Show The Case of the Mormons Editors Herald Now I dislike polygamy still I am not surprised that the same people peo-ple who believe it are the willing slaves of the most superstitious form of religion on this continent But what right have men who are known to be largely guilty of the same practice secretly to disfranchise disfran-chise these people for doing the same thing openly with the sincerity of religious convictions as their justifi I cation This law like many others enacted by Congress is simply a tub thrown to the orthodox whale for the pur pose of catching votes What right has a church whose houses of wor ship in every town where it has for centuries the sole st ay Of the moral education of tin people are out numbered by houses of prostitution to ask that the people of another re ligion be forced at the cost of their political liberties to live up to Dr standard of conduct they have never practised to remarkabfj any remarkable extent within nor established without the church What right has the President of these Stites to sign a bill that dis thoulnds franchi thousands of its citizens for polygamy when he takes his oath of office by kissing the book that justifies it and lauds as pat terns of morality and saints after Gods own heart to whom he peals the men who ap practised it on a far more extended scale than the Mormons EXTRACTS BY A CHOYJDON DIVINE |