Show ABSURD representations IN the american sentinel a religious journal of new york the following editorial paragraph appears china ought to be the ideal national reform country A chinese mandarin can order a mans head to be out cut off at any moment but within three months he must forward to the emperor an affidavit from two persons declaring that the execution was in the interest of religion and morals he has no difficulty in getting gettin such affidavits tt as he can out cut off the e heads of any who refuse to make them china has an orderly and systematic form of government in fact a matured civilization which has stood the tee test of centuries such a condition would be an impossibility in connection with that described in the above paragraph to say that a subordinate official in any nation may inflict capital punishment at his caprice without any responsibility attaching to the act and without any procedure to determine whether or not such a punishment should be inflicted is equivalent to saying that that nation has no system of government at all and is in a condition of anarchy and dissolution this statement of the sentinel about china is false upon its face it cannot by any possibility be true and this conclusion needs no testimony from any chin chinaman manto to sustain it it to is the result of the operations of common sense this statement about chi china tia has a fa familiar mIllar flavor to a utah reader arising probably from the fact that it has hag been so often paralleled by writers who have treated on this territory and the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 assertions sert ions have freely been made derogatory to the latter the absurdity of which was quite as palpable as is that quality in the quotation from the sentinel Sen tinei by the way religious journals seem more addicted to this class of falsehoods than secular ones do to persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen ln into to a well |