Show A it FEW ll W MORE CLIPPINGS Time The Lowell Citizen Great as its Is ta s the scandal of ot Mormon MormonIsm Ism lam It Is III not greater thin than that caused rausel by b the conflict of If marriage and divorce laws low among the states It Is 18 only moro openly offensive Chicago Thorn Thoro Is a 1 good deal deul of oe truth In that There Is moro more need of oe a mu uniform law regulating divorces and their effects In nil all the states than there thore It is I of n a 1 pure puro food laws for tor tho the some seine territory es en especially II as an tho the state food tood laws II ws ire are al III already ready nAdy In lic substantial accord Boston Transcript If It the Mr Tillman who slew Editor Gonzales and who has announced his candidacy tot for Congress Is In elected then them there should be ho a 11 contest against seat nest seating log InK him compared with which the tho Heed Smoot case cas la it I but a love feast Minneapolis Tribune 0 It H cannot bo be b pretended that flint the con conditions created directly by the Mor Mar Mormon Morman moo mon Church In Utah ore are greatly worse orllo than those created Indirectly by the courts court of oe Newport Sioux Elo Falls n II In one respect re the tho eastern Is IH moro more demoralizing than the tha western There I is general testimony le In the fidelity of ot Mormon wives to their fractional husbands In Inthe Inthe the tho east the holy boll hol state of ot matrimony IH is corrupted and InrI defaced on both sides It Is easier callier for Cor n mu son to know his own fathom father In Halt Lake Luke than thun In him Now No York high society After nil nU the thc sil RII premo social object of or marriage law Is Isto isto to tn make Ohio knowledge certain San lan Francisco Star Tho The law against polygamy In the United States does not proscribe be Jo leveri In III the Iho Mormon religion and could not without violation of oe the thc ran con which guarantees religious liberty to nil ill Yet when Joseph the head of ot the Church wan nR In the CANI case of ot Senator accused of De polygamy he lie was Wall asked questions which had no bearing whatever upon the tho point at nt Issue III whether or not Smoot lineal was leading or led cd a polygamous dealt only o ly with smith his re reo religious belief bellet Smith was wan asked for tor Instance In If It he In the principle of at revelation from God to moan man In 11 11 He Uti answered that he ho dId dd hut But whose who e business Is hilt It whether er Ir ho he does doell or not That Is lj a 1 matter zatter with which the government Suits has no le Ie legal hegal gal or moral right to interfere lie Ho might a 01 well have been asked If he believed In the time confessional Whether er ho does doos or not Is 18 no n of ot the state Congress has ham no right whatever to question a 1 oman man as Ut to his personal re mc religious or political beliefs or convictions Time TIle moi most t tooled of all nil rights are nrc tho the rights of ot free treo thought and free speech Without thee rights there thoro Comm cun be bo no liberty Liberty Is it dead deoit If It It b ha proven that Senator Smoot Is In Isa Ina a 1 polygamist t ho hue should bo bl unseated for tor ho lie Is it then A n violator of nt the limo law lacy In ami should not nOL bo Pc permitted to bo ho a 0 law hen lawmaker maker It If however It bo be proven that he ho Is la n a 1 Mormon n he ho has hns the time sauna same right to membership In bum Congress na at u a Catholic u II Protestant a Jew JOl or am un umi In Infidel Infidel fidel fidei Hartford Courant offenses against Ulah state laws hans are aro affair Tho llio senates committee on privileges stud elections hAd no liD moro mora sight light wo we dont say any no moro power to question html about them then than Rev lIe Wilbur Flak IllIk Crafts hind of ot limo Iho senators love have tho the undoubted iK louver to expel for eor wearing u ii mustache It If they the seo tit lit or for tor being a IL manufacturer of at woolens woolen or for tor living In tim Provo Promo city Power and rl right ht are oro not always tul Courant |