| Show THAT SUPPOSED DISCOVERY J An organ of ot this city a few tew days taYs sluice since announced a sup BU supposed posed discovery It had made It wits was that hat tho Church by buying goods made maden In n other States Hat s Is engaging In Inter Interstate interstate state commerce From this timis false falso prem prom Is iso so tho limo paper proceeded to argue arguo that Congress Cnn reEs or 01 the tho federal power should prosecute the tho Church It oven oen hinted it nt tho time confiscation of or Church property or something of ot that nature Wo We 0 ex cx exposed posed time the error of our by showing that according to the court It IH lH necessary sary to be a 11 com corn common non mon carrier currier of freight or passengers In order to conic como within tho the legal legu meaning of engaging in iii Interstate commerce The Tho organ however professes not to tove tobe ve be 10 satisfied with this demonstration It U now new no argues Rr us that Interstate means menns anything an that concerns or extends Into more moro than ono one State And Anet this is true In III u a general genral sense but not In tho the souse lIot i e of tho legal Igal phrase ot or engaging lag ing In In Interstate commerce No one would claim that tho time word I III to JOCH not have havo this general meaning moaning but ut time the question was simply ply whether the time Church should bo be haled hul d Into court not only for tor supposed l I y engaging In imi Interstate hut but for violating tho the law In so doing We Vo showed that time tho Church neither engages es cut In Interstate nor not that II it breaks any an of ot tho time laws ot of tho the land IlInd The rite organ still maintains however that It U merely morel amoral stated tho the facts acts In claiming that I tho timo hurch should be regulated In hi some lOmo way a for engaging In fit n Interstate commerce Titus Thus It says nays If rc time the la III i to be e BO so particular in ilK tn P tho thu meaning of af tho time word Inter Interstate interstate state It Il should deny Ien that It holds an tin interstate lucre hero every overy six nix months To Tn ho bo con It should my say Ir that when tho the Welsh people hold lucid holdan an nn eisteddfod It Is not an 1111 Interstate musical competition And Anil AO so 10 a it 1 Conference ot of tho hl Church or it II Is In a n violation ot or ottha orthe the tha law against t r rebilling rebating u Is i It u 7 For that this Is III tho the question at nt In is issue sue Thu Iho question U is not time tha meaning of alone but hut ot of Inter I stati commerce end and that too In tho time tholie sense lie In which tho time law uses tho the term In iii regulating the tho acts of ot railroads arid and other common carriers Thus rhul tho time Interstate commerce law lai as Oil passed In 11 lili 1811 mInd and 1 amended In 1181 and tho time rate rat lull law III nf or flOG together provide that In n the thu vao I O of a n corporation acting an a mm II common com moIl tiner misty any director or or em 01 any eny receiver inmates les agent or Person pernon oll permitting an unlawful lilt ale crimination In iii 11 r or freight rateS rate on conviction thereof thai shall bo bt punished by a 1 Inn fine not exceeding ana in addition n to tn tho the fine be liable to In n Urn time for tor a it term tenn not lint two years eurs or II both bolh such Buch ln him and Imprison Imprisonment mont ment In III time discretion nf nt the tha court Flit Tho rebating net act nd of loos rained the tha fine IIno fineto tn to a it maximum nf ut It 11 IN is I only th thAt in of lit till time lii tt s can IJ which I i section for tor Instance would tho timo Trib suggest tho th prosecution pro ot of ortho time tho Church officials for tor holding a II semian nual nuci conference or 01 of ot tho time Welsh choral chorn society In presenting an eisteddfod toll foil 7 Unless that paper con can show In what precis manner tho the holding holdin ol oleither o oleither either the time eisteddfod or tho time conference la Is a tI violation of ot time tha laws against re ro rebating bating by railroads UK Its newest charge chargo against tho the Church an mum n a violator of ot these thello lawn In w must bo be regarded ns II equally false falsa with lIh Its various other allegations |
