Show A CAUSE FOR excommunication THE dispatches a few days ago stated that E B esher jr of chicago son of a bishop of the evangelical church had bad been formally tried and expelled from that church mainly on account account of having instituted a civil suit against a oo co lonist without first resorting to ecclesiastical tribunals it is safe to say any that not a single newspaper in america of any intelligence or influence will deny the right of the evangelical church to do what it diax did on any ground of interference with the civil authorities yet should a mormon ecclesiastical tribunal go so far as to merely temporarily pora rily so prominent a member for precisely the same breach of church discipline the incident would be seized upon and aad magnified into conclusive proof that the mormon hierarchy was an imperium in ink imperio perio independent of and defiant towards the civil tribunals given to treasonable practices ard and designs etc no reason is given why the mormon church should not be permitted to exercise the same power and discretion in enforcing hurch church discipline or in excommunicating ui members who rebel against the same that other churches have no such reason reason exists having any foundation in intelligence or justice and yet the fact that its discipline requires disputes di between members to be settled by church tribunals is constantly proof of its law defying and treasonable character I 1 the injustice of such treatment towards the cormons mormons Mor mons is too to a api P parent to require comment or illustration tra tion |