Show HE DOES IT SO SWEETLY IT appears that governor thomas was interviewed by an associated press reporter and the result tele graphed east on sunday feb 2 his talk was of the usual anti mor imor mon character he is an all expert back stabber with a greased knife he dwelt particularly upon the es cheating of the property of tile the mormon people by the government offerings offering a sleek apology for the commission of the robbery while saying substantially that the class clan to which he belongs did not ask for the thievish measure as it would give the saints occasion to claim that the gentiles robbed them it is curious that governor thomas should be oblivious to the fact that the faction to which he belongs had repeatedly threatened to assail the PrOper property tv of wo be majority and that the act was the natural outcome of their operations and representations the governor directed the attention of the reporter to the law of 1862 which prohibits its any church from accumulating property to a larger amount than this inhibition hibi tion was defiantly disregarded in proof of this defiant disregard he ran up a list of property which he said had been amassed by the church and in his inventory showed a defiant disregard for the truth As an instance he stated that the church owned stock in the deseret national rank bank which assertion is utterly false it seems from this that his bis stock of conscience is in need of or augmentation he said in a childlike child like and bland way it was this vast accumulation of property in violation of law which led to the act of congress es cheating the surplus property to the benefit of schools this apology is not logical although it may do for political capital which the governor was evidently intending to manufacture by his statements if it were conele consistent tent it would apply with equal force to the other churches which have far exceeded the amount prescribed by the act of 1862 but no such application could come from the gentleman who entertained the reporter on sunday it would be opposed to tire theory of his mutterings rings about the law being defiantly disregarded the act in question is in defiant disregard of a plain inhibition of the constitution the property es cheated was private property it belonged to those who donated it for beneficent Dur purposes poses it was in no sense public property the constitution says nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation the private property of the lat ter day saints has been taken for a public purpose without any compensation whatever in defiant disregard of the supreme law of ef the land and it has been done too at the instigation of the class to which mr thomas belongs he should read the constitution ution and become familiar with the safeguards it has bas thrown around tile the citizen and then try to formulate an apology for the cheating es business upon that basis |