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Show api'Alllm. rvnt'Eiusy AU ABASEMEXT. It is thstasteful to us to refer to the statements of the chief aull ' Mormon" organ, published in this citi To do to occa-loualb, ho ever, wrves to throw tome imiwrt ant element of the local and, to omc extent, national situation into re're-hing pnomineuce. tor this reason we quote the fo'lowlug from vesten'ov s i"v.ue of the sheet re-feiral re-feiral to. In its wisdom the goernmntof 4 he United Mates believe.! it owed it 10 11s own ieo 1 to under the law, take from the Mormon power property un Jimlr obuisod f rod its people, and ued to pervert and defeat the laws of thopnernment of the United States and torn it over for the education of the children of the parents who luvo been robbed by the Church ' Tho property in question was not unju-tli obtained, having Iieen donated I members of the Church for benevolent purposes including the support of the poor J-or this reason tliere has been 1 racticalli no pauperi-bi among tho baints in tho ordinary acceitatlon of the term There has been no application of the means of tile Church to ervert or defeat tbelaus ofthecountri Tho-u who donated the means h n e not leen rot lied of it bi the Church, but supiiotc it should U. admitted th it such has leen the ease, in whit potifou would it place the Gentiles ul this community, rhuui I the pro weal carri to deo e the eihcateI irojierti of the Latter-dai Saints to the ucand benefit of the common schooL Tliere is In I tali, t-pecialii m bait Lake City and O.; leu, a Iare.e and increasing Gentile projrtionof lojulation Un made a matter of constant boast that that element is -welling numcricall) with more rai idit than are the Mormons" m the particular tow ns named Thee two cities weuhl necessarily receive 1 large share of the confi-cated lrojicrt fo- educatkmal j.uqe Consequently the Gentile children inLUh would, iccordin to the logic of the antl 'Mormon" organ, he JergeJi iulebtedfor their eiiuca tion to a fund which tliatpaer saiswascbtained from tbOM. who donated it by a j roces of robbery, and seized from Hi w ho thus j ro-cured ro-cured it 1 a Im!Iar method e hoj tliere is no cr-oii 011 the earth ro'tv.Iu0 to be a Latter day caiut wiio would williugh Milfer himself or his children to Ik. placed m a situation so utterii ban. ind liumiliatm,; as would oe tiic case with the CenthYs iu I tlieir chi' dren in Utah in the ceHt of the liard ea-nlngs of the Mormons being deoted to a jiubhc school fund let here Is a iiublic journal, aud probabli mini of the people vho-e views it claims to rep resent reade ind eager fertile con summation of tins fearful selfde Oradation reihaiitniay be well, after all, that such a climax o' slf abasement Mioukl bo reached If it dia!l be, j ind the 11011 ' Jlormoti" children of I tab I. oducated ly 1 process of I theft with menus which ha? Lecii earned li the -wlns" then vha'cicr IsULcees in life is attained li tho Gentile beneficiaries through the educational fulliti-s thu lu-nished can ouli be truth fully attributed,.! tar as the conlis cated jmoferti rfuH o, to the jioor, lecle-d and abuseil ' Mormons" That will l-e the situjtlo 1 There isnoevadiUoit. I ct ee"i C-entilei hug the fact to Ins boom that withes I to but when the full 'orce of it I corn's home to sonic of them, wi imagine thei will recoil from it, Otherwise thei uuworthi the name of men The I draunds bill In relation to the disposal of Ihcconfl-icatcd irop-ertv irop-ertv of the Church now pending 111 Congress does not 1 rovidu tnat it Miall 1 umsJ for the edurilioiiil benfitof the ehildrcu of th- je-oie w ho earned the menus and to w horn i' beiongi It j rojxj-es to use it for the eeiucaiioii c f the children of the nsn ' Mo-ni n ' jiopulatiou as well and the latter have no roi icutri rights In the prcmi-es, Iil mu t nc cejt, MKiuId the srheme carry, a clunte at tbeliauJsof theorihinnl donor-, altiiough it reache-s them indirectly The fact tint the fund isscued under color of Ian igains tLe pnob. of Its. real proirietors ouli mtkes the pauperi tic Jf)-ition of 1 ce-tain c'ass of the beneficiaries all the more contemptibh reople who would dc-ccn I to icb a dej th o' abject dejiendcncy ought to continue to shout about the j Irit of Vme ican indejieiidence aul thus '-as-uiue a 1rt11e, though the "ha e it not ' |