Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-10
THE NEWS" AND THE PROPHE-
CIES,

The editor of the Meas last night was
filled with righteous indignation because
the DEMOCRAT asked for rest on its
editorials proving that the prophecies
are being fulfilled. We don't care
whether the Ne,cs gives it's readers rest
or not, but we have heard some of its
readers, and who are also members OF
the same ecclesiastical organization and
ward as the editor OF the Ners, express
the same wish for rest that the DEMO
Graf did We have also heard some of
its readers say, and who are members as
aforesaid, that the NeaUS was always
straining itself to convince The people
that sad and lamentable accidents are
judgments of God. We have also heard
readers of the Ne,US say, readers who are
members Of the Mormon church, that the
chief scribe OF that paper is bordering
upon insanity, and that some OF his SER
mons in the Tabernacle this summer gave
evidence of this fact. We refer to these
W bllOh Llidl tiAC SOAlOi Va
the Neus does not always maintain his
equanimity, even when he undertakes to
help forward the ''fulfillment OF the
prophecies" We assure the editor of the
Nc1Cs that we do not allow our 'concen-
trated wisdom to be disturbed by the
concentrated rawlings of the News.
But We would suggest to the NerS
that it employ some other word
thar. concentrated when it wishes to ex-
press its supreme contempt for anyone, es-
pecially since its editor used the same word
in speaking of Chief Justice Zane in a
sermon which he preached in the Taber-
nacle last summer. Let us see, was not
Judge Zane there described as being the
concentrated essence OF fffty-hye mil
lions of people?" Who would ever think
that Of Judge Zane to look at him?
The NeWs in its article introduces Lord
Beaconsfeld in the guise of prophet,
and speaks of him thus:
'Lord Beaconsfeld with his wonderful
far-sightedness foresaw the horrible climax
of the phenomenal developments threaten
ing the social structure of the whole world,
peculiar to these times"
We wsnder if Lord Beaconsfeld, with
his wonderful foresight, foresaw the re-
suit of Mr.. Glalstone's Midlothian cam
paign?
The Ne,o8, near the close of its article,
says:
whether our contemporary be willing 10
admit that the Diety has anything to do
with His creation and creatures or not, the
facts of the situation cannot be truthfully
controverted."
We may admit the facts and still deny
the cause, and We shall not undertake to
controvert the facts, but we will illustrate
with another case whether the facts can
not be controverted. The Salt Lake Tri-
bune Of August %, 1885, had this in proof
of the hand of God showing itself:
eff any one doubts the influence of The
! Tribune, such doubter should make q note
| of the weather. Two weeks ago we said the
streets ought to be sprinkled and there was
| q AodNy bLlOhSI lAc uOAb udJs VII bWO OC-
casions during the last week we have tried
to interest the authorities on the same
theme. They moved only with their ac-
customed slowness, but mark the result!
The big sprinkler, which is superior to any
modern inventions, was set going yesterday;
the cloud which has hung over the city for
days broke and rolled away; people breathed
the fresh air with rapture; to the sick new
| hope was born, and every one blessed the
change. It looks bad for a newspaper to
make great fuss about its merits, but it
does no harm to call attention to patent
| facts
We cannot truthfully controvert some
OF the facts which the Ners adduces as
evidence that the prophecies are being
fulfilled; neither can we truthfully con-
trovert the fact that the Tribune did call
on the city authorities to sprinkle the
streets, and the other patent fact that it
did rain Immediately after the call of the
Tribune upon the city fathers and they
refused to move in the matter. Looking
the facts in the face, it really does seem
as though the rain had been sent in an
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