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Show "UNJUST IM) I'WOIUL." Tut Denver AcjmUican has been and is very outsjokeu, aud sometimes some-times extreme and bitter, on the polygamy part of the ' Mormon" question But tint paper has been manly cnouc.li to oppose the persecution perse-cution of the law atid'nc, Mor mons" under the specious pretence of prosecuting polygamy I-or this it has bet n routjily abused 1 y Ig noraut or evil minded contemner aries But tlie Ittpubltcan still holds to what it knows to lie ri0lit on this question, nnd denounces the seizure ot rujirty because the v iews of the holders are w rung, as unjust and immoral The follow ing excel, ts from an editorial in that iaier nre addressed to tlie -Sj ring field Ma-s J tpuVicun winch his taken verv inconsistent ground ou the sulject nn It r di cussioii The Denver RcpuUiun says 'It is strange that a newspapers the stan hn, of tho Springfield Mass) lirpnUicaa in lorscs '-enator td munds Ian for transferring the escheated propcrtv of tho Mormon Church over to the put lie schools of Utah It is still more string" that I urges that provision he made to pre vent the Mormons from con rollinc, tbe I ublic schools of the Territory after this monev bili be t ran f erred to the school fun 1 I One docs not hav e to 1 a defender of Mormonism to see In this a close, rescniblanco to Ihe pohev pursued bv the persecutors of tho lYotestan s in the Sixteenth century It Istheold theorv overacaio, tbat a government has a rigbtto takoawaythe properv of jteople whose vieirs on certain questions do not accord with Huso of tho government That this is unjust an 1 immoral cannot be dttued I v any fair iinudcd man The fact that tho Mormon church teaches polygamy has very little to do with the caso part from Us teach Ing of the- doctrine of polygamy the Mornion church has as much nht to exist and to hold property as anv Dtber church orgtnization in Ihe United states It is also trno tbat a great majority of the Mormons are not polygimisf, and tbat tho greater part of the roiertv of the church was contributed by or collected from people peo-ple who are not polrgamis.s. fhe church as a religious organization an 1 tho Mormons who are not polv garni Is hire rights which are as much entiJed to the protection of the government as tho rights of any other church or of any other church inemticrs ' The truth is, that tho Springfield Rtputfiean like mnetv nineont of a hundred of the other newspaper pf the country, is blinded by prejudice against the Mormons. ' Tho men wno are gmlty of polyg atnv in tho Jlormon Church t ughl to bo punished but tho men who are not guilty of polygamy ought not to be treated as though thev were guilty If tho property of tho Mormon Chnrch shall be taken from that church socl etv and tnrnel over to the pubho schools of Utah, or if it shall be in an v way taken ou of the hands of tho Mormons, the act shall stand as a na tlonal rei roach Confiscation can never be justified, except it lie as a last resort in tho national defense To say that tho Mormons are so great a menace to the vmencan government that the confiscation of their property I is Justified, is absurd ' |