| Show THIS CHURCH TROUBLES only last year this same individual was a candidate or the same office yet not a word of opposition to him appeared editorially tori ally in the news why because he stood upon a different platform then one which assailed no church nor threatened any clash between church and state why does the news oppose him this year for the reason and absolutely no other that he stands upon a platform which fairly interpreted means nothing more nor lesa than war a religious the above ie from last evenings news fair minded people ot whatever religious predilection will clearly discern that the mormon church is on the defensive and hae not been the aggressor in abia imbroglio when a church ie attacked it has the right to fight back and take such action as will assure it greatest protection it will be recalled that last june cardinal gibbons of the catholic church said his church had no fight to make any body or class of men and woula take no eide in politics but that it the P A s continued to menace the welfare of the church preservation self would impel the members 0 tho church as churchmen as well as citizens to resent their attacks by united action and it ia with the mormon church the members of the church cannot allow any candidate to go before the voters on an antichurch anti church without resenting his imputations THE BALTIMORE sun is a stickler on pronunciation in a late issue the sound of u in new and student ia treated in the following style many southerners object to the expression the new south as implying the idea that the south a modified by post bellum events is an improvement on the old bouth but what would they eay fifth heard their section called the aioo youth ahti Is what a number of northern people who think well of themselves are in the habit of calling it they change vo the common sound of the it ater u to 0 o and by consequence say TWO instead of new instead of students moosic instead of music look instead ot duke and dootz instead of the writer of an article in the new york sun recently arid to show that this misuse of the u was right and was auctioned by tha asae of all educated leopla from maine to california bat his clam is not conceded by new yorkers nor even by new earland ers who in letters to the sun describe the southern pronunciation as the correct one A connecticut writer ascribes the oo 00 pronunciation nuncia tion to indolence in phonation phon atlon and a correspondent takes the same view it is conceded that the oo 00 sound is in the north from llaine to california but not among the well educated for an educated per son is prima facie one who is trained to and act correctly if anyone ands it difficult to ay duty and must say dootz it is simply because be has been liu perfectly trained if the best usage b considered yoo la the pronunciation approved by ane educated in the north as well as the south in the class of words under discussion borne persons who unwittingly make a virtue of their fault and have a sense of superiority in revealing reveal their errors go to the length of saying t colip Toos day malom rity avenon bic bound does undoubtedly exist in some words as rude lunatic etc but it cannot be correctly introduced trod everywhere we cannot eay poor for pure or andoor for endure the bouab is sometimes charged with a neeli kent of its vowels but this faulty utterance of the u ie not amo alts misdeeds |
