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Show C03I!ICT) ON THE DECIMOX j , Tun Denver -Wi of May 21 jg ivmmcntiDg on the drciehm of the W . - Sjpreme Court of tho United State la tho "Mormon" Church case, rays: "The Mormon rhurch, so-called Is mcttign its fats in the S jj rem3 Ct-rt I of the Um:d Stat'3 Th c nlncnt I body of jurist havan -;r ni "1 :n I i opportnni'y t J "3"ir. . a lliw ! whenever tho chance wa firly pro-eated. pro-eated. Twice witbln a few month tht court has rendered opinions which demntistratiKl very cloariyJUo views of the judges in regard to the alleged religion and Ks lights, or want of righbVundcr the law. . 'Tbis deei-Uon mast be regirded as tho mt serious blow that ilormon-ism ilormon-ism has ever received. Fro-n the day that : was rendered mnt henceforth be da:d tho real decline and fall of thsSIormon-rnrch. ThcdMran-ehieuient ThcdMran-ehieuient bill, even were it practicable practica-ble or wise, need no longer be con-eldered con-eldered necessary, even by the most .perjtfgeut .opponents ofjilormonljnj. That bill, if passed, would leave the ilcrtnons in the position of martyrs, and excKe a measars of eympatby. Tins opinion by ihe Supreme Court Is a tbcml times mora eflVctlve at a weapon for the destruction of tbo auiocncy Hbieh has been allowed to grow up in Utah, font takes away tho very faumlttioa on which tbo vhole t-tructare rested. With the property of He Chun h Corporation escheated to the fcchool fond, tbe resl'ting and aarreive rOTrer of tbe allege.! ro ligion is gone, and tbe Church must rapidly ami Into a decline." it appears to be the purtosoto fasten ujon the Jurisprudence of America Ihe proposition that,then It iwJciiK'S nccf Kfary to tbe eucccm, of political ceu-pinuJcs to do no, the adherenu of an unpopular rUIgion may l declarej destitute or all rights which tlie law is bound to protect or resptit. To cugraftsuch a rule ujiou the body of our national law will wove "a niott serious blow'" to other churches tlian the "Mormon. When a ia-icr having so little ympaMiy frr tbe pmneir class of I'Uhn lobulation as the Denver .Vetrhas generally i-uown iuakts tbe admliskin It does respecting the uifraiii.hkment bill, it hi suf-fleknt suf-fleknt proof of tho wrongful and uitjuit character of that measure. That the robbery of a church thuuIJ be trc-attJ a our Denver contemix-ary contemix-ary treats the preseDt ca-e, Is a matter mat-ter of afctouUliiuent. It scetus to lie dtd to all realization of the prlnci-lilrfi prlnci-lilrfi involved Iu It, ami to tbe danger dan-ger Jch a prvculent mc.'ti3 to the l-4teof the Ilepuliilc. The "Mormons" will thed fen tear over tue money and roptrty wrested from them in deflincu of jiKticeauil comlltutional fciw, not-a not-a ilh-tandingtbat one of the ol jecto for which tbe same was contributed by them wa the relief of the poor, fney will ftill endeavor to preveMt he poor .T-iong their number from uffwiug for the neccarlte of life, liutwlth a view broad enough to include not thimlvi-s alone, but the various religious bodies bod-ies in the nation, they f profound regiet that a prcoed-nt prcoed-nt has been tet which justifies the Jeftiurtion ofaciiurch as a legal entity and tLo coufl-catlou of its ,uoputy. That American editor should not share in Hichasenti-iKeotis Hichasenti-iKeotis a matter of wonderment to flicm, and indicates a deptarable .'vgentracy of patriotii-m and lack f devotion ti cou-liliilioual prin-tittles. |
