Show THE FAIRNESS OF IT we quoted yesterday an account of th the e refusal of elder B H roberts roberta of chis city to deliver his address before P an insignificant adjunct of the religious parliament in chicago that gentleman Kent leman taking the dignified ground that if he be could not be heard before the full par where the representatives of all the religions and creeds of the earth were invited to and most of anem did speak he be would rather refuse altogether and throw the odium of illiberality and prejudice upon the ins managers ot of the concern the course of if elder eider roberts roberta met with general approval here and as our quotation aboken received endorsement irom fair minded religionists and journalists in chicago we are able today to present the editorial opinion of the C chicago herald as given in the tuesday antl lafue 01 mat great paper elder roberts of salt lake city has good ground of complaint against the managers of the religious religions congress he was M regularly invited to participate in the proceedings and had bad prepared a paper the reading of which was on the regular program at the last laai moment he e was notified that he could not read his bis paper before the regular congress 1 but 33 light if he pleased speak to a L ele lele select t se aa eem nem blage in another hall this was most discourteous treatment the fact that tha elder roberts roberta is in a mormon bad nothing to do with the case the gathering at the ahe art institute is a parliament of religions not a parliament of christians tiang or er a parliament of monogamists the people in attendance know knew what they might expect when they accepted invitations to the congress if they desired to hear bear only what was entirely agreeable to them they might better have stayed away the slight put upon elder roberts was unjustified and will detract from the value and reputation ot of the whole gathering |