Show PROFOUND LIBERAL tue THE tribune logician 7 is at it again he is endeavoring to give a reason for the reply made by county clerk allen alien to a question before the condrat committee last friday allen alien said that if it were not for the strong arm ot of the federal government the law of the church would be pat above that of con gross tiie the abune une reas ner says some som one might ask on what mr alln alien founded that original belief I 1 very likely original belief 1 to ie good peculiar or 41 pretended belief would be better no man in his senses believes anything of the kind but what does this logician offer as an apology for this alleged belief why that joeeph J taught that god was wae in form and appearance and attributes like unto man or rather that man was made in hio hid image this purported quotation from jozepha aepha Jo remarks is ie given if you were to see him today you would see him in the person image and very formoe a man for adam was created in the very fashion and image of god adam himself received instruction walked and talked and conversed with god as one man talks and communes with another well is not that the bible idea Is it bot almost identical iJen with what we read in genesis Generi lq suppose the idea is in incorrect for we will not dot stop to arue argue on that point what connection is there between it and putting the law of the mornion mormon church above that of congress this is the tribune ment joseph smith taught that bod was a personal being and man is iu in his likeness kenes li that god walked and talked with adam and that he has revealed himself in the present age therefore the Mor mormon monJI church would set its Is law bo bove ve the laws of congress if it bere were not for the feu eral arm and consequently home rule must not be granted to utah and the writer of such stuff as an that fill fills up editorial space in the salt la ke tribune and poses as a profound reasoner a literary expert a learned ph lo logist and a political dictator observe that not only is the conclusion totally irrelevant to the premises but the application of it to the mesa meas are under consideration to is utterly inapt for the home rule does not propose to take away the he federal arm P but to retain it in all essential respects after this wondern wonderful won derf derfl I 1 effort at ratiocination ci the logician next proceeds to berate the mormon church for the presentation of the faulkner and teller bills and then knowing that neither of these measures came from the church he adds with a halt half apology of course it may be said it was none of their work but bat they could at least have stopped the work 1 I well how could they have stopped the work seeing that they knew nothing about it that 11 they were not consulted that they were not dot informed in relation to it and ohrt the first they knew about the faulker bill was the BOWS of its introduction which came in the press dispatches this logical editorial is concluded with the following sudden flash of common sense we hope the people will turn their attention to natural gas and the deep creek railway and conclude that that wilt pay them hotter better and give more satisfaction than these political agitations which simply intensity intensify old suspicions and dis distrust 17 very good and will the tribune 71 fand oracle please olease follow his own advice this taking raking up of old theological questions and coupling them with modern political leal issues on which they have no bearing this fighting of efforts to give some measure of liberty to utah because they do not promise any profit fi to certain radical and ambitious alib liberala had better be thrown away and public attention be turned to those live material interests late reata in which all classes of the community can unite tor for the common good |