Show I 1 laical viona the L meaver baw 1 inte niven ir er the crust iders against the nor mor unions mona tin ilia political adventurers wl alo IM gree dy ayes see epe years yea iso of f good a 8 OR OH I 1 ing in utah and a the bloody who ho would sequestrate r a to the church property perty for righteousness e f following found pro 0 d an ally in ila a new quarter th following translation rom the ge ger r man newspaper the new york vola 10 1 ituau an organ of the dom lnita in ili this c country 0 antry shows with what view ot of tho the f future that regards the edmunds Ed bill recently passed by the senate which is n intended to con foscato the pro property porty of the mormon church AWAY WITH ClI URcil monopolies the ibe senate of the tb united states re r cantly parsed a bill which actually ates the property of 0 the mor woo church charch an 01 POWers the terri tern tonal authorities to bieza the church property r 0 pert yand and to apply thas the same ameto to ph t the ends of public education this thia la is right thesis ia a step forward to wards the goal long striven for our ou ir federal government has taken the I 1 in R illative in a veritable ard ardrice tice this is is no feint manc manoeuvre for it at the same 1 m 8 t time m e puts into tho hands of olli cauls l t tho legal pu ls M indans alon 8 to put them solves selves into the abe of the church property in in seiti of all abe obstructions ot of our celebrated com coca mon blaw law it itis is now the turn for farour conr state officials to follow in in the way marled marked out trinity chu church reb with its and odd millious millio mill lons cs of dollars must now be treated in the some eama wise liae the state should likewise im im mediately modia tely take possession of its prop pro p erty and apply it to b bringing ringing i i up our future citizens Is in if there alere BUY any RI abal ble reason for accumulating acau mutating mu lating millions mi 1 lions of productive capital into the dead handland han band dand and letting it increase In creasa dierf aver year in in geometrical proportion were mera ly for the purpose of fattening eye ye I 1 1 rolling hypocrites the same thing is is true of the hundreds of millions mil liona which have hav been wrung by the oath cath olics presbyterians rians and countless other religious religions seats getts from sti tiona people this capital works much more diligently and aid surely th than an it does in abe hands of private privat persons without too being in the th 4 affected by tha the heavy burd burdens eps which rest upon the property pt 91 I 1 private individuals chinch monopolies are ara just as dang L rous to the state its as lecul secular a r monopolies lods ibi cor po rations are just as and soulless as word gordly corporations r r t 0 down with the them allt 0 our f federal d ra 1 government has opened up the waya progress Fr ogress in in that direction cannot be held back no doubt these will find responsive responsive echo hn in many minds blinds tore there is u an inar inarea aing growth of feel ing against ecclesiasticism 11 will eagerly avail avaH itself of any attempt however unconstitutional to interi beddla with the religious beliefs belief 15 0 of I 1 any vart part of the ahe people eople p 1 and especially to seize the pro properly pirty of a religious denomination proscription of 91 the mormon today to day will dij I 1 witte overturn of the jews sylia synagogue gogue to mor row and the he torch and nd sword tor for catholic and and lutheran methodist and episcopal Epis colial temple of worship and temporal possession 0 the tb natural result of the edmunds bill and other irrational and al legislation against the mormons cormons Mor mons under the pret pretense ersel of 1 assailing and eradicating their odious social cus cue 1 toma 0 r i is to raise questions of conliff t n to blaw and religions freedom upon ficon which the mormons cormons will seem to be right and anol their antagonists antagonist s I 1 wrong aroi ig the result ol 01 this will bo be to t strengthen the rather than to weaken them to help more boor a than 1 I hurt it is I 1 a sad ad mistake to th try 7 to deeven do even the right thing in in aba s wrong way Kato lische f Folka blatt sit an organ orga org a of the german Cit Cat holica hollies ot of the corinthy Lon cori otry keenly appreciative of some phases of the mormon question which so BO called callad religious rig iou papers do not always 6 seem e able b 1 6 to comprehend nobody ii I 1 suspect sut pett will accuse a catholic newspaper of sympathy nym pathy with polye amy 11 This journal says gaya in better german than the E english of this abi translation trang lation the mormon que question aon 1 is 8 arim uncia Is k ably one of the leading questions of f the day in in the united states and in a religious sense naturally attracts the special attention of catholics be ba callie it concerns con corua persona who main thaia tain that their religion orders and justifies polygamy we have there bere fare orp cire car carnally fally examined the bill which has haa already been adopted by t the b banate and now lips before thi house housa of where it will in in all probability be shortly t taken iken up an aad we live have come to the conviction conviction that it f is by no means tso BO praiseworthy rat swarthy as i it j would seem geem oz os a perusal should this thia bill be erupted by the of tives lives and then become a law through jhb bin 0 the tb prisident there would be created a most danger precedent which file ali and of bigots could possibly poo gibly sibly at some borne tinto tima be b turned a the tha catholic church itself for the aba old brov proverb 1 I to day kod and thou to m morrow 1 which has held good in times ifa numberless vil ill always arnew prove its itself if true 6 iti in so BO far as tha proposal gecora mel menda ads legally anil and constitutionally allowable moans menus for the suppression of polygamy it natu r ally las our tull a approval for it goes without paying bat we thoroughly dislike the mormon seit sect on account of its immoral diameter character and approves of ins be strict enforcement of 0 all mean ores ires tending to a radical disposition of the system of man many y wives cut but th tins i 8 bill contains propositions in in which we can in no wise concur tor for they bey are neither in in harmony with the c immon common principles of 0 richt hialit nor with tile the provisions of our constitution in its provisions this bill offends not only g a fast the tha time tiina hallowed rights of th the of our country in in that it provides provi deB that who have made them seNea seNes guilty of no offense of any sort whatever wha taver may be taken into custody on the tha order or of federal courts judges commissioners and grand juries merely on suspicion that they will not render obedience aa to ab p as in in proceedings against again cormons mormons Mor r in mons 0 s but also in that it itier iti liiste ir gards aba he right belonging to every citizen of lawful pro protection against unlawful search and seizure keizar of his books sua and papers for it empowers federal officials upon lipon the pretext of an order of any sort to break into a house and sud take possession possession oe ot writ ings flags and documents which possibly might serve to bring about a condic tion ot of persons accused of polygamy finally the tha president of the unit 6 ed of states is authorized on the advice and with the consent of the Sena teto appoint commissioners who aro are to take the property of the mormon church into their possession control lip it manage it and dispose of it with out regard to t tho wishes of its right f ul al owners in these provisions proTis iona the bill stamps upon the bacrad and best beat assured rights of citizens of our oar land although he constitution in in clear and words declares these this in is too the chief not to say the oxil only reason why we do not concur in in the tha bill i I 1 1 although it is directed against a sect with whose religious faith wo we have bays no sympathy but in in addition there is also to bo be ra ire as a father consideration the possibility that it if this bill should become a law it might be maila made to aerie as a startling point for other unconstitutional measures which for the same reason should under no cir be though as in in tho the case in in question they had ha a praiseworthy purpose legislation of such sort can in in no wise wise be endur ed ad security ot of person and of prop erty must be hold held sacred and be ba pro I 1 in e every v way I 1 u unless lose one ot of tile the firmest s and n d m most 0 a t f important mp 0 foneda tiona eions upon which the state is la built is is jo 0 o fall in in ruin the Tha proposition to seize the Fro property perty of the mormon church chu rth put it under the control of officials ito to be named by the pos pendent ident and con confirmed amei by the tiena tp means no moro more and no less leas than confiscation of ef this property and we have seen in in how bow far a state comes when it with a high hand band takes to itself the control ot of church property it does not come to our oar inrid to draw a parallel between the catholic church chur cli and tile the I 1 mormon sect beet we ve with wish only to call attention jo 0 o this that I 1 an unlawful act though h perpetrated by the govern gover n merit ment allouf itse itself f can never bring good fruit to the government for it IB of impotence or atad citira want of it tho sense bense of law and justice moreover as a has been suggested above already there a might pama a to es a with W the property of tile tho atholia cl aurett tho tha sanao same procedure which it i now proposed in the edmunds a act t in relation to tile the property erty of tho ilia mormon formon N church it woo would prof d bo be of dangerous therefore fl should such it a pret precedent beckma become established if the provisions of tile lie ewines statute are not sufficient to dispose of atthe the evil polygamy and it bo be thought that more stringent measures are arb necessary then let other means be but let not tho foundations of the law and constitution bo be de patted front from for what is is not permissible to the individual is ili by so BO in much it the more forbidden to the a we state I 1 oil I 1 morality I 1 how low many a ill al crimes are committed in thy |