Show WilY THEY AUK CENSURED The Ixjgan Journal Mormon publication publi-cation saja the inconsistency of Gentiles is ohioan In the fact that they censure tho Mormon solely because they do not readily without protesting acknowledge acknowl-edge tho supremacy of the unconstitutional uncon-stitutional laws passed by tho General Gen-eral Government Tho Journal misstates mis-states the ca e entirety The Mormons Mor-mons are censured on no such ground but mainly because they refuse to acknowledge tho supremacy of the Federal over their theocratic form of government and will not obey the national na-tional laws even after the court of last resort hns passed upon them and pronounced pro-nounced them In letter and spirit as enacted accordance with tho provisions of limo Constitution That is what tho Mormons lire censured for and well they know it too No man can i be a good citizen and refuse to obey theIR the-IR of his country His right to protest against the injustice of any legislation is unquestioned But after tho constitutionality constitu-tionality of a statute is established estab-lished as in the case of tho present Edmunds law what argument tending lo show his good citizenship can anyone advance who all tho limo persists in knowingly amid willfully violating Its provisions If tho Mormons do not like the laws of time country which more particularly par-ticularly affect them their right to agitato for the repeal of such statutes is unquestioned unques-tioned but until they ate repealed they must bo obeyed amid this is something that the Mormons now appear to bo learning to their cost |