| Show THE EDMUNDS BILL binl PASSES THE TAE SENATE tim THE new now edmunds bill alil has passed the senate by a vote of thirty eight to sev even several senators who could not s swallow W allow s such 4 66 amon a monstrous and dishonest measure out oat had hadnot knot inot the courage conrage to face the popular feeling that might igat leit haye hate followed their vote agal against it quietly abstained from voting on either eliher side the names of the thy th heroic seven who i dared darud to do their part like men in stem stean 1 lb ing the tide of wrong should be writ ten with indelible tv ink luk upon the tho page of history and the bobie boble six who val vai placed their names on the rec ree ord kvit Avit without hout qualification or excuse 1 as opposed to a scheme to despoil an u unpopular u religious body budy should be remembered by the sons sods and aau daughters titers of those who struggle for trual truth and liberty through all succeeding gener all honor to senator blair biair of new hampshire call of elor Flor florida lda lna glo gib gio 0 son of loui Lodi louisiana slana siana hampton of south carolina morgan of alabama and vance of north Caro carolina linal I 1 senator hoar of massachusetts voted against thip the bill because it proposes to r rob the women of utah ofa of ota a vested right so 60 far tar so good but zut with that provision expunged he would have 1 voted to rob the whole people of the 1 mormon mort tion ilon church of their vested ri rights in the property they have put tol tot gether by br their own voluntary donations for belfi religious lous ious uses he argued that the suffrage age when it becomes a vested tight is property and thele fore could not be lawfully taken away oy by legislation by what system of logic could I 1 he approve of t the he forcible taking away by legislation from in a body k of people that which nobody dl disputes s Is property senator hoar Is an advocate tut jut 10 of woman suffrage therefore he lie was in his opposition to a leasure abolishing it in utah but he was most sadly inconsistent in that little sp spurt 1 uru urt of consistency senator morgan though desirous of tearing up the mormon church root and branch did not mot want to endor scan attempt to loot it nor to sanction such loose legislation as provided for certain officers without fixin nixing fixing their compensation pen pensa gatlon gation tion edmunds pru promised to an awer his question as to the salaries of the tru trustees steeg but failed to do so neither could he show ghow that the funds of the morrn Mortn mormon oWl church are aro used illegally fally faily when requested re nested to do so by senator 4 or teller re he said sald he believed 1 they were but when pressed to explain remarked they were used for the purpose of inducing and immigration what there Is illegal in the use of funds for inducing and securing immigration he did not pretend to show his replat reply proved the weakness of his position if the church chooses to use a portion of its f funds for foe emigration purposes it has a perfect tight to do so buthus how senator edmunds acquired His liis belief bellef that its funds had bad been so appropriated he did not pretend to explain senator call made the most sensible speech in the closing debate and touched thi the marrow of the question when he arener that the bill assailed that ane Are freedom of speech and worship to which the thie nation owes its It nerties and that a t mormon has as much right rl ht to proclaim his hii faith as an infidel has bas to proclaim his unbelief senator morgan exposed the determination of the promoter promote rg of the me measure a s reto to rush it I 1 through I 1 without gi giving 1 n it its opponents a proper chance to study it that was wag the method bychich by which the dirst first edmunds munds act of oppression was hustled bustled through Co congress haress and the same tactics will be ne resorted to no doubt when the bill comes up uli in the house and considering si the the tho rash jash and unreasoning mood of on the mormon Mo question guestion it will not be surprising H f a measure to take private property for public uses in direct hostility to a constitutional restriction w with lure th a number of provis ton lon lonk tonk in the na nature of wholesale robbery and a hotot sections repealing tur lur laws that have no existence will be hurriedly passed without deliberation in the spirit of passionate haste baste to join in the sectarian sec hue line and cry against an unorthodox religious system budmark but mark nis mis mormonism will live oni ou all the thu same and the shameful measures measure 6 adopted for IL its s suppression will rekindle and keep alive the fires of zeal and faith in the hearts of its adherents he rents and win for it such sympathy and influence among thinking people everywhere as will aid in ili its spread and basten hasten the day of its triumph over bigotry oppression and the false traditions of many centuries centt iries |
