Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-28
AGAIN on THE RAMPAGE.

THE announcement that Judge
Carlton, formerly Of the Utah Com
mission. would have a three column
article on Fair Play for the Nor
monsv in the Na,i9Ral Democrat,
has thrown the editorial blackguard
of the Tribune staff into one Of his
frequent fits Of fury. Fair play for
the .sAIormons" is more than gall
and wormwOOd 10 his bilious and
alcoholic stomach. There is no
fauaticism 50 ferOciOus and unreasOn-
able as the anti-"Mormon' species,
rs developed in this scribe or
scrub" as he would write the
word; for every person who differs
with his views, particularly in
reference to the ''Mormons," is, in
his vernacular, ''blse born" and a
scrub.'
The dispatch conveying the an
nouncement says that Judge Carl
ton is an eminent Indiana lawyer
and for some years a member Of the
Utah Commission. The Tribune
BLACKBOARD resents this in his own
sweet way aud in this refined style:
He was never an eminent lawyer.
He was born a fraud. bred fraud.
He must have been a sneak as a boy,
because ne has always been sneak
and a liar since he reached manhood"
Judge Carlton asks:
shall we in this enligh tened coun-
try invoke legal coercion over the
consciences Of men in the matter Of
religion and resort 10 the thumb
screw and rack, political pros cripiion
and acknowledgements as modes Of re-
lirious insiructionand pc rsuasion'"
To which the Tribune fana tic re-
spends:
which OF course is simply an old
hired traitors political rot"
The dispatch says:
'sThe article, which Is scholarly
throughout. abounis in striking and
original thought and cannot fail to At
tract widespread attention"
The reply Of the geutlemlnly
scribe to this j.:
II it Is scholarly, Carlton never
wrote il: IL II abounds IN striking and
original thought il i the production Of
some other brain than Cartoons"
And then the ratified creature
goes on, filling a column and a
quarter with similar froth ami ven
ON. The truth is, Judge Carlton
has been n lawyer Of eminence in
Indiana, he was for seven years on
the Utah Commission, he was Sc
lecied with Others for that position
because OF his abilities, reputation,
and standing, the Presidents desire
being 70 appoint only first-class
men, We happen 10 know that he is
a brilliant writer, that he Is a scholar
nd a thinker, original in his con-
ceptions and lorcible in his style,
and sble TO reach a hight in Iitera-
tuue which his dePraved assailant
cannot possibly approach.
4 mind that cannot view an op-
ponent except as .'hired, - "venal, -
lying auI "traitorous, simply
because be takes antagOnistic
ground, is unfit to engage in polem-
les and is outside the pale Of respect
able journalism. He Is only fit for a
paper like the Tribune.
The of.-7epeatej assertion that
every Mormon is a slave to his
chiefs'' Is but one OF the many fig
ments Of disordered Imagination,
a symptom OF anti-Morm0n rabies.
1t i not true. Nothing but far
fetched assertions without the slight.
est substantial proofs are brought to
support the fiction. and even il
al that Is alleged on this point were
true it would he no answer TO the
pertinent question prOpounded 10y
Judge Carlton.
We have no doubt that the article
viii indeed attract widespread at.
tcution," while the attack made
upon the writerbecause he ad vOcatet
'-fair play for the Mormons," viii
he seen by only a few, and wher
seen viii but excite among respect,
able people a feeling Of infinite dis
gust