Show THE THID extremists the wild crusade crusA dc though not dead deal is abt so sa ramp ailt just now the chemor mormon ians n it few months since since tho crusaders have not tho the strong unhesitating support of the press and influential men in the na nation cioll aa they had ft when hen they at that time inaugurated the fight which hai culminated in those who feliso felt so don confident of being the victors becoming the hed the enactment and the subsequently enforcing of tho the edmunds act have given time fur for the more thou thoughtful fitful mex me of the country to watch ita its operations and the con clu siona of rainy many of them are that although they by no means endorse the mormon system stem and arc are not even favorable to it can neither be solved or wiped out by an act of congress and if even it could it would be a dangerous precedent to establish in this country to suppress r religious system by law no one will accuse the omaha oma a see bee of mormon proclivities or that it would give any aid to propagate tho the doctrines of the 11 mormon formon church but the of that journal can see ce the folly of the fanatics in endeavoring to force it out of existence by special prescriptive proscriptive legislation against it and its adherents without necessarily subscribing to all that the ry any other ther journal saya says upolu the he subject we reproduce an editorial from our omaha cw ern temporary in relation to the utah problem which will bo be read with much inter tt by all fair minded people who arc are not mor mons the creation of the utah cominis bion slon under the E edmunds bill docs does not seem to hao have solved thu tile mornion menu in probe iu t v tile tin ti n of those who wito expect t to wipe out im juil aud mormonism niam bv by an in abt bof of Cun resa tho edmunds bill prohibits ests frum holdin hold in t rice or voting hinr ti nr but as only one of the mor mons mon ine live in asoh rainy take ali so w nho W aran arnot t inder tile bin ban odthe law ain an hold the me v a mid id mit sit t i uch such measures asi as the tile monn in alti ircle bei bees rt tit titto to laior it n iia a mut ter of fact that M inions who arc tire not polyna mists are mornant i till I hat chat fact however WAS never taken into consideration by the agitate iri aho wh expect to wipe out ont 31 ormon irm by an act of rims the tile only direct of tho edmunds bill has been the dix dia franchi bement of delvo th olland polygamous polyp amous M amons in other rejects ts the clinna 11 of loiter latter lav day saints wields as much ival power tw RA ever it did awl now the usta who shouted with delimit ilean lit over oyer tile edmunds bill are lit koking kins themselves fur for fum such siu h a linn barin lesa B henie and demand deina nii that everybody in in utah who ho to the mormon creed shall be chased and prohibited from antins up in 11 june juries if these would have ha ve their way a very dan erous arc pr would be established in this country the republic made religious liberty ono one of the corner stones of the american an union they prohibited all religious tests and plated every cry creed on tho the braad bru id platform of universal tolerance tolerant e to dis frant hise a mormon normon t today because bei abselie lie is is a aM mormon ormun would imply mean that to tomorrow morrow you disfranchise a roman catholic Catli olic because ho he is is a it catholic or lit jew because ho he refuses to become a clina tian it is far better to bear thellas we have than tony to fly to those we know not of it is safer to let the mor mons temporarily rule in in utah because they are largely in the majority than to cle deprive them of civil rights and declare them outlaws before they are tried and convicted of clinic t binic let lj aej be punished I by tho ilio law in utah ul tall if the tile lawa laws against pol damy can be enforced if the majority of the people who sit on junes in in utah refus to convict we must submit just as tho the people of kansis kansas to the acquittal ven laws of violators of their prohibition it would be a sad day dav for tho the government if they were to fo disfranchise whole creeds because soma some of tho tile members indulge in in criminal practices by the same propriety an act of congress Con triss might be passed declaring all persons per ns who confess tho the creed that teaches t c the purging of sin and camo crime through t r ugh penance nance imposed by tho the confessional lonal as not entitled to bote oto or hol doffice |