Show mork 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 THE following t dispatch came over the vires wires from new nety york this morning g gun under der tb the e recent decision of the supreme court against polygamy a formidable movement is begun against the oneida community of this thia state bishop huntington of the episcopal church is the originator gi A conference of leading clergymen of dimmie diffie different reat denominations denom lna ina was held at syracuse university yesterday A committee was appointed to examine and report a practicable method of proceeding against the community which numbers persons and owns beveral several million dollars worth of property it is to lo perceive wherein 1 the ruling of the supreme court will affect the oneida community the question at issue was plural T i marriage the oneida people do not believe in la marriage at all they live and coh cob cohabit abit together under rules prescribed by the society but there is no pretence predence pre tence of matrimony either for iffe ufa or a period even the offspring of these temporary and changeable sexual rela eions which are few and far between twe enas enaa as their system is opposed to family increase except to a very limited extent are not con considered eldered the children of their respective I 1 fathers and mothers but belong tot to the community i Therul the ruling ingot of the supreme mei court does not reach them true the theory is set up therein that gress may make laws to regulate or suppress religious actions which may be considered by the majoria majority y inimical to the social welfare bul buk congress cannot legislate on this matter for the state stata of new york the slates these matters for themselves the law in ill karn kern erod crad cra eta d f tr P sma sam and the ruling upon it was rendered specially against the mormons cormons Mor mons and to suppress a part of their religious faith and practice and neta thereas ther hab has any Lap application whatever outside of if the pious new now york wish to unite to suppress a sect small in rt numbers ia Is rich in property and to ao show their xeal seal for tor public morality by stamping upon a community which advocates of the disgusting practices carried on against in their own societies they mili will have to obtain special legh legislation lation at albany congress can afford them no relief and the ruling of the supreme court has no practical bearing upon the case before them but bat though they manifest some ignorance on this matter in lu their determined baidon oneida onelda there is far m more ore consistency in attempting to rectify the social errors within their own state than in getting up crusades and sending petitions to congress for the persecution and proscription of the mormons cormons Mor mons who are aro quietly endeavoring to mind their own business thousands of miles away but before they open tire fire upon oneida they mould would do well to proceed against the tho free love licentious doings foeticide foet foot icide and andt other abominations common 1 and widespread within the sanctified fied nied circle circie cir clr cleot cleof df their own christian church organizations organization their movement indicates what we tind from froh the firs fira the ruling of the supreme court is the tho thin end of the wedge of intolerance and tha that t our institutions are arg not the only establishments of religion that will be become coine the objects of sectarian attack the poison of bigotti is beginning to work and if no antido tela teia applied the end will be the death of religious liberty in lp the united states |