Show REACHING HIS LEV LEVEL EL THE rev joseph cook is coming down to his proper plane like all anti mormon 1 blatherskites blather he is losing caste and waning in influence lately his monday evening lectures in boston have fallen off in public interest and the superficial orator has expressed great anger at the meagre notices vouchsafed to him by the boston press at one time a couple of columns was no uncommon space awe for a synopsis of his prologue and lecture but latterly a couple of sticks is as much as the leading dailies usually devote to his hig labored efforts then the obese orator has not mended the matter by his manner of resenting this studied slight as it appears to him nor by his responses to criticism of his florid generalities he scolds so much that his declamations are now called caudle lectures and he has take to calling his critics names such as a walleyed wizard and this does not comport with his calling nor elevate him in the respect of the thoughtful nor placate the reporters whose good opinion was once his great support the berjo alas as they now delight to call the popular provider of friction for itching ears is on the downhill of the sliding scale and will soon reach his true level he once answered the arguments in a book which defended some features of the mormon faith by kicking the book in view of his audience this style of polemics was then greeted with loud applause by the and delicate intellectuals of the hub now his utterances are scanned and their hollowness and insubstantiality are estimated and unless by some new sensation he can arouse fresh interest the rotund lecturer is likely to be treated metaphorically as lie he treated physically that book whose arguments he could not re fute fare thee well poor plot joseph you have our profound alt pity Y |