Show warren foster editor of the living issues is something more than a repeater of lore be ie bome what of a student of the bible and has pronounced opinions of what ie and ie not christianity in the last issue of hie paper he the topeka diate journal to taste for calling young a reprobate here are hie words the topeka kan state journal of last thurmay published a telegraph report of the proceedings proceed ines of childrens day of the jubilee and the manner in which the children laid floral offering sat the base of briehan youdea monument the tele not ahe opportunity offered to say something smart so be heads the account with a haala haali held as follows poor work for children ten thousand cf them lay flowery on an immoral old Ke probates statue viewed from a religious standpoint and that is of coarse the standpoint from which the bigoted editor wrote the above re fail to see why brigham young who was a disciple of joseph smith is any more of a reprobate than is william mckinley who bende his knee every sunday J bryan who worships at the shrine of john calvin there is fully as much la both reason and history to cause us to believe that joseph smith wag a true prophet as there is that either wesler or calvin were in any sense reformers john wesley was a poor ignorant superstitious bigot who believed in witches and goblins while john ualvin was one of the cruelest crne lest men that ever disgraced the earth of course the chargi brigham young should any be made would that he was a reprobate because bo was a we shall not aase the question whether or not that makes a man reprobate but if it does then nearly all the characters in the holy bible were reprobates for if there is one thing that ibe bible teaches more than another it is polygamy and the editor of the journae dare not deny it it is all right for agnostics agno stica and infidels to cry out against brigham youngs teachings but the thing for ashens like the journal to do is to give the people nothing but silence viewed from the standpoint of earthly usefulness briehan young was worth more to the people than the whole craft young had practical sense lie knew enough to know that a man is a land animal and entitled by nature to a part of the earth on which to live he not only knew this but be taught it and moreover be practiced it the results are patent to all today who visit utah here as a direct result of Brig bams teaching we find more people living in their own homes than any other the union he taught bis followers to be industrious and frugal and above all thines to keep out of debt so great was the confidence these beope bad for him that bis advice was followed with the result that utah today bag the most prosperous and liappa people in it that the ban lights in his course across the continent this will not be construed as an endorsement of mormon doctrines for it Is not wo believe no more in the doctrines do crines of monism than we do in methodist Metho diso or presbyterianism but this intolerance so often manifested by other denominations against the mormons makes us tired we live not forgotten the treatment accorded the kansas readers of the journal no doubt when they were here by the mormon people nor the cold thankless manner in which it was received by the swarthy dyspeptic bigots of they would not and did not even show rood manners by quiet while in the very houses of their entertainers but talked and even published in their papers here a lot of rubbish and rot utterly regardless of foundation or fact at the very time they were enjoying the freedom of aup city and service in the tabernacle graciously tendered them by the despised followers of the old reprobate brigham young |