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Show FKilltlNii A KEI.H.ION. All attempts to weakuu the force of Judge Zank's speech before tho republican repub-lican convention have fallen flat. The enunciated principle that is as clear as tho sunlight and as lirmly planted as the everlasting hills that is that tbe government cannot punish men for their beliefs and that no political party can be organized legitimately in opposition oppo-sition to any reiigion. Conduct can bo dofined and punished as crime, and political parties can be organized to oppose unlawful acts, but we cannot maintain a political party in opposition to the beliefs of any sect. Yot tho purpose of many in clinging to the liberal party is found in tho belief that it will continue to oppose the mormons because thy are mormons no uiatter how law abiding tl'ey may bo. Seine sny ih tt this is a strong statement; but The TlMks submits it in the full belief that it is none too strong. We have heard many liberals frankly declare that they were fighting the mormon church irrespective of its practices. It is not uncommon to hear it stated as conclusive against a man that "he is a mormon. " The Tiuksis not willing to believe fiat the liberal parly as a whole is nni mated bv such a feeling, but it has no loubt whatever that great many who arc talking liberalism urn animated lolely by a spirit akin to that wiiich governed mun in the (lavs of religious persecutions. There are many liberals whose real desire is to destroy the mormon mor-mon church. They s'e bitter and idtolerant. aad are ruled hy feelings tnat are unworthy of American Amer-ican citizens. All such should remember that the government ould not execute their wish for them if it would. They should mute up their mini's to stop iiht.uij a religion and to inquire whether there be any longer anything in connection with the practices prac-tices of tha mormon people which they can legitimately ask to have punished. If there be uot, then is liberaiixii toth-iog toth-iog but f r?anie t opposition to a religion, re-ligion, with no bound ground whatever to stand on. You cannot hope to maintain main-tain a light apain.xt a religion ia this country, no matter how bitterly you may have opposed pad practices of people belonging to that faith. Fighting Fight-ing a religion is out of placo iu the United States aud it ought to be banished ban-ished from the politics of Utah without any further delay. |