Show CHURCH AND STATE AMENDMENT SEVERAL public journals are com entinK na on the proposition for SLIM an amendment to the constitutions constitution forbidding any state to make a law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or to make any appropriation of public to funds for fer re religious I 1 glaug purposes Ol record among them the philadelphia adelphis supports the proposition itsou answers some objections to it and d touches on W ts relation to the mormon question the record says mormons cormons Mor mons it is argued gain in regard to the be erected into a that should utah state they chev could pass such laws law 8 as might pa please ease them for maintaining their ecclesiastical sias Istas esta establishment so long as utah shall remain a territory the cormons mormons must submit to the Is laws 8 of congress which effectually forbid guy in ter ference with the religious liberties ot of into the the gentiles but once admitted union the mormon priests eldosy aldere and d rulers could set the united states go government vern at defiance on the other laud hand it is urged godt that hatan WL amendment design designed Wi for the cormons mormons might seriously interfere with state support and hospitals institutions of benevolent pit ale that are more or less under the control SU uoti 0 h of religious denominations prohibition would hardly be in pub does doea not fy fio i a c interest but the argument while the appear to be well founded provis provision loti of the constitution of vanis vania in reg regard ar d to church and state POX per for remits r no appropriation of me ney legious pur purposes doses oses it has not been so 80 cone construed trued as to prohibit A that we are of public money to chart managed by religious denomination the difficulty here suggett might ak adding a pro P easily be overcome by lie not viso viBo that this protection shall construed as affecting public bious for benevolent and charitable purposes seg between re lillon and benevolence Is 11 so BO dimate that a division is impossible and a establishment but a religious benevolent institution may mav be entirely distinct and public funds might pra which perly be devoted to the J latter for the ed ought riot not to be expended expend former the maintenance of 01 a 11 par nicular church directly I 1 or r indirectly y by the state should be forbidden but aid in the aly the state may prope properly b house ouse of hospital lits or support of a bool used in y ji it is not in charity provid providing ort tenets enete interested reste rests or way to promote the I 1 Inte ote of a religious body the funds divert the attempt to donated to the mormon church for religious objects to the support of the public schools school is ie a violation of the t principle win ciple involved in this doctrine of the he entire reparation of church and state for if it I 1 is wrong to devote the funds fund ol 01 of the state to religious pur IpOs peace efi it is equally wrong to seize the funds of a church and divert them to secular purposes and it is remarkable thata that a greater protest cotest against such a manifest fest injustice injustice and departure from established rule is not raised by the pulpit and the pase press of the united states if it were not the mormon church that is directly affected by this attempt it is certain that the whole countr country wrong would be aroused against the there is no det desire ire on the part of the mormon church to blend ditc itc elf with the state organization to control it or to interfere with its functions As we have shown bbown many MADY times heretofore it claims no do authority over the state but its doctrine and theory inculcate respect for secular law and aad the independence of state authority from religious d domination OMI DAtion therefore the proposition for the amendment in reference to all the states will meet with no DO opposition from the Mor mormon morill people who we have no doubt would vote as freely for it if they had the opportunity as an any opponents of the urion union of church and state that can be found in any ally part of the nat nation IOL |