| Show ANOTHER UTAH QUESTION thulah TH utah mormon evil is prolific of questions the Edmu edmunds lids law provided lot lor the confiscation of certain mormon church property and now that the law is beins being car carried rigId into effect the question arises as to what shall be done dene with the proceeds of the we sale of this property A receiver was appointed several months ago under the law and he has already in his hia hands the proceeds of nearly a mil ion dollars worth of surrendered pra property perty the edmunds act made no islah lor for t the B disposition on of these F lands n S the e ve very ea appropriate suggestion has as been een made that aaa they be used bov edu educational ca a purposes urpo pea but the fatig as a at t in once n c de ar arises r ies liaw they cin can laje e thus h P in 4 utah aih the school system r 0 of pt th the territory a err th I 1 is almost st wholly under utah ta management and to turn over this money to the utah school fund would be very much like taking it from the cormons mormons sAPI only to return it to them again the utah tah problem is by no means as yet solved there must be further action OA the part of congress and it must we ee sweeping enough to give the lede federal I 1 authorities c control of the schools cotil utah tah upa is baft cari gle able og ideal govern t 0 A american p principles 10 local ee Q SO er e V IT hould be taken kon I 1 from in her r 4 y been too lucli of hallway hall way k W wi th h mormon monster be 48 1 eoye 1 B from rom the boston traveler veler lt t is smear to a d number of am editorials torlA is which W ca c haye ave 6 pei appeared ad in n bouru listern tag the ho I 1 ideas begs arp t tae e same and the woi wording in every sen sear tence to is almost identical showing the parrot like process by which anti mormon articles are worked borkel up for the press we do not know where the botio notions therein contained originated the traveler traveler cannot claim them as its own for they appeared in other papers rs before the boston editor issued them and several other journals bave repeated them since but whoever gave them first to the public wrote himself down anything but a wise man in the first place everybody who knows anything about the powers of a receiver understands that property placed in his hands bands cannot be disposed of or ap appropriated for any purpose lie he simply holds it while the question is as to its ownership la is pending in the courts the anxiety of the press then as to the immediate use ot of the funds they seem to imagine have been confiscated is entirely thrown away in the second place any one who has read the act ol of con congress r esi under which proceedings for t the e forfeiture ol 01 mormon church property have been taken and ha has common sense knows that that act does provide for the disposition of these funds it if when the case is decided in the cour courts lt shall appear that the united states can take possession of property belonging to the church and divert it to other uses than that for which it was donated by the members the means so obtained are under the law to be used for the beneat benefit of ithe district schools of this territory that is not an appropriate suggestion 11 it is thus provided by the same law that attempts the confiscation so that it the pro proposition posit ton does look ve very ry much like taking this money from the mormons cormons aly anly to return it to them again it is in the law and surely the traveler travale Tra vele would not question the wisdom of a ia law w of congress for doing which it would consign any contentious mormon to the depths of a dungeon ce cell 11 11 so the traveler would give the federal authorities control of the schools what else why not make this government paternal at once and give it control of families and labor and religion and opinion simple control of schools would be what it calls too much halfway work it would perplex the traveler if it were required to show wherein utah I 1 ia ii not capable of local self govern gover n ment so far as her people have been able to exercise it they have demonstrated their ability to do so wisely honestly and economically vh the traveller know anything about it the article we have clipped from its columns shows that tat it is ready to adopt anything that way may be said against utah without taking the trouble to Invest investigate Wate the monster of misrepresentation is immensely more formidable threatening and dangerous to society than anything that can be found ln in mormonism |
