Show NO magnanimity FOR two or three days past the rev dr iliff has been the objective point of attacks from the anti mormon press of a most cruel and brutal character that gentleman has in a mild and gentlemanly way replied to the cowardly onslaughts the very tone of his communications couched in the most respectful though firm language would have disarmed an opponent with a ceartin heart ia him biffl but in this in stance the old saying that a soft answer away wrath falls far short of fulfillment in ibis case ir ic has evidently only served to increase the ferocity of the angry scribe surely there can be not the slightest magnanimity in a soul so filled with tyrannical tyr annica it is a matter of regret that the gentleman should have descended condescended con to notice the attacks that have been made upon him for he might have known that tha each teach attempt to explain would but furnish a fresh opportunity for a renewed assault seeing that we are partly the innocent cause for forthe the inexcusable perso personal aal abuse to which dr iliff is being subjected we regret it perhaps the more in a lecture on the me methodist mission work in utah the reverend gentleman took occasion to defend his bis conservative course toward the mormon people the news took the liberty to commend his non aggressive policy as more consia consistent tent than any other with his profession as a religious aft ister besides being toe the only one tha tany hope of success could possibly be built upon so far as related to the object of his bis labors this has caused it to be said of hina him that he be thus renders himself an object of commiseration and suspicion notwithstanding that we regret that dr iliff has been thus assailed for a most moist absurd reason not that we have any idea that it will hurt him la in the estimation of any sensible people but because his town susceptibilities appear to have been pained we are not prepared to retract what we said in the first place we happened to state that his bis course indicated that he be had bad some seme regard for consistency and that he be appeared to be imbued with a sympathetic nature if any person in any capacity dares to exhibit a spirit of fair dealing or kindness toward the mormon people it is a casus belli belh in the estimation of the red hot anti mormon fa fanatic natie in dr iliffe lecture he denounced the course of newspapers which der the dead that is the sorest point in the journal that has during the week been abusing him this was doubtless the leading cause for the personal thrusts achim at him he mentioned no particular paper but the allusion to tile the subject caused the guilty one to show its bristles and void its venom the hit bird fluttered flattered the slanderer of the dead and false accuser of the living was rebuked and made mad it may not be amiss to say that the recent assaults upon dr iliff are in place of being applauded condemned by a good many people who belong to the non Mor mormon martof chepo the population u there are not a few of of 92 that t class who have but small regard lor for that species of professed minister of the gospel whose chief recommendation Is stated by journalistic anti mormon fanatics to toe be that he is unrelenting an foe of the mormon church I 1 |