Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-12
sruL ELlo1 AND rnr nORuoys.

STILL ELIOI AND THE aOBMONS.
In il really Astonishing TO zee the
number OF comments on Prof. Eliops
alleged chad break" in speaking oour.
toously aud encsurhglnsly to the "Mor.
mons" when delivering an address Ia
thulr Tabernacle ia this city. While
mnuy papers have been influenced by
thu deceptive dispatches sent from this
city on the subject there are numbers
Of other Journals that uso their own
brains aud are ablv 10 seo through the
misrepresentation Of the chronic enc.
mics Of the Latter day Saints. We
have published few Of their remarks
and we add a few more today out Of the
great mass OF them that come In clip.
pings and exchanges
This lsan editorial IN the Sioux City
Journal
"rresidont Eliot, Of Harvard. Is facing
storm which is blowing from tho East.
He dared to say good word abou; tho
Mormons and Puritan New England
holds up H. hand. In expression Of holy
horror Tho incident Indicates that pro.
gross IL awliter, IN moral Ms wcll as ma
terial things, la thl Wosl than tho East.
This college executive stood on the
Tabernacle platform In salt Lake, SUR
rounded By Woodruff, Cannon, smith
and 5o0l other Iator.day Saints, and
compared the Jllrncy oi tho iuou and
women who planted that suporb colony
In Utah to tho pilgrimage o. tho Puritans
across wntery Wilderness 10 escape per.
aecu,lon aud seek freedom In worship.
ping God. Then allef reference To the
horoIsm Of pioneer women and the fact
that thcro Is %, motive Ia colonization
like tho religious motive, ho spoke Of 70.
llgious liberty aud said ihore Is no reason
why the freedom enjoyed Ia Massachu-
scots should not 10 granted the people Of
all the Torritorio..
"1hc outraged New England COM
science found expression and promptly
condemned Elliot, the intImaiioi bolng
made that the digniHod professor had al
lowed Utah wine 70 turn his hoil. II
was declared an outrage TO compare tho
'boastly Mormons' with tho pilgrim
fathers. hut Eliot said no only nado
comparison on the dauntlcss colonization
spirit displayed, and a. for roligiou, toll
Grafton among mo settlements oftho pill
grim fathers lac reminds his critics that
he, Unitarian, would no, have boon
permitted To exist among them.
"prcsdent Eliot declare, his belief that
tho Mormons arc sincere In tho abandon.
mcnl Of polygamy aud thee shouid stand
IN prociscly tho same position undor tho
law, a. those who worship according to
othor faiths. This wa, bad enough, from
tho baked beans standpoint, but when ho
declared that there were ten Mormon
students In Harvard, all Boston was
ready to 90 into Mysteries. Tho other
students denied thi, aud said that II tho
colony was found tho Mormons would
bo Initiated into the 'Dickcy' society hut
Eliot ronflirms Il and says tho college II
as ready To welcome Mormon students
rs any other.
"1'he controversy il timely. PToi-
dent Eliot has not endor- od polygamy
nor tried to gid the history of Mormon.
ism, but no has had the courage TO say
that right is right wheroyot found, and
seeing tho dawn breaking In bcnightoi
Utah he ba. not waited for the fail sun.
light before greeting the day.
The Lowell, Mass, Times says:
'Prcsidou, Eliot has aroused acres OF
hornets II he said what has breu TO.
ported, he certainly ignored distinction
that Ia usually made, ~ concerns the
Mormon church. But tho Harvard
President Is MOI apt to say what he docs
not intend 10 back up, and II ho seriously
compared tho puritan- to the Mormuus,
he IL able 10 give his own reasons Tor his
opinion. HIS fundamental idea Of uni.
vursul RELIGIOUS freedom was certainly
right. Il Is not at all likely that Dr.,
Eliot oudorsos polygamy, or that ho has
so spoken"
The Utica, y. Y. Observer remarks
"ror those words President Eliot Is
roundly oonsurod by the Goutilos in
Utah, az well rs by many Now England
ora The principal objections to his
remarks scom to be first that ho rs
sumod that tho NJ ormons were con-
scientIous, and second, thar he spok.
kindly to them instead OF in
dulging In severe denunclatlone
1.-THE vexod Mormon quos.
ton {. to bo settled with justice, perhaps
President Eliors wa y Is the best afIor all.
Kind words will not injure a righteous
cause. Besides, there was nothing In his
speech approving Monnonism.