Show A COGENT T ARGUMENT Tho rho Tribune has hart become unusually bitter over our exposure or ot Its Un error In maintaining that the Church Is en engaged engaged In Interstate commerce It com corn complains plains that we wo trilled failed to quote the co Ce gent ent part of or its ita argument to that ef effect recto Yet Tut we quoted freely freel and exactly the tho papers own words and In the very at ar tide which embodies this complaint of or that paper It rails falls to quote a IL i line of what the News said eald on the time subject However wo we trust that wo we shall never be bo found round ungenerous In stating the argument of or an nn opponent and wo we hero give space to 10 each cacti of tho the arcu meats used by tho the Tribune to show that tho the Church Is lit a it common carrier of ot freight and passengers that It is guilty of and that It should therefore bo ho regulated or better still uproot uprooted ed and abolished by b Congress etc Tho The point ot or the tho Tribunes ar argument Is this Through Its Ita numerous agents the Church Is tremendously Interested In many concerns whose business ex cx extends extends tends tenths over and affects numerous States Slates If so ao then Ihen those engaged In Inter Interstate Interstate state stalo commerce Include every church every overy commercial house every person In fact tact who buys or sells anything transported by hy railroads over the tins boundaries of or any one State Stat but title this Is far enough from constituting any of or them carriers of or freight much less of convicting them of or permitting an nn un an unlawful lawful discrimination In passenger and freight rates the only named In the laws against rebating Tho rho second point made by b the organ Is III It us liS follows It U must bo ho borne boino In mind that tha t by moans means of these contracts ts with Inter litter Interstate Interstate state transportation companies they are In lii reality rea lit engaging In III Interstate Uto commerce Ho So says nays the organ hut but tIre the courts say gay that only those who are aro licensed to carry freight or passengers for Cor hire aro are engaged in Interstate tate commerce Who knows kno 11 bent beet the th Tribune or th the courts The Tho third point Is thus elaborated As All a third proposition It must not he ho forgotten that the money which Is employed In the exploitation of these concerns In lit taken from the funds of or the Church which are aro collected for Cor religious purposes The Tho organ seems 1 to think that be rausa the tho Church gets Its funds from donations It collects them i and that tn to buy Church furni furniture tUtu ture etc elc therewith ther Is pot not using tho the mooney money mono for Cor religious purposes purpose also aisom that this somehow makes the Church guilty guilt of ot all of oe which Is ab nh absurd surd enough to produce laughter r before any ny Jury jurys Av lI s a It fourth proof timid that tho time Church Is him somehow a 1 violator of ot the laws regu remi regulating lating rAilroAd charges the tho organ orlan says with apparent gusto su tOI Again AgnIn by try means of or contracts with ocean steamship companies the tha mor mormon 1 Morman or ormon mon man Church Is 5 l in the ihie Ih Inter Interstate interstate state and International of ot female converts train from for tor foreign torel sign eign el ll shores Wo 0 discover only two timIngs thing wrong with the final first that hat It ItU ItIs ItIs Is U totally untrue that If It true trite It U would have VO no bearing upon Uon this the 1 question que llon ot of tho the Church In hi tho the commerce laws No N ono one no knows knowlI Jolter better than the tho Tribune that the Church does not contract contrad for fog forthe the Immigration of converts while the tha reference to female converts convert Is so absolutely contemptible that we wo refrain front from affronting our readers by h copy copyIng lug Ing the tho remainder of It It Is however equally false and more slanderous rind and IB Is II a It tilting fitting climax to tho time puerile argument ment which we wo have hlo so o patiently re ro refuted Wo We wonder however If It any nn of ot tho thin lawyers of at this city have tend rend that pa papers pers wonderful explanation and dIe dis discovery 18 covery that tho the Church Is u II common carrier and ond ought therefore to be de do despoiled despoiled spoiled by hy some fort sort of federal process processor or congressional law lawi Perhaps an apology to renders readers lit hI duo due for tor paying so 80 much lItuch attention to t an nn argument that scorns to have havo Its origin in an nn insane asylum but it seems necessary to state tho truth as long loti as ae Its assailants ts succeed In III de he deceiving deceiving citizens on whose votes tho the fate fato of oC the tIme community may ma depend We a have no ire n desire to wrangle with a It con orn era that has hart placed Itself on ft n level with the tho gutter but we are anxious that no one shall shah follow Collow the lead of tho the deceiver blindfolded blind told cd |