Show conversion BY confiscation 66 THIS proposition to confiscate the property oi of the mormon church and gogerty devote devote it to commac school education Is to be there is no better way to eradicate the principles on which that church is founded than to provide lor for the spread of intelligence like almost avery very other evil that curses mankind its foundations are laid in ignorance ianora uce and aad the best beat way to prevent its spread is to enlighten ea the wretches p who become its victims through want of knowledge the foregoing is from the norristown pa herald it is a specimen of anti mormon I 1 honesty and morality it Is assumed that the foundations of the mormon church are laid in ignorance andt and the hebest best method that christian intelligence and culture can furnish to prevent the spread ot of the evil is to rob the church and impress its members with the superiority of orthodox religion by taking away their property and diverting it without their consent to uses for which it was not desi designed gued and for the benefit of others who have no ao right to auy any portion of it we WA are so Ilien orant talat we cannot see why such dishonesty is to be commended by any person erson or paver paper in christendom h if all that is said by the bitterest enemies of the Mor mormon church were true it would not justify the confiscation of its property nox would the contemplated be calculated to enlighten the wretches who become the victims I 1 as to the pure morality of the Cl matian thieves who despoiled them assuming enat the norristown herald men are methodist what would they think of a project to confiscate con t the lie pr property 0 perty of the methodist i in u pennsylvania P e t und and devote athe the means for the education in the common schools tich of children belom dug to 10 baptist catholic jewish infidel and other families that never contributed buted a dime clime towards its accumulation tuat would he a most moat terrible outrage of course L bat at who can show auy difference in between confiscating methodist property in pennsylvania auck and seizing 4 ai mormon property in utah the supposed ignorance ol of the people to be robbed et does oe 8 not dot alter the light or wrong of the transaction W nether anether mormonism is true or false fair or foul makes no difference as to the attempt to steal the property of its adherents and the proposition to enlighten lighten the children by means filched from their pai parents ants is ol oi such a highly moral and eminently christian character as to strike a person with admiration or else amazement and disgust the follo following wim from the philadelphia call contains some chunks ol 01 good common sense on this subject which we commend commena to the notice ot of all who are so anxious to put down the mor mons that they would applaud pillage and encourage plunder the Gen gentiles gentilee of in their natural otrea of the mormon church and all its belongings have taken a step which may ream ou on themselves not only in utah ont in other parts pans ot of the united states A petition has been pre presented seated in the federal court praying the united states to the mormon church and escheat its property lor for the benefit of the common funds of the territory is to be done it done at all ail under the law of kon engross congress gress any dhur church from 0 owning more than souto worth of property this prohibition of course extends only to 10 the territories over which alch the united states has exclusive control now while there is no question about the wickedness of the mormons from a Cn On ristian standpoint the reactionary folly of the proposed sup suppression preshion is plainly apparent if we arbnot mistaken thele are several churches in tile the territories possessing property of greater value than in the dis triet of Colum columbia blA chica is under the control ot of congrtta Con Cong gretA redl there are many wealthy church holdings and thu the church is poor indeed which does not exceed ane limit set by congress it if the law is enforced against tae mormon church why not against the Oat catholic holic the or the episcopalian churches churche 8 A already there is a large party in this country who call fur the taxation atall church property prop eity and affect to view with alarm the increasing wealth of the leading sects to escheat tile the mormon church property may form a dangerous precedent for the escheat ing of the baptist cst church property tor for instance the gentiles have allowed their zeal to run away with their discretion their province is to use the legal machinery to suppress poy polygamy gamy and beyond tuat they have no business to interfere with polygamy the mormon church is a nar harmless inless institution however erroneous its doctrines maybe may be and to persecute it for being rich is to condemn every other leading sect |