| Show THE CASE OF MISPLACED SYMPATHY LT IN another column we print an account of an interview with elder silas S smith which appears in the denver tit tribune bune brother smith Is isa I 1 a g gentleman e etleman well known in these parts and tind we believe his word will be relied upon by persons of all classes and creeds who have the pleasure of his acquaintance we allude again to the subject of t the he movement in aid of the san luis valley apostates because it has been agitated in this city in a public meeting where the utterances of the DESERET NEWS were commented upon atthe at the federal court house on saturday evening a small assembly assembly dis discussed cusse d the question and was addressed aT dressed addressed oy by miss kate field who has taken an interest in the people alleged to bo be suffering f for fon or necessaries in conejos county colorado the lady referred to this paper as though our remarks were applied to her personally erso nally this was a mista mistake we rad tad had no thought of allaud ingato her in connection with this question and do not doubt for a moment her announced willingness to lend her influence in aid of suffering humanity miss field read at the meeting a given to william L ball similar to those given to all the elders sent on missions certifying that he was in full faith and fellowship with the church and recommending him to the consideration of the public as a man of god 11 etc it is dated january 1883 an and irmiss miss field argued that because he was a man of god at that date he could not now be such a person as described by the DESERET news which she said had branded him as aa a thief because he had the manhood to assert his freedom and independence pen dence dencell it is an error to say that this paper accused marzall Mr bali bail Ball because he stood up for independence and it is not good reasoning to maintain that because he was considered worthy of confidence in january 1883 he must be worthy of confidence in february lun iun all that we said about that individual was to state one of the reasons why he was excommunicated namely th that at he applied to his own use the tithing 1 donations for the poor and ne I ef society money moncy facts that are not disputed to illustrate this case we will refer to one in the days and experience of jesus of Nazar nazareth ettl etti lie chose twelve apostles and sent them out as men ot god to preach the gospel one of them apostatized and betrayed him and while he was planning nin I 1 to deliver jesus to his enemies that man judas pretended solicitude for the suffering poor and the scripture says it was because he was a thief and carried athe ba bag 11 now it would be a very poor def defence en c e of judas iscariot after lie he was cut off the church to bring up his credentials given when he was I 1 a man of god and before he proved himself a thief to prove must be still a man of excellent character miss field who is very shrewd and acute cannot fail to see the application we wish to say once more that we have no controversy with those kindhearted persons who desire to alleviate distress we have intended no insinuation against them if they choose to apply means that might be used to assist the really needy in behalf of persons who are not in the situation that has been falsely described or highly colored that is not our affair we ve did wish to caution them against placing that means in unworthy hands where it was liable to stick instead of being distributed to the intended objects of charity and consider that we were perfectly right in giving that caution and aud A and ud our remarks about the disposition to help the people of colorado simply because aney had nad left the mormon church were intended as intimated to apply to those who are endeavoring to use this incident in the settlement of a new re gionas lonas ionas an opportunity to vent their thell chronic spleen against the mormon church and its institutions in the early settlement of this territory there were real cases of privation and hardship compared to which the alobe times endured in san ban luis valley are not a mentionable circumstance to today day there are people in ne newly opened counties of utah who have to struggle against frost the inconvenience ot of ils distant f uel fuel and many difficulties incident to a new country much more formidable than those that surround the people for whom aid is asked but they would be ashamed to make a f fuss about their condition conditi oh and would gain no such sympathy as Is unnecessarily created in this instance because they are arc not apostates but simply latter day saints sia tia ints who do not pretend to charge their trials or failure to make a fortune in a year to the church of which they are members |
