Show A BAD PRECEDENT TUB thic following editorial comments com mente on the recent action for the confiscation of mormon church property Is ie taken from every sunday published at tacoma washington it will strike the general reader as fair temperate and well timed by the final decree of the supreme C court ourt of the united states the mormon church property is to be distributed under the direction of the supreme court of utah among such charitable institutions and to such uses use as may most nearly correspond to those which it was originally destined to be used for unless congress should otherwise order this disposal df church property to is a new practice in american society and to la likely kely if carried out to become a dangerous precedent sometime iu in the future three of the judges of the supreme court of the united states gray brewer and brown dissented the fact is that the mormon church corporation has been dissolved by congressional legislation and the rulings of the courts its doctrines and practices a c ti being declared to be opposed os ar t to 0 p public aub policy and good corx morals an fn in t the he first quarter of the present century a feeling prevailed by protestants against the roman Cath catholic olAc church on alleged alleged patriotic grounds xiong narong enough to have ave bro brought eight about a legal raid against that organization similar to that which has destroyed the mormon church corporation and there are still many theologians who would gladly call down the strong arm of the law to crush out catholicism and drive it from the land of course the practice of polygamy has been the main excuse for the prosecution of the mormons cormons Mor mons but the doctrines of papal supremacy the confessional the convent system and the opposition to public schools school would afford whatever pretext became necessary for an anti catholic party to work out a destructive theory it is one of the anomalies of the age that the united states government should have been led stop step by step into this grave departure from its logical line of ideas and and action to establish a dangerous precedent 11 |