Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-02

CRITICISM.
The Salt Lake Tribune's Criticisms up
on A. =. Parker's Letter to the
Boise Statesman on Mornouisna


on A. F. Parker's Letter to tho
Boise 6tatesman on Moru,ouisna
The Tribune says: Inasmuch as
Hemenway has gone into temporary re-
tirements, if his Mormon employers need
some one who seems from his outcrop-
pings to be capable Of initiating tho
exact style of tho miscreant who has
been joyfully doing their dirty work
Tor some months past, we beg to inform
them that they can find their man in
Grangeville, Idaho. His name is A. f.
Parker, and he is editor Of the Free
Press. We know nothing Of him
except through communication Of his
to tn Boise Statesman. But that is
plenty to fix the fact that if he has not
gone over body and soul to the Idaho
saints it is entirely the faalt Of the saints.
We should further estimate that his
price would be brought within the means
OF the purchaser, salary evidently being
less consideration with him than per.
manent board aud notoricty. He is
careful at the opening Of his letter to
discaim any effection for or sympathy
for the Mormon faith. This isa dodge
that has been successfully worked by a
great many other people besides Senator
Teller. To set himself upright, how.
ever, hc Immediately adds that he knows
it is fashionable aud popular for low grade
political mountebanks, ignorant Of the
principle on which our government is
based to snecr at and persccute Mormons
on account Of their religious belief.
Oui sanity irieLd will see BY the forego.
ing wis-.t q prize is within their grasr.
Had that been published in the Ncps
1t would have been counted as equal to
one OF the ancient apostrorhcs Of Elder
Penrose himself Further on, while ad
mitting that the courts and the laws may
be little against the saints, he cures the
defects and difficulty in style to warm
every Mormons heart by the remark
'that good laws is often id bad Justice, "
"Bad justice" is little mixed in its
but no saint will fail to see that
it covers the idea which they and Parker
are just now laboring with. The state
ment that tho "Mormors hold AZ on
article Of faith, that the laws of their
church are superior to the laws Of the
state" he brushes aside by declaring that
Tie same charge is being worked for all
there is in it against other denominations
He fails to state, however, that the Nor
mons are the only people who have ever
IN American soil, put their creed in con.
.rol Of state aud made civil govern
nent its complete vassal. OF coarse, /, |
s only little thing and it is natural for
'nc OF Mr.. Parkers evident procliyities
% forget to mention it His next declar.
ltion is to sneer at all creeds which it is |
Unnecessary to reproduce. But he insists
We offer religious liberty to all and that
therefore, we are not in position to ob- |
ect to anything which the Mormons
nay hold as part Of their faith. Evi. |
iently he has never thought that any |
'ind of liberty in this land means liberty |
inder the law, and believes with the able |
,ditor of the News that liberty and !
lcence are synonymous terms. He then
iraws fine distinction between the
'olygamous and non polygamous Nor
mons, and object to the test oath, as
hough the right to vote was inherent
nd co-existent with citizenship and not
mere privilege, subject to sach rules as
very state or territorial government may
'rescribe. Then he charges that the
arly Christians were prosecuted precisely
S the Mormons are now, and convenient.
forsets that it is in bad taste, no mat
er how anxious man may be to pub
'sh himself liar, to charge that the en-
orcement of righteous and necessary
avs under our merciful government is
Further, this beautiful
pecimen of and unrepentant fraud, as.
erts that universal suffrage is the great
ulwark Of popular liberty" Admitting
hat to be true, should it include the
oting Of aliens, and particularly should
include the voting of one man for
'hole people? Finally, he argues that
he right of franchise is precisely like the
Ight to own property, which simply
hows that the man is as big an ass as he
vidently is knave. But he could be
lost useful to our friends, the saints, aud
70 are satisfied could be retained cheap
:. They ought not to neglect SO golden
n opportunity.