Show CAROLINAN AND SAND MORMONS the attention of the news has been called to two letters which have been given prominence in the kinston north carolina free press ordinarily the news does not care to give attention to such statements as those contained in the communications referred to since they are manifestly so unscrupulous and untrue that reasoning people will not believe any part of them the grossness of their malicious falsity is so marked that any intelligent person who gives the matter thought will recognize it at once but for the reason that it may be of advantage to some people occasionally to call attention to such misstatements to show their inaccuracy and inherent malice and that frequent reiteration does not add the color of truth we make mention of this occurrence reace one ne of the communications Is from prof E B lewis of concord N C he says utah arizona and idaho are places where every magistrate and every officer is a saint and where alere no gentile can acquire land or property that a mormon disdains science and hygiene that children have no value but as prospective units in the church their heir lives are as an colorless and blank as the desert pr prairie aide that no physician presides at their birth and the birth chamber is no more secluded than the hogpen hog pen that legally they are outlaws ethically they are reversionary morally they axe are colorless socially they are brutes politically liti cally they are anarchists historically considered they have not in a half century deserved a line except to chronicle their misdeeds in literature they are as barren as the shores of their dead sea and that were a tingle ingle individual to live in our midst north carolina as a consistent mormon we would certainly lynch him as quickly as a rope and a tree could be ba found these quotations eions are only a sample of prof lewiss assertions and he knows some few things about mormons cormons Mor mons if mr lewis knows a thing about the mormons cormons Mor mons he has not told it in his letter which never emanated from a source othar than that of the vilest among men no clean man however misled he might be would ever pen such a communication and what does the kingston free press editor think of his action in publishing the gross libel he cannot but know kilow as a newspaper man with the slightest knowledge of national affairs that mr lewiss assertions sert ions axe are wholly untrue he knows that the national record of the mormon axion people contradicts every word of it that of the three senators which utah has had two of them are a re gentiles that of the four representatives iri in congress during the past seven years two have been gentiles that not a mormon has been sent to congress gress from either idaho or arizona and he may not know it though it is a fact that the majority of the state officials in utah are not mormons cormons Mor mons but gentiles and that idaho and arizona are more pronounced in that direction he also ought to be aware of the fact that the educational facilities and accomplishments in utah are a long way superior to north carolina that the work performed by mormon elders in mat state Is evidence of their intellectual and moral superiority as corisis consistent tent mormons cormons Mor mons and he ought to defend his own people from the base aspersion that they would be so lost to honor and justice as to be a common horde of lyn chers theother the other letter referred to Is from rev WW balsand Bay sand the headings to his communication indicate sympathy with its utterances on the part of the newspaper it makes many assertions against the book of mormon one ot of which is that it was first written as a novel by a rev mr spaulding a presbyterian minister of course every preacher in the united states with the educational acquirements acquire ments which rev dr bays appears to possess knows that the spaulding story was exploded long since that the original of that story Is in the library of the oberlin college ohio and that there is not the slightest connection between it and the book of mormon these facts all have been brought out by non mormons cormons but to the credit of many denominational preachers in the southern states and elsewhere be it said they are not so fond of bearing false witness against their neighbors as rev W W bays shows himself to be our kinston should recall the adage that evil communications corrupt good manners and should purge itself by presenting the truth about the mormons cormons Mor mons of the uncleanness that has marred its columns in giving space to the lewis and bays letters |