Show THE MORMON QUESTION the following strong and pertinent article on this everlasting question is taken from texas siftings sittings of march 8 the new anti antl mormon bill reported byar by mr hoar from tile the senate judiciary committee provides that theMo the mordou church corporation shall be abolished and its funds turned over to fourteen trustees of president arthurs appointment that women shall be compelled to testify against their husbands and that all property accumulated by its religious or charitable institutions in excess of shall be forfeited the bill further further ordains that the mormon must be brou brought under carpetbag carpetbag rule to which end it provides for a returning boar dand daud av athole a whole hole hoie host of unclean official which several hosts host amm ame now in or around washington waiting for something to turn up this beat beats s the penal laws of ireland the blue laws of connecticut and the blue blazes that issued from religious persecution se in the middle ages it is only strange that the judiciary committee direct the hanging drabin drawing and quartering of mormon hormon men and tile the distribution of the widows among congressmen just for a cha change n ge of virtue in the name of the sev seven en deadly sins has congress any more moore right to turn over the assets 0 of the mormon corporation to fourteen trustees and they inspired with a religious rell reli lous ious fervor to prey without ceasing than to make a similar dis potion of the property of the western union tel tei telegraph evgraph company and what night right has it to compel the forfeiture of the he mormon religious and charitable funds mormonism as a religion has as much right to existence in this country as catholicity or methodism the violation of the law does not consist in the operation of thinking that a man has a right to marry two or in more ore wives simultaneously but in the act of having int ini them the idea of dissolving any religion re igdon in this country by act of congress suggests a precedent which in the course of human events may be used for dissolving all ali 11 other religions except that which wields the heaviest purse commands and most membership the polygamous feature of mormonism 4 sa a relic oi of barbarism and it should perish from the face of this country but this cannot be effected through li the agency of an inquisition in t tha the e hands of thieving carpet by A mi admirable provision of providence in the interest of humala humara freedom no rellon religion has ever been crushed by violence i le ce end r nd congress ess had better connine confine its me measures res to 0 the prosecution of polygamy without extending its sphere of action to the extent of demanding the dissolution oi 01 religious organizations it is perhaps a low estimate to put the proportion of con congressmen who lead immoral lives at ninety per cent while not over thirty per centon cent of the mormons cormons are polygamous and yet how would it sound if Cob coh congressmen gressmen self seif convicted of immorality should proceed to dissolve all religious organizations izat ions of the country on the ground that these organizations did not make them behave themselves |