Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-13
THE PRESS AND PROFESSOR
ELIOT.


THE press comments on Prof. Eliops
address In tho Salt Lake Tabernacle
prove 10 DO worry interesting reading, 20
we clip few more OF them today.
The Boston Home Journal has a
number OF curt Paragraphs, among
which are these:
"what better example Is wanted ftho
Intolerance Of today than tho reception
which has boen given To President
Ellors remarks before tho Mormons Mt
Salt Lake City Tow days ago? What
he said In effect was that tho Mormon.
had right to worship God aftor their
own belief. aud that he honored them for
maintaining their opinions In tho face Of
opposition and starting out as the Pilgrim
Fathers did to make homo for them
selves where they could live In their own
belief
"what does the press do today--thO
press which il supposed to be the repre-
senta,lon of tho most advanced thoughts
It scores President Eliot because no
sanctions religious freedom for psrso-
cuted sect. IL Il not aqueslion whether
they are right or not; IL Is question ~ to
whether they shall have right to believe
what they think. Aud tho questi on Of
polygamy Ia entirely another matter"
The Albany, y. Y. Express thus en-.
dorses Prof. Ellops speech;
"rhe Mormons have fully aud sincere
ly abandoned polygamy. That was all
In their religion which violates the law,
and since they have abandoned 1t they
should DO placed upon the same footing
rs other faiths. Polygamy is no moro an
issue In Utah today than il tho bloody
shlr. in national politics. President
Ellot's vlows are sound"
This In an extract from an editorial
In the Lowell, Mass, Ciiisea:
"rhe salt Lake Tribune and the small
army Of quid nunes which 1t has raised
up will hardly DO able to convince tho
country that President Eliot OF Harvard
College Is by nature u Mormon or that
any sudden conversion has led him
to adopt tho faith Of the Laiter-day
Saints.
at oanuot be accepted Us authentic on
any evidence at hand that Mr.. Eliot has
commended Mormonism to any greater
degroo than that called for by tho exor-
else OF that llberality OF religious views
for which he and his institution Of learn
ing have always stood, and |, cannot be-
held credible that he has chosen time to
embrace tho Mormon faith when Mrs.
clio, was sitting before him In tho au.
dlonco Us she sat during the meeting at
the Tabernacle In Salt Lake city. There
are some things that are Absurd upon
their faces; that proslden. Eliot las done
the thing OF which he J., accused is one o.,
thom,"
star SoyiHgs, a popular paper pub.
llshci In 81, Louis, thus closes an ol,.
toriNl on the question;
president Eliot bases his views ON
what he conceive, 90 ua the honest in,en-
lions of the Mormous In this direction.
| with nno optimism ho brushes aside the
possibility ~ u lapse into former prac.
toes once The Monuons have all their
political disabilities removed. Ho he
iovos there can be no religious Hber,y In
the United stntos in the complete scusc Of
the term so long ~ the reformed status OF
the Mormons Is singled OUT Tor special
legislative correction
"From these conclusions thore are no
reasonable grounds OF appeal, Tho limo
has como whom thai remarkable eommu.
nifty, who wilha zeal for Dattlv.ms.