| Show tyrannical potentiality the following article on the edmunds monstrosity Is taken from the chicago current which is a very pronounced opponent ot of polygamy and mormonism the supplementary mormon bill supplementary passed assed the senate enate 4 st jacksons day it rt is beyond contention anywhere that the united states is a sovereign at least in its territories it has before exercised its despotic power a f famous amous example to ta time of profound peace being the reign of boss shepard in washington now the same tyrannical potentiality is to be let lose un on the polygamists it is the civil way of ac comp con lishing the work of an army man killers we hope the may so accept it professor ropes in his bis book sa says s philosophically ally of the jacobin caul club that it was necessary for that esteemed society to take away the dearest right of men en to live in many thousand cases T for or the purpose of impressing on mankind the doctrine of the somewhat lesser right of men to be b f free ree and equal before their country inasmuch as the inhibition against polygamy agamy has already been put on them h em they should exhibit no great wonder wonder at the second project of mr edmunds and now of the senate which establishes as mormon pastors fourteen horrible horlib le gentiles who will take tithes revise accounts and cut on off trade in europe nothing further from the arlt of our institutions than this is has ever been attempted in legislation the abolition of 0 slavery however repugnant to our constitution was still in perfect barm harmony Gny with the opening sentence of the declaration of independence but this federal assumption of the benefices beneficed benefi ces of the saints this turning of a bakers dozen of office seekers into the largess of a rich ecclesiastical cor corporation por exhibits in all its gravity the problem to which mr edmunds one of the greatest students of government who wao ever lived has given his almost undivided attention as a public servant rvan t M mr r edmunds edmund ss says a s th the e chu church ach of latter day saints can be be reduced to a law abiding religious corporation by the workings of his project when made law that assertion of belief is our best beat reason for taking extraordinary action this terrible wonder of even the salt lake city patriots and gentiles was passed by a vote of 38 to 7 and probably sev eral of the seven would have voted for it to save it thirty two senators with shaky nerves were absent the house may not stop long on the passage s a of the bill and as the president i in n december wrote a high school essay on the delights of the anti polygamous fireside we advise the mormons cormons to go to mexico at once the polygamous bishops are too old to learn the tricks mr edmunds has in store for them the current hopes the medicine we are about to give the mormons cormons may never be prescribed for our own body politic perhaps there would be au an honester cruelty in sending an army to run salt lake as butler ran new orleans and the majesty of civil law and liberty might not get bed |
