Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-06
MORMON=EATING PRESBYTERIANS.
They Receive Pertinent and Singing Reply from Hon. Marcus
A. Smith, ArzOnas Delegate in Congress- Himself a
Member OF the CaIyinistic Faith

| is. that excluding reservation Indians
| who are not, and cannot become clti
gems, Arizona has the best generally
educated population IN the United
| States The people pay more per capt.
| Ia for educational and charitable pur.
| poses than any congressional district
In your state, or In any other state OF
| the Union. Education is compulsory
We have code Of laws as good IN
themselves and fully as we'll executed
as any state that has enjoyed self
government for century. The large
body Of our people came, when fully
grown, from the different states Of
the Union, They knew the duties Of
citizenship as well as your board can
possibly know that lesson, and they
have attended TO those duties with a
modesty and propnety which | am
justified in commencing as an example
for your emulation.
You confess that your information
comes from your teachers who are at
work among exceptional people
meaning, | presume, the Indians. II
contact with the Indian Is going to
have this effect on them the sooner you
get them away the better for all con-
cerned. From alleged information from
exceptional people through "excep-
u0naI teachers you fling out under
the banner and badge of the church
exceptional statements, hurtful to
an upright honest. self -dependent.
set-respecting people, when one
week Of sensible lnvestlga-
ton would have repealed the charge.
But You say we are unworthy of a
place In our Union. In answer. I as
sert that among the voters OF your dis
trict there Is more ignorance and ilit-
eracy than In mine. and there Is more
sln, iniqnity and shameless crime COM
mltted daily within sight Of your
ehurch spire than al Arizona suffers
IN halt year And yet you and yours
SIT IN Judgment on us and lgnorantly
Oh, for the rarity
or Christian charity
Under the sun.
| modestly commend 10 your organ
lzatlon the crying need Of home mis-
slons-'CaSt out the beam that Is in
-h'ne own eye, so that thou canst see
more clearly the mote in thy broth
RS.
In what follows, | make no distinc-
ION OF the state or city of New York.
or all OF us in Arizona gladly do |
tonnage to its people. Ny heart throbs
'llh pride when my foot touches the
estless streets Of your mighty metrop-
us. Arizona is proud. in common
'ith all the states, Of this wonderful
monument to thrift and enterprise
.hlch the common country has erected.
tut how did YOU ever imagine that
ven that great city and state was too
God to have political association with
lie people of Arizona? Cast out that
cam In thine eye, or study situation
eiore you speak with such awful au-
l0rity.
With your letter was handed me an
legged Statement and Appeal sign
by the Rev. 7. j. Morgan and 9th
s, which was nothing more nor less
ian TRADE against the Mormons and
lie Mormon church, accompanied by
e unwarranted statement that thew
ere taking or had taken political con-
oil OF certain named states and ter
tories OF the west The author ana
lblishers Of that screed knew as lit
about the Mormons in Arizona as
ur board knew Of our education.
rhis letter has nothing 10 do with
otrines, creeds or dogmas. but the
liter takes this occasion to say TO {