| Show AN ASSAULT ON PRESIDENT ELIOT I 1 IT was wag perhaps to be expected that the D fane of this city which h la 18 nothing if not bitter and abusive abu alve would find some fault with Prof Profet eor emor eliot of harvard university if he did not fall in with the theT coterie on visiting this city see through tribune colored glasses and jump as the tribune pulled the string that is its way with all prominent persons who attempt to study the mormons cormons Mor mons by going among the cormons mormons Mor mons 1 I but it would seem that common prudence common decency being out of the question with that paper would have kept it from displaying so much temper and vulgarity as are exhibited in its attack upon that gentleman this morning such arguments as there are of course unanswerable moet moat profound crank aifong among all the cranks crank of new england very little common sensed sense 1 essentially narrow and oftentimes contemptible ignorance 11 a spirit of toadyism I simply disgusting 1 stuffed an egregious idiot a mistake was made when he was given an education at all educated ld idiot lot etc etc most people who with unbiased mind read the tirade against an estimable and reputable gent gentleman lemar in which the epithets occur will be of the opinion that they would have been quite appropriate if their writer had been indulging in soliloquy but are simply disgusting and brutal as directed and intended nothing that professor elliot has said during his visit could offend or be disputed by any honorable and rational person his sentiments are american americ an to the very centre and hii bis utterances breathe the air of liberty and the ibe spirit of education and frog greis drefs refs the position of president eliot at the head of so famous a university as harvard and his standing in IB the best society of new england are sufficient to stamp the character of the man and should place him above the shafts of malevolence and the clods of abuse that have been burled buried against him simply because he did not dot assail the mormons cormons Mor mons while the guest of some of their number in this territory the gentleman will gain from this assault some idea of the kind of weapons which have been mufed for years by the chief anti mormon organ against all no matter how eminent or above reproach who would not join oln in the crusade against the people that founded this commonwealth in the midst of these mountains he will doubtless carry with him on his return this bis liberal token of the high motives and gentlemanly course of the enemies of the mormons cormons Mor mons J in contrast to his bis reception and treatment by a people whose names have been cast out as aa evil but who know a gentleman when they meet him and appreciate worth and intellect come from where it may |
