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Show About "Bad Reputations." SOME PERSON masquerading as a Jesuit in the editorial department of the Deseret News perhaps the clipping editor has called the chief's attention to an article this paper pa-per copied from the Catholic Transcript. Tran-script. The article from our Catholic cotemporary recited the action of an English society called the Protestant Alliance (corresponding to our A. P. A.'s) in memorializing the Marquis of Salisbury to take drastic action against the exiled French Jesuits who had taken tak-en up their abode in England. Receiving Receiv-ing but a curt reply to their entreaty to expel the Jesuits, the spokesman of the Alliance besieged Salisbury a second sec-ond time, expressing "their regret and alarm on learning that it is not the j intention of his majesty's government j to take any measures for the protee- tion of this Protestant kingdom and j his majesty's Protestant subjects from j the Jesuit invasion." r The comment of the Catholic Transcript Tran-script upon the catalogue of crimes charged against the Jesuits by these English bigots in also copied by the News, and thereby serves the purpose of imparting to the Mormon mind knowledge unobtainable through the : ordinary channels of news. For this courtesy, the Jesuits are probably in- I debted to the clipping editor. The editor-in-chief, however, ob- ; serves nothing - in the reproduction . from the Transcript but a justification of a previous remark made in controversy contro-versy with this pap'er. that the Jesuits Jes-uits had a bad reputation. .We are perfectly willing to let his explanation stand so long as the clipping goc-j with it, although the Pickwickian argument argu-ment is set up by the News that editorial ed-itorial statement need not mean editorial edi-torial endorsement. If "bad reputations" are obtained through bigotry aqd malice, then it becomes be-comes difficult to define good reputations. reputa-tions. Reputation is at the mercy of ignorance and falsehood. Under such an interpretation cf reputation, all Catholics in this country are in bad repute, because the A. P. A.V allege they are in conspiracy to overthrow the government and set up the pope in power at Washington. The English bigots charge the Jesuits, among other oth-er things, with murder and regicide, and that their presence is a menace to the king and his subjects. Of course the intelligent portion of the English people know better and the effect of this tirade against the Jesuits will be to call attention to an obsolete law against them so that legislation may be had for its repeal.1 But, all the same, reasoned out according to' Deseret Des-eret News logic, it is not the bigots 'who have the bad reputation, but the objects of their malice; not the giver, but the taker; not the Anglo-Saxon, but those who would "dominate him by clerical influence." The Jesuit, therefore, doffs his hat to the clipping editor of the News. Clippings like that from the Transcript will help along Father Hendricks in his missions to non-Catholics in Idaho, attended by Mormons, and some ot whom have patronized the "Question Box." |