Show THE LIBERAL OX IS GORED A over the now nom de plume of alvan ivan blows a hot blast into the ears can of a number of the sectarian clergy of this city we may as well state that the writer of the communication referred to and which appears in this issue is a pronounced ellb liberal eral s he cannot see the consistency of the refrain which has always been 9 M loudly and continuously sung by the sectarian clergy about alleged interference in politics by the jM ormon church when they themselves are flagrantly guilty of that kind of conduct he cites as proof that the ministers jot joined ned in the last municipal campaign and carried banners ou which were inscriptions conveying the idea that they condemned interference hy by the church in political affairs this to is all true and some of alyo joined I 1 in the hilarious occasion when the chairman 06 irman of the liberal commuter Com mUtee for manipulating the ejection so as to gala gain it for his party by methods not notoriously honest As aa a reward for their wo work rk mr powers made honorable mention of the clergy by stating that he had bad consulted consulted with them as well as with the gamblers and saloon keepers in relation to the plan of campaign now comes our correspondent and raises a rumpus around the sanctified heads of the ministers because in pur suanee of their plan of intermeddling with matters pertain pertaining hig to the state they make a fe few political pyrotechnical displays in their churches from the pulpit in the interest of some party it happens this time that the clerical explosions are directed against the liberal party why dide did not ivan get up and protest when the pulpit politico banner carrying speechmaking speech making pa rade marching and jollification proclivities clivi ties of the clergy were all used in behalf of the party now in power not a sound of protestation was heard from a liberal source then for all was lovely for that organization J as soon as the boot is on the other foot and these auxiliaries are brought into play for the benefit of some orthez political party ivan 12 objects his protest has one virtue it in 14 not premature without reservation or fear of successful contradiction we deny that the evils complained of by the clergy exist only in the brains of these gentlemen who have declaimed against them every thoughtful citizen surely knows that vice crime and immorality to say nothing of the reckless wanton ex pend iture of public funds have in creased enormously since february 1891 when the liberal party assumed the city government the liberal 11 organ itself has so stated over and over again and is it not plain that the ministers by their political work contributed heavily toward the production of the reign of terror and criminality then why should ivan or anybody else put a straw in the way of their repentance while the lamp holds on to burn barn the greatest grea teat sinner ainner may return it cannot be properly denied that the speeches of the ministers to which our correspondent takes exception cep tion have the virtue of being in the interests of temperance morality and a proper enforcement of the laws besides being symptomatic of an intention on the part of the gentlemen who made them to turn over a new mat leaf 49 8 to whether this thia is done in concert or individually makes but little differ once so long as the repentance is real |