| Show A NEW angrl AN fl MORMON BILL OUR telegraph dispatches inform us that mr woodburn of nevada has introduced in the house of representatives ta tives aja aa anti Mo mormon ruton bill similar is it its provisions to the id idaho aho test lest oath bill it is said to have received the approval of prominent gentiles of utah this is quite likely if by the prominent gentiles is meant those hungry adventurers who are lusting for place and a chance to steal in this territory the respectable gentiles of utah do not favor any such un UD american and villainous scheme as that the meaning of the bill is that no member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints commonly called mormons Mor mons shall vote or hold office in UDY any of the territories I 1 might have been much better ex pleased in those terms all chever the verbiage ot of the bid is an unnecessary and roundabout way of getting at that result wily should cormons mormons Mor mons be prevented e from voting or holding office e seeing that they loyman least t 80 per er cent of the voting population W why Y simply imply because tile the less than alper cent minority i ty want all political power in IV t ane lre territory ri tory and the rell religious tons bigots who hate the cormons mormons Mor mons ll 11 and the political time servers who do the be bests of the sectarians sect arians want to put pat yuwu mormonism and lai imagine agine that is the most effectual manner of accomplishing the work we recommend commend rii our readers to scan the bill which will be found in the thedis dis s atom washington and see if it nas a single redeeming feature or one that bowd aoa id re recommend commena it to a patriot or any citizen who venerates the ansti tulious of his country it is in complete antagonism to the constitution aud to the f fundamental und principles of popular govern government men t and is a reproach to the person who presented it to congress it is not likely to pass bein being too anti republican for even the radicals and too anti antidemocratic democratic even for weak kneed and spineless semi demo brats I 1 there is one thins thing of which th the e projectors of these measures may be certain they will not affect mormonism in any degree except to make inake its adherents cling more closely together and stand up more inore manfully tor for their religion all it will do in the other way will be to play into the hands bands of the plotting scoundrels who cannot make OL be mormons cormons Mor mons vote ai they want anti and therefore desire to prevent them from voting at all so blat that the schemers may have free access to the offices and the moneys of this territory |
