Show THE GEORGIA ANTI MOR MON LAW their arc are several serious considerations erat ions connected with the pam passage sage of the georgia law prohibiting the preaching of mormon ism within tho borders of the state the serious part of it however docs does not fall upon the latter day saints but upon the S state tato of georgia the elders of the church can call certainly afford to withdraw from that field missionary work there lias bas been a hazardous busin s those who have engaged in it have been subjected to insult violence and in one instance death from no intelligent pers person on who la is wellin well in formed on oil the question could doubt the sincee sincerity ity of the elder they give incontrovertible evidences of I it one of which is the persistency with which they pursue the work of propagating the principles they hold to be true under the most trying circumstances they arc are expelled however by legal barriers from any part of the country it would appear eliat abat whatever responsibility there may be regarding the delivery of their lat at ter day nim message age must from that time remove from their shoulders boulders to those of the people rejecting them but we do not think that georgia or any other state in the union can afford to pass such a law as that now considered it is an outrage on republican institutions besides it is positively ridiculous it not only simply interferes with free speech so far as the latter day saints arc are concerned but utterly obliterates it if we understand the character of the law correctly tin an elder is prohibited hibi ted under heavy penalties from preaching any portion offis of his reli religion gioi although he may never utter a word in relation to polygamy the law prohibits the preaching of any religion that incorporates in it a belief in the rightfulness of polygamy baptism iff in water by immers immersion sion is is a part of the mormon Kormon I faith and according to this absurd jaw law if a Wo mormon rmon elder were to preach that doctrine being a part of his religion which incorporates a belief in polygamy he lie would ho lie liable to punishment A or baptist could however preach the same doctrine with perfect impunity this is legal discrimination with a vengeance inthe if the letter of the law were adhered coall the heterogeneous mass of conflicting religious sects would be thrown out as us well as the mormon this would undoubtedly bethe be the case if their practice were consistent with their profession they claim the bible t be their rule of faith and practice the foundation upon which their religious structures arc are built however they may seek to evade the fact or cover it up a fact filet nevertheless it is that the good book teaches and approves under some circumstances a it system of plural marriage this cannot be successfully confuted logically then if the bible were really the foundation of sectarian religion as in the tile support upon which it stands would be found the doctrine at which the georgia legislative action is aimed therefore the letter of the law would send preachers of popular dogmas to the penitentiary as well as the 31 mormon ormon elders tho tito law is ia an enigma in another respect it is a positive curiosity in its way its barbed point is aimed at a prospective deed and is therefore what might be aptly called indirect legislation it pur I ports to prevent the propounding of theories that may in the undefined future cause some undiscovered individuals divi duals to commit breaches of a united states statute this suppositional sit Bit ional future criminality is not to be perpetrated within the confines of the state mormons Mor Wor mons do not practice polygamy in georgia but in some distant part of the country over which the state of georgia has no more jurisdiction than it has over the inhabitants of afghanistan let people look at this law from a standpoint of reason and logic with their mental visual organs denuded of the discoloring coloring dis goggles of prejudice and they cannot but see the absurdity of this late anti mormon measure by the railroad accident in france yest yesterday erda 25 20 persons were killed and 40 wounded during the presidential trip to long branch while at perry vil vule ej the ic journals were examined and found n to be getting hot ono had a already irea ou begun to smoke and tile disa disagreeable r eca le mine smell 11 was killed by the docto doctors rs w with t some costly substance |