The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-07
THE TRIBUNE UNDER OCCULT
INFLUENCE.

Inc IHoune has given proof beyond
the possibility of dispute that it is
under occult influence. 1t doesn't
/ merely see things through a. glass
dSSrkly; it just sees them when thew
do not exist. If a man or. a paper sees
a thing that does not exist, he sees
it through occult influence. Why do
we say that the Tribune is under oc-
cult influence? For this reason: The
Improvement Era for April contained
an announcement, on the front cover.
that the May number would contain an
article on ''Mcfmonism," by DR.. John
NJ. Reiner of New Jersey, and reply
thereto by Mr.. B. H. Roberts, editor
of the Era. The Tribune, in its notice
OF the April number, being under oc-
cult influence, said:
The Improvement Era (Salt Lake,
for April has controversial paper on
@ormonisns against by DR.. John n.
Reiner of New Jersey, aud reply by
3. II. Roberts, sort of beating
about the bush on both sides, the
disputants not, appearing to come TO-
gether on any definite proposition
What a grand sight it must have
been to see DR.. Reiner and Mr.. Roberts
beating about the bush on both sides
before there was any bush. 1t is said
that one of the greatest sights is to
see the Devil beating tanbark, but
the Devil beating tanbark isn't cir
cumstance to DR.. Reiner and Mr.. Rob-
epts beating about the bush on both
sides. Poor BUSH how its sides must
have ached when they got through
With it.
The Tribune's learned reviewer says
the disputants do not appear to come
together on any definite proposition.
Under the circumstances it is not sur
prising that they did not come to-
gether on any definite proposition, see
ing that at the time the Tribune wrote |
its review of the controversial articles, !
neither DIR. Reiner nor Mr.. Roberts /
had formulated any propositions. def |
mite or indefinite. If the learned and |
conscientious reviewer had not been |
quite so previous" perhaps the gentle |
men would have got together on a |
But a paper that is under
occult influence would naturally be
more previous" than another not I'M
der such an influence.
But after all that in the notice of the
Era which entrances our imagination
is the picture of DR.. Reiner and Mr..
Roberts beating about the bush on
both sides It must be that they, like
good old Abraham, were beating about
the bush on both sides in the hope of
jumping up a ram to get them out of
their difficulty. On occasion there is
nothing handler or more convenient
than a ram in the thicket, for what
S thicket but lot of bushes? There
ire times when all people find it most
particularly people under
occult influence. 1t is possible, all
Kings are possible to people under oc-
,ult influence, that when our contem-
,orary said DR.. Reiner and Mr.. Rob-
.rts beat about the bush on both sides, ,
t had Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush /
n mind. This is a most plausible /
Jew, for the Bonnie Briar Bush is
of Scotland, and Scotland is +
AIMED the world over as the home Of 7
and fairies, those beings pre-
minently subject to occult influences.
What excuse, other than occult in =
uence, can the Tribune offer for re-
iewing and condemning controversial
rticles that have not been written
ct? How valuable the reviews of such '
paper are. J