| Show THE DIS distinction IS PLAIN ENOUGH T the 0 D denver enver bews of the int ca wh which I 1 1 t through i some delay has bits oni only Y jus just t been received ou clata tim remarks on the idaho lest test oath in a way that indicates a dig disposition position to be fair it quotes quotas the folio following will g from a earlier isue i sue of paler u upon pon the th news eAf comments on lie the decision we imagine that the very ery part that lit 1 mysterious is tho the part that has b been 1 over looked entirely by the Ibe AIM Newit the T astery n la Is that the court not only assumes to declare what n hat practice practices may not be indulged in the name of religion but also what ills may y not IK ile believed under I 1 the he name nameon of rell religion glon in the present instance Inn tance it goes further clell ill and pronounce a man unworthy of the fra arnn chise who badonie bad once belonged to a church korne of whore member athorne at borne time had practiced what has since been declared a crime rivie though he be had never indulged in that practice himself nor BO so far as is t shown ever expressed his hi belief in it and upon the foregoing it makes the following observations but this clui elms of men ai as described by THE STAN STANDARD DARDare are not mormons cormons Mor mons A true mor mon believes first in polygamy and nd practices it next and according to the tenets of the church he can no more avoid doing no so than a man can call be ft christain lieve lit christ A person who aloes not believe 1 1 evo I 1 in polygamy I 1 1 1 and who does not practice 1 C it 1 Is no mormon 0 no and can tako take the I 1 idaho rho tent test oath and so ft a the supreme court decision dots do not run against him in this the news is wholly in error it duft permit the tl selves to know what constitutes and what does not constitute a at mormon a and what are the qualifications of membership in ilia he church there were mormons cormons before there was polygamy and there are cormons mormons where here there is no polygamy it if the N iiii airs will ill also take I 1 lie pains to look up the case upon which the idaho test OR catli tit was appealed to the court of last res resort it will discover that polygamy was not on trial at all it will find that the tile ap appellant was not a et st bud that he lie had bad never been one it will ill find what TUB tuc STANDARD hie ilia already eaid paid that his ilia appeal appe tl for habeas W as corpus wap denied be caie ca ie past pait bemb membership ershler in the church wes d darned emed a bir to the exer exercise cige of the elective franchise francl iise tiie tile idaho idabo tent test oath does not prescribe yr pains and penalties for isto it deprives of suffrage members of the mormon church |
