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Show By Way Of Explanation. How liable men are to get things twisted. This writer has received a lettor from the east which in substance says: "I have been informed iH that you gave Professor Kerr a letter recom-mending recom-mending him on tho ground that he is a violent opponent of the Mormon church, is that true?" 'jH We refer to tho matter merely to correct a mis-apprehension mis-apprehension which might work an injustice to Professor Kerr. This writer never recommend- iH ed any one because he was an opponent of the 'H Mormon or any other church. A man's religion is his own. It concerns no other man, and be- jH liefs are not subject to attack In the United jH States. When a man violtos nocessary laws and jH claims that his religion is his justification, then his acts become a matter of public concernment, for religious liberty is like any other form of liberty it is subject to righteous laws; and when any man feels it necessary in order to live his religion, to violate tho necessary laws of this ifl Republic, he should seek some other country. As to Professor Kerr wo have always under- 'D stood that he was a Latter-day Saint in good standing. But in his administration of the Agri-cultural Agri-cultural College at Logan we have It from first class authority that he insisted that it should 'H be what it was designed to be, a thoroughly Amer-ican Amer-ican school, not in any way subordinated to the Mormon or any other church. We understood, -further, that because of this he was forced lo resign. We will further say that not one word of tills, (excopt the one assertion uf Professor H Kerr, made long ago, that the school should be for Mormon uid Gentile alike), was over received , from Profeefor Kerr. Whatever his grievances were, so far we know, ho kept thorn to himself. It was as well understood about Logan, as any I ether fact of public notoriety that he was forced to rwJsn because he refused to subordinate the H school to tho church. Wo believed that state- H ment, we believe it still, and there has boon noth-ing noth-ing in the changos that have been made in the Control of the college that carries the slightest H proof that tho statement is not true. But it does not much matter, not at all so H far as this article is concerned. We only de-sire de-sire to make clear this one fact that this writer, !H in all matters pertaining to Professor Kerr, has H from the beginning supposed that he was a Lat- H ter-day Saint. 'fl Whatever of endorsement he has obtained has H been on this belief, and on the further belief H that as the head of the Agricultural College, ho insisted upon making it a non-sectarian school, H and that It was because of that insistance that H he was finally frozen out. H |