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Show THE TELEGRAM FEELS THE GAFF, j Here Is the Evening Telegram's Remarkably Remark-ably Able Answer to the Indictment We Framed Against It. Pass This Inter-mountain Inter-mountain to Your Friends. Here is the Evening Telegram's remarkably able answer to the indictment we framed against it. Pass this Intermountain to your friends. "A SORRY BIGOT. "A few days since we raado a note of the anniversary anni-versary of the invention of the telescope by Galileo, as we frequently do of noted anniversaries. "Galileo was a high soul, a great scholar; by his studies and by the new vision of the universe given him by the telescope he became certain that Copernicus Co-pernicus was right when he unfolded the real truth of the planetary system and proclaimed it; that by bigotry he was made to retract, or suffer the fate that overtook Bruno. We thought we were stating history. We mentioned no creed, no chuTch. no religion, re-ligion, and had no more thought of offending any man of common 6ense than as though the reference refer-ence had been made to the burning of witches in Massachusetts by the fanatics that held sway at one time there. We are- greatly surprised therefore to find that a writer in the Intermountain Catholic of this city devotes nearly two columns of that paper to his statement of the life of Bruno and the cause of his death, intermixed with which are such expressions ex-pressions as these: 'What purpose does the Tele gram nope to save by opening tnese oiu wounas ana rekindling old fires now dying out, if not extinct And why should we call upon the dead to answer to us that which they have already given an account ac-count of before the eternal judge?' To which we reply: Why should a brief statement of a historical histori-cal fact that can be found in any encylopedia, and which reflects upon no one who has lived, during these past two hundred years, cause an overzealous bigot to flare back in a pious rage which would be ludicrous except for the manifest vindictiveness with which his words are saturated, and which make clear the fact that, had he lived three hundred years sooner, no one who differed with his belief would have been safe for a holy minute, and which, except ex-cept that he is presumably an ecclesiastic would give a hypocritical tone to his closing words, wherein, after exhausting the full measure of his venom, he says: 'Let us throw a shroud over the mistakes of other times. Let the dead past busy its dead. Let us have peace, and if you can't give us peace, give us a rest.' "Considering the grotesque spectacle which the body of his article makes, we venture to commend to the writer of it that for the sake of the cause he champions and for his own reputation as a follower fol-lower of the meek and lowly Jesus, that he drop on his own advice and follow it." The Telegram must fight fair and not run from the gaff. " 'Nuf f sed." |