Show EELIGIOrOLITILtb CRUSADE WOnK > WE publish In this IMUO a Ifcratd Washingtonspccial glean adequate Idea of the ISaskln anti Mormon bill Introduced ID the Senate by Senator OuIIom I includes in-cludes the cxtrcmest features of the Idaho tefct oath besides going still further than that oppressive and unjust un-just incaurc Among the alleged features of the organization membership in anJ tupport of which produces political dlfranchKement is that it leather dWrnchhment 1 tmt I tches or advises that any such law a aforesaid Is pot supreme or tliatauy alleged revelation cm Use tulject of tuch marriage Ja paramount to any such law Without repeating the cogent and powerful facts that can 0 fret orth in support of thl position tat the npprt pltn t Latterday Saints are among the mOt loyal citizens or the Republic i mi not be araiis t allude t an anomaly in thIs connection While tho Mormons huM to the doctrine of tho inspiration of Constitution and tile connxxucut jopnety of all laws made in pusu aura thereto and that they the I BaiuU nlll yet take part In the reorganization organization of this cojutry Upon the basIc principles of tliejjjatonal organic or-ganic law they are pufued relentlessly relent-lessly on the ground of disloyalty I is asserted that they hold that the IvealoJ word of God takes precedence prece-dence of earthly decrees and statutes stat-utes Upon the basis of such 1 charge they are t bo disfranchised should the measure now aimed at tem prevail We have no desire t see acrutade inaugurated against any other religious relig-ious body but wheru unjust discrimination discrim-ination is made I is iuipoible for ito tictinu to hut their eyes to the fict The Roman Catholic Church from the Pop down at this juncture junc-ture of its history takes no joins t disguise adherence the doctrine I of pipjl supremacy over all earthly laws The dictatorship in politic and all the affairs of life Io claimed to centre in the head of that church and proportionately in the oQjcial clingy woo operate under him The blowing uttered by Vicar General Preston fn a sermon delivered in New York on anlt 1S33 gives a fair idea of the unqualified scope of this assertion of supremacy Ergff word LQ speaks from his high chair is tho oice of t r Holy ChosCana must 0 obeyed To every Catholic heart comes no thought but obedience I It i said that politics is not jmia jno province ol the Church and thai IheChnrch ha only jurisdiction jurisdic-tion m maners of fb You say I will receive my faith from the P > nUir i but I will no receive my jiolities iron 1 h m This assertion is di Ioyal and I untruthful s S Yon mu act think as you choose you mast think a Catholic Tue mm who yB M will take my faith from Peer bet I will not take my politics from Peer I not a true Catholic The Church tee that the supreme 1onulmnatte oVyoi because he ICe I-Ce vcar of the Lord Christ specks through hIm Xotwithttanding the encroachments encroach-ments ofhi growing iron lower in the country all the opposition I meets merely appears in spots and Is of a desultory and umnfluentia character I docs not appear that any man in cither branch of Con grese dare Introduce a measure looking to the disfranchisement of members of the Catholic Church on the ground of declared and r iisnmeed allegiance to a power deemed by its members wSptrior t the State WeJbavcno wish toace euch a measure attempted but Ic I ler atwJteJ bt simply note the act tint the x te supposed sup-posed weaker jnrty I invarfablj victimized bj the eLsa who frafes Ijyalfy while they are euenmin fat Lathe nation being enjaged in the abolition of Its safeguards S against opjires ion and anarchy |