Show THE government CHURCH CASES THIS tais issue contains an article reproduced from the new york sun that has a good deal of local interest it sounds a note of warning net to say alarm concerning the measure under which the suits against the church are being conducted and the possible abuses that may be perpetrated under it IS notes the class of property which the statutes exempt from the abrupt and as we stoutly believe unconstitutional tut ional process prescribed by the law the suit will probably be somewhat surprised alen when it learns that the exemptions empt ions have not been respected in the manipulation of the proceedings and that the theory theor y enunciated by senator edmunds while the measure was pending respecting the satisfaction of parties having just claims 16 the property involved can only be seen at the present stage of the subject through a glass darkly the protection ff ef such claimants elal mants by the tran fer of the property to branch organizations to whom the statute requires legai lega title to be transferred is also kept in the dim distance the cleople who are the owners of the property have bave complied with the law in ia that regard in the manner which it clearly defines yet it is being seized by the court in the person of its agent the force of the point raised regarding the appointment of the uy US marshal as receiver is broken by the tact fact that both sides side a were agreeable to it in the matter of bondsmen it is only just to say that they are of a character that gives elves satisfaction as they are well known known inthe in the community to be elnan solid The check upon the receiver in that regard would appear to be ample to protect the defendants against devastation of the property the genius of the law being to disturb aitto it to as small a degree as practicable pending final adjudication the warning of the sun in relation to the necessity of care in the carrying out of the congressional enactment is well timed and appropriate otherwise it is capable of being made tb engine of outrageous oppression and ble and un american persecution that is exactly the light in which it stands today and the tact fact will yet durst burst forcefully force tully upon the country the concluding cl paragraph has a good deal of significance in it investigations are an excellent means okitaro of throw itaro wing ing to the surface and bringing odium odium and retribution upon their authors adders and abettors abet tors is that certain matter mattefs s should be scrutinized not altogether alto gether that justice may be done to the victims of outrages perpetrated in the name of law but in justice to the united states government and the common rights et t citizens without reference to their religious faith because the parties defendant are acting noiselessly it does not follow that they ate are not watching as well as waiting that the right may come came uppermost per most wrong be brought under the tull lull glare of light to be seen in all its hideousness aud justice be accorded to iL intended tended victims let the people retain the calm deportment that tast has thus far characterized them under the present deprival ot of their rights it sometimes happens that justice comes all the sooner when it seems most distant it pas aas transpired that when those who have been beem operating against its claims have imagined because there were no special obstacles in immediate sight si lit they could transcend certain lines tines with impunity they have done so this blindness has often been the forerunner and cause of a salutary reaction for the right |