The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-02
CHURCH AND STATE.
The Pitiable Exhibition Made by
q Minister.
PATTING POWERS ON THE BACK.
and Himself Forward at the
Present Time?

,'Oh. religion, What crimes have been com
United in thy name .';--ucddDee De Sfdet.
When a man pushes his proboscis out be-
fore the public, and another takes hold of
that snout to parade it for public or politi-
cal purposes, and uses that proboscis to
show what fine one it is, and that it be
longs TO great man whom men must re-
spect and 60 the way that smeller goes,
feel that some one should-and now will
take that proboscis between his fingers,
protected, however, by handkerchief, and
examine its make, shape, and the head
from which it prctrudes, watching lest a
snortfrom the double barreled organ should
besmear the public.
And now comes the reverend doctor
Thomas Corwin lift, late T. C. Tiff, and, at
the invitation of the decapitated Judge, lays
his snout in the hands of that defunct who
pushes il for all it is worth in the Liberal
sewer, alias the ''Tsfb.n
How endearing My dear Judge Powers.
That's sickeningl And the dear, dear
judge sends II before the public as some
thing great from great man. But what
does the whole thing amount to? Nothing
but about thirty lines Of senseless words,
and badly written, too, for doctor of di-
vlnlty. The editor heads the hillet-doux a
Ringing Letterr Yes, there are many
kinds of ringing; this reminds me of COW
bell, not much music of an alarming ma
ture, only it tells where the animal is.
Doctor Thomas Corwin Tiff says, 81
need not so much as intimate to you my
great interest in the result of our county
election, August I, 1897 Then if he need
not, why does he2 Did the Great Defunc
doubt his loyalty" III these doubtful
crisesz Seems SO, or perhaps the doctor
wanted to air his feelings and grammar
and especially to poke his Methodism be-
fore the public. The ''doctor" has the gift
of keeping himself before the public If
you see him here to-day, everybody can
he would get sick if he could
not keep himself prominent before
the world in some way-yes, as sick as he
was when Sam Small supplanted him in the
presidency of the Methodist university
which is not yet erected in Ogden.
Why should he push himself and his
Methodism before US on political matters
and occasions! 1t is meddling and often
sive. He tells US what Methodism has
given that Christian Americanism-what-
ever that is-might triumph from Dan to
Beersheba, or from the British possessions
to old Mexico. "Methodism, the round
world, shouts all hailI' (Sometimes all
hell) As if Methodists were more loyal
than thousands of our biggest sinners
Does he not know that thousands of Meth
odists ''fit agin Siegelf' fought in the
armies of the south against the north?
Does he not know that a Methodist bishop
led a southern army during the civil war
against the norths Methodism does not
make man loyal any more than sin does
sinner. Does he not know that John Yves
ley, the founder of Methodism, was very
much opposed to the revolution that brought
US American independence II he does not
know these things, he should If he does
know them, then he only displayed his half
educated, illogical mind.
Methodism does not of itself, as | said.
make any man loyal to his country's gov
eminent or laws, especially to American
liberty" The English Methodist is loyal
to England, and so on, if he has been so
educated, but not because he is Metho-
dist. A few years ago an Irish Methodist
preacher, the Rev. DR.. Kerr, while only
visiting here, was disloyal enough to his
own government TO say that when the muir
cerers of Lord Cavendish and Mr.. Burke.
IN Phoenix Park, Dublin, were found out,
IL would be shown that they were the
emissaries and hired assassins of the
British government. 1t was discovered
and proved, however, that the murderers
were the agents of the Irish party, to their
Infinite disgrace. Those few instances
show where the Methodist church has
been in her history. True to her history,n
indeed. If some prominent Mormon elder
had written letter at these times of the
nature contravenlng the doctors boast
ing, how the cry would be, ''the priesthood
always dabbling in politics. Let the
shoemaker stick to his last,m is wise
saying, and SO say l, let the doctor" stick
to his pulpit and not poke his nose and
grin at the workingman's party.
WnnlA moi To-,
nice yokefellows in the persons of the de
funct and the doctor make a grand lead
team in this campaign against the Work
ilgmens Of course they would not make
good wheelers. The fat and lean would
not pull well together. especially the s.di-
vine" For, they would gee and haw
severaliy, as each animal would have his
own way, surely-that is the nature Of
each, we all know. Since his superintend-
ency of the great Methodist mission in
Utah, he has had more changes of men in
the ministry in Utah, and Of the principals
of the seminary, than was ever known in
any mission, make bold to say So what
smash up it would be if those yokefellows
lead the Liberal party. Powers would be
guided by the Alta Club party and Tiff by
the Church party. Let the Liberals pray
that it may not be led so, and the Working
mems party that it may be led so.
But we ec)llect when the Tribune and
Inn were at loggerheads, but now they are
friends like PLATE and Herod. so long es
tranged, in the condemning of Christ.
Weknow that the doctor has many knots
on the line that he has been working on for
the eighteen years he alludes TO. He has
thrown wet blankets at several times on
meetings where Liberals wero conducting
And on these lines, it seems to me. he has
no settled convictions, so that there is no
tying to the doughty doctor When n
Methodist minister will say to ali officer in
high standing in church which the former
Is opposing, or pretending to oppose:
well, you may be right and / NAV be
wrong; you are as likely, perhaps, to be
right as ! am" one can have very little
confidence in thatman's convictions as being
honest Some sinister motive governs him
more than conviction Of truth. The same
spirit of the man is evident in his political
convictions as his religious
Let not the worlzingmen DC swaved by
the doctor or his meaningless sentences
paraded by the defunct Judge for political
effect The lawyer and s'divine'' are worth
keeping at a distance Neither cares for
you, but work out your own salvation.
A WORKER
TANNaN,C Envnnnr