thi this sisin gisin is in contradiction of history which affirms that the indians d s had no large domestic an animals 31 auw aug aum 24 we are continually meeting with enigmas amid these thes e ruins today to day I 1 discovered a cheeps headin head in terra cotta sept 9 1 I cannot but recognize recognize R among the many bones found in the progress of the work 1 jawbones sawbones jaw bones of swine sheep and ras las as 1 believe of 5 f oxen and horses the guzzled puzzled explorer depending on the dictum of the scientists came to the conclusion that these and many works of art which he unearthed 1 must have been left leff amon among 9 the anc ancient lent ruins by a modern race perhaps the spaniards but he took some specia specimens easto to the city of mexico cc and says isenor eenon del cartillo professor of zoology in the school of mines on examining g the bones found at tula pronounced them to be the remains of bos americanos Americ anus horse andes sheep lama llama stag etc and fossil jonah I 1 if his judgment misjudgment is confirmed by the savanis savants of Paris and the smithsonian institution a new horizon is opened for the history of man in in america my victory will then be complete as I 1 shall have brought to light a new people and a city unique I 1 in its originality and shall have opened to the learned learnell a new br branch eh of natural bistor history 21 j in rejecting the babok oll oil of mormon because of its claims to divine authenticity the worldly wise of this generation aad afe but fulfilling the scripture which says that when this book shall be brought forth athe the wisdom of 0 f the wise sall sali perish and the understanding of the prudent shall be hid V if there were no angelic angelle ministrations and inspired translation connected with the jhb record of the garly early inhabitants of this country it would not be repudiated hosum so summarily ina lna ri Y b by self styled scientific men T they w will 1 ia not take the trouble to investigate ahe vesti gate e it even persons who preach and write against it are peri factly ignorant of its contents qui quite te recently a scoffer and ridiculer of th tho vork work referring to our anticipation of the results of Shar whar Char nays explorations said there the slightest probability that anything will ever be discovered on this continent to change the well settled opinion of scientific men travelers investigators and explorers as to the origin and nature of the new world civilization liza tion he also proclaimed his own folly and narrow minded ignorance I 1 in this wise cc we never have read the book of mormon god forbid we ever should but we understand it derives the peoples of this continent from the lost tribes Char Cliar nays discoveries are quite likely to change very materially the 0 opinion of the learned in regard to we the early inhabitants of this land and all that he and ther other explorers have developed has so far been in perfect harmony with the book of mormon which does not derive the peoples of this continent from the lost tribes let those who are puffed u up in their own conceit and those ahse w who 0 profess to believe in divine communications communication m ot of ages ago while they shut their eyes and ears to anything pr professing bessing fes sing 0 to have ben be n revealed today to day condemn conde mn the book of mormon without reading it and base their senile objections upon entirely incorrect premises if they will but the unprejudiced searcher after truth will at least examine before he rejects and while the meek who hear the words of the book will thereby increase their joy in th eLoid the elolf lord 11 the scorner will be ve consumed in in his folly as isaiah pae pee predicted but butin in the words of mormon whoso choso receive th this record and shall not condemn it because of the imperfections which are in it the same shall know of greater things than these we shall look for further interesting discoveries by na M charnay chamay who will give the world the benefit of his researches through the columns of the tho North american review THE educational QUESTION for FOB many years the late president brigham young and other leading men among the mormons cormons Mor mons have beba the subjects of abuse from the pulpit and theoress the press because they were ivere opposed to some of the features of the public school system of this country they have been renounced as being opposed to edu education ca because they could not ers eri endorse eldorse dorse or recommend the much vaunted common school method to speak slightingly of which constitutes in many minds the u pardonable unpardonable 11 sin that our late president and the present heads of the church w were ere never opposed to education is well known to those v ho have been the most active in misrepresenting misrepresent ing them but the fact that they did not endorse the popular system has given ample opportunity for raising 1 1 the cry of mormon hostility io to education although the public teachings and private acts of those gentlemen ought to be sufficient to give the them lie to the slander we might refer to the establishment of schools in the earliest times of this territory the exhortations that have been given to the deop people ef from rom tb the 0 beginning to send their children to school the plots of ground given for educational objects the endowment of colleges etc out of private means and the liberal provisions of our legislative assembly for school and university purposes but our object 0 act now do is to direct attention to t the e published u dished s strictures trie tures against the public bublic se school ool system of an authority on educational onal matters who cannot be accused of opposition to education and whose remarks on the subject amply bear out all that president young and others have been so much abused for uttering Rief richard lard grant white in the north american review for december has an article entitled the public school failure it ough ought t to be read by the champions of tile the system who seem to think it sacrilege I 1 eg ge to intimate that it is not perfect and that it is treason not to establish it in every section of the country after pointing out the infatuation of the people of the united states for their public school system and tracing its origin to massachi setta and other new england states relating briefly the history of its adoption in new now york and nin fin finally telly tilly V s all over the T anion this accomplished a writer shows the vast amount of money that has li as been expended upon it and then proceeds to investigate tie tle the thoi results iha that have accrued his ris conclusions may be gathered from the following pointed sentences according to independent and competent evidence the mass of or the pupils pupil of these public schools are unable to read reaf intelligently to spell correctly to write legibly iL to describe understandingly the geography of their own country or do that reasonably well edu educated cited children should dewith do with ease 1 As ks to such elementary education as js is alike the foundation of all real higher education and the sine qua non of successful life m in this age they are most of them in almost as helpless and barre barren n a co condition noll t on of mind as if they tiley had never crossed the threshold of a schoolhouse 6 11 asa mere of usefull knowledge the public school system lias has failed utterly 11 brigham young never said anything that could be construed as more hostile to the popular system than these pungent remarks of richard grant orant whitens WhIt eps els this forcible writer next hows shows the compulsion which men 0 of f property are under n to p pay ay for the schooling of other mens children and argues that the only justification for this is the theory thabit that it is for the public good I 1 that in the language of a public school officer we need the distributive hutie power of sy systems steni of education which will reach the midwest abodes nd penetrate to the furthest jiam am lets of the land the best education of the people will thu thus s become the best government of the peoble but says mr emte i the theory is alot liot merely u unsound it is utterly and absolutely false know Khow knowledge ledge will not lift the masses except as a balloon is is lifted because it is inn inflated lafed with gas mere knowledge knowledg ei does not raise the quality of mens moral natures knowledge i is light fight indeed to him who can see and who can feel and think rightly as t to 0 w what hat he sees but mere intellectual light without moral warmth will not produce a healthy social life ilfe any more than a healthy physical life can exist in the light of a thousand suns without the genial warmth of one the road to the best go govern yarn ment of the people does not lie he only through the door of the public schoolhouse he then quotes the common saying to dispute which would be counted the rankest heresy by a i common man viz ignorance is the mother of vice but he bravely attacks this po popular aldr adage and says CC ignorance is the mother of superstition st sti tion but hai hwi no relation with vice he shows that they often exist together but existence coexistence co does not imply connection two things found to together 9 ether have not of necessity either id |
