The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-01
IGNORANCE CONFESSED.

1t was not particularly necessary for
the Deseret News to call attention to
the boasted ignorance of it's priesthood
Yet IL has done so, meantime paying
tribute to the educated intelligence of
the Christian ministry. But aside from
these indiscretions the church organ has
again observed its sacred practice of
misquoting The Tribune, in ham
strung scramble to upset proposition
case,
Mollycoddling its way through nearly
column of more or less valuable space.
In making contrast between its own ig,
norant priests and learned Catholics. the
Almighty's pretended journalistic rep.
rescntative vacantly glorifies the fact
that bishop or president of stake,
first president of seventies, or even
an apostle, may be n shoemaker, baker
or candlestickmaker. and that he is not
required to possess any education what,
ever. The News omitted reference to
the president of the church in this con-
nectlon-he has spoken for himself His
boast on the stand in the tabernacle
has been to the effect that he was un.
educated; that he would not permit
any of his sons to be educated TO 81
legitimate and learned profession: that
to him the professions and the arts and
sciences were vainglorious and useless
pursuits Of wicked world. His life
has consistently demonstrated the earn
estness Of his belief, for his only ut
terances which have not been plagia-
risms have smelled the heavens of icnor,
ance; and during all of his life he has
not done or uttered an original useful
thing for human nifty, nor produced a
single thing whose construction would
involve the possession of skill or cx-
pert knowledge. Even in the prophetic
vocation, which was created for him by
more capable progenitors. he has utterly
failed TO make good, except in three
PARTICULARS. e. scnsuality, falsehood,
and money-grabbing- Beginning with
the head so qualified and yet incapable.
it is but reasonable to assume that in
the selection Of underlings harmonious
color scheme Of incompetence would be
observed,
Joseph +. Smith has made his life,
since he entered his larger ecclesiastical
career, an illuminated demonstration Of
the truth that the more ignorant the
proponeDt, the more effective the su-
perstition, By means of his profound
nescience he is in receipt of an annual
income Of two million dollars from sup.
porters whose very contributions denote
Il state of mentality which must be en-
tirely subservient to his own monumen-
tai crassness. And the personal organ
has not escaped the influence of the
prophetic unworth.
incidentally, the Deserct News falsely
assumes that The Tribune declared that
II would be unconstitutional or illegal for
cardinal of the Catholic church to oc.
cupy seat in the Senate But The Trib.
une said no such thing. What il
did say was that during the controversy
aDtecedent 10 the Senate S action in the
Smoot case, il had been repeatedly ad.
mitted by proponents OF Smoot that
Catholic cardinal could not be seated
IN the Senate. Especially would this be
the case if that cardinal were an,
pointed by the Pope, elected b.. the es.
ercisc of his power in the church, and
sent to the Senate us bis representative