Show THE WORLD AS AW AN ECHO I 1 THE new york world i of october octoba r has an editorial on OB the lem 11 it was prompted by the V emendation men dation of J randolph T tucker that a constitutional be passed providing against polygamy then that utah be admitted intonate inton tte union as 1 a I state the karld orld aias into the comparatively diew new growe groove of OPP opposing osing journal marked marcedo mar kedo boik sace see 1 the polygamy objection bega to JW force it is that polygamy after aker all the great factor in this a so called problem only a little while a ago go the alie chorus of the press was let the provide against polygamy yand aad no ho one will object to their statehood ll 11 now that the provision is made aud and placed too beyond cavil as to tb ness it aa a suddenly discovered that fAy l gainy is not the rhe great bu bog bear e r what is the matter now tae world ald says the radical objection to it is IWO senti ally ud un and agn demo deino cratic character itis it is in direct opposition to the f our government it memo means the rule of a church or hierarchy and not ot of the people it places the temporal fLut authority bority oi of the church aboy that of 01 t he nati national government and audbor izes its members p djarf sn in the national courts of ulah under present will throw the government into aba tb hands bands of this chares there isa is a macii larer nat DO tb 16 crack bere than polygamy i how ready eye nhe great of the country areto adopt phol dep no matter how ial laUa cious lacious they leiv malpe je of any antagonist of MorED fly and how they peato sw ito avoid any investigation 01 oj except on ahe adverse si deiA prominent new york editon that certain things he had iH iWert about the and requested to print something on the theother otner bide replied plied quite recently rec enily 1 I dont care a d ime whether iva its wrong its what tha public want they dorit want to be bear ar anything favorable to the mormons cormons Mor mons te we publish to please the public I 1 dont clout give a whether whet tier its true or not with such feeling te alinga and principles how can it be expected that Morino triam will receive lair fair treat went ment the truth is that tl the ae world is entirely lu in the wrong every assertion in the above para paragraph grapa is positively untrue A little inquiry on oa the part pan of authentic sources ot ol information would demonstrate this mormon works and mormon ex pogi po tors would show the e exact contrary to all the extract contains niama co mormonism is of Ameri america cap brigia so tar far as this lina world is concerned ana is essentially identified with american ideas interests and destinies desi luied it is albo democratic in ia theory and practice 1 1 he vote of the is made paramount in all Us ILS proceedings no atter it if the voice of revelation speaks until it 11 is endorsed bythe by the will ut of the itie people it does not become part pait of tal U church la u ft polity pity I 1 it my maybe b asked aed ca can n t the he body of the churan chuoc n pakie a divine command 0 or rc counsel ot ii the answer is certainly just us as M much rich as adam arid and eve acted on their agency so can all kneir posterity and in this church it is pro vided aided that common consent is necessary to establish its doctrine and policy the consequences of persisting in a human instead oj if a divine course must be with those who follow follo it and only very wicked and rebellious people would reject that which tuey believed EO be divine but the freedom of choice and action is not denied or abridged by anything in mormon teaching or discipline I 1 state rule goes doea not nat finein mean the rule of a hierarchy in the constitution of the state ot of utah there is ample provision for the nonunion non union of the church and state elements it provides for the rule of toe people as completely as any organic law on the face of the earth why should the world adopt this apparent falsehood in ia toe the face of the most conclusive proof to the contrary ahe temporal authority of the church is not placed shove above the national authority and the world can D n t eota establish blish its assertion with a scintilla of evidence and the calumny that the church authorizes its mem ure barsto to commit perjury is simply contemptible temp tible it is ia one of those unsupported charges that anti Mor moua make without care as to its recklessness and its refutation by a thousand well known fact the rest of the paragraph is in the same vein it id is all in we the style of an advocate who has nothing to offer but abuse in opposition to the solid grounds of an adversary all this talk of the 11 mormon 7 church mormonism and church rule is foreign to tue question the nation congress las bad no business with ecclesiastical affairs the government of the united states cannot interfere in questions ol of faith or the docu itic or discipline of a religious body individuals who break the tb law uan be prosecuted secured under the la lar no mat matter what my be their creed or standing in any Ch church jurch but the people who ara are auvin moving tor for statehood are not violators of the law theado they do not propose to violate it they are acting as american citizens striving for those political privileges which belong to citizenship in its full sense it is noa question of mor imor Imon lem or any other ism except con the attempt of those who oppose it to mix religion up with politics is not to be admired it ii i i practicing practising that of which alv chiy y have falsely accused the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 it is an evidence k of weak cess vess it is 18 puerile and paltry and aad the continual misrepresentation in which they indulge is proof positive that they have taken a false stand and can find no facts to help their cause itis it is pitiful to see so world powerful a pa per as the new york fork world becoming the echo of such erroneous utterances as it has adopted from purposely false and perfidious sources we should think that a journal which so strongly y q assails abuses in new york could afford to be fair even to the maligned malig aed and unpopular mormons cormons Mor mons |