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Show Avoids the Main Question. ; AGAIN the editor of the Deseret News skips the charge of slandering slander-ing the Catholics of .ew Mexico by omitting to present any proof that a past congress denied the territory statehood because of "clerical in-jfluence" in-jfluence" and Jesuitical intrigue, jand runs away from the point which brought about the controversy his bigotry invited. Perhaps the editor does not like the word "bigctiy;" vet he daily applies it, and Justly, too. to the preachers of both sexes who give his missionaries much trouble, particularly particular-ly in the southern. states. Let h:m re- ' -y s fleet that he who wields the pen is oft-? oft-? times a greater bigot than he Who 1 swings the rawhide..,. , i The Deseret News makes the mistake l of again publishing the editorial of 1 Nov. 12, which gave offense in the first 1 instance. A mistake, because what fol-' fol-' lows in defense does not establish the truth of its statements as applied to ' New Mexico. The status of our cvv-1 cvv-1 j respondent, which gives the editor of j the News so much worry and peevish fret, does not count in answer to our 'challenge holding the Deseret News j down to proof of facts concerning New (Mexico's history and previous attempts to obtain statehood. Neither has the quoted testimony of a prominent French writer regarding the Jesuits of past ages any more to do with this particular question than would be the present example of France in coercing all the religious orders, should that be set up as argument for refusing statehood state-hood to New Mexico. By implication the Deseret News j would have its readers believe that the editor of the Intermountain Catholic is a person who has "repudiated that I which he once held sacred" in other j words, a "renegade" Mormon: and that I "Unredeemed" and the editor are one and the same person. Neither "Unredeemed" "Un-redeemed" nor the editor of the Intermountain Inter-mountain Catholic will lose any sleep over the anathemas of the Deseret News; yet it is only right to state that the editor of this paper is a Catholic layman, seeking only to defend truth and expose error to the best of his ability. Tn common with his co-religionists, the editor bears no ill will toward the Mormons; rather has the Intermountain Catholic taken a stand against the drastic measures oil the other sects to impsach and punish the whole Mormon people for the errors or crimes of the few. In passing upon contributions to its columns, the writer is not asked to state whether he is Jew, Gentile or Mormon. It is enough that the correspondent tells the truth, and to uphold the truth is the chief aim of the Catholic editor. Therefore the advice tendered to the Intermountain Catholic by the Deseret Xews is rejected re-jected with the contempt it deserves. The Deseret News is inclined to end the controversy by declaring its desire "to make no assaults upon Catholics here or elsewhere." That is a good resolution if the editor but stick to it Yet it is a hard task to overcome nature, na-ture, remembering that "what is born j in the bone will come out in the flesh." |