The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-17
SAMPSON SCHLfY
CONTROVERSY To
BE- REOPENED
lspeciaI Corresponaencel

t-peCldl DOnEenCe-D
Washington. Dec. ia story is print
ca here to the effect that the presidents
Eluosses:-ent Of Secretary Longs raco,,,
Ine-,dation for revivai' If Us t5l5 LeSoilr
80 a0mlTat of the navy had eg.ir
- - me friends of Admiral Schfev
a firm ,,,,LI,,l the administra tons attitude
i ~ ia Pug pose To bestow the grade upon
t eGllllia a sampson in event such action is
Both Ad2a!-els SchIev and Sanneor
would have been vice adn9irale' :, l,oI.
-. - Dut Tor the antagoniSm to the mills
t en- ot,Eh Jealousy cngendered by thu dis
0iSnt-aso sea fight. Consress was in
eltlr - pdsS DCIh bills, but the advO-
1,oss4 81 u -A9lnlral Scnley SO seriously op-
80 ne sampson bill that both failed
~ Is not believed now that CONGRESS- viii
t an any favorable action on the admin
lStIdJcn-s recommendation and thai any
attempt 10 pass such a hin y - 800 -
IN r00peninS the Sampson-Sch1sv confro-
TSiSS ana result in q bitter f5gat leading
70 tae Ceteat of the measure
BoIh the president and Secretary T.oDg
a. SLI1lCSeLeiiy anxious to give some reward
tl+i fe1GIIiiIaI sampson, and believe he IS
CHtI5teu 10 the promotion Such an act
would make Admiral Sampson the seq
UIlu, -dnhstig officer OF the service and
Ie5d 10 his advancement over Admiral
ahead of him
Admiral schiey's friends are expected
10 oppose the bill bitterly. and il is re-
81 utd as quite probable that another
ON may be presented in Admiral SchIev's
oeIlaiI- Sucn an arrangement was made
last spring, when General Miles and Cen
eraI Corbin We're given increased rank II
WCuId then have been impossible to ma Is
one b-H without the other OWNS. 10 the
IHIeHSe feeling prevailing in congress and
officers. "
Jefferson On Religious Freedom.
Al meeting Of the Columbia EIistori-
CA society, recently held il this city II
. Locker read Two letters from Thomas
JEFFERSON to Charles THOMPSON who was
aSCIeldIS OF the constitutional cOnVen-
ton The letters were interesriner 1,ri7ci-
PaIlE from the fact that they dealt with
MI JEFF 5rson's religious views ExtractS
from them follow:
reDHed; Say nothing on my reli-
gIohs II IS known to myself and my God
alone It's existence before the world is
20 De sought IN my life; if that has been
honest and dutifUl to society, the reIi-
6lon which has regulated it can not be
a bad one
1T is a singular anxiety which some
people have that we should all think
axe. Would the world be more beautI-
Iul were our faces all alike, were our
fsSllp5IS, our tastes, our talents, our
forms, our wishes, diversions and pursuits
cast exactly in the same mold? If no
varieties existed in the animal veEetab BILE
or mineral creation, but ali were Strictly
uniform, Catholic and orthodox, what a
world OF physical and moral mOnotOny
would II be These are the absurdities
throne of God and dictate TO him what
he should have done. May they with all
IuelE metaphysical riddles appear before
80 tribunal with as clean hands and
hearts as You and ! shall. There Sus-
pended in the scales of eternal justice
faith and works will show their worth
by their weight. God bless you and pre-
serve you long in life and health.
Writes a Religious Book.
81, too, have made a wee little book
from the same materials which I call
the philosophy of Jesus 1t is a par
adigm of his doctrines. made by cutting
the texts out of the book in a certain
order of. time or subject. a more beauti-
tuI or precious mOrSel of ethics I have
never seen. 1t is a document in proof
that I am a. real Christian, that is to say,
a disciple Of the doctrines Of Jesus, very
different from the PIautOnistS who call
me infidel and themselves Christians and
preachers Of the gospel, while they draw
all their characteristic dogmas from what
its author never said OF saw They have
compounded from the heather mysteries
a system beyond the comprehension of
man, of which the great reformer of the
vicious ethics and deiSm OF the Jews,
were he to return on earth would not
recognize one feature. If 1 had time ]
would add TO my little book the Greek,
Latin. and French texts, in columns, side
by side, and / wish I could subjOin a
translation OF Gassendis syntagma Of
the doctrines OF EpiCurus, which, not
withStanding the calumuies OF the StOics
and caTicatureS OF Cicero. is the most
rational system remaining of the
vicious Indulgence and fruitful of virtue
az the hypeTbOliCal eXtraVaganceS of his
rival Sects. -
7 8 VAN ANTW ERP.