Show MORE LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT the denver news recently contained an interview with one J B R letcher nominally of this thia city who la Is made to say aay that the resignation of mr rawlins might have been caused by the discovery of some crooked work at washington by the mormon church our oar denver namesake is usually quite accurate in the matter of what it reports people as saying baying and while some words in this instance may have been misplaced or misquoted and there may have been something else of a mitigating character that is not given at all the words as published have not been denied and we are at liberty to conclude that mr latcher Lie used and meant them in the light in which they appear they are only an in elnua tion of course but they disclose an animus not to be misunderstood we hope the gentleman spoken of who bus seen some public service here and elsewhere and is accustomed to gauging mens words and act ihas has not yet attributed the recent exhaustive outflow of gold to europe to the mormon church or its emissaries let us hope he has not yet made the discovery that had it not been fur the hand of the mormon church the awful cyclone in oklahoma would have spent iti fury on some desert waste and may we further indulge the fond hope that the church may be relieved from the possible imputation that it Isit is its hand shand that keeps the island of zante rocking as a cradle also we beg leave to dis avow on the part of the church any connection whatever with either put ting up or hauling down the stars stare and stripes at honolulu with the present insurrect insurrection ioa in cuba with the recent belgian revolt or the downfall of emperor williams cherished military bill in any and all of these cases cages we enter a plea pies or of not guilty with the expectation pec tation that the trials will go on an just fust the same and a verdict the other way be found by the same old jury that has done so much yeoman service here al along mr letcher is a gifted man in some respect ia a very gifted man if his expressed thoughts are the he registered creations of a permeating an acquiring and a divining soul it if it be the case that he cau can truthfully say I 1 see a form you cannot see eee 1 I hear a voice you cannot hear he is an extraordinarily gifted man mall one of his faculties that of divination must have been in active play when he breathed forth the suggestion that the church was responsible in tile the manner to the extent and at the time spoken of or was it his legal instincts that prompted such a surmise lawyers are very much addicted to 10 relying on precedents and when it comes to precedents for charging up everything bad whose paternity has not yet been discovered to the mormons cormons Mor mons while relieving them of the credit honor and profit resulting from any good work in which they have been engaged the precedents are so BO voluminous as to be cumbersome As burdette once put it regarding any walk in ufa lifts or any performance in which one may be engaged dont forget to occasionally hit bit the mormons cormons a lick burdette was able to speak more advisedly later l on as 88 he tut put his own precept into practice having corn com plied with the custom and made the most of an extensive residence of two years or thereabout there about in utah behelp by helping to show the world how bad we all must be out here we presume mr Leto Letch hers erPs right to be considered in the swim will not now be contes contested ted |