Show J f WHAT T HURT HUnT WILT WILL THAT DO In both cartoon and comment tho the Tribune of Sunda Sunday e evinces vinces a tendency to epilepsy in the matter of or the tho recent I Supreme S court decision In the Birdsell I case And we weave h have ave been wondering what harm that paper expects to inflict i with these publications Because taking the Tribunes Tribune's own stor story and we find ind f little warrant for the tho conclusions that paper draws s Mrs Irs a Mormon woman arranged with her iler cr neighbor Leavitt a a. Gentile to homestead a parcel of l land and and deed him a half haIr of it when title was perfected ho he to pa pay the tho expenses cs of her action The Tho land was s secured Leavitt paid tho the cost as he had agreed and Mrs Birdsell declined to give him him his portion of the l land and Leavitt appealed to tho the officers of or the tho womans woman's church and they told her she must keep her promise She declined because the land was valuable and anti the tho church authorities punished her by terminating her relation to that Institution Then being mentally troubled and not In good physical health suffering from tram froma trama a taint of hereditary insanity and greatly Impressed witha with witha a belief In the importance of or maintaining her relations with her church Mrs BIrdsell made tho the deed to Leavitt gave him tho the land which she hc had agreed to give o him and was received ed back into full or membership or whatever what what- whatever ever er other term will describe a restored relation In her church Later her mind W was lS still more sadly affected until s she he was confined In an asylum and b by her next friend she brought suit for a recovery of or the tho deed The Supreme court has Just held that the land hand must be restored to her since she deeded it away while under compulsion compulsion-a a sort of or duress which vitiated the contract And the court of course is right But whore is the tho greed and the tyranny of or the Mormon church We Ve dont don't think the woman was warranted warranted warranted war war- ranted In her estimate of the necessity to bo be in full accord with tho church authorities but then wo we dont don't take tako the tIme samo same view of or it that Mrs 1 Birdsell did nor that members of many churches do The thing appeals to us only because of or tho Illogical conclusion of oC tho Tribune and tho the unfairness evIdent I In Its publication Hero was tho the Mormon 1 church directing her to restore a n. valuable property to a Gentile What church greed greedIs Is there In that Maybe the tho Mormon authorities did listen to the complaint of tho the Gentile petitioner for redress against a member of or the Mormon church But Dut there thero Isn't a achurch achurch achurch church in tho the land which has not its tribunals for the settlement of or difficulties between Its members or for forthe the tho correction of Its members when accused of or Improper acts even by ono one outside the communion There isn't a secret society In the country that hat does not not do the same samo thing And a member must answer tho the charge I I of or wrong brought against him and must ju Justify himself or forfeit his imIs place In the society religious lous or secular If IC ono Is an usurpation of the powers of ot tho tue civil courts all arc are And every overy such organization Is an offender What Is tho the use uso of pretending that the thing is 18 lIec peculiar to the Mormon people and with that allegation seeking to make malto odious this ono one people Vh Why not be fair fall with them There will bo be nothing gained for Cor the Tribune b by such intemperate publications |