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Show PROFESSOR ELLIOT AND UTAH. The News publishes a warm eulogy on tho Professor of Harvard, the occasion being the com-ing com-ing of the Professor's 70th birthday. The News treats him as tho most eminent of instructors a great patriot, "the embodiment of those splendid qualities which have made the race of New Eng. land Puritans the most efficient moral force In our history." Then the News quotes lovingly from an address delivered in this city some hyelve years ago in which he likened the coming of the Pioneers to New England, and ascribed the journeys jour-neys of both to the same spirit an indomitable determination to enjoy religious liberty no matter mat-ter at what sacrifice. It is not a matter of especial importance at this time though when the address was delivered it revealed a woeful ignorance of current and re-cent re-cent history and was a slap in the face to every Gentile who was Insisting that liberty was not license, but in our country it meant liberty was not the law. The Professor had been here two days, had been wined and dined and when called upon to speak he talked with the same want of knowledge knowl-edge of what he essayed to speak upon, that Ella Wheeler Wilcox displayed when she last spring undertook to write upon the same theme. But Ella is ready to gush on any convenient occasion, oc-casion, while it is expected of a gentleman holding hold-ing Proffessor Elliot's position that he will be careful. care-ful. The Puritans fled from the bigotry and tyranny of the Old World, the Pioneers fled before the wrath of a people who believe quite as much in religious liberty as does Professor Elliot, a people who have never disturbed any of the followers fol-lowers of scores of other creeds in their midst. The journey of the Pilgrims and those Pioneers were not dissimilar, though one was by sea, the other by land, the spirit that actuated the Pilgrims Pil-grims was as different from that which impelled the leaders of the Pioneers on, as light is from darkness. The first came determined to explore and settle the wilderness and to consecrate the soil to freedom and the rights of man, the freedom free-dom of every citizen; the leaders of the Pioneers came with the determination to people a new land, and to build up a kingdom; to subordinate the minds and souls of the masses to the rule of one man or a small company of men to introduce and to try to perpetrate a system which originally original-ly grew out of the tyranny of the few and the ignorance ig-norance and blind superstition of the many, a system sys-tem which had never failed to degrade the masses, men and women alike, which had from the first held Asia in thralldom and had strewed the shores of the old world with the wrecks of innumerable nations. But Professor Elliott, for years the head of the foremost educational institution of New England, had never taken the occasion to consider this ques tion or its bearings upon the future of free institutions insti-tutions in this country, but rather after a two days' visit, spoke as by authority and saw nothing noth-ing but loveliness in the sinister history. It Is not strange that the News should throw boquets at him, but for Professor Elliot's sake It should refrain re-frain from reproducing that old toady speech. |