Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-30

the day. Among the graduates were two
young ladies of Jewish parentage, and
within the college hall were many Jews,
including one more prominent than the
rest, Mr.. D. E. May. In the course OF
his remarks, Senator Brown extolled
the Christian religion as having been
the means of elevating women from
slavery, and turning to the young
ladies, called upon them to be ready
to suffer for Christianity. If the young
ladies are wise they will not suffer for
any one unless compelled to. Ii they
choose to suffer for Christianity, we
would suggest journey to the Soudan
and captivity by the Mahdi. The re-
marks of Senator Brown seem to have
given offense to the Hebrews of Atlanta,
as tending to draw religious distinctions
in the schools, and the Tribune of this
city champions the Hebrew cause and
roundly denounces Senator Brown. As
one reads this moral outburst, the sus-
picion comes into the mind that
it is prompted as much on ac-
count of Senator Browns political
principles as on account of love
of fairness and justice to all. Last win
ter Senator Brown did not see proper to
ask the Republicans what course he
should take in regard to the Utah ques-
ton, and this greatly incenses the Tri-
bune, especially when it remembers that
that course was not the Tribune's course.
This fact seems to be uppermost in the
mind of the Tribune, for the third SEN
tence of its article touches upon his course
in regard to the Utah question. 1t says:
"When the Utah question was up in the
Senate, he insisted that the matter was not
pressing, and as an offset to the shameful
state of affairs shown to exist in this Terri
tory, urged the immortality of New England
and the prevalence of divorce, and demanded
that this should be first corrected"
Now, some may think that the above is
written in a spirit of hatred to Senator
Brown and the Mormons. But it isn't.
If this seems little harsh when criticising
a speech that may have been somewhat
indiscreet under the circumstances, and
him merely for this fact, what
will be thought of the following?
''To get in blow at New England he was
willing to condone the most outrageous, fla
grant, continuous and contemptuOus def
ance of Christian civilization known to
modern ages among enlightened men. And
he is Christian and a pious, praying man,
too! Yet his hate and his covetousness would
cause him to forget his duty to his God,
his obligation to his Redeemer, and his oath
to his country"
To dispassionate observer, who looks
at things as they are, and without parti-
san prejudice, the above remarks about
Senator Brown have the genuine Christian
ring of Glove thy neighbor as thyself."
1t is pure patriotism modified by nineteen
centuries of Christian law. Near the
close of this essay on manners,
morals and Mormonism, is this
''He exalted the Christian religion as the
elevator of woman, the key to our progress;
and demanded that the Hebrews should be
ready to suffer martyrdom, if need be, for
Was anything ever more
reckless and untimely? 1t is just as if some
Mormon elder should in some Christian
mission school here call on the children to
stand firm at all hazards for Mormonism' -
1t is impossible to avoid asking what the
religion of the Tribune is at present.
When Mgr. Capel was here it was Catho-
lie; when Mr.. Joseph Smith came it was
and now when Senator Brown
speaks it seems to be Judaism. The
1eferential manner in which the Tribune
speaks of the Hebrews recalls the defini-
ion that Heine, the first of Jews, gave
of Hebrew for the benefit of those who
nad put aside their Christian prejudices. |
Said Heine: GA Hebrew is an enriched |
Jew."