| Show A PAIR OF compliments alluding in ID hostile and denunciatory terms to the opening of the worlds fair last sunday the now new york fork mail MAI and express evrew which from flom the be g has baa been the moot moat violent advocate nd kd of sabbath closing maken the following statement it is ia to the everlasting credit of many of the states aid territories even mormon utah that the exhibits ol of these theme common were scrupulously choked As this was probably intended as aa a compliment we who belong to one of the commonwealths referred to probably ought to accept it with gratitude save for the sneer we shoula be inclined to do no go but we cannot understand a compliment conveyed in such a connection I 1 by the term mormon utah especially when emphasized us even mormon utah the inference would naturally be that generally speaking utah la Is a sabbath brat breaker iker and that the closing or of its territorial building on the particular day mentioned was waa so BO exceptional a recognition of sunday as 0 excite comment the mail and express is ie a lus cua example of the numerous class that slowly learn to be just to an opponent up and never a misconception hence it frequently makes itself ridiculous for its blunders anu ana pitiable for its ita bigotry it has done so BO in this case por for whatever else may be said against the people ci cf utah mere bag baa never been bead the charge that they were violators of the lidskis Lio sKis day if it to the presbyterian mail and FA express fairess press might easily ascertain that mormon utah particularly the mormon part of its it is conspicuous among all communities on the lace of the earth for its ita observance avance of the tbt sabbath it would then find and how pointless point lu is 18 ita jibe how pharisaical its bant and hypocrisy II if it prosecuted its ita inquiries at all diligently the rancorous at jg would find that mormon utah believed in another doctrine it believes la irk minding its own bus businell ineal and it enter the notion quite foreign to sonis some of its entice critics that there is more C christianity a r a and statesmanship and sense JIL in endeavoring to convert people from au error L uch luch as sabbath breaching than in employing legislative or as the matl mail and express has fugget suggested ted armed force to compel thomao them to abandon it mormon utah does not seek to measure everybody else dae by its own half bushel it believes bel levea in human liberty and the free agency of mati mar As to 10 the question of open ing the worlds fair on sunday under the regulations that are provided and with the motives that are declared deo lareu even mormon utah is bound to ay y p the mail and express has not on ua me ide tide t L had bad all the arguments argument and that there are worse ways of spending the sabbath in chicago and even in sai new york where the benign lonu ances of the religious press ought to be most potent than in walking in orderly manner through the grounds of a worlds world as exposition sU admiring miring the befit beat handiwork banul work of noan mao and contemplating the works and wonders of god |
