The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-22
HIS FALSITIES

Editor Tribune:-Unlty hall, this city.
is radical "Cloaca Maxima," into Which
the sewerage from religiously and polltI-
cally diseased minds flow iptermittently.
Every adventurer, atheist, political agi
tator, anarchist and revolutionist that
visits our city receives Il hospitable invi-
tation to the platform OF Unity hall and
"caed mile faletha" from Its hlero-
phant, Thurston Brown Last Sunday
night a political advcnturer. a Mexican
refugee, calling himself l.. Gutierrez de
Lara, held the stage at Unity hall and
poured hot shot into the Mexican repub-
lie and into the camp OF Its president,
Porfrio Diaz
After bonlbarding the Mexican govern
mcnt. he trained his guns on the ceme-
teries where repose the ashes Of the
frlars or the priests OF the religious or
exclaimed, were in those times the
privileged class. They Cile soldiers. oCli-
cinls. lawyers and doctors) produced MOTH
Ing, they prayed, and prayed, and
SO much for the Mexican. Now let
us hear what greater and better men
than de Lara have TO say; ~
THE progress of religion in Mexico
by the preaching OF the Franciscan
priests, was so universal: that In the
space Of forty years fieXen sNarrn nundrga yarra
founded in that nd,"-Migne~Diction-
'in Mexico. the priests OF the Catholic
church had a fair field, and had to fight
only against the .corruptions Of the hu;
man heart and the devices OF the evil
one. They overeame both. All Mexico,
trail America. Guatemala, Honduras and
Nicaragua, was converted by them. They
had done all that apostles could do, and
they failed only where st Paul and ST
To-
failed" Observation-Disclosures Missions. p.
"The Roman Catholic priests in Mex
leo, and indeed In all Central and South
America. uniformly exerted their inilu-
ence to protect the Indians and moderate
the ferocity of their countrymen. '-koo-
ertson-Charles ", vol X, p. 900.
1--WE must express our admiration for
the exalted piety of the Roman Catholic
missionaries, who. in these lands In
habited by human beings IN the lowest
and misery IN all forms, 10 win the In
dIans 10 better habits and a pu:cr faith.
-Berthold Seeman-Narratlve OF Travel,
"The Viceroy replied that towers with
soldiers were dens OF thieves. but that
monasterieS with priests were as good
dians in subsection. Arthur Helps
Mexico, p. 200.
Already the Indian had learned to
regard the priests FIRST with astonish-
poverty. their temperance, their simplicity
of life recommended them at once to the
ndlan,"-Helps-p. 3l3,
"The missionary priests had covered
the sterile rocks of Lower California with
the monuments, agricultural. architec-
tural, and economical, of their patience
and aptitude Sir G. Simpson-Narra-
tive of his journey. p. 49,
With one exception all these extracts
are from non-Catholic authorities. We
might multiply these expressions OF ad-
miration Neutrality-suspicious. Bandelier
Elliott Coues, John Russell Bartlett,
George Bancroft Charles f. Lummis.
Thomas A. Janvier and other honest and
distinguished students OF Spanish -Ameri
can history are unanimous in their ap
probation of the dsnterested and dar-
ing labors and efforts of the priests of
the Catholic church for the reclamation
Their zeal and their heroism were In
finite" writes Mr.. Lummis in his s"Span-
ish Pioneers; mo desert was too fright
full for them. no danger too appalling.
Alone. unarmed, they Travelled the most
forbiddiDg lands. braved the most dead
ly savages. and left upon the minds of
the Indians such n proud monument as
mailed explorers or conquering armies
never made"
Away from the amenities OF life.
away from the opportunities OF vain
glory" says Bancroft, they became
dead to the world and possessed their
souls in unalterable peace, The history
OF their labors is connected with the
origin OF every celebrated town in Span
ish America, not cape was turned, not
river entered, but a Catholic mission
airy led the way
And oo,,- lat VIC ctiiI f,,rtbor sfa, mn tbic