Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-18 | Page 4 | Labouchere and Douglas

AND DOUGLAS london truth I 1 once knew in america a certain senator douglas senator I 1 think for the state of illinois iio was a great man in his day and was the democratic candidate for the presidency the senator was a hardheaded hard headed practical man the conversation one day turned upon miracles and some one urged P a leys argument for our belief in them senator douglas ridiculed it ho eaid that he had known joe smith the founder of mormonism and that he could find thousands of perfectly respectable men in his state prepared to submit to torture or death rather than give up their belief that they had seen a mountain remove itsell at the bidding of joe smith up to a certain point we can understand the mechanism of the brain beyond that point we know nothing of it what we do know n that alio mechanism often docs not work properly with the result that delusions are frequent we know that joe smith did not move a mountain and the honest belief of thousands of persons that they saw him move one does not alter our absolute conviction that he did not