Show MORMONISM AND LAW Dr Talmage is sorely exercised over the Mormon question In his Friday night discourse at the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle he opened the vial of his wrath against the twin relic and against the government which sits idiotically in the presence of this evil and does nothing to eradicate it itBro ther Talmage has made a dIScovery dIS-covery which will be startling to the politicians Mormonism ho says is not only dominant in Utah but holds a balance of power in the stats and territories and If is powerfully entrenched in and overshadows the national capital Good gracious I Does the reverend rev-erend doctor mean to imply that wears we-ars all getting to be polygamists and that the present moral and hightoned national administration is a convert to the institution Really now the fiery exhorter the Tabernacle should remember that June is upon us that the doa pound is openand that excitement in hot weather is hazardous to health Dr Talmages Indignation has thus risen to fever heat because eight hundred captives of Mormon dom under the care of their captors were allowed on the Sabbath to pass through New York and no one put upon their shoulders the hand of arrest as they departed Terrible pictijrel But alas there is a concise document known as the Constitution which protects every mans liberty and every mans conscience con-science and women are included If any c > hand of arrest had been Uput upon the shoulders of these Mormons the same hand would probably soon afterwards have been put down into its owners I pockets to hand out an amount of damages for false imprisonment In fact law is an actuality in this land of libertv as well as Mormonism Mormon-ism and the people who think more of law than of the twin relic would have been highly indignant at any attempt to treat these eight hundred captives as criminals and deprive them of the right of free judgment without warrantNew York Herald |