Show WRONG AGAIN the mormon church in utah has his illustrated rated the worst feat feature of ecclesiasticism its policy has aimed at the tie control of vast wealth and areat oat revenues and this ha ila been aone done not by the acquisition of church property in the genbe u in which other communions get and use what is needed for carrying out the ordinances or doing the spiritual work of farel a religious IF body the mormon church is engaged in commercial efterp enterprises gem and arid manufacturing it ow owns us and operates aratea mines linns farms stock ranches and perhaps railroads it is an active competitor with individuals in nearly every avenue of business using its position as spiritual dictator it ie is an immense imin enso boycotter cr it compels its members in the placing of their trade and is able bf to prevent gentiles from entering into nian many of tho the ordinary industries in U utah ts out 0 of f this domination of busi business noss comes a constant and effective interference in the politics of the territory by the church the rhe situation is incompatible with free government and its perpetuation is intolerable in a country like ours an ecclesiastical establishment which docs does all kinds of secular business should be in some way dished and as it is in a federal territory there is a chance to test the resources of federal authority if the constitution confers no power to deal with su uch c h a it case cam it should be amended e d N no 0 assault upon religious liberty is is involved the question is iN whether hether a great business corporation can sequestrate qu estrate itself under lie the pretense that it is a it religious body and the therefore re not subject to such control as the laws may exert over civil corporations the foregoing article is taken from the san francisco alu alti california a journal bourna I 1 always emphatic in its statements th though augh occasionally wrong in thil tills case the A alia ila makes a double error first in its statement of premi premises aes second in iti its deductions tho mormon church as such has never neer aimed at the control of fast vast wealth it has not engaged in multifarious mining and other commercial enterprises it does not compel ita its mem members bersin in placing their trade and it docs does not attempt to prevent gentile from entering into many of the ordinary industries what the th 0 mormon church has done during fifty years past has his been what the advanced todal reformers of t today 0 are struggling to accomplish to establish sustaining self communities where her 0 indolence and poverty shall have babe no abiding place the mormon chu church rc ig only rich in anat near nearly lyall all it its members are in comfortable circumstances cum stances achieved through their own industry under the wise teachings of the Cli church it has no illegitimate In investments and no vast hoards boards of wealth euch such as arc are possessed by man many y of the christian churches in this land its members trade where they will and the majority of city merchants i a miners bankers etc in utah are gentiles largely indebted for their to mormon patronage patrona e |