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Show MAJOR GRANT ON THE PHILIPPINES. PHILIP-PINES. And so. after all. President McKirdey nnd the congress of the United States have been mistaken in regard to the caus. s of the war in the Philippines. Such, at least, is the bombastic statement state-ment of Major F. A. Grant, the former commander of the Utah batteries, who j is the latest claimant for honors as an expert in matters pertaining to the Philippine islands. in tho Salt Lake Tribune of Sunday last. Major Grant is given three columns col-umns of space, which he uses to vilify whose shoos he is unworthy to loose. Mr. Grant advances the statement state-ment that the war in the Philippines v. as pot started to throw off the yoke J of Spain, but to throw off the yoke of the Spanish priests who were inimical, according- to this Salt Lake authority. t the Fre Masons. The Intermnun-tain Intermnun-tain Catholic would suggest to the Free Masons of the United States, and particularly to those of Salt Lake City, that they muzzle Major Grant before be-fore he ha, another opportunity to bring them to ridicule by his pueriie statements regarding the condition of Masonry in the Philippines and the island of Luzon. As a matter of duty we have waded through the several columns of slush poured forth by Major Grant in the Salt Lake Tribune, and there is not in it a single line or sentence which enti- Itles it to consideration at the hand of any Catholic. The only importance which attaches to it, and which is the rcat-on of our noticing it at all, is the fact that it appeared in the columns , of such a paper as the Salt Lake Tribune. Trib-une. Before dismissing this bigoted ig-, ig-, - ivramus. we challenge him for proof of his statement that the Catholic i chaplain of the Twenty-third infantry ever gave utterance to the statements attributed to him by Major Grant. Major Grant, having made these statements, and his word being challenged, chal-lenged, he owes it to the neonle of thi community to produce proofs of his assertion. If he is on such intimate terms a he alleges to be with this Catholic chaplain, he will have no difficulty dif-ficulty in securing proofs to vindicate himself from the charges which we r.ow deliberately make against him. Namely: That his whole article is a tissue of falsehoods, utterly groundless I in every particular and that the stat.- m-nts which he attributes to the Cath olic haplain of th Twenty-third infantry in-fantry were never uttered by that gen-Brnian. gen-Brnian. We have reason for knowing that the iai Iain referred to never made such statements, and basing tli statement ; on that knowledge, we charge Major Grant with dis--'. initiating falsehood v. iiii'u'ly and' maliciously. He owes it to himself, if he has a respect for his standing, to secure, without delay, substantiation sub-stantiation of the allegations which h l as atiribut.-d t-, the Catholic chap. l..:n i:i nii.isli.iii. or forever stand h-anded in this community as a vilifier of his follow citizen'-. |