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Show acainst i)isri:vciii5E.ME.r. Tin. following l3au extract from auable article, healed "An Unnecessary Un-necessary .Measure." which appeared appear-ed In the Omaha ce, of May 2sth: Existing law being therefore, ample am-ple for crushing out polygamy, any further !tgiU ion relating to the Mormon Mor-mon ch irc'u must necessarily take on the character of iersoculiou, and be re-pncuanMo re-pncuanMo the provision of tho Const! I tution which says that "Congress shall I mako no law respecting an establishment establish-ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Of this nature is tho bill now in Congress, Con-gress, which, in effect, provides that no member of tfc,e Mormon Church shall 'either vote, serve as a Joror, or be elected to or hold any ciTit o&loe in the Territory of Utah.' A man may be the most ladical of non-polygamlsts, bntifho believes ia the other doctrines doc-trines of tho Church and remains united with it ho must by the terms o this proposed law "offer disfranchise meet and tho loss of all his civil rights. The injustice of this most be obvious to all fair-minded tropic, and we do not think it at all doubtful that such a law would bo at variance with the constitutional provision we have inotod. Its practical effect would bo to condemn the Mormon faith as a whole and to prohibit its establishment estab-lishment as a religion, and this Congress Con-gress has no right to do. There is a vital principle Involved in this matter which onght to be apparent to all who Are not blinded by an undoe prejudice. preju-dice. No further danger totho moral welfare of society, in Utah or elsewhere else-where In this countr, is to bo feared from polygamy. Even though the doctrine should survive with a few as an article of faith, its practics Is a thing of the past and only the practice is criminal The proposed legislation is unnecessary and iu adoption would work great injustice to thousands who desire to bo good and law-abiding citizens. ' |