Show A STATE RELIGION I A QUERY has arisen in the minds of not lot a few persons of late as to whether in the event of we new edmunds bill oe coming law mormonism would not be the state religion in view of it being the only religion lor for the direction and control of which congress has legislate dand especially as the new bill provides for the appointment of a board of officers or trustees for the church chuich it would certainly not be unreasonable to regard it as the state religion how will that sound to the world that the lawmakers of the united states have not only violated the constitution ution in establishing a state religion but in doing so have made the stone which from the beginning the builders of nat national iopal law hive have rejected the chief corner the omaha herall says of the pending legislation concerning this church the constitution of the united states forbids a state religion or church yet vet the edmunds bill which nas aas passed the senate contemplates something very similar to such an t the mormons cormons have for the management of the ba ginesi caf fairs talas of 01 their church a board of thirteen trustees the duties of which are prescribed by the act of the the legislature under which it was incorporated corp orated embracing the management of church property the acceptance of bequests the advancement of tile the mormon religion etc the ed bill compels the board to accept 1 an addition ut of fourteen trustees appointed by the president whose duties as aa respects matters not polygamous are arb defined by the act of the me mormon legislature and are the same of course as those of their mor non colle colleagues agaes this majority representation sen tation of the government whose object is to exert an influence on mor non idon theology is clearly a ion of the pro visions ot the aution ca can the american re republic afford to tak iauch a step |