Show Curd Card From n. Editor Republican Republican Republican-My My attention was called yesterday esterday to an editorial In which you ou take me mo rather severely to task for tor certain criticisms on tho the President Pres Ires ident with reference to tho the financial situation Your personal attack on mCcalls mo ne calls for no comment or reply Among men of Intelligence and honor personalities personalities person person- have long been regarded as the resort of ot a man who has no argument to use Possibly your moral and ethical training has been different from mineI mine I was taught taus-ht to believe fortunately or unfortunately that no man Is lit fit to bo be boa bea a 0 citizen of a free freo country countr who abdicates abdicates abdi abdi- cates the right arid and the duty to criticise nn any official or policy of or the government government government govern govern- ment whenever the occasion seems to call for such mch criticism The man who resents such criticism or who would put a ban upon it howll small faith In the Justice or right of the tho man or thing criticised It Is permitted I believe even cven to a n. minister in this country to know something something- about financial and political matters I have never supposed a man ceased to be a citizen with all a citIzens citIzen's citizens citizen's cit cit cit- izen's responsibilities when ho he became a 0 minister Others besides the thc writer r have ventured to criticise tho President President dent on these theae same matters That the tho policy polley of hoarding was not responsible for tor the panic any anyone one ought ous-ht to know since the hoarding began only after the panic arrived as the Springfield Republican Re no- publican an and other othar Independent Journals journals journals Jour jour- nals have havo pointed out My y criticism of ot the Presidents President's financial policy b by bythe bythe the wa way was a n literal Quotation from the opinion of one ono of ot the foremost financial authorities In this countr country Mr Ir Horace White formerly editor of the New York evening Post Any ono one who knows anything at all about finance knows that what I said about these funds which Mr Cortelyou transferred transferred trans trans- from Crom the United States treasury treasur to the banks la is correct I must ask a little more space In which to correct a fundamental misapprehension misapprehension misapprehension mis mis- apprehension Involved in your our editorial You Tou intimate that rell religion lon has nothing to do with politics that a 0 minister of religion has no business with politics Now you ou may be correct In Sn describing other ministers I I am willing to let them settle that for tor themselves But ButI I must beg to differ with you on that point It I Is iono ono thing b by the tho wa way glibly glib glib- l I ly to talk about tho the Pentateuch and other parts of the Bible DIble It is quite another thing timing to know ow anything at all aU about the contents of oC that great volume vol- vol 01 ume or of the history of religion Had you OU known as much about the Bible as you a assumed to know a about out tho the function of ot a n. minister you ou would hardly hardly hardly hard hard- ly have written as you did Some of ot the tho Hebrew prophets were altogether tho the greatest politicians of oC their time and there Is hardly one ono of ot them In whose mind religion and politics were not vitally related Indeed the menor men of or ever every ago age who have ha exerted tho the profoundest Influence on their time were men who saw politics to be ono of the functions of religion religion mon men like Savonarola and Mazzini than whom bom Italy has produced no greater souls In all Its history like Lamertine Lamartina like Ruskin like Channing and Emerson and Theodore Parker In in America and anI anda a 0 host of ot others Ybur Your Intimation that my congregation tion Is small m may or ma may not be bo true But nut pray pra what has that to do Io dolth with the value or truth of or In my preaching By B- what reasoning do Io you ou prove pro that truth Is decided h by show of ot hands or orby orby orby by the number who support an any given church Even en to hint that crowds or majorities establish the tho worth or truth of at anything is a 0 fatal confession for Cor you ou The recent Salt Lake Lako election Is hardly a happy illustration of ot your our al alleged alleged al- al le ed argument Majorities prove nothing Crowds are not nr arguments It was a poet who stands fully as high as tho the t editor atthe oX at the tho Inter Inter- Mountain Inter U Republican who vho said saltI They The are aro slaves sla who dare daro not beIn beIn be beIn In the ho right with two or three But perhaps tho the editor of ot the InterMountain Inter Inter- Mountain belongs to the tho class whom Lowell thus characterizes Yours truly WILLIAM WILLI TIIU THURSTON DRO BROWN c S |