Show MR BASKINS ENCOMIUM we have ceen sir under conditions wherein he appeared to borne better advantage than in the third di brict court on thursday alien endeavoring to explain away his made may beare ago before the llonas committee on the merita of the cormons mormons Mor mons the effect of the testimonial at that particular mo merit on thursday upon his demeanor compels to recant somewhat arora oar former estimate ot hi personal character after such an exhibition of mental prostration in the presence of moral difficulties we must in juanice modify oar estimate of hi braz eory he bag ater all a faint idea of the elements of humiliation and can make a accurate gaea as to when and where depravity should blush if bis performance aa in truth as has been sug geste donly a simulation of to relieve the monotony of hia long and doubtless wearisome practice of professional defamation then he played hia role with a most excellent the exquisite delicacy with which he intimated a desire that bif compliment to the cormons mormons should go into the testimony with an explanation was a master touch and must have brought a great relief to hia friends w ho we infer about that time must have been pitying him profoundly fo of course those not so ardently concerned in hia discomfiture hae a faint idea of the probable nature of that explanation but the deep anxiety of the court for mr baskins unenviable situation came to the front just in time 0 o edoil the effect completely the interpolation that a hireling attorney could not and should not be bound by an opinion expressed nineteen lers ago anast have knocked the enthusiasm enthus iam quite out of the pro ce edinga and left the missionary lawyer in a rather helpless state of patriotic paralyse par alyse after he had been occupying five or six days of the courte valuable time with hearsay opinions of thirty forty and fifty year standing to prove that the cormons mormons were disloyal then to have his honor up and decide that a testimonial of their good citizenship one of their enemies could not stand the wear and tear of nineteen summers must have been a little stunning 0 o the cause of victory by apropos of the batin testimonial on the rood qualities of the cormons mormons Mor mons we saw no mention of the incident in the tribune report not even the fact that the word of loyal attorney woold not nineteen years as announced by his honor judge an derixon de and about that evidence of col steptoe and other american gentlemen recommending young lor governor of utah aad testifying ot hia loyalty to that was e omitted from the patriotic organ we should thinly the editor of that paper above all would be pleaded to learn cf loyal men we should like mr goodwll Goodw lo if he will to toll us la his most elegant style what lie thinks of a missionary organ that will a court report and publish for its readers only those portions that beem to its theory of the cue |