| Show THE DANGEROUS LINE ielne OF usurpation usurpation BISHOP TUTTLE of the episcopal church is a man inan well known and generally respected in utah of course he is opposed to the religion of the majority of the people here and is outspoken in his opinions but hu he has not exhibited that spleen and rancor rancor which are so common in tile the clerical antagonists to mormonism and has on several occasions testified to the ille good qualities of the people here in a manner that has gained him much esteem in the f olio diug which appeared in an ecclesiastical organ that gentleman incidentally attacks the mormon I 1 church in a severer tone than common with him but his main remarks strike at a measure intended for evil he has the sagacity to see that the blow aimed at the mormon church by confiscation of its property may if successful at some time be directed against other churches the proposition from which he dissents is wrong in principle and is opposed to the established ideas of the rights and powers of the state in cefere reference nce to religion and he places himself upon the record in a way that leaves no room for mistake as to his position we can afford to pass by liis his casual remarks which are understood about the despotism that he well knows does not exist in utah in view of his strong oppositional to the usurpation and robbery designed in the now new edmunds bill dr 1 I cannot persuade myself to look wit with h approval upon the enactment of measures at washington even upon the plea that extraordinary diseases require extraordinary remedies which put the control of the property of the mormon church without its desire or consent in the hands of appointees of the state and to deny the mormon people eople the right to give and use money lor the purposes to which their religious earnestness and missionary zeal urge them punish polygamists make every inch of american soil hot and yet more hot for the soles of their feet compel deep and entire obedience to the laws of the sovereign congress in this matter but I 1 am wont to feel that for the state at washington to claim control over the church in utah in the detailed management of the batters lat property and in iii the thwarting of the missionary ardor of its people is to move un american and unfair quite side by side with the highhanded high handed despotism with which the church I 1 in n utah 1 ignores nores and murders the state while the civil government steadfastly exerts itself tor for the effectual repression of crime let heresies her esies the most intemperate and false religions the most provoking be assailed only by the powerful forces of fair reason and the strong moral weapons of opposing truth 11 |
