Show THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT pungent paragraph cr of the chicaro chicago news is responsible for or the annexed remarks about the new ubah commissioner the venerable john A mcclarnand member of the utah commission has 7 returned to springfield for a short vacation and we see that ke he is being in Jer viewed pretty freely by the callow local press of course he has bas come coma back with his own notions about polygamy and his bis own theory as to the swiftest and surest way of extirpating that monstrous evil A afave five weeks residence among the mormons cormons gives the average american a clear insight into the horrors of pol polygamy aa 2 my macler nand has been in salt R lake e city nearly seven weeks and therefore there Fora he is qualified tp lp an extraordinary degree to deal intelligently with the intricacies of tbs mormon problem while the lion flon thomas T crittenden was governor of missouri he made a tour to utah and hrent one night in salt lake city on his return home bom he be had bad a theory about the suppression of mormonism 01 ol course and he be spun it out to the newspapers by the yard if a missourian could have so much to bayou say ou a question to tile alie investigation of which he had bad devoted but bat one night how bow much more will an intelligent illinoisan mcclarnand ernand have to say after devoting ax six weeks to a study of the same question 11 we do not know how bow much problem solving wisdom the new commissioner has displayed for tte enlightenment of illinois in particular and a a startled world in general but we think the gentleman is not any more qualified to opeo on the subject than the stupid missourian who carried away with him from utah nothing in his but the stories that were stuffed into him by his venomous relative and the fumes of other equally enlightening influences which entered by the capacious mouth month instead of the lengthy ears salt balt lake city is not utah and conversation with a little knot of anti mormons cormons Mor mons does not impart much accurate information on mormonism 17 the books that are written aritte a by tourists who come in by the cars I 1 take a hack back ride around town a sniff a at t the lake a glance at the Temp leand a guess at the situation and who make up their data from other publications and the yarns a r as of persons who take delight in fill filling i up travelers with blood curd ling ing MI are not likely to correct the public mind on a subject about which there is more misinformation than thau almost any other the people who buy theado them do not read them to learn faras facts but with the expectation of seeing something nasty or as they would term it racy fl in regard to the mormons cormons Mor mons and these books are not any less leas reliable than the remarks and tales and remedies that fall from the lips of men who spend a few weeks in a given locality in one utah town and then go to the world and air their great experience and knowledge about the mormons cormons Mor mons thru through ll na a protracted residence in utah if the people really wanted to know something on the utah question they would seek it from the cormons mormons Mor mons nsf themselves and in the books and papers published by their authority and not in the yarns and opinions and see sec ond hand information dealt out by persons who know no more about it than a four year old mormon knows about the mysteries of chicago |