Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-12
An ESCAPED NUM- EPISODE.

\ NUMBER Of good, pious people
OF Pittsburg are clothed in sorrow
and covered with ashes OF bitter lis
appointment over the doiDgs of Miss
Frances Cusack, an escaped nun. -
her laboE Of love in uncOvering al
legged Catholic corruption was sweet
Protestant fanatics, who, being
willing to believe anything, no mat
ter how had or how untrue, in It.
gard to the vileBess Of a chuzch TO
which they are opposed, obtained
money and credit for the female
exhibitor Of the sins perpetrated un-
der cover of Rornauism.
Some Of Miss Cusack's victims
obtained Subscriptions pald ia ad-
vance, fos book which this al
legged female heroine asserted she
WAS about to publish. Now she is
non est, having probably gone to a
new field 10 work the nun role under
another name. Doubtless she
viii readily find plenty Of
guilible people to victimize. Indeed !
there are lots OF human beings not I
only willing but anxious to be de-
ceiv,d, so long y the deception feeds /
their prejuj. c-s.
We never had any faith in the
escaped nun business any more than
we have entertained 4 belief in
thimble-riggers and confidence men.
The respective businesses are differ
ent in some respects but similar in
osheTs-they are deceptions prac-
uced 60 procure money.
Il IS probable that Miss Cusack
never was a nun at any time, and
even il she had been, it = a parody
on justice 10 accept the ezparss
statements Of the enemies Of a reli-
giOus community rs true without
the consideration Of evidence from
those against whom the charges are
preferred. To do this is wrong in /
principle, and none bat narrow
minded, selfish aud bigcted people
pursue such an uuwarranlablo !
course
Il may be said that this one sided
is SO common as to include
the majority OF the human family.
II so. that docs not make it right.
and renders i; all the more dcplor-
able.
Escaped nuns and alostate priests
are on the same list as renegade
'AIormous, who travel about ex-
anti-"Aiormcn'' blood,
thunder and blue smoke. As a rule
they end in smoke, as did young
They blaze up, attract
popular attention for q moment, so
10 speak, the flame subsidies and
hey disappear in the gloom Of their
1rn peFfidy.
Down ~ the bottom Of the heart {
4 humanity there is a feeling Of II
lagnance toward men snd women
sho have been connected with a
ys-em-e-pccially q religious one
cave il and then, in a spirit or bit
eIness and eHmity, seek 70 tear it {
Iowa and mllisn its aiherents.
Sven those who, in the bigotel
.mallnszs OF their souls. g;oat over
he faIssh0cds uttered by the ]
-ecalcitaats, do n; Ia re- ;
.iity place confidence in
hose who utter them, their po-
.it!on and conduct being intrinsic I
lily inconsistent and unmiigatedly q
No word Of coincidence should be /
EXPRESSED for the Pittsburg dupes {
maize by Miss Cusa *. Il Is only.
u her own showing. q
another Of her escapadgs, OF which q
here has doubtless been a series.
The first she claims 10 have been Z
rom a nunnery, tn C balance have
,t en- from her creditors and dupes.
( the Pennsylvania incident shall
decrease the sum Of confidence or
iinar.Iy re- osed in her class by thin {
,rlined Protestap :, the affair viii ]
Tot be devoi Of profitable result.