Show i CRITICISM AND CRIME I I We Ve take talce great pleasure In printing elsewhere here in today's paper a very cry carefully prepared and scientifically tempered ill letter from the tho slightly r reverend William Thurston Brown Drown Our especial grouch against William is' is is that he opens his letter with that I tim time tried trIed bit of grandiloquence My Iy attention has been called Among the few preachers who shall shovel coal presently that man who writes in anger to the newspapers newspapers pers My I attention hos been called will shovel with the shortest I h handle Working there in the heat 1 If a helpful fellow back bac on the slag j should cry Come have an icicle with me these mistaken publicists would straighten up clear throat and condescendingly My atten atten- i v tion has been called to m my warm and andr r thir thirsty ty condition I should not myself 1 have ha il it k 1 noted r Piffle tie Now at the tho lot Jot us concede con con- P i il f cede to the slightly reverend Brown Drown BrownL L eh ehy every y right to criticise an any public officer of of- l fleer whose public acts ats he lie ma may not I ot approve e The Tho one thing we ask is that he between 1 I cism and crime One has hilS a right to hold bold a public officer to an accounting One must bo ho fair with the officer crit crit- J J. J One must not He Ue about him bimL One must not commit tho tim crime of ot false witness under the pretense ol ot exercising the right of ot a freeman t President Roosevelt Roose did not do the thell ll things which the slightly reverend i. i Brown Drown char charged ed In his Sundo Sunday night address That being true the dam cism was wa unfair His position was that President Roosevelt Roose wilfully and purposely and knowingly took fifty f. f million dollars a ear from the people 1 who owned it and gave It to certain hankers bankers In New York I That isa Isn't t true Our object objection on is Ia not at all alJ to his bis I criticising the President It Is to lila Ids misrepresenting the President President President-or or an another any other officer r Now as to tim the preacher in politics I Our judgment is that it will not hurt hur hurtt t- t politics nor help the preacher 0 Of OC course tho the experiment is lt worth t try try- ry- ry Ing trIg While Whilo It may subtract th the preacher from the tho field fieM of all an bio ble activity the tho result cannot b be bc I viewed as itS an unmixed calamity considering con con- the sort of preacher who usually usually ally mixes tho avocations a But we wish to once more call th the ther r attention of oC the slightly reveren reverend Brown Brown since since it Ul likes es to be called to called t ta a very dangerous position advanced advance b by him Jilin And that is tho the direction o ot of political affairs b by ministers the spirItual spirItual spir spir- advisers of oC the people Here 1 In r Utah rather a pronounced sentiment exists against tho the Influence o ot of J churches In the control of oC affairs o ot of i state the domination of ot the preacher In politics Possibly religion an antI and politics are arc vitally related a as ou our ourI correspondent declares And I ye yet 1 somehow there is an objection herIn hero her i e In Utah and everywhere else against the tho preacher directing his people how to vote yote I That as we read the tho slightly rev rev- U 1 Browns Brown's letter Is a L franchise for which he is contending It Is certainly a liberty ho he took just previous pre pro to tho the recent city election eJection Again calling the attention of oC our correspondent to the tho fact hat that he n as asan asan j jan an American citizen has a right to criticise anyone anone In any station but that his cloth and his conscience alike should prevent his stating things which arc are not true or falsely sentiments to the person accused accused ac aCt ac- ac we wish to assure him of or our our most distinguished and patient con con- |