Show TO THIS THIP 33 I 1 THE edmunds tucker bill finds small favor avor from the press of the country as a whole some of the public journals are remarkably pronounced in their denunciation of the monstrous ladas measure the denver Be publican arr arrays ays Itsel titu the side of its opponents and directs this vigorous thrust at its fisc atory feature it may to fanatics look like a most ingot heinous sin to say ope one word ag against ainah legislation which Is designed tu to break up the church and aad to destroy its to power and influence but thie there are crimes which may be committed in the name of the law more outrageous outrage oue it if even that of which the polygamous cormons mormons ate are guilty the blu bill which was agreed upon by the conference committee of dt the house anil alie he senate for the of affairs in utah provides lor for the dissolution of the corporation known as ai the mormon coul church reh this to is right enough for it admits of church property bei being ip held by trustees for fok the use and bet benefit of the church or cengr congregation but the bill goes further than an this it provides that after the payment of all claims allowed allowed against t the e ca corporation r oration the residue 0 of its property t ill a shall all be paid to the treasury of the cited united state it shall hall then b appropriated toward the of the public fie schools of the territory this as interpreted interpret edby by the debate in the senate means that the debts of 61 the corporation shall be paid and that any member or is stockholder older 1 who can show that he be has ass a right 9 to a definite hare of its property shall be reimbursed but all the money accumulated by sunday collections and in other ways where the individual ownership cannot be di distinguished ti i s hed br or ascertained shall I 1 instead no tea d 10 of ri being e ing placed in the hands of df trustees foe or the boue benefit fit of the chul feb be appropriated by congress to the t of public this is nothing more nor less than an exercise of arbitrary power which should not for one moment be tolerated when such a thing is done by an individual it is called robbery and many robbers have sought to excuse their acts by saying that they jave gave li liberally berZy of their gl blunder under to the poor when dono done y a government it to is called coyoca confiscation but whatever may be s th the e name nam e by which it is called I 1 if is arbitrary and despotic it is contrary conry to the fundamental prine principles wad lea of american lipo liberty erty and it can nad neither excuse por nor justification jn in the fact that some ome of 0 the mormons cormons are polygamists this act it justified against the mormon church could be justified against the roman catholic or the presbyterian or the methodist the property of the mormon church belo belongs to thit that churchard Chur chand not to the United states not nor to the public schools of utah it should be placed in the hands of trustees trustee sto to hold it for the use and benefit of the church the eions of the spanish inquisition were justifiable if this highhanded high handed congressional robbery can be excused b by the plead plea that the mormons cormons as ft a drass class or as individuals are able |