Show DOES NOT COMMEND ITSELF THE new york times which is well known to be strongly anti mormon has the following editorial on the proposition to incorporate the infamous test oath in the idaho state constitution in the idaho constitutional convention the committee on preamble and bill of rights has reported a section in which it is provided that no person shall be denied any alvil or political right or privilege on account of his religious opinions with the qualification that the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be construed to justify polygamous bract practices ces or to permit any person organization or association to directly or indirectly aid or abet counsel or advise any person to commett the crime of bigamy or polygamy it will be recalled that under a territorial law that has been sustained by the Terri territory torys highest court the itie mormon residents of idaho are franchised disfranchised dis for their connection with the chu church ach monogamous members of the mormon church cannot vote there before they were franchised disfranchised dis the mor mons of idaho held the balance of power at the pons polls for some of the most thickly settled southern counties are inhabited almost excle by mormons cormons Mor mons the convention evidently desires to incorporate the so called test oath act on the constitution but it is feared that a constitution containing such a provisions would not be well received at washington to disfranchise a man for the solo sole reason that he Is a member of the mormon church is to disfranchise him on account of his religious belief without reference to his acts and this is a policy that does not commend itself to the american people the mormon should suffer the utmost reasonable penalty of the law if he be guilty of bigamy or polygamy but the fact that he is a member of the mormon church should not be held sufficient to deprive him of the right to vote vota 11 |