The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-22
MAGUIRE'S EX-COMMUNI
CATION.
What a Free Thinker Thinks
Of the Business.
SALT LAKE CRY, Aug. 20, "a.


SALT LAKE CITY. Aug. 20, "a.
Editors Herald:
The communication of Manager
] ohm Mcguire, of the Walker Opera
House, from tie Holy Catholic
church, affords food for reflection
The Salt Lake Tribune, the SELF,
elected champion of the "priest-
ridden Mormons," publishes the
item without comment. II appears
that Bishop Brondel, during high
mss il Mlssoula, Montana, fors
msyy communicated Mr.. Mcguire
for the objectionable sin of arrang.
ing for AMI securing the services of
Col. Robert Il. Iugersoll, who gave
a series of lectures in Montana.
: The engagement of Col. Inger-
soil was as mucn in the line Of bust
ness Of Mr.. Mcguire, as theatrical
manager, SIS any other transaction
of any kind or character.
His experience as q caterer has
been quite extended, and during a
series of years he has placed
many an attraction before the public
which, from stri .tly moral stand
point, may be considered as doubtful
IN their tendency. No matt r what
may be managers personal views
in regard to the moral or religious
influences OF popular opera, OF
other attrac ton, when the public
demands its presentation upon its
boards, he had better i-ten. to the
demand or retire.
To this extent theatrical man
agar is precisely ike a mercha t: he
is the slave of the public, and only
in exceptional instances can be be
held responsible for the lack of e,e-
waiting influences surrounding 6
theatrical "card."
Col. Ingersoll was, in the eyes oil
Manager Mcguire, god card, end
in that sense, without com ittine
himself 10 the belief or position Of
the no:ed lecturer, any more tn \
he does to the particular ten,
dency IN a moral sense, OF play
an opera or pantomime,
Mr.. Mcguire secured the services Of
the free-thought advocate and made
a financial success of the engage
ment The Transaction has angereG
Mother Church, however, AMI hel
saving grace has been Withdrawn
Upon the dev TED head OF this active
little man mas been launched the
curse of Rome, and all through hi
marrow, honea and aaipose the aW,
full auathema maranatha goes cours
ing on is direful way. He is cursed
in his standing and in his laying
down, In ais buying and selling, eat
ing and drinkir G, sleeping anC
waking, fasting and feastIng. riding
and running whiting and talking
kissing aud being kissed, ia poverty
and wealth. in age and in youth, a
home and abroad, in heslth and il
sickness, in peace and In war, Ii
celibacy and ia matrimony, in thu
head and in the ex'remities, in tn,
bone and in the flesh, in the hear
and the liver, In the etomacl
and the intestines, In The eyes
nose, mouth, hands, feet, ear:
throat, knees, thighs, loins, and il
each and every physiological an
mental adjunct OF the body, sou
and bresches, because he has faile
to regard the awf il warning: "B
assured thousipnest MORALLY if tho
keep faith with heretics!" Perhap:
il he had swindled the shere ic" GU
Of the "gate money!" the sin Nigh
have been overlooked.
To disp tie the right of any churc
| to regulate its own membership, @
generally, the doings of its member
would In this age Of independence
Of thought, and individuality, b
preposterous, but it certainly seen
to be going step too far to strik
such blow at man, for such q
ofense, in the month Of Angus
1884.
The holy Catholic Church has a
undoubted right to eject from il
sanctuary, all such IS In Its judgmeI
are unfit for association, but 1t
questionable, whether even with Il
almost unlimited influence; it ca
| afford to make itself so consp'cior
| in such instances. 7
The Salt Lake Tribune woul
want no better theme that the cut
ting off Ct Hiram Clawson, of tt
Salt Lake Theatre, for similar Of
Tense, to show the Importance c
| immediate special legislation fl
| Utah; in feet, a dem and woul1 b
made that he be re-lDstated sat tt
point of the bayonet," to show tt
Mormon priests their proper pla(
| in society.
| The Tribune knows well that til
Catholic Church yields pOwe
compared with which, toe Mormo
Church is as a pigmy to q giant, but
its "battle for freed 1m" tne giant
always passed with a graceful sslu
nv the red plumei bully Of tn
Tribune.
Mr.. Mcguire had right to BIZ
Catholic, and according to the tern
of M m oership, the church had
right to excommunicate him; bl
in the opinion of the writer, Il
Oliver of all Good will regard his a
ISOLATION with Col. Ingersoll as
error, rather than crime-if the
be anything wrong about it at all.