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Show Mbnnonism's Challenge. Washington Post "If tho Mormon church chooses to continue con-tinue to set up a separate sovereignty of Its own. tho Government should accept tho chnllongo and adopt laws which will .effectually .ef-fectually deprlvo tho Mormons of tho control con-trol of the affairs of tho Stato In tho Interest In-terest of the church." Now Orleans Times-Democrat ; Our contemporary, In that brief para-. para-. graph, commends to tho Government of tho United States a task far moro difficult diffi-cult than any that It has ever accomplished accom-plished or even attempted. Supposing thnt what our contemporary moans by Its assumption as-sumption that "the Mormon church chooses to contlnuo to set up a seporato sovereignty of Its own" is that tho church vundertakes to control a State or several States In Its own Interest by giving Its Influence to one or tho other of tho two parties. It Is not easy to percelvo Just what sort of legislation by Congress could rcmody tho ovll. It was tho Interference of the Mormons In politics In Illinois, tholr swinging from side to sldo on masso, and thus controlling local oloctlons. that rendered ren-dered their presence In that Stato Intolerable, Intoler-able, and caused their exodus to a thon very romoto region. It was their determination deter-mination to havo a sovereignty of their own within the domain of Federal sovereignty sov-ereignty and to maintain ono of tho "twin relics of barbarism" that produced all tho friction between them and tho Nation during dur-ing tho long period of Utah's Territorial existence. As a Territory, Utah, with Its social and political ulcor, was In the hands of Congress. Tho authority of tho Nation over a Territory Is limited only by tho dictates of humanity. Tho authority of tho Federal Government over a Stato Is qulto another matter. It Is no greater over one Stnte than another; and a Stato nowly born has all tho rights and powers of ono of tho original thirteen. When tho Qucntlon of Statohood for Utah was beforo be-foro Congress, somo of tho ablest Jurists In that body exhibited a full recognition and appreciation of tho llrst fact that, in passing tho Territory on to momborshlp In tho family of States, the Nation lost Its hold on her local affairs; that the promises of tho Territory would not bo binding on tho Stato; that whatever tho Slate's constitution might contain could bo supplemented by any other provisions not In conflict with tho Constitution of tho United States; that violations of the Edmunds Ed-munds act would thoreafter bo beyond Federal Jurisdiction and that oo long as a Stato maintained "a republican form of government" tho Nsftlon had no concern with anything in tho ephcro of Stato sovereign sov-ereign ty. And Stato eovorolgnty is Just as distinct dis-tinct an entity ns Federal sovereignty. The Nation possesses only such powers as havo been delegated by tho States and tho people In tho exerclso thereof tho general Government Is supreme. And equally supremo Is each State in the exercise ex-ercise of all powers not delegated to tho Nation. Therefore, wo think tho Times-Democrat Times-Democrat haB set a hard task for tho United States Government |