Show IS IT NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE THE oregonians oregonian Ore gontan gonian published at portland oregon frequently has baa some thing to say about the mormons cormons Mor mons 02 but it rarely manifests manifesto any correct understanding of the subject recently it tried to draw some contrast between I 1 the opinions of utah s chief justice and those of a female journalist who is known to be in the pay of a corporation to whose interests her pen is pledged and of a faction that jig ig in te tere rested eted in maligning mali gning the mormon people the idea of naming the two individuals together and of placing their utterances on the same plane is ig about as reasonable as most of the remarks of the oregonian oregonians Ore gonian in reference to the mormons cormons Mor mons in the same article however we find the annexed paragraph while talking about the mormons cormons it mv may be mentioned that there has bl been en some recent discussion of the origin of the book of mormon which appears to add something to the stock of information on the subject it has always been believed that the original of the book was a romance written by solomon spaulding an eccentric preacher who in the early part rt of the present century lived in western stern pennsylvania and eastern ohio it athas has been asserted that this original was discovered in 1884 and that comparison shows only a very slight resemblance between it and land the book of mor mon much slighter than hitherto asserted or supposed still it to is admitted that there is similarity enough to prove that the latter was developed to an extent from the former but there has haq been no exhaustive comparison end perhaps the subject is not worth the troude trouble 99 As the oregonian oregonians Ore gonian while writing on this subject does not think it is worth the trouble of investigating we will impart impart a little information that this trouble may be saved but the truth be made clear the original solomon spaulding story was discovered and has been printed it can be had in pamphlet form at the office of the NEWS the original is deposited in oberlin college ohio it has been carefully and exhaustively compared both by cormons mormons Mor mons and by non with the book of mormon and fou found n d to have not even the slight resemblance which the oregonian oregonians Ore gonian supposes to exist between the two works it Is ie not admitted that there then is any similarity between theland the mand no one who has taken the trouble to compare them claims that athe the latter was developed to siby any extent from the former in fact the discovery of the spaulding manuscript was a blank disappointment to am all who held the theory that the book of mormon was derived from it and the oregonian oregonians Ore gonian is sadly badly behind the times in information on anthia this subject the trouble with most of the editors of the country who find it convenient every now and then to write about the cormons mormons Mor mons is that they do not think it is worth the trouble to get at the facts therefore they repeat the stupid nonsense that to is started by some sectarian preacher or hired lecturer and de tamer famer like the female whom the oregonian oregonians Ore gonian foolishly places on a par with a learned jurist and thus they unwittingly abst arafet in spreading misinformation we suggest to the oregonian oregonians Ore gonian that if it is IB 4 worth the trouble to write editorials about mormonism niem and worth the trouble to read them it ought to be worth the trouble to inquire into the matter a little before rushing into print lest leaf ones ignorance may maybe be exposed and a nd ones folly may aay be made manifest |