Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-25

glad to claim IL as the state which ]
IN part represent in the senate az the
United States.
Il am proud Of the people Of Utah
and | am always glad 60 claim them
as my constituents with one exoep-
toni am ashamed or any man who
Is ashamed OF Salt Lake. ] am
ashamed OF any man who Is ashamed
OF any city or any state which he calls
his home, and which he Is still willing
20 remain in. II he feels that way
about II, in common decency he ought
TO move elsewhere so that his opinion
may be expressed as the opinion Of a
stranger and not as the apparently re-
luctant confession OF a member OF the
community
There are certain well authenticated
cases in history where entire commu-
mites, perfectly sane about the ordi-
nary affairs OF life, have become wild
monomaniacs over some one particular
subject one OF the most notorious
examples that we have any record of
was the craze OF WitChcraft which
swept over New England like a pesti-
lence some two or three hundred years
ago. During that period OF nightmare
and horror whenever anybody in the
neighborhOod was stricken with what
In this modern and prosaic age. we
would recognize as a plain. ordinary,
everyday case OF fits, the entire popu-
lation proceeded 10 become delirious
with the belief that the stricken indi.
vidual had been bewitched and TO go
up and down the neighborhood in
search OF the individual who WAS re-
sponsible for the affliction. They usu-
ally found her. because IL was usually
woman. in the person of the poorest,
most harmless forlornest old woman
In the village. II IN addition to being
"a mil q nd Oh
also ugly. the proof OF her guilt was
made perfectly manifest Having To-
Gated her and established her guilt by
her looks. they proceeded 10 dispose
OF her in a summary way by drowning
or burning.
They were a conscientious set 81
fanatics, however. not entirely devoid
of logical processes. and moreover anx-
ious that nothing might be omitted
which might be calculated 20 elucidate
the truth. and so they applied a per
fectly fair and reasonable test to de-
termine finally and with certainty tha
question OF her guilt or innocence. They
threw her into the nearest river, with
heavy weight attached TO her body.
H. under those rather adverse circum-
stances she did not drown, that proved
she was a witch, and they Immediately
took her out and burned her II she
did drown that conclusively establishel
her innocence. and everybody regretted
the mistake You see. il was a perseet-
ly simple plan, a comfortable and ef-
fective arrangement
Voice from the house: did she
burn?"
Mr.. Sutherland. "Oh. yes: they got
rid OF her IN a way that was eminenily
satisfactory to everybody in the enter
prise, with the possible exception OF
the accused person, 20 whom the dis
tinction must have seemed somewhat
inccnsequential
THAT particular style OF lunacy mas
In sense passed into the lingo OF
superstition: but other forms, quite as
foolish have In time been Invented to
take its place In this locality the
modern kind Of brainstorm takes the
form OF 'hierarvhfobla. which may be
defined az an insane delusion OF the
subject on the existence and perform
ances OF mythical parsonage OF
strange appearance. nhabltlug Wild
! and desert places. and commonly called
the 'hierarch.'
TAKES A RAP AT TRIBUNE
And so. when anything occurs h
| this city which does not happen 20 suit
| the fancy OF the leaders ~ the AmeTl-
can party. We have set Of misguided
, and self-righteous lunatics. principally
composed ~ the owners, Managers, eli
tors and hired preyaTicators OF the
Salt Lake Tiibune-(laughter and loud
applause)--a newspaper which regard
| the naked truth az a somewhat lni-
modest institution--Oaug and ap-
1 plause) calculated 20 corrupt the NOR
ais Of society. and which II, therefore,
consistently refrains from publishing
who proceed 10 have an attack Of acut