| Show unconscious PRAISE F B livesey of sykesville Sykes ville md concerning whose anti mormon propaganda the news has occasionally had something to say writes to the truth Seeke december 18 upbraiding the editor of that paper papel for publishing a speech on rome and common schools while in the same issue he regards with nonchalance the growth of the mormon church to this the editor replies that we knew nothing about that church which would make it less desirable than others but mr livesey insists that the mormons cormons Mor mons are the ones to be after they represent more superstition church and state and general danger than the catholic at present A significant part follows which we quote for perusal here at home as the one redeeming feature of the correspondence they the mormons cormons Mor mons have been the great friends of the public school showing that it does not prevent the growth of superstition only about four per bonn out of every one hundred in utah are illiterate and they are probably the non mormon or foreign element this is praise from an unexpected source indeed we might wish that said source were one in which more general confidence for accuracy could be reposed and still it is corroborative testimony of that given by hundreds of other writers and observers as well as by the facts of history |
